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[00:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:42] <exec> 08└─I mean c'mon 230 million worth of damages (meaning at least that much in loans?) and they wouldn't have thought to verify the purchases going on BEFORE all this? 300 percent markup should have been pretty easy to verify, especially for the nominal price of a modern desktop PC, indicating they didn't...
[00:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:44] <exec> 08└─The loan officer used to work for Equifax.
[00:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:46] <exec> 08└─Not 300 percent, 30000 percent. This is gold-plated-hammer-marble-toilet-Afghan-gas-station-F-35 levels of "oops I didn't notice the price" gouging. Just short of a Pentagon Civilian Distinction.
[00:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:02] <exec> 08└─My GoFundMe campaign [gofundme.com].
[00:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:50] <exec> 08└─Plug-in electric cars were a range-limited, tiny, underpowered toy industry until the Tesla. Rooftop solar was relatively limited use in the many states where it's illegal to sell excess power to the grid until the Powerwall made it possible to save your own electricity. Integrated solar tiles that...
[00:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:51] <exec> 08└─That's a florid way to put it, but essentially correct.
[00:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 2141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:53] <exec> 08└─"Plug-in electric cars were a range-limited, tiny, underpowered toy industry until the Tesla." Pouring money into an emerging industry just as it nears viability is a perfectly good business tactic, but it's hardly 'genius.' "Rooftop solar was relatively limited use in the many states where it's ill...
[00:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:26] <exec> 08└─There would be less than 10 miles from the West Bank area to the Mediterranean Sea. Pretty much any type of artillery will fully span that distance. Having this spot attacked would split Israel in two. With the bulk of Israel's land being wrapped around the West Bank, artillery could reach nearly al...
[00:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:27] <exec> 08└─I didn't say it was simple or easy. However, that plan is the road not taken for Israel. If somebody were looking for an alternate history turning point, Rabin's assassin failing to kill him might well be worth exploring: It's quite possible had Rabin survived that Israel would have let go of the oc...
[00:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:39] <exec> 08└─No, the "s" in "sprintf" does not stand for "secure", but for "string". Basically it is a version of printf that doesn't output its arguments after formatting, but writes them into a string (actually, character array) instead. The secure version of sprintf is snprintf.
[00:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:40] <exec> 08└─A misspelled big fish. :-)
[00:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:43] <exec> 08└─Compiler error messages are always stupidly obtuse, when they bother to say anything at all! "Bad Lvalue!" WTF? ALGOL is dead, stop using ALGOL concepts in the error messages! And stop thinking there's no room for more comprehensible error messages, this is not the 1960s anymore, when 1K was a lot o...
[00:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:45] <exec> 08└─The folks in Boston had the right idea: Outnumber them. They did so 40,000:50. The Boston cops felt it was necessary to escort the skinheads out of the area. Less dramatic results in Frisco, Berkeley, and Chicago back in August, but always well over 10:1 ratios. At the appearance of white supremacis...
[00:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:47] <exec> 08└─What kind of IDE doesn't distinguish between macros and proper functions anyway?
[00:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:49] <exec> 08└─s/faschist/fascist (No spellchecker?) punching them in the face on sight doesn't seem to be accomplishing the goal of reducing violence and prejudice in the world Not so long ago, I read an article that said protests are counter-productive, giving them a higher profile and bolstering their recruitme...
[00:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:51] <exec> 08└─I'm o.k. with (void) casting unused variables and similar simple things, but some of the signed/unsigned warnings and other more esoteric type casting stuff can get pretty crazy looking to "do it right" when the simple, warned, code is very straightforward to read and understand.
[00:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah. When I saw it in the queue, I wondered if it would make the cut. It has stirred some interesting discussion, so it appears that the proper choice was made. What I was hoping to see was the names of some tools in use. Comparisons by folks who had tried multiple apps would be especially interest...
[00:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:24] <exec> 08└─The problem is you can use a nuclear plant program for a weapons program as well. Of course Iran doesn't claim they have a weapons program. If you just take their word for it, its just for power. The fact is, given Iran's own statements, such as their comments on Israel, its pretty obvious that they...
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[01:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:41] <exec> 08└─Fuck those fuckers. HARD!
[01:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:42] <exec> 08└─Apparently, ten banks got suckered into this. The paragraph before the "[...]" in the quote of the story: Moneual pulled in more than $3 billion from the from [sic] 10 South Korean banks. The company defaulted on many of those loans and ended up owing the banks about half a billion dollars. In 2013,...
[01:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:59] <exec> 08└─I knew someone would say something like that. Do you have any actual evidence that stories like these are just an attempt to give people a false sense of security, or is this just mostly baseless speculation?
[01:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:01] <exec> 08└─The FBI doesn't want their methods to be known [zdnet.com]. So I would not expect them to tell the whole story when complaining about encryption. They have been complaining about this stuff for years [vox.com] but have demonstrated a willingness to use spyware and vulnerabilities to infiltrate syste...
[01:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:25] <exec> 08└─All known methods for simulating a quantum system are exponential in the number of particles. The naïve way to simulate a quantum system with n particles (whose states may be entangled with each other), each of which can be in t quantum states is by using a Hilbert space with dimension tn, i.e. exp...
[01:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:27] <exec> 08└─Actually, the AC did not. This would be additional structure on top of the tensor setup.
[01:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:28] <exec> 08└─I do indeed remember what was going on in the early 1990's. And what was going on was that Israel struck deals with the PLO (now Fatah), Jordan, Egypt, and Syria. There were good reasons to think that there might be real movement towards a permanent if uneasy peace. That came to an end when Yitzak R...
[01:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:07] <exec> 08└─I doubt the average Joe is going to afford a ticket on this any time soon. The Government can pay for all the politicians to ride it, and the multi-national corporations will pay for their lobbyists. The rest of us will only dream about accessing it.
[01:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:47] <exec> 08└─Can someone help me figure out the correct git command for creating a pull request that will murder the author?
[01:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$417 Million Talc Cancer Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Tossed Out - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:43] <exec> 08└─Both work as well as placebos while some prescriptions you get are actually worse than placebos. Think about that for a moment, their results are worse than placebos. You get desperate people taking these horrible meds making them sick and they decide to switch to homeopathy and they soon start feel...
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[02:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:35] <exec> 08└─Is this where a he-she gives you head?
[02:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:47] <exec> 08└─Well there's some question about what exactly the charges entailed. The operative paragraph in TFA is: With regard to the HTPCs, Moneual purported to charge ASI and Newegg between $2,530 and $2,980 per HTPC unit, and those amounts were stated on the invoices and purchase orders from ASI and Newegg u...
[02:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:06] <exec> 08└─Speaking of "bad guys"... Christopher Wray said encryption on devices was "a huge, huge problem" for FBI investigations. The agency had failed to access more than half of the devices it targeted in an 11-month period, he said.
[02:11:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ese002 [5306] 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:14] <exec> 08└─So the customer will get a high-bandwidth connection to the ISP's overloaded router that then drops 90% of the packets?
[02:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:33] <exec> 08└─No, they were not being criticized. Criticism implies some kind of analysis is involved, what we have here is colloquially known as "bitching".
[02:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:35] <exec> 08└─Typical SN. We have plenty of +1s for random political opinions, but a dimensional traveler gets a -1.
[02:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:37] <exec> 08└─that's how bush would say it yeah but it's just twisting of facts
[02:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:39] <exec> 08└─So it's OK for UNESCO to designate the Old City in Jerusalem as a world heritage site, but when they do it for Hebron...
[02:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:19] <exec> 08└─Try reading the whole thing before you comment. The OP said something ignorant about poverty being steps away in DC, referring to the poor areas that used to be close to the White House, but have been pushed back by gentrification in recent years. I just made an aside about the numerous homeless peo...
[02:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:31] <exec> 08└─Crooked Dems colluded to sell our uranium to Russia. Crooked Dems said Iran could buy uranium, much more uranium than they have. And all you have to say is "oh, Donald Trump is trolling." Disgraceful!
[02:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:44] <exec> 08└─Oh, yes, that is so INSIGHTFUL!! That's why Microsoft has cooperated so closely with hundreds of other companies, such as Digital Research. Nothing was covered in that post, other than some propaganda that you hoped would confuse us.
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[03:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:47] <exec> 08└─transcranial: adjective; passing or performed through the skull. So yes, I suppose it would fit your case as well, though it's actually being used in a different sense in the article.
[03:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:48] <exec> 08└─Unleash the Matrix comments! Direct brain uploads from mini-disks is our future! I wonder what the official bit-rot rate of the human brain is?
[03:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:02] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this is in any way related to the new owners of Newegg, Hangzhao Liaison Interactive Information Technology Co., Ltd. [techpowerup.com]. It would not surprise me if a successful geek outlet is sold as a shell corporation to a foreign company in order to conduct massive fraud scams.
[03:10:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sure, blame BBC not the submitter, but... FBI failed to access 7,000 encrypted mobile devices
[03:10:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 300 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:17] <exec> 08└─> who's to say the "good guys" are good? That's easy: They write songs about being good, make movies about being good and Bad Guys losing, write articles and novels about being good, and make their children recite poems about being good. Obviously, only good people would go through all that trouble.
[03:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:24] <exec> 08└─... for November and cover the copays on my Happy pills. I'll set up crypto, PayPal and amazon donations when I get home. I don't get paid until my driver reaches beta There are some difficult bugs i must fix.
[03:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 1139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:26] <exec> 08└─I think, basically, the FBI wants your phone to incriminate you for SOMETHING, ANYTHING, so that they don't have to do real investigative work. Investigating can be hard, you know? If they can just grab some device with which you record alll of the intimate parts of your life, they can find SOMETHIN...
[03:10:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:59] <exec> 08└─Tesla has decided it is okay to turn over all its technology to China. In the long run, this could work out badly for Tesla.
[03:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:38] <exec> 08└─You more than a mile from the exchange or something? ADSL2+ can easily to 25Mbps down, 5Mbps up (for shorter distances, anyway).
[03:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:40] <exec> 08└─Actually, packet is at least half a century too old as well. Frequency hopping is currently the answer https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[03:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:01] <exec> 08└─Over 6 million of us voted for a non-Blue or a non-Red last time around. [wikipedia.org] ...and 42 percent thought that the candidates were so awful that they didn't bother to cast a ballot, even though they were registered. ...and in 1959, USA added 2 states, neither of which is within the boundari...
[03:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:12] <exec> 08└─Go ahead and try to charge 4 bucks for visit. Go right ahead - for every one of you idiots, hundred others will offer up the same/better shit without charging. You are a shill/moron, probably both.
[03:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:26] <exec> 08└─My god! Was radio that long ago? But I was mistaken. The discriminator (demodulator) is after the tuner.
[03:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 1546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:27] <exec> 08└─I guess I got lucky, I tried to do a few simple things in C++ and it became clear within less than a week that the compiler wasn't doing what the book said it should. Your school experience sounds typical late 80s - in my Computer Engineering program, we had a Pascal class, then later we had a Compi...
[03:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03evilcam [3239] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Sued Over "Animoji" Trademark - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:45] <exec> 08└─Even when Cisco sued them over the iPhone and IOS trademarks Apple still got what it wanted in the end... Feel bad for the little guy who is going to end up with nothing.
[03:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:02] <exec> 08└─Yep, and Muammar Gaddafi.
