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[00:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:14] <exec> 08└─On farms from prehistoric times all the way to the advent of industrial farming in the early 20th century, men and women on the farm both worked to exhaustion, just to keep up. Only the rich were ever afforded a break from constant hard labor.
[00:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:15] <exec> 08└─You might also want to wear a middle ages armor and sword, just to have an idea. BTW, 40 years ago if not sooner, people around here decided to halve the weight of cement sacks.
[00:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:17] <exec> 08└─Also, farming is a profession where there are bursts and lulls of activity based on seasonal cycles.
[00:06:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Review and Teardown of a Cheap GPS Jammer - 1287 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:26] <exec> 08└─I've actually encountered GPS jammers on the road twice. Once while driving in Arizona, I pulled up near an 18 wheeler and suddenly my GPS Said "Recalculating ... Recalculating", and showed me in Iowa. It was horribly hozed until I was half a mile ahead of the truck. What would a driver-less vehicle...
[00:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Satellite Tests the Equivalence Principle to an Unprecedented Precision - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:47] <exec> 08└─In 1890 [wikipedia.org] the gravitational and inertial masses were shown to be proportional, with a difference of no more than 1 part in 20 million.
[00:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:13] <exec> 08└─it's an easy mistake to make.
[00:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:15] <exec> 08└─Once you backport templates to C, why not just use those features of C++? Is it to target platforms such as 6502-based retro computers that barely have a C89 compiler, let alone a compiler for modern C++? And even in C++, you still can't automatically pass __FILE__ and __LINE__ at the place of insta...
[00:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:17] <exec> 08└─stop hiring incompetents
[00:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:19] <exec> 08└─debug macros wrappering logging
[00:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:21] <exec> 08└─No, that's part of the main point against macros: not everyone knows "#define sub(A, B) A-B" is a bad macro. Most people can write an inline function that subtracts values. Also the argument that macros make code more readable is patently ridiculous. It makes it more readable to someone who ASSUMES...
[00:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:23] <exec> 08└─What's your feeling about code generators? Code to generate code?
[00:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:26] <exec> 08└─hahah wow. That's like an interpretive art project. Sadly, I've seen similar things but not to that level.
[00:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:28] <exec> 08└─Can be passed "SQUARE(x++)" which expands as "(x++) * (x++)" - x gets incremented twice, rather than once
[00:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:30] <exec> 08└─would you please explain an efficient way to sort out dozens of applications by incompetent candidates to a particular position en masse?
[00:07:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 309 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:43] <exec> 08└─It unfortunately is. See above for links. You can tell them the truth or not say a word but you can't lie to them. Personally, I call bullshit on that particular law. You're not in court, under oath when you're talking to law enforcement officers as a general rule. You should not be compelled to be...
[00:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:02] <exec> 08└─"It's pretty obvious" So you say, but I disagree. Again, I'm looking at sworn court filings and drawing my conclusions based on that evidence. "If you want to ignore the variety of stuff that's in the public record (I'm not going to do your work for you), that's up to you." I did the work, I linked...
[00:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:04] <exec> 08└─We'll just have to keep imprisoning anyone who gets into the oval office if they can't stop violating the Constitution. Not supporting things such as the NSA's unconstitutional mass surveillance, the TSA, the countless undeclared wars going on overseas, etc. is a must. If there were real consequence...
[00:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:06] <exec> 08└─The head of the NSA lied to congress countless times during the Snowden leaks, so it's not as if we don't already know the answers.
[00:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 1200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:08] <exec> 08└─- the GOP is pushing HARD to put a pedophile into the senate in alabama, and believes that its perfectly fine for 30+ year old men to fondle 14 year old girls This isn't quite true. The mainstream GOP (esp. the non-Southern ones) is very embarrased by this, and they've been pushing Moore to drop out...
[00:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:10] <exec> 08└─Kissy Kissy, sweetheart. Let's see what the future brings. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? [youtube.com] Robert Mueller knows.
[00:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:12] <exec> 08└─Popular support isn't that important; support of Congress is. Trump doesn't have it, so he's not getting much done that can't be done with just executive orders. Pence is actually competent and has support from the GOP, and would get a lot of nasty stuff passed.
[00:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:15] <exec> 08└─- the GOP is pushing HARD to put a pedophile into the senate in alabama, and believes that its perfectly fine for 30+ year old men to fondle 14 year old girls
[00:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:17] <exec> 08└─Is there actually any law that can be used to call into question the election if it was "influenced" by external actors? After all, what do you consider campaign advertisements to be? They're attempting to influence voters, and they frequently use lies and half-truths. Are they somehow OK just becau...
