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[00:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:04] <exec> 08└─Contact the coconut crabs [soylentnews.org]. They'll clean up the scene.
[00:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:05] <exec> 08└─American farmed turkeys are too fat to have sex, doubt they can fly. You would need a Middle-Eastern Turkey to jump a plane, but do they migrate, with or without coconut?
[00:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:07] <exec> 08└─Turkey will need one of these [wikimedia.org] to do that
[00:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[00:06:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 1190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:20] <exec> 08└─It was in the 2Market home shopping CD. This was about the last of the multimedia CDROMs, just before the dot-com boom took off. It had catalogs for such merchants as land's end, and absolutely positively had to be delivered to end users by Black Friday. My coworker said "Hey Mike, look at this!" th...
[00:06:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:23] <exec> 08└─most people wish the stuff they use to do actual work wasn't trying to be funny or witty.
[00:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:41] <exec> 08└─Easter eggs for Thanksgiving, how appropriately traditional...! (grin)
[00:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:42] <exec> 08└─Did you read the article (well, it *is* soylent...)? Man never *doesn't* work, it just prints the message that gets returned when you don't pass it a man page if it's 00:30
[00:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:44] <exec> 08└─But the behaviour of Easter eggs is consistent. The Easter egg is consistently triggered under the exact same conditions each time.
[00:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:47] <exec> 08└─I think I may literally be the only guy that liked it. I dunno why, but I like it, and some days, miss running Windows XP. The rolling hills were calming :)
[00:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:10] <exec> 08└─2.1 GPA.
[00:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:12] <exec> 08└─I had one prof that showed for exactly 2 classes. Then let his TA who did not speak English very well teach the rest. Needless to say only the 5 indians passed (strangely with As) everyone else failed out (40 Fs). We all had to re-take the class everyone at that point understood the material and got...
[00:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:14] <exec> 08└─You know what they call knowledge without purpose, yes? Trivia.
[00:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:16] <exec> 08└─Nope, we call it trivia. If your ass is going hungry because you did not think to yourself "how is spending years of time and many thousands of dollars learning X going to help me in life", it's because you either have that leisure because you're already financially secure or because you're a fool.
[00:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:18] <exec> 08└─> had been a "driven young man" aiming at a postgraduate qualification at an Ivy League university I'm a driven man aiming at a trillion dollars net worth. Been at it for a little while, but it's tedious and I'm far from my goal. Who's got enough cash so I can sue?
[00:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:20] <exec> 08└─India has a checkered history of academic wrongdoing. Their MEDICAL students were top notch, world class professionals for most of my lifetime.
[00:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:22] <exec> 08└─Some were still in existence in the ‘50s. I remember being shown one when I was a kid but I was too young to understand
[00:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:25] <exec> 08└─Not everything is about rote memorization, which is what is usually meant by the term "trivia". If you don't understand the material at a very deep level and have simply memorized facts, then you have failed. Schools at all levels frequently fail to encourage understanding, which just shouldn't be t...
[00:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:44] <exec> 08└─If it was hackers with an established reputation they would have government jobs.
[00:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:46] <exec> 08└─There are no fascists, no neonazis, none of that crap
[00:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:48] <exec> 08└─Not all criminal hackers are that unethical.
[00:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:09] <exec> 08└─No, V'ger has left the heliosphere (a number of times), which is different from the Sun's gravitational sphere.
[00:09:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 1049 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:19] <exec> 08└─"The problem is that most people are not trained with proper ability to judge critically an argument for or against a particular topic." Yes indeed. I'll further note that many of these people have job titles that permit them to pose as 'scientists' nonetheless. Another, closely related problem is t...
[00:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:55] <exec> 08└─If there is an issue of such huge public import that resolving it would require potentially devastating economic changes, the public must be informed about it in intimate detail and should be expected to study it themselves. Of course this would have to include all raw data, computer code, etc. It s...
[00:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:56] <exec> 08└─But they're scientistic rather than scientific, it's just cult mentality, science means believing whatever the 'orthodox scientists' (a contradiction in terms btw) tell you. This is no more scientific than creationism.
[00:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:58] <exec> 08└─1. Would it be otherwise, then the 'those of us' will very likely become sociopaths. At least a significant number of them. I'm sure you've met 'petty dictators' in your life, from the local policeman, to the righteous neighbours who disapprove something in your life style, something that don't impa...
[00:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:01] <exec> 08└─He doesn't say incumbent, he says Donald J. Trump. Very specific. youtu.be/ag8E-p4v_24 [youtu.be]
[00:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:03] <exec> 08└─I don't the oncologist knows all the specifics you stated about finding the cancer. The doctor is most likely just about you in knowledge about the how cancer detection works. All he does is say,"I ran this test and it says you have cancer." He doesn't know all the mechanisms involved or why they wo...
[00:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jet Fuel from Sugarcane a Realistic Prospect - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:29] <exec> 08└─The math works if it's loaded with 416 people who will have to eat whatever grows in a country 4 hours away. Some journalist does need to remember that 747s are fuel hogs and being replaced by much more efficient planes.
[00:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Caught Tracking Android User Location Data - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:23] <exec> 08└─> Still, google and facebook are the two most scary companies in the world imho. Close, but not the top: They give you something for free, in exchange for the tracking. Verizon and AT&T (and friends) track you, and still charge you. You kind of don't have the choice, courtesy of their anticompetitiv...
[00:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sinking Container Ships by Hacking Load Plan Software - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:03] <exec> 08└─So I guess it's back to TELEDILDONICS!
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[01:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:12] <exec> 08└─So, in other words, there is no news going on in the world. Eh, a quiet evening every now and then is nice.
[01:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:14] <exec> 08└─No need to be a dick about it. This isn't fucking Slashdot, and not everything has to be new for nerds godammit. Fuck off.
[01:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:16] <exec> 08└─If you wonder why people stop submitting, this is why.
[01:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:51] <exec> 08└─Haven't read the article, but that's not true I think. Just ran "man -w" and received: # man -w /usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man #
[01:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:53] <exec> 08└─$bob_super_is_a_nitwit_that_cant_code = shift;
[01:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:55] <exec> 08└─Dear lord, what was the problem? It's CREDITS. A man holding his baby, and you say some apple-pie Leave-It-To-Beaver message to your own mother? Yeah, Thank God they caught it right? Customers would've been trying to find you to kill you, death threats sent to corporate, and the Pope issues a formal...
[01:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:57] <exec> 08└─But back when I was in college, the admins there modified their primary SMTP server's Sendmail $e macro (now 'SMTPGreetingmessage' since v8.7) option to be "$j is ready for love" with a timestamp. [docstore.mik.ua] Of course no one would see it unless they connected (telnet, usually) manually to Sen...
[01:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:14] <exec> 08└─5? Maybe if the occupants are the size of dust mites.
[01:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before - 1986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:15] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of this scene from Austin Powers: Johnson: [Noticing Dr. Evil's spaceship on radar] Colonel, you better have a look at this radar. Colonel: What is it, son? Johnson: I don't know, sir, but it looks like a giant-- Jet Pilot: Dick. Dick: Yeah? Jet Pilot: Take a look out of starboard. Dick:...
[01:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:06] <exec> 08└─"Orthodox science (although I've not heard that particular term before, usually people rail against "settled science") is a descriptive term of the state of a theory" Indeed. The only problem is it's not describing the state of the theory in terms of science, but of politics.
[01:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Caught Tracking Android User Location Data - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:27] <exec> 08└─How about iptables -A INPUT -s 8.8.8.8 -j DROP
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[02:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Meg Whitman Resigns - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:57] <exec> 08└─And, she's probably a fascist. She's got to go.
[02:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Meg Whitman Resigns - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:58] <exec> 08└─... sexual harassment of herself.
[02:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meg Whitman Resigns - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:01] <exec> 08└─So did she suck as much value out of the company and into friends' pockets as she could, or did she fire a bunch of hard working folks for no good reason? I'm just a dumbass math major, I can't figure this stuff out on my own.
[02:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:20] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the submission. The ground crew seen in the video were clearly impressed by this, too.
[02:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:22] <exec> 08└─Looks like a 737. If it was landing fairly light, the landing airspeed could be 130-140 mph (~120 knots). If the bird was flying the same direction as the plane, its velocity would subtract from the impact speed. If the bird got scared moments before collision, it could have dived for more airspeed,...
[02:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:24] <exec> 08└─Don't take it too seriously. Being pedantic is all wonkey_monkey does.
[02:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Way to Store Thermal Energy - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:34] <exec> 08└─A goddamn way to make use of all the hot air around here XP
[02:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:13] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I thought you were smart enough to realize the implications by yourself without being lectured. Normal scientists share results with known peers, compete for grants, abide by ethics restraints shackles, and care about shit like impact factors. Solitary scientists, if they care to share anythi...
[02:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:15] <exec> 08└─Genetically modified microbes could be used to secrete drugs like hydrocodone, morphine, and LSD [theguardian.com]. This could become a lot easier than using traditional chemistry to make the drugs. Once you have a genome sequence, you can share it digitally. In the future, everyone with the ability...