[03:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:03] <exec> 08└─The framing of the narrative has changed, but the empire remains as formidable as it ever was, and so are its illusions. The purpose of the chaos it creates is to fortify, not diminish its power. The people will demand it. They already are.
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[04:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vector Space Systems Partners With Virginia Space for Launches - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:37] <exec> 08└─A so-called rocket company signed up to launch its jalopies from an empty parking lot in Virginia?
[04:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vector Space Systems Partners With Virginia Space for Launches - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:38] <exec> 08└─You gotta start somewhere.
[04:09:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:58] <exec> 08└─Apparently, ten banks got suckered into this. The paragraph before the "[...]" in the quote of the story: Moneual pulled in more than $3 billion from the from [sic] 10 South Korean banks. The company defaulted on many of those loans and ended up owing the banks about half a billion dollars. In 2013,...
[04:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:02] <exec> 08└─We don't bust no old-ass rotten eggs. We sure do bust up whole lot of fresh brand new eggs. White or brown, we don't discriminate. Crack, Pop, Sizzle.
[04:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:04] <exec> 08└─There's some weird aspects to this case. I couldn't find a timeline of Moneual events, but here's a brief summary [koreaherald.com]: On paper, the company’s performance was more than impressive. Moneual, founded in 2004, joined the club of firms whose sales exceeded 1 trillion won last year, boast...
[04:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:06] <exec> 08└─So how is newegg since the takeover?
[04:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:28] <exec> 08└─Disputed, but still: "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
[04:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:30] <exec> 08└─The next decryption law is probably stuck on a encrypted phone. In other news: government is goin' all-in on non transparent and non accountable goverence with un decypherable devices for a civil servants.
[04:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:05] <exec> 08└─By violated almost immediately, don't you mean got attacked by all the nations surrounding it in violation of the very same UN decision that you're defending and ended up with more territories then Israel was designated for? Moreover, are you seriously suggesting the world should send the message th...
[04:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:16] <exec> 08└─The world doesn't owe you a living because you run a website.
[04:17:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:22] <exec> 08└─They've been enriching well beyond 3%, on military bases, with A.Q. Khan assistance.
[04:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:33] <exec> 08└─No, you're going about it the wrong way. Humans are more animal-like than many humans would like to admit.
[04:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Paying Up to $1,000 for Vulnerabilities in Some Third-Party Android Apps - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:47] <exec> 08└─Programmers create enough bugs already even when they're trying to produce bug-free code. There is no reason to deliberately write code with bugs. That would take too much effort.
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[05:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Awards SpaceX $40.7 Million for Raptor Engine Development - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:31] <exec> 08└─Let me guess, "Big Fucking Rocket?"
[05:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vector Space Systems Partners With Virginia Space for Launches - 1774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:40] <exec> 08└─I get paid when my driver reaches beta, but I do not know yet when that will be. I'm taking quite a lot longer than I originally estimated because I didn't write any device drivers during my madness and my homelessness. I was eventually able to recover my 1337-ness in the last month. GoFundMe so far...
[05:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vector Space Systems Partners With Virginia Space for Launches - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:43] <exec> 08└─I don't know if the codes in the parent post still work. Do they change every time I click their "Receive" buttons?
[05:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vector Space Systems Partners With Virginia Space for Launches - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:45] <exec> 08└─Clue me in, o soylentnews Kenobi. You're my only hope!
[05:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vector Space Systems Partners With Virginia Space for Launches - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:47] <exec> 08└─A new address is generated for every transaction I initiate, but all the addresses that have been issued will work forever: https://support.coinbase.com [coinbase.com]
[05:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vector Space Systems Partners With Virginia Space for Launches - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:49] <exec> 08└─- be: Parsons Cyber is a contractor to the NSA. They have offices all over creation - just so you know where your tax dollars are going. http://soggy.jobs [soggy.jobs]
[05:10:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 435 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:09] <exec> 08└─Well there's some question about what exactly the charges entailed. The operative paragraph in TFA is: With regard to the HTPCs, Moneual purported to charge ASI and Newegg between $2,530 and $2,980 per HTPC unit, and those amounts were stated on the invoices and purchase orders from ASI and Newegg u...
[05:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:14] <exec> 08└─Shitty. Half their items are now shady Chinese third-party sellers and the UI is set up to make it hard to tell whether you are buying from Newegg or the third party Chinese seller. I stopped using them all together years ago. They are garbage and I have always been able to find a lower price at ano...
[05:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:39] <exec> 08└─Can't wait for govt employees to switch to encrypted messaging to get around public records laws.
[05:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:40] <exec> 08└─Which brands did they fail to access? That's what I want to know.
[05:12:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 373 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:58] <exec> 08└─The problem is Israel was, like it or not, acknowledged by the UN as the national home of the Jews while Palestine isn't recognized as anything for Muslims (as opposed to Palestinians) even by other Arab nations. After-all, Muslims pray towards Mecca while Jews pray\ed towards Jerusalem for a reason...
[05:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:54] <exec> 08└─Believe me, I'm not underwater with Mar-a-Lago. I bought it for a song, only $7 million. Fixed it up and it's now bringing me a very nice income. My members pay a $200,000 initiation fee and $14,000 in annual dues. Overnight parking is $2,000 per night. It's an acquisition that's been very, very acc...
[05:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:39] <exec> 08└─And you blame Millennials, when truly, Grandpa, it is your own memory that fails you! Do you remember when blacks knew their place? Do you remember when America was a White nation, with a White President, and a White House with a White Dog? And now all we have is an Orange President, with some ex-...
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[06:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:38] <exec> 08└─Though most often spelled Neanderthal, Neandertal is also a valid spelling.
[06:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Awards SpaceX $40.7 Million for Raptor Engine Development - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:46] <exec> 08└─Big Falcon Rocket hahahahahahahah as if
[06:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Awards SpaceX $40.7 Million for Raptor Engine Development - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:48] <exec> 08└─How do SpaceX's reusable rockets fit into the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program? Maybe the Air Force should come up with a new name.
[06:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:10] <exec> 08└─US military has been doing this to speed training of drone pilots for years now.
[06:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:11] <exec> 08└─So that's why they are mostly hitting innocent bystanders.
[06:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:13] <exec> 08└─Sebastian Gorka, who is not a Nazi, and only just an honorary member of a Hungarian party that collaborated with the Nazi occupation of a Slavic homeland, in preparation for the Final Solution to the Slav problem, which never actually happened, although it was being actively planned for, could have...
[06:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:16] <exec> 08└─US military has been doing this to speed training of drone pilots for years now.
[06:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:18] <exec> 08└─Dude, please. Is there anything you can do to fix the font you use? It appears to everyone else that it has an extra space between each word and is smaller than the default. It's really annoying to read. Ya, ya, friends don't let friends enable whatever the hell script you don't like, but give us a...
[06:10:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 940 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:52] <exec> 08└─The FBI doesn't want their methods to be known [zdnet.com]. So I would not expect them to tell the whole story when complaining about encryption. They have been complaining about this stuff for years [vox.com] but have demonstrated a willingness to use spyware and vulnerabilities to infiltrate syste...
[06:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:00] <exec> 08└─Bill Clinton banned the export of cryptographic techniques, on the basis that they were "arms". So, on the basis that I have the right to bear arms, I am encrypting everything.
[06:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:26] <exec> 08└─This topic reminds me of a little thing in our history where Ptolemy tried to describe the Universe. Earth centered. Boy, did he have a complex model. Then Copernicus came around and saw things from another angle. Maybe we aren't at the center of the Universe. Things got much much simpler. It...
[06:13:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:31] <exec> 08└─Typical SN. We have plenty of +1s for random political opinions, but a dimensional traveler gets a -1.
[06:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:37] <exec> 08└─And that's (part of) the problem both now and then. No moderate plan that's been proposed can survive the attacks of the radicals. And there are too many radicals on both sides.
[06:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Skyrmions Are Coming - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:39] <exec> 08└─Well, "cloud storage" doesn't sound all that safe and solid either, but here we are.
[06:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 1) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:51] <exec> 08└─Agree. Most advertising-supported websites are useless drivel.
[06:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:52] <exec> 08└─"having ads" != "fucking your users' privacy, bandwidth, and security with ad networks, trackers, non-vetted third-party JS, and ad videos and scripts that can reach hundreds of megabytes" You can have static ads and host them yourself. There's a bunch of sites doing this. There's also services like...
[06:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:55] <exec> 08└─That's what it's intended for. Of course, the more important question remains: what is it *actually* used for...?
[06:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:10] <exec> 08└─You realize you are talking about a compiler from 1994 from a company that does not make compilers anymore right?
[06:19:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Influence Humans - 394 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:00] <exec> 08└─If we were growing human meat from a single cell culture, technically there would be no ethical reason not to eat it. Same for other meat. I confess, I'm a filthy omnivore, but once they get "vat meat" going at a reasonable price and show its safety, I will probably never eat a slaughtered animal ag...
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[07:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:39] <exec> 08└─I mean, what are you, German?
[07:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:40] <exec> 08└─... that it was a bad idea to "marry" my first cousin. But he said it was completely cool to "marry" my second cousin.
[07:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:42] <exec> 08└─Besides the summary's provided entry on Wikipedia, you might want to take up the spelling with dictionary.com [dictionary.com], Merriam-Webster [merriam-webster.com], and a few others [onelook.com]. It may not be the preferred spelling (named after the Neanderthal Valley in Germany near Düsseldorf,...
[07:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Awards SpaceX $40.7 Million for Raptor Engine Development - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:53] <exec> 08└─All SpaceX vehicles have a full thrust expendable mode that can carry more cargo.
[07:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vector Space Systems Partners With Virginia Space for Launches - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:07] <exec> 08└─Cryptocoin adrresses never expire. The old receive addresses are still part of your wallet, so coins sent to them will end up in your wallet. You get a new address every time so the people you've dealt with can't see your other transactions. This is not an issue with a publicly posted receive addres...
[07:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:39] <exec> 08└─When the box said "enter the amount you want to pay" they did not think £0 was fair and wanted a large proportion to got to EFF and children's charities. Or is that HumbeBundle.com ?
[07:10:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:53] <exec> 08└─Agents at the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been unable to extract data from nearly 7,000 mobile devices they have tried to access, the agency's director has said. Christopher Wray said encryption on devices was "a huge, huge problem" for FBI investigations. The agency had failed to...
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[08:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:32] <exec> 08└─But us Christians Use: Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping
[08:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:34] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you mean Escape Meta Alt Control Shift. The other backronym is utterly outdated. A system constantly swaps because a program uses 8 megabytes? How many programs these days actually use less than that?
[08:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:45] <exec> 08└─No, Gaul.
[08:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:46] <exec> 08└─Neandertal reflects the correct pronunciation, and I'm seeing it more and more in scientific writings. I almost always prefer more phonetic spellings where there is a choice.
[08:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:48] <exec> 08└─I can't HEAR you!! Bloody Phonecians and their spellings! Hey, did you ever think that maybe we already have our own way of spelling words? Ones we learned from out Neander . . . Neoandro. . . Neo Anderson . . . Ancestors?
[08:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:45] <exec> 08└─Banks are pretty horrible institutions these days, however I think the fraud aspect makes Newegg into shady bastards.
[08:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:46] <exec> 08└─Their website has become one of the worst script laden messes of any I've used. So much so my last experience with them was probably my very last. I'm not surprised to find out it is new owners responsible.