[00:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:19] <exec> 08└─Here's a cogent analysis of the situation [lawfareblog.com]. Pooh pooh at it all you like, but The Shadow [wikipedia.org] knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. And rather than using your brain, your (assuming you're a good man, which is, at least to me, an open question) lack of thought helps...
[00:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 1556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:21] <exec> 08└─"Here's a cogent analysis of the situation [lawfareblog.com]." It's certainly more cogent than what you've posted prior to this, but if alarm bells didn't go off in your head reading this then you need repairs. "The surprising thing about the plea agreement and the stipulated facts underlying it is...
[00:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Spying Condom With Full Telemetry Is Here! - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:02] <exec> 08└─"Start"? You must be very careful about giving out your e-mail addresses.
[00:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android Co-Founder Andy Rubin Left Google in 2014 Due to an "Inappropriate Relationship" - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:48] <exec> 08└─I never "met" or was introduced to any girl outside dating organisations. There's been a small handful of times I've met a girl at a party, but it's just not a great way to meet someone and get to know them. You're not going to meet lots of eligible people there, many of them may already be in a rel...
[00:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android Co-Founder Andy Rubin Left Google in 2014 Due to an "Inappropriate Relationship" - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:49] <exec> 08└─TBH, there have never been any female co-workers where I am in heavy engineering, except an occasional snooty married middle aged woman as the director's secretary.
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[01:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Rebuild its Redmond Headquarters - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:04] <exec> 08└─Do you think the architects and construction workers of Seattle will say "thank you, President Trump"? The economy there was TANKING under Obama. Microsoft, Starbucks and Amazon all moved to Ireland. Now they're coming back. They're bringing thousands of jobs and making huge investments in the USA....
[01:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:21] <exec> 08└─In some ways, a typical dirt-poor person is worse off now than their counterpart from centuries ago.
[01:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:22] <exec> 08└─The first and last vulva and vagina you ever got near were your mother's so I don't see the concern here. Here's an idea, how about we leave EVERYONE'S babymaking bits alone, huh? Regardless of sex?
[01:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:24] <exec> 08└─Have you ever ground spices in a mortar/pestle? Have you ever kneaded dough for more than a couple minutes? Have you ever washed clothes by beating them against rocks for 20 minutes? Have you ever carried water for 20 minutes? Ok, I've only done the first two and let me tell you, it gets exhausting...
[01:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:26] <exec> 08└─Her 2 month old kid? 50/50.
[01:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:29] <exec> 08└─Back in the day, men didn't rape women. When a woman needed an itch scratched, she pointed, and told one man or another, "Get over here, NOW!" That's what the women's libbers really want to return to. When that hulking brute said "FUCK ME!" no sane man would argue. Well, not unless he could really r...
[01:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:32] <exec> 08└─For all its bluntness, I miss the C-preprocessor whenever I'm in a language that doesn't support pre-processing (and doesn't lend itself to pre-processing via `make`). Commonly I also miss the relative type safety of C then. A point maybe worth mentioning is that it's typically possible to use whate...
[01:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:34] <exec> 08└─Amen. Add to that another really common one, being rounds of cryptographic operations. Macros *increase* readability when used properly.
[01:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:36] <exec> 08└─While I agree with you in broad strokes, the C macros are very clunky and don't fit into the language particularly well for anything remotely advanced. Then again, in many ways it's its lack of knowledge of C that makes it powerful - you can run rough-shod over all manner of things (not that you sho...
[01:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:18] <exec> 08└─How did Trump get elected?
[01:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:19] <exec> 08└─If we are going to follow a "whatabout" argument, then, why hasn't Kushner been indicted for his misrepresentations made under penalty of perjury in his SF86 form? At this point, his security clearance should have been revoked many times over. Yes, I know that Trump has the authority to reinstate it...
[01:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:21] <exec> 08└─You go, boy (and I do emphasize the word 'boy')! Continue to be deliberately obtuse, and we'll see how this plays out. As things play out, perhaps for once in your life you'll re-evaluate, rather than sticking your head even deeper up your ass. I'd direct you to peruse my sig, but even that doesn't...
[01:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:23] <exec> 08└─many believe
[01:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:01] <exec> 08└─Did he?
[01:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel and Warner Bros. Partner to Bring "Immersive Experiences" to Autonomous Vehicles - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:18] <exec> 08└─You're perfectly right about being tensed up for an impact. But, my reasoning goes more along the lines that an alert occupant of a doomed vehicle might take actions to prevent the accident. Of course, that's foolish if there are no controls to be taken over. No steering wheel, no brakes, no emergen...