[02:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:17] <exec> 08└─Yes. A lot is open, for sure...for instance, NASA temperature measurements. The part that is not open, as far as I can tell, is the actual model runs. Computer code, input data, raw output data. but if you aren't going to trust their conclusions, shouldn't you be doing your own "clean" analysis of t...
[02:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:19] <exec> 08└─The science of the climate in all of its intimate detail is not a simple thing that can be explained to a layperson in a few hours.
[02:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:21] <exec> 08└─The public behaves more like children than before. Considering that we need laws that tell people they can't text while driving, I'm curious how you come to the conclusion that being treated like children isn't appropriate.
[02:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:24] <exec> 08└─They can conduct any unethical or illegal experiments they want The FBI is monitoring the DIY biology community closely. They want to undermine good science under the guise of ethics and national security. Fuck them until death.
[02:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jet Fuel from Sugarcane a Realistic Prospect - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:50] <exec> 08└─In Brazil they mandated ethanol fuel. It's been total [wikipedia.org] disaster [wikipedia.org].
[02:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discussion: 'Do Speed Cameras Really Save Lives?' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:18] <exec> 08└─As always, the best check against abuse of power is competition.
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[03:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:55] <exec> 08└─Wow, he sounds like a real Challenger!
[03:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:57] <exec> 08└─More details on Forbes [forbes.com] In 2016 Hughes launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund his mile-long flight on a rocket. Unfortunately, he was only able to raise $310 of his $150,000 goal. Soon after, Hughes became a flat-earth believer, perhaps in an attempt to boost his funding base. His...
[03:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meg Whitman Resigns - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:07] <exec> 08└─Are any sources reporting the wingspan of Whitman's golden parachute / hand length of her golden handshake [wikipedia.org]? Here is a 2015 article: http://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com] She already got some $$$ from the breakup of HP but i...
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[03:06:10] <exec> 08└─No, what she did was, when everybody was gone home and the skeleton crew were away from her office, she snuck into the building and wrote in red marker, "Bitch with a vagina, you suck because you have a vagina! Bitch!" on her then-locked office door. Then she acted shocked, really shocked!!! the nex...
[03:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:33] <exec> 08└─So, more a smoosh than a splat. My god, man, a 60mph bird!
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[03:06:34] <exec> 08└─Bird heads are ridiculously easy to pop off. Some Dove hunters I know rip the breast meat nuggets right out of the bird with their bare hands. It's a pretty disgusting spectacle until you get used to it. First, you grab the neck and rip off the head, it comes right off with minimal force. Then you s...
[03:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:14] <exec> 08└─The older versions of Ubuntu have a similar easter egg: # man -w ubuntu mup/da/doo/didda/bidda/be/dat/tum/muhfugen/bix_nood
[03:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:16] <exec> 08└─No, it means no inconsistent behaviour.
[03:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:48] <exec> 08└─Schools at all levels frequently fail to encourage understanding, which just shouldn't be the case.
[03:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:50] <exec> 08└─I don't think he's Indian, in origin at least. His name is obviously Arab. Arabs, like Jews, are natural born shysters but without the intelligence Jews possess. If he is concerned about his employment prospects I think he should pick a different career field, one of which his kind is better-suited:...
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[03:07:52] <exec> 08└─I believe that it should be a law, in America at least, that professors should not only be fluent in English but also understandable in it. You're never going to solve the problem of professors being autistic retards, but at least they can work on their accent. I know for a fact that there are accen...
[03:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:54] <exec> 08└─Here, at least, foreign students are BIG money for the universities, and modern American universities are more businesses than they are institutions of learning, so they let them in (often to the detriment of domestic students being denied slots). And it is well-known that Chinese and Arabs (I have...
[03:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:56] <exec> 08└─The parents have a larger role to play than schools in "understanding," and they have failed their more recent generations miserably.
[03:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:41] <exec> 08└─Why bother kidnapping or coercing a guinea pig? At the end of this road, we will be making genetically modified babies in artificial wombs. All the test subjects you could ever need can be created in a lab with a low risk of exposure to the outside world. Basement, shipping container, shack in the w...
[03:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:43] <exec> 08└─For real world, in the field, experimental confirmation. I mean... look, where's the evil part of the fun if your discovery doesn't lead to "world domination mwa-ha-ha-ha"? (grin)
[03:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:45] <exec> 08└─A planet-killing asteroid is a comparatively easy threat to see and understand, but the subtleties of a changing climate, not so much. As I said it literally takes many years of difficult study to be able to understand the science behind climate change. Those who have the time and inclination to mak...
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[04:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:58] <exec> 08└─More like a challenged to me, but meh...
[04:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:59] <exec> 08└─Aw, come on, man, you got the joke, didn't you?
[04:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:01] <exec> 08└─Shaq is a master troll. He's as good at trolling as he is at playing street-ball. If he were president he'd basically be a Black Trump.
[04:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:04] <exec> 08└─... of the alt-flight.
[04:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:06] <exec> 08└─We use steam engines on some of our most powerful rockets: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] We also used steam engines to help go to the Moon and lift the Space Shuttle.
[04:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:08] <exec> 08└─Except that he'll go up in steam, rather that in flames. But he's no chicken...
[04:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:10] <exec> 08└─It's magic! Steam magic! Won't be surprised if he takes off, will be very surprised if he lands okay.
[04:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:12] <exec> 08└─I always hated steampunk... Didn't know they were also flat-earthers. Could've saved a boatload of money by just buying a friggin plane ticket. He'd be flying 10 times higher and might actually go somewhere and actually learn something.
[04:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:15] <exec> 08└─In a balloon, but nevertheless [youtube.com].
[04:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:17] <exec> 08└─With a black rump... ....blump. BrShaq Oblump for Prez!
[04:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:19] <exec> 08└─1800 feet. He could do better in a balloon gondola. Its already been done in a steam powered airplane. [youtube.com] He wants to get that high via a steam rocket. He's too late. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Evel Knievel beat him.
[04:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meg Whitman Resigns - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:31] <exec> 08└─... sexual harassment of herself.
[04:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:56] <exec> 08└─This time of year in Miami, I'd guess that's a turkey vulture. With an average of one landing every 2.5 minutes, 24-7-365 at MIA, it's not much of a surprise that they hit a turkey vulture just right to embed its head behind the nose cone and run its neck up the impact-crack. http://www.miami-airpor...
[04:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:58] <exec> 08└─So, I clicked and watched long enough to see that: yes, it's unusual, but no it's not hard at all to guess what happened. Bird impacts nosecone, cracks it open, bird's head ends up inside while body is swept back by the wind - swept into a crack made by the impact that holds the body in place by the...
[04:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:00] <exec> 08└─Did it impact the nose, push through and punch out the side, or is the nose deformed from the impact?
[04:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:02] <exec> 08└─That's gripping with hands, this was landing approach speed right smack up against the nosecone where there's a fair amount of backpressure that lowers the airspeed on the bird-body even further. Weird yes, unbelievable no.
[04:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:04] <exec> 08└─https://www.thetravelalmanac.com/lists/birds-speed.htm [thetravelalmanac.com] > ...the Peregrine Falcon is not only the fastest moving bird, it is the fastest animal on the planet. It first soars to a great height, then dives steeply at speeds of over 200 mph. However, it does not make the top ten l...
[04:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:06] <exec> 08└─Yet one more article pushed by the alt-animal agendists on this very website. They are trying to end flight by man as we know it, going to push the line that "planes are the biggest killers of canada geese". I can see the headlines now "Trump allows planes to kill Canadian residence without any repr...
[04:07:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 612 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:43] <exec> 08└─Dear lord, what was the problem? It's CREDITS. A man holding his baby, and you say some apple-pie Leave-It-To-Beaver message to your own mother? Yeah, Thank God they caught it right? Customers would've been trying to find you to kill you, death threats sent to corporate, and the Pope issues a formal...
[04:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:48] <exec> 08└─Apparently, using "man" with just a "-w" switch and without arguments WASN'T a documented way of using it. Once they heard that someone WAS using it that way, they didn't say "you're using it wrong", but acknowledged the usage and the Easter egg was limited to just man without switches OR arguments.
[04:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ncc74656 [4917] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:50] <exec> 08└─Now I don't know why, but if I was running "man -w" in a backtick from Perl trying to receive those paths, I would instead be parsing, "gimme gimme gimme".
[04:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:27] <exec> 08└─That's not what I'm disagreeing with, that's just his strawman.
[04:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:15] <exec> 08└─I too agree that your reply was the least helpful post of the day. My post was limited due to time. It was the last post I made before going to work. So of course, it wouldn't be as helpful as you might like. Now that I have some extra time, I can explain things further. While there can some transf...
[04:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myth of the Genius Solitary Scientist is Dangerous - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but creating "sociopaths" is a societal problem. Sociopaths supposedly actually have a different brain structure than the average human, but capitalist promotion of greed by exploiting your fellow man by giving the lion's share of the rewards to a tiny portion at the top. Thus pyramid scheme....
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[05:06:08] <exec> 08└─But... butt... she's no woman.
[05:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:10] <exec> 08└─Liar. None of what you say ever happened.
[05:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:12] <exec> 08└─He's got it all wrong, they all do. It's the inside that's flat. The edge is a circle so as you travel around the earth it looks like a sphere, but if you peaked underneath you'd realize it's actually a disk. This guy should be digging down not flying up. He's not going to prove anything to us true...