[08:11:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:02] <exec> 08└─> The agency had failed to access more than half of the devices it targeted in an 11-month period Note that this implies that thousands of devices were successfully targeted...
[08:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:14] <exec> 08└─Sorry that information can not be revealed because it would help the terrorists and gangbanger pedophiles on PCP win. You can't withhold secrets from the government but they can sure withhold secrets from you.
[08:13:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 635 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:01] <exec> 08└─July 2017: UNESCO declares the Tomb of the Jewish Patriarchs to be a "Palestinian" heritage site in danger of Jews taking it back [timesofisrael.com] October 2016: UNESCO declares the historic Jewish capitol of Jerusalem to be illegally occupied by Jews [unwatch.org] January 2014: UNESCO expels the...
[08:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:52] <exec> 08└─One solution: Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
[08:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:53] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of the WHO
[08:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:24] <exec> 08└─Do you let inexperienced programmers check code into production without an experienced programmer first having a look on it?
[08:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:26] <exec> 08└─The problem with static analysers is that they fall into two classes, really good and commercial, or somewhat basic and free. Then the commercial ones fall into three price classes, fucking expensive, outrageously expensive, and eyewateringly expensive. PREfast is the closest you can get to free + r...
[08:17:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 834 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:58] <exec> 08└─In the post-fact world, it no longer matters if our masters tell us lies or truths. It only matters that it feels good to act upon what our handlers tell us. For our own good and for the good of all those vested in wall street, our leaders have determined that we must die. In their esteemed wisdom,...
[08:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:02] <exec> 08└─What do they need 950 tons for?
[08:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:03] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention that the Shah's secret police, SAVAK, who specialised in the torture and murder of anyone the Shah didn't like, were set up and trained by Mossad. Iranian's dislike of Israel isn't just generic antisemitism, they have a pretty good historical reason to be upset at Israel.
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[09:09:38] <exec> 08└─like really nasty feature phones like the one Fred Meyer sells for $14.99. The Oxford Semiconductor OXFW911 had 1800 bytes of RAM. Not megabytes, not kilobytes: bytes. I wanted to use more RAM for a project so I created a spreadsheet that had all the memory objects in it, then shorted some arrays.
[09:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:39] <exec> 08└─The other backronym is utterly outdated No shit.
[09:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:53] <exec> 08└─I guess when "bottleneck" comes, you should "marry" whoever you have at hand, as many times as it takes to pull out of hat a healthy offspring. Also, at times like that, promiscuity makes sense, because the community is searching for viable genetic matchmaking. The closer your relative is to you, th...
[09:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:55] <exec> 08└─In German, the word 'Tal' means 'valley', so the name should really be Neandertaler. Take a look at the German Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]. I'm not German myself, but knowing where the word came from, 'Neanderthaler' just looks wrong to me.
[09:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:33] <exec> 08└─Since I'm not adventurous enough to attach electrodes to my balls, I sure am not adventurous enough to attach those electrodes to my brain. YYMV.
[09:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:35] <exec> 08└─*scalp
[09:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:37] <exec> 08└─If only those who fight die in war, there is too little anti-war sentiment. Killing civilians into submission was always the primary goal of all wars. Killing opponent's armed forces was just a necessary first step before civilians are reached. That's why it is laughable, yet sad, when some people c...
[09:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:01] <exec> 08└─-1, Simple Facts Hurt Too Much
[09:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:02] <exec> 08└─That suggestion seems eerily similar to the battle of Armageddon. Why not nuke Mecca first and see if that mellows the situation before walking into a path written down for you something on the order of 3,500 years ago.
[09:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:04] <exec> 08└─I wonder how pro-Israel the USA would be if Israel had been carved out of Texas.
[09:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:07] <exec> 08└─You mean, granting to muslim citizens
[09:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:09] <exec> 08└─By violated almost immediately, don't you mean got attacked by all the nations surrounding it
[09:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:25] <exec> 08└─$4 seems pretty steep. I'd be very surprised is sites had any advertisers that paid close to that per unique visitor. The result of a quick search [monetizepros.com] indicates that big sites are making $6.25-22 per 1,000 unique visitors per year, or about 0.2¢/month/visitor for the highest earners....
[09:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:26] <exec> 08└─Your ISP bill pays to connect your computer to the Internet. It doesn't pay the writers on the other side of the Internet.
[09:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:28] <exec> 08└─You = first party Soylentnews/Webmail = second party Message you are reading = third party
[09:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:30] <exec> 08└─"having ads" != "fucking your users
[09:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:48] <exec> 08└─You need a better test suite than that. If you haven't already spent 10x the cost of PVS studio developing your test suite, your priorities need a rethink.
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[10:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Foundation Wants to Do to Data What It's Done for Software - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:33] <exec> 08└─Would any legal expert around here care to explain the difference to Creative Commons licenses please?
[10:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Awards SpaceX $40.7 Million for Raptor Engine Development - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:09] <exec> 08└─I'm rooting for SpaceX, but at this point in time this is the wrong kind of contract. You're being paid - not for results - but for shuffling government paperwork around. The government crawls around in your underwear, on contracts like this, looking at every nitpicking little detail. You write mass...
[10:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:41] <exec> 08└─Killing civilians into submission was always the primary goal of all wars. Killing opponent's armed forces was just a necessary first step before civilians are reached.
[10:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:54] <exec> 08└─Now, FUCK OFF!
[10:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:56] <exec> 08└─The naïve way to simulate a quantum system with n particles (whose states may be entangled with each other), each of which can be in t quantum states is by using a Hilbert space with dimension tn, i.e. exponential in the number of particles.
[10:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:58] <exec> 08└─All known methods for simulating a quantum system are exponential in the number of particles.
[10:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:00] <exec> 08└─When the particles are entangled, then the system cannot no longer have as many (tn) degrees of freedom.
[10:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:17] <exec> 08└─STOP USING TT TAG FOR YOUR TEXT. IT"S ANNOYING AS FUCK
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[11:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shinobi [6707] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:49] <exec> 08└─Simply alias vim to be nano instead, or notepad++ running under WINE. Go back in time to shoot Vim authors. Go back in time to shoot Vi author. While you're there, shoot Emacs author.
[11:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Paradise Pete [1806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:49] <exec> 08└─Dude, please. Is there anything you can do to fix the font you use?
[11:11:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 226 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:29] <exec> 08└─Speaking of "bad guys"... Christopher Wray said encryption on devices was "a huge, huge problem" for FBI investigations. The agency had failed to access more than half of the devices it targeted in an 11-month period, he said.
[11:11:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 1139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:31] <exec> 08└─I think, basically, the FBI wants your phone to incriminate you for SOMETHING, ANYTHING, so that they don't have to do real investigative work. Investigating can be hard, you know? If they can just grab some device with which you record alll of the intimate parts of your life, they can find SOMETHIN...
[11:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Technology to Dramatically Speed up Home Broadband - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:56] <exec> 08└─Your figures are 3.125MBps down 0.625MBps up which are about 150% down 600% up removed from OP. Pretty bad line noise most likely.
[11:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:09] <exec> 08└─I read it all; it is you that went off topic with your aside (your word) about the homeless in DC. The thread was discussing potential passengers for Hyperloop between DC and Baltimore, and you mentioned the homeless. I saw the funny side of that.
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[12:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Linux Foundation Wants to Do to Data What It's Done for Software - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:41] <exec> 08└─Just putting out licenses feels like a cheap and uniformed shot on behalf of the Linux Foundation. While there might be a subset of small datasets for which this might be of use there are other licenses out there already. For serious data such as scientific data (except for the astronomical/physical...
[12:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Foundation Wants to Do to Data What It's Done for Software - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:43] <exec> 08└─Look up why OpenStreetMap switched from CC to ODbL [wikipedia.org] and read through the "computational use" clauses.
[12:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:55] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry but your geek card is hereby revoked for suggesting using a Windows text editor. You may reapply for it once you have cleared everything but games from your wine profile(s). You will of course have to retake the written test.
[12:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:56] <exec> 08└─Ought to be enough for anyone, right? ;-P
[12:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:13] <exec> 08└─Interbreeding with Neandertals[1] restored some genetic heirlooms that modern humans left
[12:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:14] <exec> 08└─Old terminology, I guess, from back when neandertals were still thought to be a separate branch. We should probably be calling them northern humans and southern humans - or something like that - but how do we convince the established *-ologists of this?
[12:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:17] <exec> 08└─I think the promiscuity makes sense also because it offers the children more genetically diverse mates: it's probably safer to try to "marry" your half-cousin than your cousin.
[12:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:01] <exec> 08└─Change theme to VT100 (best theme) and everyone shows up as monospaced.
[12:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 1793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:02] <exec> 08└─Animals were seated in front of a monitor that subtended 30 360 degrees of visual angle at a viewing distance of 40 cm. Eye position and pupil area were monitored at 500 Hz with an infrared eye tracking system (SR Research; Ontario). Our experimental paradigm was an adaptation of one previously show...
[12:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:40] <exec> 08└─> I did write "remove", so there are non-lethal options. The onl way to remove people who say "this is my homeland, my family have lived here for as far back as record began, I have every right to remain here is to remove their life. You do realise that the arab families in what was former Palestine...
[12:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program, Why Do Media Keep Saying It Does? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:58] <exec> 08└─Admittedly well played, but still.
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[13:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis Made Available Online by Cambridge University - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:37] <exec> 08└─If you want to avoid people overcrowding your network, you should do what microsoft did with the Feynman lectures: use a format that nobody can actually read. Then you're safe. Otherwise the crazy science nerds will be furiously pressing refresh until they can get at the good bits.
[13:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:00] <exec> 08└─I run Cygwin under wine 😈
[13:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:02] <exec> 08└─Sed's usually much quicker. But I use Flash to clean my floor. And I remember when we had Marathon bars and Jif.
[13:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:04] <exec> 08└─The article left out the main thing to remember in vim: try to remember which fucking mode you are in for that split second. Insert mode or not? Jesus, the modal interface is the worst thing about vim and a constant source of user error. Even worse, it is totally unnecessary.
[13:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:06] <exec> 08└─Let's bring that into the 21st century: 8 gigabytes and constantly swapping. Not picking on vim, that's for all modern software.
[13:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:08] <exec> 08└─1978, terminals and 120baud modems.
[13:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 1242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:10] <exec> 08└─I am guilty of wrapping TortoiseSVN in a series of shell script to integrate it into my file manager. The Linux equivalent are sub-par when it comme to merging a range of revision, yeah , I should use git but I would have the same problems as I am a compulsive mouse clicker and I dont dictate source...
[13:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:13] <exec> 08└─Seeing the kinds of mistakes my elderly father makes has shown me that the standard of ctrl-x, ctrl-c, ctrl-v for cut, copy, and paste, and most of all ctrl-a for select all, is not very good. He's a sloppy typer, likely to get tired and accidentally brush the ctrl key. Instead of typing A, he will...
[13:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:32] <exec> 08└─I think your sense of humor needs to interbreed with that of a modern humans.
[13:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:33] <exec> 08└─That would be the modern spelling. "Tal" used to be spelled "Thal". German used to be even more phonetic than it is nowadays, as "Tal" is still pronounced with an aspiration after the "T", so "Thal" would be its phonetic version. When the place where the Neandertaler was found was named after Neande...
[13:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:41] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Since about 3 or so years ago their site has become close to unusable. There were points where I gave up looking because it was pulling in scripts from dozens of sites. My biggest gripe was their Amazon wanna be shift towards selling everything while letting in a deluge of 3rd party sellers....