[05:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meg Whitman Resigns - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:24] <exec> 08└─I said 2 months ago, HPE should cut her loose because she's UNFIT and incompetent. soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=21393&cid=563219 [soylentnews.org]
[05:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meg Whitman Resigns - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:26] <exec> 08└─It's unbelievable, she called me that. And she calls herself a Republican. She tried and failed to be the governor of California. She would have been the first Republican since Arnold. OK, he was terrible, very tough to follow him. Anybody could see that, she couldn't. She spent $160 million of her...
[05:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:57] <exec> 08└─Wow. I've had cars that couldn't go that fast. Wonder if poor squashed birdy sped up when he saw the plane follwing him...
[05:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:41] <exec> 08└─Looking at the man page, using man -w without a man page isn't allowed, the entry for -w doesn't say that you're allowed to omit a page; basically it's undocumented behavior that people are relying on.
[05:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:41] <exec> 08└─The very fact that you think Google is composed of ultra-leftists kinda makes my point for me. Go back to bed, grandpa.
[05:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jet Fuel from Sugarcane a Realistic Prospect - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:37] <exec> 08└─Throw in depletion of the land, and you have an environmental disaster in slow motion, just to fly rich bastards around.
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[06:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:56] <exec> 08└─You don't like what's going on in your state, then fight for states' rights in your own state. Don't behave like a bunch of punks. It's more complicated nowadays, but it still boils down to this. [youtube.com]
[06:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:57] <exec> 08└─... and anti-speech. A glitch in the courtroom systems caused the volume to automatically snap back to zero each time a user switched from one video to another or turns the screens off and back on. The judge asked the clerk to look into it. An hour later with a different witness on the stand, Quresh...
[06:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:59] <exec> 08└─"might want to get a tech person."
[06:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:02] <exec> 08└─You were in jail for one day of your life, so all tech people are in jail.
[06:06:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 262 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:20] <exec> 08└─1800 feet. He could do better in a balloon gondola. Its already been done in a steam powered airplane. [youtube.com] He wants to get that high via a steam rocket. He's too late. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Evel Knievel beat him.
[06:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:24] <exec> 08└─He's not going to prove anything to us true believers.
[06:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:27] <exec> 08└─This is a test flight, the next one after this, if he survives, is supposed to be much higher.
[06:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:29] <exec> 08└─Oh, frojack! Great post as usual. A couple of things you missed. Evel Knievel was from Butte, Montana. Montanans never have to prove anything, because they are Montanans. What you have to watch out for is recent immigrants, those without three generations behind them. And really, Butte is not actual...
[06:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:31] <exec> 08└─Give me goddamned steam any day! We put guys on the Moon with steam, it was good enough. It made us the greatest nation in the history of the world. It's still the best. Why do we need the digital catapult? Are we babies?
[06:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meg Whitman Resigns - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:46] <exec> 08└─Self-Abuse. https://www.merriam-webster.com [merriam-webster.com]
[06:07:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:28] <exec> 08└─Linux is just trying to look as professional as Microsoft [wikipedia.org]...
[06:07:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:43] <exec> 08└─Many professional products contain easter eggs and other humor. In the case of mathematics textbooks, it well predates computers. I recall Corel Draw (for Windows) had an easter egg where you could control the burner on a little hot air balloon with the mouse button.
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[07:06:00] <exec> 08└─This happened in DC, which isn't a state. (DC residents also have no representation in Congress.) USA has a federal system. Federal law trumps (oops) state and local law. How interesting would things be now if USA had had a constitutional convention in 1966? N.B. They could have started with Califor...
[07:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:02] <exec> 08└─Can you be specific about your solution? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[07:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:04] <exec> 08└─DC is a piddly little place specifically carved out to be NOT a state. DC isn't supposed to have representation, but people ought to have representation, so we can conclude that people ought not live there. Elected representatives may be a special case. Perhaps we should mandate that they physically...
[07:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:06] <exec> 08└─What if what you don't like is the fact that a government has more power over your life than you do?
[07:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Didz [1336] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Discussion: 'Do Speed Cameras Really Save Lives?' - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:26] <exec> 08└─In South Australia there is no camera warning signs for mobile cameras and any signs for fixed cameras do not have a speed limit sign next to them like other states do. School zones are 25kmph when children present. Not only is it slower than other states it is a grey area about what what 'children...
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[08:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:53] <exec> 08└─I expect I could do well for myself by selling The Real Thing(TM) to my Chinese friends
[08:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:08] <exec> 08└─Then move to Somalia. And buy some big guns, Muahaha.
[08:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:36] <exec> 08└─..., seriously. Multiple independent confirmations of results are an important part of the scientific process.
[08:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:38] <exec> 08└─Sex changes are possible today.
[08:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, he would "learn" that the plane windows are manipulated to distort the view, in order to make it appear that the earth is round. ;-)
[08:08:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 1471 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:17] <exec> 08└─After this washes out I think something like that's going to be about his best remaining option, or maybe ambulance chasing if he's still determined to pursue a legal career. A degree really only helps you get a foot in the door, and a 2.1 from *anywhere* reasonable reputable is enough still (just a...
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[09:05:56] <exec> 08└─What? No more "Frag the Lieutenant"? Where is the fun in that, especially if you are Special Red Guard?
[09:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:57] <exec> 08└─You'll need to be prepared for refunds, it's a purely multiplayer online game, with controlled game servers - there's no way a Real Thing™ will work with the 'socialist value infused' server. If using Tor with 'capitalistic servers', the lag and packet losage will be horendous - those capitalistic...
[09:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:59] <exec> 08└─I agree but mostly disagree. Now, I don't know much about games, the last time I enjoyed gaming was Deus Ex and before that I never understood a goddamn thing about gaming. But from what my ignorant mind understands is that modern gaming is a pay-to-play affair, and the big names have been baiting-a...
[09:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because lots of warlords means freedom. The old "Somalia is anarchy" line is outdated anyway. Most of the country has some form of stable government nowadays. And it never really made sense, except as a knee-jerk reaction to ignore arguments.
[09:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:46] <exec> 08└─Mhm. [wikipedia.org] Something [wikipedia.org] like [wikipedia.org] these? [wikipedia.org]
[09:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:47] <exec> 08└─I start a kickstarter to prove steel ships don't sink, please send me money to help me build a prototype. :-)
[09:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:50] <exec> 08└─Which proved the earth is *hollow* :-) https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[09:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:52] <exec> 08└─I've been on planes several times, including transatlantic flights (which go as high as reasonable for a commercial flight). I haven't thought of testing whether the Earth appears round from a plane, but I have looked out the windows extensively, and sphericity is not something that jumped out at me...
[09:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 1479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:54] <exec> 08└─You don't need a plane. There's an horizon. You can look out to sea from any beach or coastline and visibly only see about 3 miles of sea. That's a distance you can actually sail out to in order to check it. But if something is significantly HIGHER than you are, you can see it further than 3 miles,...
[09:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:56] <exec> 08└─No they are not, and they never were. Your sex is "assigned" by your genetics and there is nothing you can do about it, short of perhaps developing a technique that could alter the genetic code of every single cell you have. I'm really sorry for everyone who is not happy with the gender they are, bu...
[09:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meg Whitman Resigns - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:12] <exec> 08└─His Facebook videos - I expect on youtube as well - that defame your blessedness.
[09:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:45] <exec> 08└─the Peregrine Falcon is not only the fastest moving bird, it is the fastest animal on the planet
[09:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:30] <exec> 08└─An easter egg shouldn't hijack a documented switch at a certain time of day.
[09:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:32] <exec> 08└─Manuals are now so uncommon for consumer goods that I've taken to telling people that man is short for mansplain. I'm hoping that a whole generation of *NIX users will think that documentation is provided by a mansplaining tool.
[09:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:11] <exec> 08└─Because, believe it or not, if you can survive the tedium, getting a degree is trivial; they hand them out like candy
[09:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Caught Tracking Android User Location Data - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:26] <exec> 08└─Apple is about the only company that does not sell your data to others. I think their hardware is overpriced and overdesigned and I don't like the hand-holding restrictiveness of their software, but they are more or less the last company whose business model is not 'big data'. Still scary off course...
[09:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Caught Tracking Android User Location Data - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:28] <exec> 08└─the whole DNS system is one big gaping security hole. We're badly in need of something distributed a la blockchain. On a side note: Why do we even *need* DNS in this day and age. Why can't a computer's address just be it's domain name? The translation to a numeric address is an optimization from the...
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[10:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:06] <exec> 08└─So what exactly are 'socialist core values' in a video-game? Will your score/healthpoints/gear be taken away from you and redistributed to the less (skilled) fortunate? Isn't that just part of the gaming process as you get "killed" in a battle royal style game? You die and then someone takes your st...
[10:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:07] <exec> 08└─I'm just happy to know that I'm banned in China. There are a number of games that China doesn't like. They don't like the idea of killing your fellow human beings. Better to sacrifice yourself for those human beings, or some such thing. Always put the social welfare ahead of your own.
[10:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:25] <exec> 08└─That only US Representatives may live in DC and US Representatives in DC have NONE of the rights of legally living anywhere in the US. As an added benefit we will be able to have them waterboarded with impunity. Let's see how long it takes for them to word legislation to remove all concept of enhanc...
[10:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:27] <exec> 08└─It probably involves a "manifesto"...
[10:06:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:35] <exec> 08└─Wow, he sounds like a real Challenger!
[10:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:04] <exec> 08└─You sir severely underestimate flat-earthers. You see, you are wrong because video games [theflatearthsociety.org]. Checkmate atheists!
[10:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:06] <exec> 08└─Why stop at 1800 feet? Please do keep going, it might actually be a worthy project if we can get him ejected from the planet.
[10:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:08] <exec> 08└─Surely when you combine LOX and Liquid Hydrogen (as used by the space shuttle) in the presence of a flame, you get steam?
[10:08:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:42] <exec> 08└─Manuals are now so uncommon for consumer goods that I've taken to telling people that man is short for mansplain. I'm hoping that a whole generation of *NIX users will think that documentation is provided by a mansplaining tool.
[10:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:43] <exec> 08└─Don't consider it consistent when the documented features stop working as per documented. e.g man -w stopped working as documented. In contrast stuff like the Excel flight simulator was unlikely to be triggered by accident when using features as documented.
[10:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:45] <exec> 08└─It wasn't actually a bad idea. Unless it somehow caused people's machines to crash or hang. And I don't consider it an easter egg at all, just fancier and more interesting credits (which many other software have). Look at the credits for movies nowadays too. More people actually stay back to watch t...
[10:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:47] <exec> 08└─Really? Are you sure? Inconsistent with what? Inconsistent with the documentation? Well, no. The documentation specifies only using man -w with a manpage. You have to omit the manpage to get this, if you're relying on the documentation you wouldn't expect that to do anything but throw an error. Whic...
[10:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:50] <exec> 08└─False. This is what man -w does on my system: man -w /usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man And this is what the documentation says it is supposed to do: -w, --where, --path, --location Don't actually display the manual pages...
[10:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:52] <exec> 08└─Don't consider it consistent when the documented features stop working as per documented. e.g man -w stopped working as documented.
[10:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:31] <exec> 08└─Above 70% probably sounds quite low to Americans, where a lot of the university exams expect averages of 80-90%. When I was an undergrad, it was quite common to have good exchange students from the US being very disappointed by getting only 75% in an exam when they were accustomed to 95% in exams in...
[10:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:33] <exec> 08└─The Oxbridge system is a little bit weird, in that teaching is split between centralised departments and federated colleges. The departments provide lectures, the colleges provide small group teaching ('supervisions'), typically one per 3 hours of lectures in groups of 2-3. He is alleging that his c...
[10:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:57] <exec> 08└─Does Google, or does Google not, push women as hard as they can into tech? It doesn't matter what the women want - Google is going to PUSH them into tech. Google is far enough left that they have no respect for women, instead, pushing their own agenda down women's throats. Of course, since you're a...
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[11:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:54] <exec> 08└─If lightning can do it, will an arc-welder do it too?
[11:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:55] <exec> 08└─If lightning can do it, will an arc-welder do it too?
[11:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:04] <exec> 08└─What's that sound? *looks up* A rocket launch over my head?
[11:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:06] <exec> 08└─'nuff said.
[11:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe he can confirm if the moon landings were real or fake as well. You know, looking for foot prints and flags.
[11:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03gottabeme [1531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:57] <exec> 08└─That's an Airbus.
[11:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:50] <exec> 08└─"man -w stopped working as documented." Did not.
[11:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:56] <exec> 08└─Quite a bargain for $100K. Look how much it would have cost them to retain a good competent software engineer. We've all known for quite some time that hiring a lawyer to write an escape clause is a helluva lot cheaper than fixing the problem.
[11:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A New Way to Store Thermal Energy - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:37] <exec> 08└─... but has the inconvenient characteristic of expanding when frozen ...
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[12:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:56] <exec> 08└─If lightning can do it, will an arc-welder do it too?
[12:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:57] <exec> 08└─Is it substantial enough to meaningfully affect carbon-14 dating or no? Lets say for some reason about 1k years ago there was a year of constant thunderstorms, how off would the dating be?
[12:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:00] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't matter because the amount of 14C generated each year is know to vary. While this variation is only very minor, it is still corrected for to get an as accurate date as possible. The calibration curve is obtained from trees (year rings). As there are very many of them, there is an overlapp...
[12:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:12] <exec> 08└─Better to sacrifice yourself for those human beings, or some such thing. Always put the social welfare ahead of your own.
[12:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:13] <exec> 08└─Will there be breaks where everyone starts quoting from Chairman Mao or are their going to be a cultural revolution mid game where all the intellectuals are forced out into the country side or will there be some kind of grindy death marches?
[12:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:15] <exec> 08└─YOU FUCKING COMMIE!!
[12:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:18] <exec> 08└─Tell ya what, Comrade Anonymous - when we reach 20 million lying in mass graves, we'll reconsider our ways. Until then, just keep your communist shit to yourself.
[12:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:36] <exec> 08└─How interesting would things be now if USA had had a constitutional convention in 1966?
[12:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:41] <exec> 08└─A substantial majority of people in these schools should not be there, since they're there for impure reasons
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[13:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:57] <exec> 08└─Good Evening Gentlemen. We Won the War: fuck off, bastards! [youtube.com]
[13:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:58] <exec> 08└─Well I guess I'll add not owning a computer with a hardware rootkit to my list of shat to be thankful for this year. Right next to having eaten enough fish out of the freezers this year that I can start filling them again.
[13:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:00] <exec> 08└─"Sniff, cry, I love you guys. BFBFBFBBFFBF" Never forget!
[13:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:03] <exec> 08└─Great, so this tool tells you that your system is vulnerable. Click on the link to the downloads page - expecting to find patch files and instructions - and the page says "There are currently no downloads available for Intel® Management Engine Firmware". So how the hell are you supposed to patch th...
[13:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:06] <exec> 08└─"Well I guess I'll add not owning a computer with a hardware rootkit to my list of shat to be thankful for this year." Well, anyway, no hardware rootkit that you know about...
[13:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03effbee [902] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:08] <exec> 08└─The ME updates come in BIOS updates, so you'll have to hope your motherboard maker feels like releasing a patched BIOS.
[13:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:10] <exec> 08└─We don't give a shit about hardware rootkits as much as we give a shit about hardware debonings. Also, NIGGERS.
[13:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:12] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming Intel will release a microcode firmware update for this shortly which Debian will use to update their "intel-microcode" package. Beyond that I'll have to wait for another BIOS update from Gigabyte - given that I'm still trying to sort issues (mainly related to UEFI) from the last one, I...
[13:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:15] <exec> 08└─AMD has their own version of the IME, known as the Platform Security Processor or PSP. Just because it's not the subject of security shitstorm right now like Intel's IME doesn't mean that it doesn't have any bugs that could result in it being exploited in a similar manner at some point, and since AM...
[13:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:26] <exec> 08└─You can bet your ass that AMD (post-AM3+) has pretty much exactly the same issues, it's just that they're not publicly known yet.
[13:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:37] <exec> 08└─This sounds wrong, its known that if people in the future date objects from the 1950s to today they will think the artifacts are much more recent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] So this does happen, it is only a matter of magnitude. How much lightenin...
[13:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:39] <exec> 08└─I remember reading that lightning can generate antimatter in New Scientist back in the '90s. What is the new contribution for this?
[13:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:56] <exec> 08└─But from what my ignorant mind understands is that modern gaming is a pay-to-play affair, and the big names have been baiting-and-switching and raping the hardcore from their servers for decades.
[13:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:57] <exec> 08└─Yea, dawg, what's up? U feel the itch, u up for being fucked once more? Git 'ere, bend'over.
[13:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:59] <exec> 08└─Fuck you up your asses with your frenulum.
[13:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:19] <exec> 08└─You could have just said "anti-democratic". N.B. Nebraska's unicameral seems like a good idea by comparison. ...and Guy Fawkes had a pretty good idea when he wanted to blow up the House of Lords. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[13:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:21] <exec> 08└─Complaining about hours in jail? The laughter, it hurts. Try solitary with no lights for 30 days you whiny bitch.
[13:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:52] <exec> 08└─Quite a bargain for $100K. Look how much it would have cost them to retain a good competent software engineer.
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[14:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:08] <exec> 08└─It's turkey day not fried chicken day. Speaking of, that stereotype annoys me. Not because racial stereotypes annoy me (They don't. I'm not a whiny bitch.) but because it's a shitty stereotype. Basically anyone who grew up poor before the price of chicken went way the hell up loves fried chicken unl...
[14:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:09] <exec> 08└─What, you don't delid all your chips and inspect all the logic before you power them up? Slacker.
[14:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:11] <exec> 08└─Fried chicken is a southern specialty, and my grandmother made it probably once a week. Yum. Same for watermelon: how the heck is watermelon supposed to be a racist symbol? Does some group have green, stripy skin? Maybe those little green critters from Mars? Whoever is trying to label things like th...
[14:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:14] <exec> 08└─It's the lizard people. Next time you go to a fried chicken place, watch the people around you. People like you and I pick, nibble, and munch all around the bone. Lizard people just inhaled the whole thing. The teeth are fake, so they can't chew. But, anything they can get past those fake teeth goes...