[13:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:42] <exec> 08└─Too lazy to look it up, but I recall reading somewhere that the transactions in question were forged. In which case, they likely never existed, or at least not in the form presented. However, the banks failed to recover all of their money, so they are now looking for other deep pockets to raid. Afte...
[13:14:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 476 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:05] <exec> 08└─It looks like you're quoting someone else, but I think you muffed the quote tag so I'll assume you were expressing your thoughts and not quoting someone else... "Stereotype much?" Yes, it's a figment of my imagination. Except it's been written up by the BBC [bbc.com] and the New York Times [nytimes....
[13:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:02] <exec> 08└─and 42 percent thought that the candidates were so awful that they didn't bother to cast a ballot, even though they were registered.
[13:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:24] <exec> 08└─if the local electric power utility offers a choice of electronic ACH payment with third-party scripts or check payment with a $5 per month surcharge for a paper bill, do you instead accept the surcharge?
[13:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:25] <exec> 08└─I can go to my bank, and set up a recurring periodic payment.
[13:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:28] <exec> 08└─That's why I pay for NYT and I receive all the content I care to read written by professional journalists.
[13:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:30] <exec> 08└─You have the browser block third-party content. Period. Soylent comments are NOT third-party content in that context. They're served directly from SoylentNews.org. Sure, you could drop an iframe or script tag in there...but either you're linking to another page on SoylentNews.org, which I already tr...
[13:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:32] <exec> 08└─Go ahead and try to charge 4 bucks for visit. Go right ahead
[13:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code Analyzer Turned Out to be Smarter Than One of its Creators - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:52] <exec> 08└─We are all businessmen and women, whether you see it that way yet or not. All of us, even Russians. If you like art and can’t make money at it, you eventually realize that everything is business, even your art. That’s why I like Warhol’s statement about good business being the best art. It’s...
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[14:09:51] <exec> 08└─No need to furiously do anything. I grabbed the papers last night using wget -t0. It's like people have no idea how to deal with intermittent network connectivity. I'm at work right now, and I don't visit torrent sites at work for obvious reasons, but has a torrent been posted anywhere? My usual sou...
[14:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis Made Available Online by Cambridge University - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:53] <exec> 08└─Oh, right, in case anybody else wants to do the needful, I should post the URLs to the PDFs I obtained thanks to the Wayback Machine [archive.org]. wget -t0 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk [cam.ac.uk] wget -t0 ht...
[14:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:23] <exec> 08└─Um... Pagan here. How are all you non-pagans doing these days? I heard you had to relearn your Redmond built user interfaces ten times since my sparc station was first blessed with the blood of virgins. Forced upgrades must be hell. Anyway, ya'll are welcomed at the old pentagram any time. BYOB and...
[14:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:24] <exec> 08└─And I remember when we had Marathon bars and Jif.
[14:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:26] <exec> 08└─Someone need to patch VIM so one can exit the program without having to switch terminals and killall VIM. I have search and read all the hints online. The only thing that happens is the q! and other characters are typed on the screen as part of the document text. Can someone please point me to a key...
[14:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:29] <exec> 08└─1978, terminals and 120baud modems.
[14:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Awards SpaceX $40.7 Million for Raptor Engine Development - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:00] <exec> 08└─I can only find summaries of the contract. It's not clear what the deliverables are. The Air Force goal appears to help wean off the RD-180. If this results in more/quicker concrete test results then it is probably good. If it results in a variant of the engine, the diversion may be good or not depe...
[14:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:59] <exec> 08└─Close! AIG.
[14:12:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:21] <exec> 08└─Disputed, but still: "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
[14:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:24] <exec> 08└─It would be especially good to see a competition heat up between China, the US, and Europe to see who can become the greenest, quickest, a la the Space Race.
[14:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:26] <exec> 08└─Cutting off the oil wealth of the nutjobs in the Middle East and Texas would be icing on the cake.
[14:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:23] <exec> 08└─It's how we know the membranes separating the various slices of the multiverse are breaking down. The singularity is near.
[14:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:24] <exec> 08└─Indeed, the threshhold condition for a true culture is macaroni pictures and popcorn necklaces [youtube.com].
[14:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:26] <exec> 08└─Israel is recognized as a Jewish nation.
[14:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:29] <exec> 08└─By violated almost immediately, don't you mean got attacked by all the nations surrounding it in violation of the very same UN decision that you're defending and ended up with more territories then Israel was designated for? Moreover, are you seriously suggesting the world should send the message th...
[14:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:31] <exec> 08└─They should have carved it out of Germany. That would have been a just thing to do. But, really, why should the Jews have been the only group persecuted in the Holocaust to get a country of their own out of it? Why not the Gypsies? Those poor bastards have been kicked around for a long time, too, an...
[14:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:58] <exec> 08└─You can have static ads and host them yourself. There's a bunch of sites doing this.
[14:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:59] <exec> 08└─Would you prefer having to pay $4 for each unique domain that you visit in each month? Because in practice, that's the alternative to third-party ads and trackers for sites that aren't run as a hobby. Or if you know of a third way (other than ads or subscriptions) proven to provide enough revenue to...
[14:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:02] <exec> 08└─How does your site know what third party content is active and what isn't?
[14:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:05] <exec> 08└─This is a standard service that many banks offer. The utility sends you a bill, you go to your bank's website and type in the amount, and they transfer the payment.
[14:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:07] <exec> 08└─And you can also use things like doctype tags to tell the browser which version of the spec to use when interpreting the page
[14:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:09] <exec> 08└─You're utterly delusional if you think ads pay anywhere near that amount.
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[15:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:35] <exec> 08└─Race to the bottom my pretties. LOL at Chicago offering tax incentives. Those fucking sons of bitches. That whole state is a corrupt shithole. People are fleeing it in droves because the burden on tax payers is INSANE, and instead of getting a handle on it they just double down and spread even more...
[15:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:37] <exec> 08└─Not everyone in the race is begging [thestar.com]
[15:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:39] <exec> 08└─Note: Consider moving to Arkansas, Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont or Wyoming. They seem to be places that might potentially have a modicum of sanity.
[15:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Foundation Wants to Do to Data What It's Done for Software - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:03] <exec> 08└─I thought they wanted to take my personal data and share it freely with anyone that wants it. The difference between a slut and a whore is that Facebook and Google and AT&T and Verizon and T-Mobile at least beat you and charge for your services. You can't even be a slut in the sharing economy becaus...
[15:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Foundation Wants to Do to Data What It's Done for Software - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:04] <exec> 08└─What's got the Linux Foundation to do with improving the situation for big data applications in free software? Or at least, what should it have to do? From the name alone, I'd expect them to promote the Linux kernel, secure its legal situation, and pave the way for improvements. I've recently posted...
[15:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Foundation Wants to Do to Data What It's Done for Software - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:06] <exec> 08└─This is just a guess. But the Linux kernel is used to host important applications that are all about data. It makes sense to help lubricate the wheels of the ecosystem(s) that produce, consume, use and manipulate that data. Linux is used not only in data centers where such data may reside. But Linux...
[15:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Foundation Wants to Do to Data What It's Done for Software - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:09] <exec> 08└─It makes sense to help lubricate the wheels of the ecosystem(s) that produce, consume, use and manipulate that data.
[15:10:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 235 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:21] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry but your geek card is hereby revoked for suggesting using a Windows text editor. You may reapply for it once you have cleared everything but games from your wine profile(s). You will of course have to retake the written test.
[15:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:34] <exec> 08└─So, what's EGACS? :D
[15:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:36] <exec> 08└─APIs can be irritating. I use Netbeans and Visual Studio (community) with their respective [sourceforge.net] Vim extensions [github.com]. What's a good setup for C/C++? Netbeans has always been mediocre, and I'm looking for something for use at home, so FLOSS is a must. Right now I just use Vim with...
[15:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:38] <exec> 08└─If you forget, glance at the bottom-left corner of the window and it tells you. I generally dislike modal interfaces, but in vim I quite like it because writing text and editing text should be separate activities. I find that I'm much more productive when I stay in insert mode for as long as possibl...
[15:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:40] <exec> 08└─A free (first few levels) web based graphical game that uses VIM keys to move a character around and complete dungeon crawler type tasks https://vim-adventures.com [vim-adventures.com] Would love this to be open sourced and freely available in its entirety. Great as a refresher of the basic command...
[15:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:42] <exec> 08└─You... You're making a joke right?
[15:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:45] <exec> 08└─Is there bright text saying -- INSERT -- at the bottom? Press esc first. In fact, mash esc a bunch of times. Then access the command line thingie. Press colon (:). You should get a colon prompt at the bottom. That's where you type q!. q = quit ! = do it even if there are unsaved changes Another hand...
[15:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:47] <exec> 08└─Now I'm stuck with vis. Multiple cursors and more powerful regex, so nice. Plus its only 700k on my machine with all the optional dependencies, statically compiled.
[15:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:49] <exec> 08└─Jif was just a brand name, the reason I heard they changed it was because in some countries (e.g. Spanish speaking ones) had trouble pronouncing it, so they changed it to Cif. Anyway, I think they did do lemon juice, which you might put on pancakes, but were better known for their cleaning products....
[15:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:51] <exec> 08└─Actually, speaking as a pagan, I'm polytheistic, so I regularly use both vim and emacs. Sometimes at the same time.
[15:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:53] <exec> 08└─so you're that teacher I heard about who wrote the (geometry) problem with one hand and drew the picture with the other hand. at the same time.
[15:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmh [721] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:56] <exec> 08└─But even the mouse jerk like me
[15:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:16] <exec> 08└─So, dogs and wolves and all the other canis, same species? Cows and buffalo?
[15:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MindEscapes [6751] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:18] <exec> 08└─Or we could try Neanderthals and Dwarf Neanderthals... ;)
[15:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:06] <exec> 08└─I was wondering why I didn't see what the GP post was talking about.
[15:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:08] <exec> 08└─Fuck -- do I mod this insightful? Funny?
[15:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:10] <exec> 08└─Maybe you don't have to teach monkeys to like flavored sugar. You sure don't have to teach humans to like it.
[15:12:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:29] <exec> 08└─Their website has become one of the worst script laden messes of any I've used. So much so my last experience with them was probably my very last. I'm not surprised to find out it is new owners responsible.
[15:12:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:41] <exec> 08└─Security isn't security, if only the "good guys" have the keys to the kingdom. The bad guys would get them about a second after the good guys have them. Plus, who's to say the "good guys" are good?
[15:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:01] <exec> 08└─If those silicone valley geeks can create perpetual motion machines and faster than light drives, why can't they develop an encryption system that is perfectly secure until the moment when a judge signs a warrant? That doesn't seem like too much to ask for. They could do it if they would only put th...
[15:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:02] <exec> 08└─would help the terrorists and gangbanger pedophiles on PCP win.
[15:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:05] <exec> 08└─An interesting problem that resulted was that you could leave the country with textbooks about encryption. These textbooks even had source code for some algorithms. Technically that was in violation of export laws. Because these textbooks were arms. But apparently the US didn't want to get into the...
[15:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:07] <exec> 08└─You know what the next step will be? Management Engines. Hey, it worked on Intel and AMD processors used in billions of desktop, laptop and server PCs. Compromise baked right into your microprocessor. You pay for it. You don't want it. And nobody asked you. One can only speculate why that wasn't lis...
[15:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, I realized the same thing about the same time. Gulf War I. Geopolitics would change radically once that oil money dries up. But if Texas lost the ability to dictate classroom textbooks for everyone else, the godless heathens might learn science and history. It could put a dent in Fox News. In t...
[15:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:07] <exec> 08└─In the sequel Gulf War II -- The Quest To Finish Daddy's War, the plot had less emphasis on oil. And the characters were less likable. The dialog was not as well written.
[15:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:08] <exec> 08└─2. Jerusalem is a world heritage site while Hebron is a Palestinian heritage site.
[15:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:09] <exec> 08└─How does it sound if we declare Britain to be a "white" nation?
[15:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:11] <exec> 08└─OK. If that's the norm then why did everybody get so upset when George W. Bush called America a "Christian nation?" Why do they pan David Duke when he asserts America for white people? Is it only bad if they say things like that in America, but perfectly normal and acceptable elsewhere? Why the doub...
[15:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:54] <exec> 08└─I didn't go off-topic; the person I was responding to specifically called DC "famous hyper over crowded over security theater'd tourist trap surrounded by impressive poverty mere blocks away". I was addressing the "impressive poverty" comment. If you think that's "off-topic", then you need to take i...
[15:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware? - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe. The big difference between airplanes and Hyperloop (or trains) is that it's utterly impossible to take over a Hyperloop pod (or train) and pilot it into a crowded building. With an airplane, it's pretty easy once you get into the cockpit. It is possible to cause destruction to the Hyperloop w...
[15:17:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 261 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:33] <exec> 08└─I regard this as a manifestation of microBlock Origin just doing its job. I'm not alone. A perusal of the comments on 'The Register' show that there is broad support for uBO's approach. The Register:uBlock Origin CSP report blocking comments [theregister.co.uk]
[15:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:47] <exec> 08└─Then WIRED is utterly delusional, as it charges that amount for a 28-day tracking blocking pass. Sites like WSJ and NYTimes charge even more.
[15:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:49] <exec> 08└─Until you get to banks that offer different tiers of checking accounts, one with bill payment and the other without, and require a larger minimum balance to avoid a monthly service fee for the one with bill payment than for the other without.
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[16:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:39] <exec> 08└─Those were navigation marks for aliens. Destroy them all because they'll be back soon.
[16:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I told him the stones would never work out. Apologies everyone, it's my fault Gates switched his attention to Windows.
[16:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:43] <exec> 08└─This story submission wasn't written by edIII. It's a quote from nytimes.com, that has had a link inserted into it that leads to the article whence the quote came.
[16:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:45] <exec> 08└─When they run into the ruins of the Nameless City [hplovecraft.com] they'll need to be careful; a previous expedition found the ruins inhabited by intelligent reptilians who depict human sacrifice in their artwork.
[16:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:47] <exec> 08└─Found all sorts of weird shapes in northern Russia - from Kola to Kamchatka. Always wondered what they were, but there were no references to their coordinates anywhere at the time.
[16:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:49] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Stone gates discovered in desert? whatcouldgowrong [wikimedia.org]
[16:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:52] <exec> 08└─Those were navigation marks for aliens.
[16:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:54] <exec> 08└─Does your second sentence invalidate your first? If no then can you say the nytimes wrote the entire article that appears to include text quoted from other included hyperlinks? Most summaries i see are c&p snippets from a linked article with little rewriting. But that editing is still attributed to...
[16:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:56] <exec> 08└─Uhhhh - your point? It's pretty obvious that the submission is a block quote. The source of the block quote is given. I didn't notice that any of the eds, whether it be edI or ed XVI, claimed any credit above and beyond having read and submitted the article to Soylent. So, you point? You just don't...
[16:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:11] <exec> 08└─I'll be first in line for this when I hit fifty, as long as it works for those who've already had shingles. Thanks to a particularly stressful work project when I was in my early thirties, I developed shingles. It was some of the most excruciating pain I've ever experienced; my best description is t...
[16:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis Made Available Online by Cambridge University - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:21] <exec> 08└─Was the paper important? I am only vaguely aware that Hawking made his name with blackhole studies. String "theory" totally soured me on celebrity physicists - turned what was once a respectable subject into a TMZ/fashionista fodders (that's right, I'm looking at you, Brian Greene). Not to mention b...
[16:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis Made Available Online by Cambridge University - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:24] <exec> 08└─high-quality version via the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org [archive.org] https://web.archive.org
[16:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:13] <exec> 08└─I suppose you could use Eclipse. I've been forced to use IDEs over the years but I always go back to (g)vim and browser tabs or terminal screens full of docs as soon as nobody's looking.
[16:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:14] <exec> 08└─And what do you do when your computer vendor is too hip to include [theverge.com] the ESC key on your keyboard? (don't bother telling me how to do it with the bar, I have no interest with laptops and keyboards that double as razor blades.)
[16:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:16] <exec> 08└─"The only thing that happens is the q! and other characters are typed on the screen as part of the document text." You forgot to escape colon. The full mnemonic is ESCape this :(colon) thing Quit and do !return.
[16:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:19] <exec> 08└─Sure you can check. But having to do so *interrupts the flow* of writing. The increased cognitive load slows users down and makes errors more likely. Just because you aren't conscious of it doesn't mean it's not there. I'm struggling to understand how you developed the belief that writing in a text...
[16:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:41] <exec> 08└─And the current breed 'Homo Incompetus'
[16:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:43] <exec> 08└─If you can't keep it in your pants, at least keep it in the family.
[16:13:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 710 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:07] <exec> 08└─Part of me is very skeptical. The NSA did have a bunch of their top secret tools stolen, but I suspect they have more. Or other governments do. Maybe the FBI wants us to think our whole device/drive encryption is secure? There was a recent article about how some TPM was compromised. That's all it ta...
[16:13:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 836 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:52] <exec> 08└─All known methods for simulating a quantum system are exponential in the number of particles. The naïve way to simulate a quantum system with n particles (whose states may be entangled with each other), each of which can be in t quantum states is by using a Hilbert space with dimension tn, i.e. exp...
[16:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:31] <exec> 08└─Rooftop solar was relatively limited use in the many states where it's illegal to sell excess power to the grid until the Powerwall made it possible to save your own electricity.
[16:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:35] <exec> 08└─I reject your reality and substitute my own
[16:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06uBlock Origin Criticized for Blocking Content Security Policy - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:13] <exec> 08└─FYI: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org [adblockplus.org]
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[17:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Energy Gamma Ray Laser Sources Possible According to Simulations - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:31] <exec> 08└─Don't tell the sharks!
[17:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:48] <exec> 08└─It fits all too well: - Windows are more easily broken than stone gates - Windows are less secure than stone gates - Windows requires constant maintenance and attention, much more than stone gates Too bad the Linux desktop is patterned after Windows, maybe we should be developing the CLI up to a sto...
[17:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:49] <exec> 08└─Like where? In the tundra? There's a lot of space there, I've browsed through it on landsat many times, curious as to which spots you're talking about.
[17:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:51] <exec> 08└─It's just misleading "edIII writes:" and then something edill didnẗ write. Perhaps not everybody is familiar with the SN SOP.
[17:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:53] <exec> 08└─I don't know why submitters put in links into the blockquote that weren't there originally. I have moved it outside of the blockquote
[17:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:56] <exec> 08└─see comment below for the real problem
[17:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:58] <exec> 08└─Both funny and insightful. Too bad the system is choose one huh? Windowing interfaces have overpromised and underperformed, yet manage to corner mindshare nonetheless. For most jobs they seem inherently unsuitable. Certainly they're a distraction at best if you're primarily working with text.
[17:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:00] <exec> 08└─Just my mistake I think. Normally it would be outside the blockquote. Sorry about that, but that's why I appreciate the eds around here :)
[17:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:11] <exec> 08└─Heard on the radio this morning that Fresno is also offering nothing. It's a wise move for Fresno not to waste money preparing a fancy offer. Some places making offers just don't stand a chance, unless they're offering $30 billion in cash... The main criteria besides "gimme tax breaks" is a major me...
[17:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:13] <exec> 08└─Amazon's 2nd HQ could have "up to 50,000 employees." Let's make the huge assumption that's actually true. $5,000,000,000/50,000 employees = $100,000 per "job created." And keep in mind that that many of those jobs will be for people like janitors. Okay, you can make the argument that it's a long-ter...
[17:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:16] <exec> 08└─Note: Consider moving to Arkansas, Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont or Wyoming. They seem to be places that might potentially have a modicum of sanity. Hawaii is very, very nice, but it's not sane at all, if you're looking at the cost of living. It's one of the most expensive pla...
[17:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis Made Available Online by Cambridge University - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:34] <exec> 08└─Ah, good enough. They didn't have it archived last night.
[17:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis Made Available Online by Cambridge University - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:35] <exec> 08└─I actually don't know, and I don't think it matters. As an analogy, let's say there was a recently discovered early composition by Mozart. People would be clamoring over it to see it no matter its quality. If it was good, it'd be another good piece of music to enjoy, and you could further see Mozart...
[17:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis Made Available Online by Cambridge University - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:38] <exec> 08└─https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/251038/PR-PHD-05437_CUDL2017-reduced.pdf?sequence=15&isAllowed=y
[17:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:31] <exec> 08└─Grab a potato chip and eat it?
[17:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03pbnjoe [313] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:32] <exec> 08└─Press Ctrl + [ instead. :) But best not to purchase from that vendor in the first place.
[17:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:58] <exec> 08└─I was about to correct you for using irregardless... Then I realized I'd been Whooshed, if only briefly.
[17:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:59] <exec> 08└─You're looking at it wrong. It's similar to when humans interbreed with the Amazing Talking African Ape. The resulting mongrel is still fertile and has human characteristics but is often overwhelmed with its simian features and an inability to stand on hind legs when the National Anthem is being pla...
[17:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:01] <exec> 08└─Next, you're gonna pretend that it's actually biologically acceptable for our pretty white daughters to breed with Chinks, Negroes and Rednecks?
[17:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Awards SpaceX $40.7 Million for Raptor Engine Development - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:14] <exec> 08└─40 million dollars is also a pretty cheap investment for the Air Force to keep ULA under pressure.
[17:13:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 195 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:01] <exec> 08└─Not 300 percent, 30000 percent. This is gold-plated-hammer-marble-toilet-Afghan-gas-station-F-35 levels of "oops I didn't notice the price" gouging. Just short of a Pentagon Civilian Distinction.
[17:13:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:41] <exec> 08└─Which brands did they fail to access? That's what I want to know.
[17:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:48] <exec> 08└─Life imitates art? Or is MIB not older than that? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com [pinimg.com]
[17:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:50] <exec> 08└─No, it's not. Examining your quote even carefullier: (FBI) have been unable to extract data from nearly 7,000 mobile devices they have tried to access, [..] more than half of the devices it targeted
[17:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:52] <exec> 08└─In a time when the government is committing criminal acts, is it not advisable for citizens to do what they can to protect themselves from that crime?
[17:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:55] <exec> 08└─Absolutely! Headlines like these are definitely an example of the problematic bias in our news media. Just don't think that this attaches "pro-FBI" to the political bias you may already believe exists. It's political, sure, but not left vs right. This one is pretty clearly rich vs poor, in which the...