[14:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:16] <exec> 08└─I've mentioned my experience with Compaq shipping computers with pre-installed crapware and associated vulnerabilities. We're all aware that our telephone retailers (the telcos) install various kinds of malware on those devices. Now Intel thoughtfully installs vulnerabilities so that EVERYONE has ba...
[14:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:18] <exec> 08└─I know, right? Fucking carpetbagging, snare-drumming, yankee lawyers. Them som-bitches could fuck up a county fair.
[14:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:32] <exec> 08└─This sounds wrong,
[14:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:33] <exec> 08└─So maybe static discharge on your feet doesn't cause nuclear reaction, but probably some x-rays at least ;)
[14:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:35] <exec> 08└─Somebody tell me WTF is a "lightning can"?
[14:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:55] <exec> 08└─funny how queers and socialists have so much in common
[14:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:56] <exec> 08└─when we reach 20 million lying in mass graves, we'll reconsider our ways.
[14:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:58] <exec> 08└─Do you count only locally or do we dirty forrinurs abroad also factor in?
[14:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:01] <exec> 08└─I'll virtually kill you, you virtual Nazi. Now, pay me.
[14:07:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 1479 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:56] <exec> 08└─You don't need a plane. There's an horizon. You can look out to sea from any beach or coastline and visibly only see about 3 miles of sea. That's a distance you can actually sail out to in order to check it. But if something is significantly HIGHER than you are, you can see it further than 3 miles,...
[14:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:04] <exec> 08└─This guy should be digging down not flying up.
[14:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:06] <exec> 08└─There's a few other different ways you can demonstrate it, also mentioned here: https://www.popsci.com [popsci.com] However I suspect that anyone launching themselves skyward at 500mph with the attitude "I don't believe in science," is likely wind up a lot flatte...
[14:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:09] <exec> 08└─1800 feet? He could climb a hill.
[14:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:11] <exec> 08└─The whole 1800' thing is the funniest part. Take your GoFundMe money and have a trip to a (not recently Hurricane ravaged) Caribbean island, buy a nice video camera and get a window seat on the commercial flight, stream the whole trip - you'll get to 30,000+'. Or, spend about $800 on a weather ballo...
[14:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:13] <exec> 08└─It's a gentle hill, so gentle that their brains interpret it as flat. If there were gentle valleys to cancel out the gentle hills, then on a clear day you could see miles and miles across them, but we don't have those, do we? The whole thing is an argument from the point of view of someone who never...
[14:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:15] <exec> 08└─People screwing up on purpose, for entertainment. It makes money. https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[14:09:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 561 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:43] <exec> 08└─But back when I was in college, the admins there modified their primary SMTP server's Sendmail $e macro (now 'SMTPGreetingmessage' since v8.7) option to be "$j is ready for love" with a timestamp. [docstore.mik.ua] Of course no one would see it unless they connected (telnet, usually) manually to Sen...
[14:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:57] <exec> 08└─In the name of gender equality, future Linux distribution will not only come with man, but also with woman.
[14:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:58] <exec> 08└─Well, if you look at the Stack Exchange post, apparently it broke some test case.
[14:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:00] <exec> 08└─Emphasis by me: No, not exactly like it, because Excel doesn't behave differently when you use a documented command at a certain time of day.
[14:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Store Thermal Energy - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:49] <exec> 08└─I wonder if a flexible pipe heat exchanger might be longer lasting - not as efficient, sure, but if it's efficient enough to get the ice bank frozen using whatever process (solar is common) - I'd rather have a 30% bigger collector on a device that runs 20 years maintenance free, instead of a smaller...
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[15:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plant Spies: DARPA’s Plan to Create Organic Surveillance Sensors - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:56] <exec> 08└─where are my flux capacitors, I need to get out of these barbaric times. A time where plutonium was easy to obtain from Libyan terrorists would be good.
[15:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plant Spies: DARPA’s Plan to Create Organic Surveillance Sensors - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:58] <exec> 08└─Has DoD ran out of men to stare at goats or ran out of goats?
[15:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:21] <exec> 08└─You have an opportunity here to actually neuter the ME in your system such that it is no longer a freedom destroying hardware rootkit. You just have to wait until someone produces a "ME Neuter" project that uses one of these security holes to neuter the damn thing. But if you do the BIOS upgrade, to...
[15:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:23] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming Intel will release a microcode firmware update for this shortly which Debian will use to update their "intel-microcode" package.
[15:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:25] <exec> 08└─If that happened you could just load the older image because the ME doesn't have any anti-rollback misfeature as far as I know.
[15:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's heavy and slow, gets hot and the fans constantly make a lovely buzz. But no, there's no hardware rootkit and it does everything I need it to do.
[15:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:43] <exec> 08└─And if that should fail there's always the option of peeling some tape which gives micro-bursts of x-rays: Correlation between nanosecond X-ray flashes and stick–slip friction in peeling tape [nature.com] (only abstract, ridiculous price for subscription that no ordinary person would pay if it was...
[15:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 2155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:45] <exec> 08└─The difference seems to be "definitive proof" (rather than "not observed conclusively" but everybody accepting it as the only explanation), at least according to the abstract of the paper. I'll paste it here and add some splashes of bold, the stuff before the first bold sentences sort of sums up the...
[15:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:09] <exec> 08└─To arrive at twenty million, for either the Soviet or Red China, we are only counting the citizens/subjects/vassals/chattel of their own countries. So, no, dirty forrinurs aren't counted in the US' mass graves score. Matter of fact, native Americans don't count either, because few if any of those sl...
[15:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:32] <exec> 08└─"Should Germany get more than ten times as many votes as Holland?" No... appr. 85 million versus appr. 17 million, so let's say about 5 times as many.
[15:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:33] <exec> 08└─Sounds peaceful. Did you take advantage of it? And, would you like some cheese with your whine?
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[16:05:59] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY [youtube.com]
[16:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:27] <exec> 08└─Same for watermelon: how the heck is watermelon supposed to be a racist symbol?
[16:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:29] <exec> 08└─Where is the patch to remove the Intel management engine? Never mind, I wouldn't trust such a patch from Intel anyway. We need open, fully documented hardware now. I wouldn't shed a tear if x86 died along the way either.
[16:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:31] <exec> 08└─Shhhhsh, top giving them ideas!
[16:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:33] <exec> 08└─that old DECstation or VAXstation that was thrown out years ago; maybe I should have kept it. no updates, but also no viruses. OS was so ancient, it might not even be fingerprintable via its network stack ;) old sparc-stations, too. I bet you can find tons of them, used. and sgi 'indy' and such. all...
[16:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:35] <exec> 08└─Shit, the joke's on us though.
[16:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 1360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:38] <exec> 08└─Why do we keep electing those lizard people, any way? “I come in peace,” it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, “take me to your Lizard.” […Ford explains to Arthur…] “It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…” “You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?...
[16:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:56] <exec> 08└─Right now, there are constant thunderstorms too, if you look at the atmosphere as a whole. Fortunately, there's lots and lots of mixing of air around the whole world, so localised storms can feed C14 into the pores of plants the whole world round. However, yes, it is possible for there to be variati...
[16:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:58] <exec> 08└─Great. Every summer I'm terrified by thunderstorms and lightings, and now there is a chance that the universe will be destroyed by a freak matter-antimatter chain reaction.
[16:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was sort of hoping that Communist China would promote a game with Communist values. Otherwise I confuse their success with what Bernie Sanders is endorsing. That doesn't fit the Trump narrative based on the words I see, so then does that make Trump a liberal?
[16:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the civilians of other cuntries are worthless shite, only the nobles patriots cunt. If you get jmorris, half yo sins are redeemed
[16:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:27] <exec> 08└─How does that joke go? "Communism, always one murder away from utopia." Yeah, think that's it.
[16:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:29] <exec> 08└─Ah yes. If I was the ruling class of a massive population I would push pretty hard on the self-sacrifice and pacifism system too. Maybe mix in a little masochistic love for domination and following the rules for the sake of being a well-behaved rules-follower too.
[16:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:53] <exec> 08└─I'm going to blame javascript. It's a safe bet. But also Microsoft Internet Edginess (or whatever they have to call it now to re-brand but keep the IE logo). It's a hell of a thing. I remember thinking how wonderful and glorious things would be in 10 years. I was naive though. There are so many othe...
[16:08:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Meg Whitman Resigns - 726 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:51] <exec> 08└─Are any sources reporting the wingspan of Whitman's golden parachute / hand length of her golden handshake [wikipedia.org]? Here is a 2015 article: http://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com] She already got some $$$ from the breakup of HP but i...
[16:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:27] <exec> 08└─"and people do use it" More citations needed. I'm pretty sure the only people who use man are techies and geeks, and not even all of those. The average twit has no idea what man is.
[16:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:10] <exec> 08└─Try comprehending someone from the Louisiana swamps. It's a French/English/Drunken/Slobber accent.
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[17:06:29] <exec> 08└─Another day on the 'net. Stupid people saying stupid things.