[17:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:25] <exec> 08└─Why does this announcement matter, or put anything into question. The hard thing about mathematically exponential problems are is that they are exponentially more difficult as the number increases. So let's say that due to clever tricks IBM figures out how to make the problem of simulating quantum m...
[17:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:57] <exec> 08└─I thought the biggest ick factor was shoehorning a happy ending at the end of Act 1, happy aircraft carrier and all, and forgetting to write an actual ending to the story, leaving all the mooks behind to get shot... But you're correct, it's probably more a projective-vomit moment than an "ick"
[17:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:59] <exec> 08└─But they're not American, so they don't count and are probably just copycats!
[17:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:04] <exec> 08└─You forgot the staple "pulled myself up by my own bootstraps." AKA, "Don't wait for random somebody to swing on by and improve your life, go out yourself and do honest work to improve your own life." Also, don't cause strife in your community, but find ways to improve it.
[17:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:05] <exec> 08└─Because America is supposed to be better, not an ethnic state, but a land where all can come live according to the ideals it was founded on; Liberty, justice, and freedom for all.
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[18:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Energy Gamma Ray Laser Sources Possible According to Simulations - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:36] <exec> 08└─[scientist holds throat, chokes, falls dead on the floor] *Inhales* *Exhales* What is the point of building a giant laser weapon if people can't see the destruction beam? Do you expect me to tape video claims, like a vulgar Daesh terrorist? *Inhales* *Exhales*
[18:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Energy Gamma Ray Laser Sources Possible According to Simulations - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:38] <exec> 08└─You're trying too hard.
[18:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:01] <exec> 08└─I don't think you are the main offender, and it ought to be caught beforehand by editors but it isn't really discussed. Could even be considered OCD on my part.
[18:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:02] <exec> 08└─They're very long and narrow. They're from the time when the climate was different around there and the land was wetter and more fertile. The ancients grew spaghetti in these long plots. They are spaghetti fields. Mystery solved.
[18:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:05] <exec> 08└─>Does your second sentence invalidate your first? Let me restate in a way that may be understandable to you. Text was taken from a nytimes.com page, changed only by inserting a link to the source page within the quoted text, and that became the totality of the story submission. The link that was ins...
[18:10:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:13] <exec> 08└─Not everyone in the race is begging [thestar.com]
[18:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:19] <exec> 08└─Certainly not Fresno, though I guess it is close enough to decent places to live!
[18:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:22] <exec> 08└─Not sure. I'm never certain if the belief I have that the idiots who think throwing money at corporations is a good way to build a community are idiots is evidence of foolishness on my part. I'd guess the nature of the laundering is quid-pro-quo where the politician gives the corporation taxpayers'...
[18:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:24] <exec> 08└─Unemployment rates in each of the states under discussion: Hawaii: 2.5% Montana: 3.9% Wyoming: 4.0% North Dakota: 2.4% South Dakota: 3.4% Vermont: 2.9% Arkansas: 3.5% Now, that's not industry-specific numbers, but the claim that there are "no jobs" in these states seems to be questionable when they'...
[18:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:26] <exec> 08└─I can think of a lot of other good things that could be done with $100,000, including but not limited to simply giving it out to people as cash for them to spend as they choose.
[18:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:35] <exec> 08└─Vaccines are just another tool of the violently imposed monopoly. They dope the vaccines with mercury to dumb down the sheeple. What we need are a series of contracts that allow humans to naturally evolve into the most optimal system which will enable their own immune systems to fix any medical prob...
[18:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:37] <exec> 08└─PS: I apologize if my invocation of "sheeple" caused your local area to be invaded by subterranean creatures.
[18:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:40] <exec> 08└─Goddamn, Poe's law overload!
[18:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:42] <exec> 08└─I don't recall contracting with you before, do you have a signed agreement from one of my partners? If not piss off or I'll sic my contractually obligated dobermans on you.
[18:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis Made Available Online by Cambridge University - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:57] <exec> 08└─Let's ask Aaron Swartz.
[18:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Foundation Wants to Do to Data What It's Done for Software - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:11] <exec> 08└─You need to adjust your lenses, your focus is a bit out of whack.
[18:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:54] <exec> 08└─You kinky bastard! Well, at least I'm not alone in this hateful world.
[18:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:55] <exec> 08└─Haha yeaaaah wtf is up with that? I doubt the slower interface is better over the long term, and you have to learn so many esoteric commands to use VIM that I just don't see the point. I use it only when I'm unable to access a real editor. Yeah you heard me, a REAL editor that doesn't require an adv...
[18:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Awards SpaceX $40.7 Million for Raptor Engine Development - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:36] <exec> 08└─SpaceX has admitted it needs to spend a lot of the government's money to get to Mars. Developing the new engine would be a small piece of the puzzle.
[18:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:15] <exec> 08└─I also use VT-100 theme. In addition, only monospaced fonts are available in my browser. So that's what I see even when the theme engine on the server dies. I was originally neutral on mangled fonts (not sure why you want them but you do so sure, have fun) but I've come to see them as perverse and d...
[18:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:17] <exec> 08└─The reason why the USA's killing of civilians stuff doesn't work is because: Let's not listen! Trump has already killed more civilians than Obama [newsweek.com]
[18:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:17] <exec> 08└─Both statements are factually correct, and therefore, not fake. Just because certain people want to create a false equivalency regarding "fake news" doesn't mean we should let them.
[18:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:30] <exec> 08└─Nobody knows where the Gypsies came from. People think they know where the Israelis came from. That they're wrong doesn't enter into political calculations. The other groups that you mention aren't even ostensibly nationalities.
[18:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:32] <exec> 08└─Because the United States has as one of its founding principles that we specifically don't have an official national religion. George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson were all extremely clear on that point, repeatedly. And if you're really unclear on why it would be a problem, replace th...
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[19:09:37] <exec> 08└─Blockchain will fix the cloud. Blockchain will fix the DNS. Blockchain will fix every thing. Block! chain! Block! chain! Block! chain!
[19:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:39] <exec> 08└─Fuck any organization that can't remember if it registered under .com or .net. I'm tired of the every site needing me to allow javascript from 15 other domains, often the same word followed by .com, .net, .io, .ly, etc before they'll work properly. It really feels like bullshit.
[19:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:41] <exec> 08└─Not even Blockchain can fix stupid.
[19:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:43] <exec> 08└─Next time, don't be such a doofus.
[19:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:46] <exec> 08└─Only dummies are dumb enough to try to do anything in this world. Smart people are smart enough to know that it's not worthwhile to create anything, and thus they are never the ones to be in charge.
[19:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:48] <exec> 08└─Is blockchain in the cloud? If so, then yes they should use it and put it in the cloud. In fact, it sounds like IBM should have put that DNS thingy in the cloud and then they would not have had any of these problems.
[19:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:50] <exec> 08└─It's worse though. This is unfortunately all too common with site owners of all sizes. The domain ownership is an after thought, and probably, because it isn't a lot of money. A small tiny charge, for a super critical piece of infrastructure that the average person doesn't really understand. They ca...
[19:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:52] <exec> 08└─Autorenew? There is some reason not to just have ticked on all your important domains?
[19:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:54] <exec> 08└─You're totally right. The only way to succeed at anything is to be an early adopter before the establishment close ranks and shout, "FUCK YOU GOT MY BTC!" Funny that's exactly how old money capitalists behave with real money. You're better, how, motherfucker?
[19:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Energy Gamma Ray Laser Sources Possible According to Simulations - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:06] <exec> 08└─His sin is that, in spite of trying so hard, he's not succeeding.
[19:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Energy Gamma Ray Laser Sources Possible According to Simulations - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:08] <exec> 08└─How about "You don't keep a doomsday beam invisible"
[19:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Energy Gamma Ray Laser Sources Possible According to Simulations - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:10] <exec> 08└─At 10PW, any stray particles in the beam path will be converted to plasma. That should illuminate the beam nicely.
[19:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:36] <exec> 08└─Cut the pastafaian bullshit.
[19:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 1298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:37] <exec> 08└─I do that because Slashdot did that. Often they used the hyperlink as a device to draw the eye to a particular phrase or sentence in the excerpt to highlight the topic or emphasize something else. Also, copy & paste is the fastest way to construct a submission and the best way to keep the story pipe...
[19:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:39] <exec> 08└─FFS so volunteer your time on the back-end to capture the story source separately in the submission form, store it in the DB, and spit it out on the home page as, "From [story source]:" instead of "[submitter] writes:" If you care that much about it, put your money where your mouth is. If you don't...
[19:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:41] <exec> 08└─Gates and Kites. What they look like if viewed from above? Talk about your modern tools getting in the way. They look like ball fields, some kick-ball sort of game. Or maybe foot races. Or gather round and stab the pig before the feast, who knows. The field of play delineated more by the act of ston...
[19:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:44] <exec> 08└─I vaguely recall what he's referring to. It might have been this one [ancient-origins.net].
[19:10:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:59] <exec> 08└─I can think of a lot of other good things that could be done with $100,000, including but not limited to simply giving it out to people as cash for them to spend as they choose.
[19:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:01] <exec> 08└─"Oh Mr. Bezos! Please let me service your micro-junk! Put it right in my mouth! Oh, yes! That's it!" *slobber, slurp, slobber, gulp* "Aaaaah! Delicious!"
[19:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03boxfetish [4831] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:03] <exec> 08└─Too bad, that piece of human garbage, Scott Walker (and the other human waste in the WI Assembly and Senate) couldn't have somehow negotiated for Amazon's HQ2 to come to a Milwaukee suburb instead of the absolutely terrible monstrosity of a deal they actually made with Foxconn instead. What is it, 3...
[19:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:05] <exec> 08└─Why, they'll only spend it irresponsibly on food and clothing and utilities and rent Let me regale you the tale of T. T had a car accident with her son. Spine bent up face half ripped off. Pretty nasty with months of therapy. Some dude had run a red light and splattered their car. They offer her 15,...
[19:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:07] <exec> 08└─There are 4 qualifications in no particular order. 1) decent sized city 1M plus 2) decent sized airport already there 3) decent supply of tech schools 4) tax incentives My top picks are Boston, Denver, Chicago, Austin, Minneapolis, with distant maybes of Raleigh, Atlanta or Vegas. Basically former I...
[19:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:20] <exec> 08└─my vax for shingles was: getting shingles as a kid.
[19:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:21] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles#Prevention [wikipedia.org] An episode of HZ has an immunizing effect, reducing the probability of a subsequent recurrence. However, individuals with a history of severe HZ are often insistent on receiving the vaccine, and there have been concerns about the vali...
[19:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:23] <exec> 08└─Never anywhere near as simple as that, unfortunately. If everyone did that, a new form of shingles would quickly materialise (it would have to, in order to survive, and when it did it would have fresh hosts everywhere it went, so it would thrive). As humans, we have "cured" / eliminated precisely tw...
[19:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis Made Available Online by Cambridge University - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:39] <exec> 08└─> As an analogy, let's say there was a recently discovered early composition by Mozart. Or a sex tape of Paris Hilton from before she met Rick Salomon.
[19:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:39] <exec> 08└─Usually about once a day I accidentally end up typing Ctrl-Z in emacs and suspending the task. At least that one is easily fixed without loss of work.
[19:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mating With Neanderthals Reintroduced "Lost" DNA Into Modern Humans - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:08] <exec> 08└─"Dahl" or "Dall" in Norvegian, "Dale" or "Vale" in Anglo-Saxon. The shift from unvoiced to voiced percussives is quite common.
[19:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:04] <exec> 08└─Harry Truman had over 150,000 civilians[1] murdered in the span of 3 days in acts which top brass have said were militarily unnecessary. [1] ...with a third of those being children. In his "Untold History of the United States", Oliver Stone uses some very unkind words to describe that guy, pointing...
[19:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:29] <exec> 08└─> However, you can't get a Home Theater Personal Computer for 8 Dollars. Challenge accepted a 8gb usb stick can be had for 8 dollars I guess. put kodi or vlc or stuff on a live linux system on usb - "see client, this is a HOME THEATER PERSONAL COMPUTER that connects to your existing computer and mak...
[19:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 1977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:07] <exec> 08└─Whenever you see the name "Clinton" on an internet forum you should take any statements of fact with a grain of salt. Bill Clinton banned the export of cryptographic techniques, on the basis that they were "arms". So, on the basis that I have the right to bear arms, I am encrypting everything. Surpr...
[19:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:08] <exec> 08└─Could 2017 be the year of desktop on the iPhone?
[19:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:11] <exec> 08└─The Good Guys [wikipedia.org] are long gone. The bad guys [soylentnews.org] are still around.
[19:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:16] <exec> 08└─So why did you vote for the guy doing the opposite?
[19:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Maker Tesla to Build Factory in China - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:18] <exec> 08└─I'd classify the aircraft carrier moment as "FFS," but that's OK we can both be right.
[19:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:28] <exec> 08└─I think that's common core. AFAIK UNESCO is the place that waits until the feds determine the Grand Canyon is a nice park, then they rubber stamp the federal findings and do something with half a billion bucks. Golf, I suppose.
[19:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA and Israel to Quit UNESCO Over 'Anti-Israel Bias' - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:30] <exec> 08└─The Roma (called "Gypsies" by others, but never by themselves) came from the Indian subcontinent, probably somewhere near what is now the Punjab region. That has been determined by linguistic relationship between their language and Sanskrit, and also by genetic studies. So if we were going to do the...
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[20:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:55] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is voluntary exchange; it doesn't matter whether you're worth billions or 2 cents. Nobody forces anybody to do anything. You don't like the factory? Don't work there. The factory is the only place to work? Be thankful there's a factory. Quit being bitter. It's just proof that you're usele...
[20:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:57] <exec> 08└─That, plus: If you have billions of dollars, spend the less than $500 (including employee time) to renew critical domains for the maximum amount of time offered.Try doing it before the expiration date.When in doubt about a domain, renew it.When in doubt if a domain is important, tell IT you decided...
[20:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:59] <exec> 08└─It should be against the law for poor people to commit crimes.
[20:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:01] <exec> 08└─Engineeers should not be in charge. They don't think out of the box. They are too constrained by reality and facts.
[20:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:03] <exec> 08└─. . . on the green site when microsoft.com expired, and some kind soul renewed it for them?
[20:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:05] <exec> 08└─Renewing every 5 years could be worse than renewing every 1 year. I have to create a calendar entry (several months early) to buy a new domain certificate every few years. It's funny that nobody else seems to think of that. It's not the same as the domain. But still. You would think that someone hig...
[20:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but I thought it was hotmail.com
[20:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:10] <exec> 08└─It's not people being poor that results in crime. Rather, it's crime that results in people being poor. Wealth creation is a matter of organization and planning, and you can either work with existing societal institutions (including corporations), or you can work against them. If you're bitter, it's...
[20:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:12] <exec> 08└─Hotmail in 2003: https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk] Passport/Hotmail in 1999: http://www.doublewide.net [doublewide.net] Both times the renewal/registration was benevolent. They probably don't count on that anymore.
[20:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:14] <exec> 08└─I think you are right and I am mis-rememberizing. 9 all-time domain expirations in Internet history [whoapi.com]
[20:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:17] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the correction.
[20:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:19] <exec> 08└─*face palm*
[20:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:21] <exec> 08└─How about you fucking eat a dick?
[20:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:23] <exec> 08└─Marketing department^W pit is over /that/ way... don't ever let yourself be seen here anymore...
[20:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:26] <exec> 08└─Next time, don't be such a doofus.
[20:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:28] <exec> 08└─LOL^WROLF
[20:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:30] <exec> 08└─Next time, don't be such a doofus.
[20:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Energy Gamma Ray Laser Sources Possible According to Simulations - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:43] <exec> 08└─To the completion of the DeathStar.
[20:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:15] <exec> 08└─It could be anything. The Arabian Peninsula is a desolate waste now, but 11,000 years ago it was much wetter and greener. There was an article about it last year. I think it was this one [insidescience.org]. They found rock art that depicted animals that inhabit savanna, which indicates that's what...
[20:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:36] <exec> 08└─Not to belittle your basic point, but since Slick Willie changed the way that "unemployed" people are counted (especially in a depression that has lasted for a decade), the "unemployment rate" has become yet another useless gov't number. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [shadowstats.com] The Labor Non...
[20:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, San Antonio dropped it's bid with the mayor stating "Blindly giving away the farm isn't our style".
[20:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah. A lot of refugees from hurricane Katrina moved to my city. I was in Walmart one day and someone stopped me randomly (like I was an employee or something) to ask if a stereo system was good for her kids and that she was buying one for each kid with her "hurricane money from the government" and...
[20:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:42] <exec> 08└─Checking the local Topix pages, I've seen that some MBA types in Long Beach (L.A. County) and Huntington Beach (Orange County) think this is a great idea for the area. Never mind that affordable housing is already in a crunch hereabouts. Now, if they hire only folks who are already locals, SCORE! .....
[20:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:45] <exec> 08└─All western NY State, Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Rochester bid together. No idea what they offered as details, but I suggested to a few people that they mention the Niagara Falls Airport -- former Bell Aircraft field. Nice long runway and the only users are a small Air Guard base, some charters and...
[20:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:47] <exec> 08└─I am not going to play the absurd tax increases to get Amazon in my city. Especially when there will be absolutely no benefit to me. Any high paying tech jobs will just be important. Well maybe one benefit. Housing prices will skyrocket, so when I sell my house to get out of this shithole I will mak...
[20:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:49] <exec> 08└─Poor people are poor because they are stupid, or stupid people are stupid because they are poor? Something tells me it's former more so than ladder, but probably a little bit of ladder sprinkled in just to make it probable enough for libtards to runaway with it.
[20:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:04] <exec> 08└─The other one is just itching to be used as a bioweapon.
[20:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:05] <exec> 08└─"Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the ACIP recommended the vaccination of adults regardless of a previous episode of HZ." surprise, surprise. the vaccine probably has a kill feature embedded in it. 5-10 years after the "shingles vacine" and you die of some very natural looking...
[20:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe parents who will not vaccinate their children should be able to be given this and other adult vaccines?
[20:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:10] <exec> 08└─Drat! Meant to say SHOULD NOT be able to be given this and other vaccines.
[20:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:12] <exec> 08└─Vaccines are just another tool of the violently imposed monopoly.
[20:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis Made Available Online by Cambridge University - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:29] <exec> 08└─it's about the big bang, not string theory.
[20:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis Made Available Online by Cambridge University - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:30] <exec> 08└─hm. I don't know about you, but this theoretical physicist did not know about the -t0 option of wget. although wget has saved me many annoying interactions with mangafox and similar.
[20:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis Made Available Online by Cambridge University - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:32] <exec> 08└─If you want to avoid people overcrowding your network, you should do what microsoft did with the Feynman lectures: use a format that nobody can actually read.
[20:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis Made Available Online by Cambridge University - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:34] <exec> 08└─People would be clamoring over it to see it no matter its quality. . . . I think the exact same phenomenon is going on with this.
[20:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:34] <exec> 08└─That's sick. And wrong.
[20:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:35] <exec> 08└─"I suppose you could use Eclipse. I've been forced to use IDEs over the years" *Shudder* IDEs make my skin crawl. You mean I have to touch my *mouse* to code?
[20:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:38] <exec> 08└─It is a long learning curve, but it's worth the climb. In vim I can teleport anywhere with a keystroke and make changes as quick as breathing. It's as close to telepathically linking to an interface as I've ever come. I actually get a charge out of using it, even if I'm doing something as tedious as...
[20:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:40] <exec> 08└─You mean, there's no escape?
[20:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:42] <exec> 08└─Of course Vim is for pagans, that's why you start it by typing Roman Numeral Six.
[20:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation Could Speed Learning by 40% - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:07] <exec> 08└─I'm not talking about teaching them to like it. I'm referring to the possibility the stimulation affects the sense of taste: (A burning or tingling sensation or a metallic taste in the mouth is a common side effect, though some people don’t feel anything at all.)
[20:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:32] <exec> 08└─I could buy 80 bucks for a full htpc. Something with an SoC ARM chip in it. 80 bucks is within the realm of doable. 8 like you pointed out gets you 1 part of a system. Now remember lawyers lie and exaggerate all the time. It is not uncommon. It is a tactic to basically get the plaintiff to admit wro...
[20:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:14] <exec> 08└─Here's a song about the Dear Leader [youtube.com]. Enjoy!
[20:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:15] <exec> 08└─exactly. these pigs are looking for leverage and/or planting evidence. they are lazy, kid killing scum. fuck them.
[20:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Failed to Access 7,000 Encrypted Mobile Devices - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe. But then, I'm only half-Vulcan, dammit!
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[21:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:35] <exec> 08└─The only problem is that healthy people are increasingly being forced to fund the deformed existence of obese people. You want people to slim down? Well, start charging fat people a lot more money for their health care (e.g., for their insurance). That's the way it used to be, and that's the way it...
[21:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:37] <exec> 08└─Well, start charging fat people a lot more money for their health care (e.g., for their insurance). That's the way it used to be
[21:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:39] <exec> 08└─Before the costs of health care were hidden by the ever-creeping collusion between Big Government regulators and Big Business health insurance companies, people who were fat had to deal with their health issues out of pocket to a much more devastating degree than their slimmer, healthier compatriots...
[21:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:41] <exec> 08└─"You want people to slim down? Well, start charging fat people a lot more money for their health care (e.g., for their insurance). " That'll just make fat people not get health insurance and they'll end up clogging the ERs. Current law makes hospitals treat those that come into the ER (to a stable...
[21:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:43] <exec> 08└─That's just another example of government pushing the problem of obesity onto healthy people. Those obese people should be given a bill. Heart attack when morbidly obese? The ER should be able to sue the patient for "damages", or the government should garnish wages for [ab]using the ER; refuse to wo...
[21:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:45] <exec> 08└─Haha another AC troll getting the invalid form key, it spreads!! PS: anyone who uses the term "cultural marxism" is a propaganda filled little troll, and as usual the cause of the symptoms (obesity) are a much more complicated affair that actually do wander into actual chemical imbalances / addictio...
[21:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:48] <exec> 08└─You're a terrible human being, will that be cured along with obesity or will you still be a hateful shit?
[21:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:50] <exec> 08└─A terrible human being is the one who pushes the responsibility for life's choices onto other human beings! Who the fuck do you people think you are! Get your grubby, greasy, fat fingers out of my pockets!
[21:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:52] <exec> 08└─> fat people (...) and they'll end up clogging the ERs I see what you did there. The obvious solution is smaller ER doors, or a weight limit on gurneys and access ramps. It might be too hard to make it illegal to sell or procure food to anyone above 40 lbs/ft, but I'd rather have cops focused on tha...