[17:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:51] <exec> 08└─So if I search I find stuff like this: Krane points out that future carbon dating will not be so reliable because of changes in the carbon isotopic mix. Fossil fuels have no carbon-14 content, and the burning of those fuels over the past 100 years has diluted the carbon-14 content. On the other hand...
[17:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:52] <exec> 08└─Obviously I meant a period with so much more lightning than usual that it effects C-14 levels. I cannot find a source saying future researchers would be able to calibrate for the "bomb effect". Either the issue is not brought up or they say there will be problems. Of course, if you know about the bo...
[17:07:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 602 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:28] <exec> 08└─... and anti-speech. A glitch in the courtroom systems caused the volume to automatically snap back to zero each time a user switched from one video to another or turns the screens off and back on. The judge asked the clerk to look into it. An hour later with a different witness on the stand, Quresh...
[17:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:46] <exec> 08└─I glanced at the population for both before posting and somehow screwed up the number for Holland.
[17:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:47] <exec> 08└─Stop trying to make antifa happen, it ain't gon' happen
[17:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Meg Whitman Resigns - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:52] <exec> 08└─… sexual harassment of herself.
[17:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meg Whitman Resigns - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:54] <exec> 08└─This isn't an either/or proposition. My company was purchased by HP under Apotheker, then sold off after the HPI/HPE split by Whitman. Some of the worst management I've ever seen, and I worked at Dell during some of the worst years. HP was pretty much doomed before Whitman, of course, but piece-meal...
[17:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:29] <exec> 08└─The dent means that the crash didn't happen all at once
[17:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:30] <exec> 08└─The nose of a jetliner is a plastic shell called a radome. Like this [businessinsider.com]. It looks like the bird hit the tip of the nose first, broke it, then got sucked around and slammed into the side of the aircraft, punched a giant hole, then came to rest inside the radome.
[17:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:10] <exec> 08└─After the first year, half of my pure maths tutorials, and all of my applied maths tutorials, were 1-on-1. Then again, I went to a small college (3 mathematicians in my year), and I was the only one taking some of the courses. Talking to others in other colleges, 1-on-1 wasn't that unusual. Things m...
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[18:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:55] <exec> 08└─I guess that the gaming industry has forgotten to pay off the right congress critters... I'm sure that their bribes "campaign contributions" will be increased before the banning begins.
[18:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:56] <exec> 08└─What about LEGO packages that contain random characters? What about a "grab bag" at the local grocery store? What about packages of trading cards? Hell, what about about actually asking someone for a date? Sometimes I think we should just line up all the legislators, tell them they are fired, and ha...
[18:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:58] <exec> 08└─Hell, what about about actually asking someone for a date?
[18:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:01] <exec> 08└─Trading cards feel like a similar model and I would totally not mind if they were banned as well. No more stacking up hundreds of useless items. Games have been highly tuned these days to provide max addiction, and having players do actual gambling is not a good thing.
[18:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ingar [801] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:03] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: I live in Belgium This has been in the local news for the past few days. It began with an investigation of the national gambling commision and the case now went up to the DOJ. Gambling is effectively illegal here. Some forms are allowed, but they are heavily regulated. So we do have a na...
[18:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plant Spies: DARPA’s Plan to Create Organic Surveillance Sensors - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:14] <exec> 08└─Big blusher is watching you!
[18:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:48] <exec> 08└─You just have to wait until someone produces a "ME Neuter" project that uses one of these security holes to neuter the damn thing.
[18:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:50] <exec> 08└─Where is the patch to remove the Intel management engine?
[18:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:52] <exec> 08└─I'd jump from Intel to AMD in a heartbeat if they didn't build in their own backdoors. Who else makes x86 processors? Used to be Cyrix. There is Via, but like AMD, they've been spotty. Best as I can make out, Via is rolling out a new line of processors next year. Until those come out, seems Via's mo...
[18:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:15] <exec> 08└─Its really hard to find anything that looks reliable on this question... but here is another one: Sources of Error -f. Changes of C14 concentration in the atmosphere. Effect upon Age Determination -Industrial effect ca -2.5% and atom bomb effect +160% in atmosphere Measures to minimise the error inc...
[18:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:16] <exec> 08└─I wouldnt call that a truly reliable source but could not find anyone claiming this problem will be calibrated away.
[18:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:18] <exec> 08└─That site does not claim calibration will deal with it, just that the results have to be interpreted in the light of the industrial and bomb effects. Why not?
[18:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:20] <exec> 08└─Every summer I'm terrified by thunderstorms and lightings, and now there is a chance that the universe will be destroyed by a freak matter-antimatter chain reaction.
[18:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:50] <exec> 08└─PUBG's Second Big Tournament Shows It Still Needs Work As An Esport [kotaku.com]
[18:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe he can confirm if the moon landings were real or fake as well. You know, looking for foot prints and flags.
[18:09:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:42] <exec> 08└─No need to be a dick about it. This isn't fucking Slashdot, and not everything has to be new for nerds godammit. Fuck off.
[18:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:56] <exec> 08└─> Six years is a reasonable shelf life for a joke, but I think its time has passed now. https://git.savannah.nongnu.org [nongnu.org]
[18:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:58] <exec> 08└─Sorry, convince who? You realize that 90% of the world runs on linux right?
[18:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:00] <exec> 08└─I like it too, it reminds me of Teletubbies.
[18:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:10] <exec> 08└─My God, this is completely off. I may work for a small independent computer place, but my degree is in earth science, not any sort of programming or compsci program. Google creeps me the fuck out. And I'm not the smartest woman alive, but it's clear I'm a hell of a lot brighter than you and probably...
[18:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jet Fuel from Sugarcane a Realistic Prospect - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:10] <exec> 08└─I'm getting two new 747-8s to replace the old 747-200s I'm using for Air Force One. I got a great deal on them because Aeroflot didn't take them. Obama ordered two very expensive 747-8s, I canceled that and got these instead. Dennis from Boeing found them, already built and sitting in the desert. Ju...
[18:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sinking Container Ships by Hacking Load Plan Software - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:47] <exec> 08└─Most improbable. They monitor the vessel, as a vessel, during loading and unloading. If the load is not up to spec, they stop loading. And quite likely, lawsuits follow because you're not talking about a coupla benjamins here. As for counter-optimal load schedules for efficiency, that's also highly...
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[19:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:02] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I think we should just line up all the legislators, tell them they are fired, The Americans have the power to do that every two years. Looking at the numbers, I guess everybody's doing okay... I believe legislators can be voted out in Europe also, just might take a little longer, depending...
[19:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:04] <exec> 08└─Trading cards feel like a similar model and I would totally not mind if they were banned as well. No more stacking up hundreds of useless items.
[19:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:06] <exec> 08└─Gambling regulations are always a source of amusement. A few years ago, some MIT folk were caught cheating at roulette by having a button that they pressed when the ball came past which would predict with high accuracy where the ball would land. Normally that would be the end of the story, but it tu...
[19:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:08] <exec> 08└─USians have no single election date on which all legislators are able to be voted out. At the federal level, the biennial elections are for but a fraction of the congressional offices. Also, what did you mean by "everybody's doing okay"?
[19:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:10] <exec> 08└─They're just not happy unless they can control every single human interaction. Too bad they have no new continents to run to and conquer. Let them be the first to Mars. The incentives run deeper than in the states. They can turn it into the bureaucrats paradise. Terra-form it with office buildings s...
[19:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:12] <exec> 08└─The entire house can be swept clean every two years, and it's a nice big fraction of the legislature. Just gotta do it over two six year seasons for the senate. Maybe you should brush up a bit on the American system. Also, what did you mean by "everybody's doing okay"? That is what the 95% reelectio...
[19:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:15] <exec> 08└─Err Belgium had betting shops like tipco and ladbrokes last time I checked. Have they been shut down?
[19:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:17] <exec> 08└─You are correct that all members of the House of Representatives are up for replacement on Tuesday, November 2-8, of every even-numbered Gregorian year. But even apart from the Senate, I feel the need to remind of these: Legislatures of the several states, counties, and cities, whose members are not...
[19:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:19] <exec> 08└─At some point we have to accept that some people will make poor decisions and that it is better to let them make those poor decisions rather than ban activities that people like to do
[19:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:21] <exec> 08└─Oh, are we doing Dumb Thursday? Can I join? How about this one for my entry: the US is the pinnacle of civilization.
[19:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:08] <exec> 08└─No need, I electrically fuzz them. Any suspicious output gets tazed bro.
[19:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:10] <exec> 08└─I ran the Intel "tool" on a few of my systems and it says: Based on the analysis performed by this tool: Detection Error: This system may be vulnerable, please install the Intel(R) MEI/TXEI driver (available from your system manufacturer).
[19:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:12] <exec> 08└─Sortof. The "disable" method used by purism still involves loading and executing proprietary firmware, supplied by Intel, on the ME. This should be an improvement compared to not disabling it, but still isn't a full solution.
[19:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:14] <exec> 08└─Never mind, I wouldn't trust such a patch from Intel anyway. We need open, fully documented hardware now.
[19:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:17] <exec> 08└─If you're out of warranty and not expecting an update from your motherboard manufacturer, you can live update the ME blob on your own using FWUpdate from https://www.win-raid.com [win-raid.com] . The instructions are pretty strai...