[21:10:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:02] <exec> 08└─Not even Blockchain can fix stupid.
[21:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:26] <exec> 08└─Next time, don't be such a doofus.
[21:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:28] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah? Here, hold my beer ...
[21:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:30] <exec> 08└─Relevant short film [youtube.com] Nobody likes a naysayer.
[21:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Energy Gamma Ray Laser Sources Possible According to Simulations - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:43] <exec> 08└─At 10PW, any stray particles in the beam path will be converted to plasma.
[21:10:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I told him the stones would never work out. Apologies everyone, it's my fault Gates switched his attention to Windows.
[21:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:16] <exec> 08└─The Goa'uld are just waiting to come through the gates once you lift the cartouche off. Do you want us to be invaded? Just leave them gates alone! [wikipedia.org] Trust in my handle and Zig!
[21:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:18] <exec> 08└─D. Kennedy says... "We tend to think of Saudi Arabia as desert...
[21:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:20] <exec> 08└─Well, it is true that the submission wasn't done the way that *I* would have. OTOH, anyone who's not using a device that disallows hovering over a hyperlink and seeing what that leads to isn't going to have a major problem. Search engines would also give a +1 to the pagerank of the page due to the e...
[21:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:22] <exec> 08└─maybe we should be developing the CLI up to a stone gates interface?
[21:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:50] <exec> 08└─I guess the only goal is to keep the graft train running as long as possible, the fact that an ever increasing number of citizens realize what is going on seems to not matter. I mean really, who fucks with unemployment stats just to keep people pacified? It is only kicking the problem down the road...
[21:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:11] <exec> 08└─Well what if I maybe had a better response?
[21:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:12] <exec> 08└─Do you have data wrt shingles in places/time when nobody got vaccinated? It should have mutated like crazy. But the symptoms and the general reaction stayed the same. Hm.
[21:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:14] <exec> 08└─I dunno, extensive use of their operating system has definitely helped me avoid some serious STDs!
[21:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis Made Available Online by Cambridge University - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:35] <exec> 08└─People at least can viscerally appreciate a new Mozart composition. Here, 99.9% of the people downloading it won't look at it past the first few pages. I don't understand why they would want to rush to download it, unless it is to print it out and leave it out on their coffee tables in an attempt to...
[21:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Foundation Wants to Do to Data What It's Done for Software - 2675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:51] <exec> 08└─I'm skeptical but perhaps this will be nice for machine-gathered data, machines that just automatically create large amounts of sensory data all day everyday. But that might be one of few areas where this might actually be viable. Mostly because the data gathered will be so useless and boring. For a...
[21:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:42] <exec> 08└─I run Cygwin under Emacs.
[21:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:43] <exec> 08└─I don't even think it is a long learning curve. Maybe to master it, but you can be up and flying along with only a handful of commands. But if you work a lot with text files, I've found that the return on the investment is HUGE if you spend the time to learn vim beyond the basic level of competency.
[21:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:46] <exec> 08└─Why not just good old nethack [nethack.org]? That uses the same vi movement keys (well, at least the more useful versions that aren't trying to be GUI-friendly).
[21:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:48] <exec> 08└─Richard Stallman praised it for being highly orthogonal.
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[22:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Scientists Create "Low-Fat" Pigs Using CRISPR - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:42] <exec> 08└─I want my pigs nice and fat... so that my bacon tastes good. What is the point of "lean" pigs.... no one wants that.
[22:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Scientists Create "Low-Fat" Pigs Using CRISPR - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:44] <exec> 08└─Well, the bacon may be leanr, but at least it'll be crispr.
[22:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create "Low-Fat" Pigs Using CRISPR - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:46] <exec> 08└─Well, the bacon may be leanr, but at least it'll be crispr.
[22:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create "Low-Fat" Pigs Using CRISPR - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:48] <exec> 08└─That's the whole FUCKING point of pork, fatty proteiny meat!!! The next thing, these Chinese will "invent" dry watermelon. Dumb fucks.
[22:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create "Low-Fat" Pigs Using CRISPR - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:50] <exec> 08└─So now the pigs will go the way of the hay? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] If you can control it a bit, you might get a nice smokey flavour..
[22:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create "Low-Fat" Pigs Using CRISPR - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:53] <exec> 08└─Triggered by genetic engineering, wow the snowflakes have really infested everything!
[22:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create "Low-Fat" Pigs Using CRISPR - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:55] <exec> 08└─I want my pigs nice and fat... so that my bacon tastes good. What is the point of "lean" pigs.... no one wants that.
[22:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create "Low-Fat" Pigs Using CRISPR - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:57] <exec> 08└─Snowflakes need their safe spaces. Take your pro-truth bias somewhere else. /s
[22:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:13] <exec> 08└─Stupid individualists, we should exile you all, take all your shit and move it into the middle of nowhere. You can create your own ancap paradise, we promise we'll keep our filthy culture away from you as long as you stick to yourselves. Step a toe on to our nation without a visa and enjoy nuclear a...
[22:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:15] <exec> 08└─What my comment does imply is that you should have enough respect to seek my voluntary agreement to work with you. Just because you run up to my car and start "washing" its windshield with your filthy sponge and dirty water doesn't mean that you're entitled to compensation for your "services"; it do...
[22:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:17] <exec> 08└─Before the costs of health care were hidden by the ever-creeping collusion between Big Government regulators and Big Business health insurance companies, people who were fat had to deal with their health issues out of pocket to a much more devastating degree than their slimmer, healthier compatriots...
[22:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 1499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:19] <exec> 08└─I completely disagree with your ideas for a remedy. Some other responders have already written more detailed answers why your ideas are bad, but no one has proposed better remedies, so I will. The answer is better medicine. There's been more research in very recent years into the role of guy bacteri...
[22:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:21] <exec> 08└─Haha, you realize you're the massively entitled one right? You want all the benefits of public services without any of the personal costs. Moron. I guess you've just spent too much of your life focused on the problems in society and have developed your personality around them. Lots of people suffer...
[22:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:24] <exec> 08└─The OP acknowledged real medical solutions: Treat the people who have actual chemical imbalances. The rest can take care of themselves, or die trying.
[22:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:26] <exec> 08└─There's no basis for your comment.
[22:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:28] <exec> 08└─It is like the old adage about seeing assholes everywhere, except kind of reversed. If you see one obese person that might be due to bad life choices. If you see millions of obese people then something bigger is going on.
[22:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:30] <exec> 08└─The reason longer-lived people would cost more in the end is not because they're healthy, but rather because they're old and sick at the end of life. If you spend $200,000 trying to keep an 95 year old, bed-ridden father alive, you're wasting society's resources. It's the same issue as obese people....
[22:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:32] <exec> 08└─Rational: Realize that few people are capable of knowing everything and thus society should help. Authoritarian measures are sometimes required such as seatbelt laws. Libertarian methods are sometimes preferred such as doing fuck-all and spending no money on a problem, or by increasing costs such as...
[22:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:35] <exec> 08└─The difference is cultural. People look to Government to take care of them from cradle to grave, and to protect them even from mean words like "fatty". We know that high-fructose corn syrup is in everything now, and then dairy and cheese is in everything now. Why? Well, the U.S. government subsidize...
[22:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:37] <exec> 08└─Nice projection from the AC who can't muster up actual arguments to obvious problems. If you're trolling then you're doing a pretty damn good job at remaining serious and sticking to your script!
[22:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:39] <exec> 08└─I wear a seatbelt because I don't want to die, not because some bureaucrat mandates it. Because of the mandates, seatbelts have remained pretty stupid in design. You're implying that without mandates, no safety mechanism would have ever been adopted. What tosh.
[22:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:41] <exec> 08└─You're too crazy to take seriously anymore.
[22:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:43] <exec> 08└─Go have sex with your strawman, it seems to get you off.
[22:10:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:53] <exec> 08└─Fuck any organization that can't remember if it registered under .com or .net. I'm tired of the every site needing me to allow javascript from 15 other domains, often the same word followed by .com, .net, .io, .ly, etc before they'll work properly. It really feels like bullshit.
[22:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:20] <exec> 08└─For that, you'll need blockheadchain.
[22:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:22] <exec> 08└─and like most large companies, after 18 months the smart people and dumb people alike will get rotated out due to policy of never keeping a contractor longer than that, and the employees that recommend outsourcing everything so they can do nothing will be able to blame someone no longer there for no...
[22:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Energy Gamma Ray Laser Sources Possible According to Simulations - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:37] <exec> 08└─It is amusing to see labels suddenly crop up everywhere, used by people who think their use of buzzwords translates into insight. I can't even remember the early names of terrorist orgs they change so fast. Good way to keep people unnecessarily on their toes though.
[22:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:14] <exec> 08└─Photographic evidence: Spaghetti Harvest [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:16] <exec> 08└─Tundra is desert, but the water isn't -liquid-. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:18] <exec> 08└─it sounds like words need more than one definition, or that perhaps we shouldn't apply them all by definition!
[22:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults - 1929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:10] <exec> 08└─Why would it mutate when it can infect the next human without having to change a single gene? Mutations occur all the time anyway, but would rarely be able to compete against a successful (i.e. popular) infection. Remove the popular infection, and the minority, random mutations get free-reign (like...
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[23:09:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06Scientists Create "Low-Fat" Pigs Using CRISPR - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:39] <exec> 08└─Well, the bacon may be leanr, but at least it'll be crispr.
[23:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create "Low-Fat" Pigs Using CRISPR - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:47] <exec> 08└─> What is the point of "lean" pigs.... no one wants that. Based on the previous story, it will lower farmers' insurance cost by reducing swine breast cancer. You though swine flu was scary? Try breast cancer on a female with 6 or 7 pairs of teats...
[23:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create "Low-Fat" Pigs Using CRISPR - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:49] <exec> 08└─Bacon-loving, 삼겹살-loving snowflake here. Chances are, I would eat you. No need for trigger. Where do you live?
[23:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create "Low-Fat" Pigs Using CRISPR - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:51] <exec> 08└─Another unusual statement brought to you by SN: "Got Ninja'd while searching for the number of tits on a swine"
[23:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create "Low-Fat" Pigs Using CRISPR - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:53] <exec> 08└─So now the pigs will go the way of the hay? ... you might get a nice smokey flavour...
[23:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Obesity Can Increase Breast Cancer Aggressivness - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:24] <exec> 08└─You're wrong again. ... If you spend $200,000 trying to keep an 95 year old, bed-ridden father alive, you're wasting society's resources.
[23:10:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06IBM Broke its Cloud by Letting Three Domain Names Expire - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:44] <exec> 08└─Engineeers should not be in charge. They don't think out of the box. They are too constrained by reality and facts.
[23:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:26] <exec> 08└─Some times that kind of behaviour is rational. Someone who currently receives public assistance gets a lump sum of money. The public assistance stops. So, they can either: 1. Live like they did before, spending the lump sum instead of the public assistance, or 2. They can have a great time for a sho...
[23:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:27] <exec> 08└─Poor people are poor because they are stupid
[23:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Receives 238 Proposals for HQ2, Including Multi-Billion Dollar Incentive Offers - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:29] <exec> 08└─The logical choice would be to spend the money on things that are actually important instead of being stupidly wasteful. You know, things like debts and important bills.
[23:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing in Vim - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:24] <exec> 08└─It's possible to run vim's binary within emacs and vice versa. That to me is the perfect demonstration of their flexibility.
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