[19:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:43] <exec> 08└─>but I am talking about if you are unaware that happened. That's why you calibrate - the "bomb effect" will be clearly visible in the growth rings of trees that lived through those years. You may not know what caused it, but those rings will have a greater concentration of C-14 than the rings on eit...
[19:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:45] <exec> 08└─I agree that "interpretation of results" is pretty vague. However, in the table it explicitly says "tree ring calibration" for other entries, but not here. So that makes me think something else is meant.
[19:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:47] <exec> 08└─non-paywalled review article -> http://www.nanoqed.org [nanoqed.org]
[19:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:44] <exec> 08└─You could have just said "anti-democratic".
[19:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:45] <exec> 08└─And let us not forget that Somalia in its current state is better than when it had a government [wikipedia.org].
[19:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:48] <exec> 08└─When the FBI accused me of domestic terrorism on a bullshit trumped up charge
[19:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:37] <exec> 08└─You do realize we're probably pretty close to being able to support pregnancies and such in female transexuals, such as by uterus/ovary transplants or even growing an artificial uterus organ for transplant. There are a few people out there with cells from a twin (or failed twin) of the opposite gen...
[19:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:39] <exec> 08└─speaking of which, does https://youtu.be [youtu.be] say indeed "hotter than columbia, hotter than challenger"? Lyrics I find online are borked. If so, it's quite a bingo...
[19:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:32] <exec> 08└─That's not what my man says: -w or --path Don’t actually display the man pages, but do print the loca- tion(s) of the files that would be formatted or displayed. If no argument is given: display (on stdout) the list of directories ...
[19:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:34] <exec> 08└─-w or --path Don’t actually display the man pages, but do print the loca- tion(s) of the files that would be formatted or displayed. If no argument is given: display (on stdout) the list of directories that is searched by man...
[19:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:36] <exec> 08└─90% of the world's computers might - though I don't know what that number truly represents or where you got it from - but desktop share is single figures.
[19:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:38] <exec> 08└─Too late, I've switched to Texinfo for good.
[19:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:41] <exec> 08└─Did too. -w or --path Don’t actually display the man pages, but do print the loca- tion(s) of the files that would be formatted or displayed. If no argument is given: display (on stdout) the list of directories that is searche...
[19:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:43] <exec> 08└─The documentation you land on if you Google "man man page" might only specify -w with an argument, but that page is 7 years old. -w or --path Don’t actually display the man pages, but do print the loca- tion(s) of the files that would be formatted or displayed....
[19:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:45] <exec> 08└─Further to my previous comment: what you've quoted there is from a version of man somewhere between 7 and 16 years old.
[19:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:47] <exec> 08└─OK, assuming you're right, the timeline is that this was completely consistent with the documentation until the documentation was changed in error.
[19:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:49] <exec> 08└─That's not what it says on my system: -w, --where, --path, --location Don't actually display the manual pages, but do print the loca- tion(s) of the source nroff files that would be formatted.
[19:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:52] <exec> 08└─Well, I now decided to look in the source: [nongnu.org] .TP .if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-w ", " \-\-where ", " \-\-path ", " \-\-location Don't actually display the manual pages, but do print the location(s) of the source nroff files that would be formatted. .TP
[19:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:36] <exec> 08└─One-on-one is less common now, because some research done by Oxford has shown that groups of three are best for supervisions in most subjects (maths may be an exception). It's easy in one-on-one supervisions for the supervisor to do all the talking and in groups of two it's fairly common for one stu...
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[20:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:56] <exec> 08└─Well, I'd go there and purchase it, but Iran ... Iran so far away.
[20:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:58] <exec> 08└─Tired of continual price hikes on your broadband deal? Then why not move to Iran?
[20:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:00] <exec> 08└─There needs to be one world price for internet. Workers of the world unite and fix prices everywhere. Vote socialist. Socialism will solve everything.
[20:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:22] <exec> 08└─We have a national lottery too, a Chuck Schumer beauty, it's called the "Diversity Visa Lottery Program." Sounds nice, it is not nice, it is not good. It hasn't been good and we have been against it. It's a big gamble, a gamble with our safety. The terrorist who did that horrible attack on New York...
[20:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:24] <exec> 08└─So you either accept total anarchy or you agree with my authoritarian policies! Wow! That's not a false dichotomy at all. You can't be in favor of some things while being against others; that's impossible.
[20:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:26] <exec> 08└─Oooh oooh, my turn: Trump Trump, he da best!
[20:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:28] <exec> 08└─I don't see how Hawaii doing that would not violate the first amendment. The government itself can't restrict what games minors can play, and they certainly can't restrict what kinds of content they could buy within a game. No such exceptions exist in the first amendment. If you think that safety (f...
[20:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:30] <exec> 08└─You saying they took a gamble? ;)
[20:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:51] <exec> 08└─Thanks, but I'm not seeing why you would be more uncertain of the date once the calibration was performed.
[20:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:51] <exec> 08└─Give it a try and see how long you last. No computer. No TV. No radio. No reading material. Just you and 4 walls. There have been folks who poo-poo'd waterboarding--until they allowed themselves to be subjected to that. They each lasted a tiny matter of seconds before calling off the experiment. [go...
[20:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:53] <exec> 08└─Sorry the innocent bystanders were caught up because they were next to Isis "protestors". I'm sure they had the best intentions and were merely close by the radical terrorists that should have been arrested. Or was it Antifa terrorists? Same thing, anyway.
[20:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:45] <exec> 08└─Sex changes are possible today. > Good, I want a bigger one.
[20:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meg Whitman Resigns - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:04] <exec> 08└─Terrible wrestler, terrible actor, terrible businessman, terrible governor. He made Celebrity Apprentice tank, he blamed me!
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[21:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:01] <exec> 08└─Not withstanding the numerous issues people have had with getting locked up without a fair trial, or worse, for causing upset to the theocracy and/or political regime - or just being singled out as a political pawn. I'm not sure cheap broadband (and without factoring in any data caps or filtering th...
[21:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:03] <exec> 08└─Can't you just run a terminal to your Iranian service?
[21:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:05] <exec> 08└─No, I rather like the idea of you moving to Iran.
[21:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:07] <exec> 08└─You're over 12, you serve army.
[21:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:10] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's like running Windows: what is the TCO? Fighting for internet freedom seems like it would probably be a harder slog over there.
[21:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:12] <exec> 08└─Iran's "internet" (which isn't connected to the actual internet, let us note) is alleged to be cheap, but it's majority owned by the government. So we don't know its actual costs, but there's a lot of public funds [wikipedia.org] shoveled over to it. Since 2005 the Iranian government has been develo...
[21:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:14] <exec> 08└─You're so funny! You know so little...
[21:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:16] <exec> 08└─fix prices Sounds like Liberal Democracy to me. Here's Socialism: The collective ownership of the means of production by The Workers. In this context, Socialism would be building your own cooperative ISP. German Village Expanding Self-Built Broadband Network [soylentnews.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soyl...
[21:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:19] <exec> 08└─With prices of $66.17 and $55.08 respectively. Have to dig to get those numbers. RTFA isn't enough. In the comments of the article, some kind person posted a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet, here: https://docs.google.com
[21:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:21] <exec> 08└─s/censoirship/censorship ...unless I missed a joke. theocracy You and I are working on a similar wavelength. Original Submission [soylentnews.org] Suggested dept. line: from the see:-theocracy-ain't-so-bad dept. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:23] <exec> 08└─Oh, so you're in Iran already?
[21:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, you are correct. I think they're in need of a little - heh - "regime change," so to speak. Attack Iran? Yes, Zionist master, I do whatever you say. Forward, march!
[21:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:28] <exec> 08└─Sir, if I may ask...what does "Iran the numbers..." mean?
[21:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:54] <exec> 08└─Basically you're wrong and you're too egotistical to realize it.
[21:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm only trying to point out where the power is. Not getting through to most people though.
[21:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:58] <exec> 08└─Since you recognize that you're not getting through to most people, you may want to change your approach. Otherwise, you're just doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results, and you know what is said about that...
[21:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:00] <exec> 08└─What approach should be used?
[21:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:02] <exec> 08└─"loot boxes" are a scourge on gaming right now. I shouldn't have every game I play afflicted with stupid lootboxes that I would have to make 'microtransaction' purchases for keys to 'unlock'. Its a distracting irritation in any game its in; since I refuse to participate. I never buy them, and I neve...
[21:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:05] <exec> 08└─You don't like it so you're happy with it being banned by any means necessary? How very principled of you.
[21:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:07] <exec> 08└─Sure, the power to kick out one doofus to be replaced by another doofus who will do the exact same thing.
[21:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:58] <exec> 08└─I've just taken the laptop heatsinks of recently, cleaned of their heatsink compound/patch and replaced with new and some copper shims. Clean out the dust/lint and no more constant fan.
[21:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:00] <exec> 08└─Don't ask me, when my family were poor it was ramen noodles all day every day. Once in awhile they would get sausage. But yeah, chicken was always out of the picture back in our poor days.
[21:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:02] <exec> 08└─Here in San Diego the best fried chicken joints are run by asians. They serve gizzards and catfish too. Their secret is cooking everything in the chicken grease.
[21:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:33] <exec> 08└─Because variation in C14 concentrations can result in organic material from different times having the same C14 ratios. For example, nuclear weapons tested ended decades ago, but production of low C14 CO2 from fossil fuel burning has gone up. This has resulted [wikipedia.org] in a short term peak in...
[21:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is the problem I was originally mentioning. And I asked how much lightning would be required to cause a similar issue. I thought you were saying the tree ring/whatever calibration was supposed to get rid of this problem. Now I do not know what your point is, you seem to be agreeing with me...
[21:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:37] <exec> 08└─See khallows post here where he seems to claim this cannot get rid of the problem (you still have multiple rings with the same c14 ratio): https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] That is the problem I am talking about.
[21:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know. In the great america, you prefer to have someone murder 500 people with guns at a concert, dozens of people murdered at a church, or murder kids in a fucking kindergarden than to take instruments of murder away from people.
[21:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Tweaked With "Socialist Values" for China Release - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:08] <exec> 08└─What does this have to do with the article?
[21:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:41] <exec> 08└─You're making my point for me. USA isn't a democracy at all. USA is an oligarchy. It's the way it was set up. N.B. In a democracy, the majority of the people rule; in an oligarchy, the majority of the money rules. In the USA, the majority of the people want[1] [googleusercontent.com] (orig)[1] [popu...
[21:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:43] <exec> 08└─Senate is not an oligarchy. They are representatives of their states.
[21:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:45] <exec> 08└─I can do the numbers too [xkcd.com] - makes perfect sense!
[21:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian Grad Sues Oxford Uni After 17 Years for not Getting Top Grades - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:25] <exec> 08└─There is a lot of stupid people in the world in general. Before we used to give them a shovel and point out where they need to dig. Now we send them to universities, and the liberal-progressive-group-think that runs the campuses will rip your head-off and drink your blood if you tell any of these mo...
[21:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:19] <exec> 08└─Even at those dimensions you can fit a lot of people on board. The International Space Station (ISS) has a volume of 930 cubic meters and fits 6 astronauts in relative comfort. A cylindrical spacecraft of 100 meters length and 30 meters diameter, would have a volume of 71,000 cubic meters, roughly 7...
[21:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Free Wheelin' in New York: the Big Apple Bike Boom - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:15] <exec> 08└─Ugh! More whining about this. It's really simple to drive with poor visible. Just listen. Bikes make fainter sounds when hit than cars do. So as long as the thumps aren't very loud, you're good.
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[22:06:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 314 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:17] <exec> 08└─With prices of $66.17 and $55.08 respectively. Have to dig to get those numbers. RTFA isn't enough. In the comments of the article, some kind person posted a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet, here: https://docs.google.com
[22:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:23] <exec> 08└─This is the kind of thing that I was hoping would be spawned by this submission. Overt censorship has garnered a lot of comments so far. Subsidies and attached strings are indeed another aspect. ...and kudos to bzipitidoo, below us in the (meta)thread, for digging into the comments at El Reg and fin...
[22:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Folks who pronounce the name "Ir-ahn" might miss the pun. Folks who pronounce it "I-ran" got the joke. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:27] <exec> 08└─To me, top quality is more important than cost. I have a 500 Mbit/s download and upload connection which was down shortly only recently for the first time in many years. It's $75 a month, no caps. Plus my provider refuses to block anything except when ordered by a court of law.
[22:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:29] <exec> 08└─That is indeed interesting.
[22:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:31] <exec> 08└─...and Persia was what Iran was called through most of history. Trivia: We get the chess term "checkmate" from the Persian for "The king is dead" ("Shah mort"). More trivia: Though the country is majority Islamic, the language of Iran isn't Arabic; it's Farsi. There's also been a bunch of squabbling...
[22:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:33] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I give Iran a hard time. But they got control over their Internet. We need to do the same, or we’re not going to have a country. Right now, it’s like a sieve. It’s like water pouring through. It’s ridiculous.
[22:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:36] <exec> 08└─At least they got some sort of access for their money. The US throws taxpayer money at ISP's and doesn't even get what they paid for. [techdirt.com]
[22:07:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 1222 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:07] <exec> 08└─"loot boxes" are a scourge on gaming right now. I shouldn't have every game I play afflicted with stupid lootboxes that I would have to make 'microtransaction' purchases for keys to 'unlock'. Its a distracting irritation in any game its in; since I refuse to participate. I never buy them, and I neve...
[22:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 1135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:10] <exec> 08└─"You don't like it so you're happy with it being banned by any means necessary? How very principled of you." I don't like it. And it *IS* gambling, so if that's sufficient to get it banned then, yes, that's great. I'm for much strong consumer protection laws in general; where people have the right t...
[22:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:13] <exec> 08└─If they can nail it as gambling and ban it, then I wish them luck.
[22:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:15] <exec> 08└─So, we're supposed to stick with the the old doofus instead? That makes no sense. Why not take the chance? See, that's just proof that the prison door is wide open, yet you choose to stay in the cell. At least you got your 'three hots and a cot', right? Use the nomination process to weed them out. S...
[22:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:17] <exec> 08└─I don't like it. And it *IS* gambling, so if that's sufficient to get it banned then, yes, that's great.
[22:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:19] <exec> 08└─You pay for that up front? "Here are ten bucks, what about joining me for dinner?"
[22:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:21] <exec> 08└─don't forget to ban stock trading and insurance
[22:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:24] <exec> 08└─Usually both candidates have a track record of being evil, and people just keep foolishly voting for the 'lesser evil'. The solution is either a third party, or more likely, having a good candidate win a primary over one of the evil candidates and then actually voting for them. They have representat...
[22:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:26] <exec> 08└─Government can manage its basic services without steering society a bit. We don't need to throw you in jail for bullshit in order to pave roads.
[22:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:28] <exec> 08└─You could try any approach but the one you've been using over and over again while expecting different results.
[22:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:30] <exec> 08└─What about the stock market?
[22:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:33] <exec> 08└─If there is a significant difference in the value of the contents between bags, then yes, grab bags would be gambling.
[22:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:28] <exec> 08└─pressure Intel to deliver chips with the ME disabled-by-default?
[22:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lightning Can Cause Nuclear Reactions and Generate Antimatter - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:02] <exec> 08└─I thought you were saying the tree ring/whatever calibration was supposed to get rid of this problem.
[22:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:05] <exec> 08└─Things are a bit confusing because there are at least two different implementations of man in common use today on GNU/Linux systems. The subject of this article is man-db [nongnu.org], a reimplementation of the older "man" (whose website has been down for some time now but it is archived here [archi...
[22:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:06] <exec> 08└─The quoted snippet above is from the manual of the classic "man" package, not from "man-db" which is the subject of this article. In classic "man" the -w option is clearly documented to work without any additional arguments. Completely pointless incompatibilities between the two implementations is p...
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[23:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plague Bacteria Were Present in Europe During the Late Stone Age - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:58] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you all about the Plague. When I was young, the Plague was one of the fear factors going on in Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, where my mother went to college. I have many awesome stories about that time, however, I will state that the fear of the plague is nothing but fearmongering bulls...
[23:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:29] <exec> 08└─If you happened to look out of your window and saw a flock of seagulls as you read it, it might help with the joke.
[23:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:30] <exec> 08└─Folks who pronounce it "I-ran" got the joke.
[23:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran the Numbers--and Persian Internet is the Cheapest in the World - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:32] <exec> 08└─Ajit the Idjit wants you to have less for more. I wonder, is he still working for Verizon or just on their payroll. MAG(for corporations)A.
[23:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:18] <exec> 08└─What about LEGO packages that contain random characters? What about a "grab bag" at the local grocery store? What about packages of trading cards?
[23:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:20] <exec> 08└─I guess I'm not quite getting your point. Just because our institutions are imperfect doesn't mean that we have to try to make them more imperfect (and powerful) by creating a bunch of bogus laws for them to enforce.
[23:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:22] <exec> 08└─What other approaches exist?
[23:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:24] <exec> 08└─Primary enough evil candidates and we might be able to fix the situation with third parties.
[23:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:21] <exec> 08└─Exactly. You still have to load something, and that something has to be signed by intel. The disappointing fact is that on modern computers, it is impossible to completely disable ME. This is primarily due to the fact that this technology is responsible for initialization, power management, and laun...
[23:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:22] <exec> 08└─Only works if you buy a computer from them. You can't just use their stuff on any random dell or HP. Please stop posting this as if it were a real fix.
[23:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trial of Inauguration Protesters is a Comedy of Tech N00bs - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:05] <exec> 08└─You've got your work cut out for you finding someone in that bunch who isn't rich. ...and, again, there are a lot of USAians who are underrepresented in that disproportionate body. You may remember a previous thread on this topic [soylentnews.org] where I linked to a map with proper Senatorial distr...
[23:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:58] <exec> 08└─Totally O/T, but I have to agree. No matter the gear they're packing, they still act like their former sex, stereotypically speaking. I known a few transgendered folks, and all of them are still unhappy campers after their reassignment surgery. It's kind of sad to see their dreams not become real...
[23:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme" - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:05] <exec> 08└─Why do you assume the documentation was changed in error? Can't it have been a deliberate change to the functionality of the program?
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