[01:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Surgeon Who Wants to Connect You to the Internet with a Brain Implant - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:18] <exec> 08└─We already live in such a reality. Physical laws are safe, though, but who cares about them - it's human laws and decisions that surround us, not the mass of electron.
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[02:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Rebuild its Redmond Headquarters - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:13] <exec> 08└─They're going to bulldoze all those private offices so the engineers can "collaborate" in an "open, unfettered" way, be more tuned into the office vibe, be more approachable, and have much better interoffice communication. Just guessing, but I'm not seeing management spending $$$ to improve workers...
[02:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft to Rebuild its Redmond Headquarters - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:15] <exec> 08└─From the second linked article: First image shows Black man in booth
[02:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Rebuild its Redmond Headquarters - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:17] <exec> 08└─As an I.T person one would expect you to think systemically. After WWII America was not only funding its own welfare state, but also that of Europe and Japan through the Marshall Plan and other aid programs. This was to give the rest of the world liquidity and create a world market that could buy Am...
[02:06:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:30] <exec> 08└─On farms from prehistoric times all the way to the advent of industrial farming in the early 20th century, men and women on the farm both worked to exhaustion, just to keep up. Only the rich were ever afforded a break from constant hard labor.
[02:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:38] <exec> 08└─That would suck for me. If I lose I'm a global laughingstock. If I win I go to jail for beating up a 2 month old kid. I'd rather be Matt Laur.
[02:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:40] <exec> 08└─Just proves, of course, that the chauvinistic modern oppression of women as the "weaker" sex is completely and utterly debunked yet again. I hope I have daughters someday so that I can show them this and by extension show them anything is possible. Anything to get away from the white-patriarchal-cap...
[02:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:42] <exec> 08└─"You heard me, I won't be in for the rest of the week. . . . I told you, my baby beat me up. . . . Oh, it is _not_ the worst excuse I ever thought up." - Homer Simpson
[02:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:45] <exec> 08└─"Really, daddy? Women aren't weaker?" "Yes, dear. Now start your homework, it'll be a couple hours before din--" Some time later ... "What happened? Did I pass out?" "No, honey, your precious daughter hit you in the head and took your car keys."
[02:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:47] <exec> 08└─Am glad that women aren't quite so strong any more. I'd hate to have my dick ripped off or my balls crushed to pulp while getting a handjob. Just sayin'.
[02:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:49] <exec> 08└─You can't get a hand job because you're unemployable. Now, beat it, punk, and let the working women work.
[02:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Review and Teardown of a Cheap GPS Jammer - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:08] <exec> 08└─Where does it end? Either directly integrated in the road, or better, my solution -- a hybrid rail/car system which combines the best of both worlds of safety, privacy and independence, and uniformity of traffic flow. As others have mentioned ad-nauseum, some kind of dual-or triple-factor system sho...
[02:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review and Teardown of a Cheap GPS Jammer - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, and this is why people should not use cellphones; they are necessarily tracking devices.
[02:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review and Teardown of a Cheap GPS Jammer - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:11] <exec> 08└─would keep the last known co-ordinates when things went sideways. You moved 500 miles in the last 30 seconds? Yeah, we'll just toss that data point. Too bad the GPS makers rely on H1-B engineers, who are more interested in meeting deadlines than writing reliable code.
[02:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:00] <exec> 08└─What you're suggesting sounds too hard. Wouldn't it be better to just keep turning away introverts, since they fail our shallow personality tests by not being social enough? Wouldn't it be easier to just throw out the applications of anyone who doesn't have a degree? Look how much time we're saving!...
[02:08:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 329 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:40] <exec> 08└─"'but but but .... HER EMAILS!'. or some other long dead issue that they refuse to let die." SHE refuses to let it die: remember a certain book she is pushing hard? Take all responsibility for not winning while blaming EVERYONE but herself or Wasserman-Schulz or Bill or......ad nauseum. SHE does not...
[02:08:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 1104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:52] <exec> 08└─Because as adults and normal people we should be able to do better than a lizard politician. Hilldawg is old news now - she is running around vacuuming up the last bits of money she can from her experiences in politics. Yes she is a terrible person but pointing it out isn't going to help anything. L...
[02:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:46] <exec> 08└─It is not sufficient to tell an untruth, you have to do it 'knowingly and willfully'. Read the law. Yes, people get in trouble all the time when they talk to the police and make conflicting statements etc. This can be used to damage their crediiblity as a witness, since it raises reasonable doubt ab...
[02:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:48] <exec> 08└─> GOP voters are just a lot better at getting out to vote GOP operatives are just a lot better at gerrymandering the voting districts FTFY
[02:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:50] <exec> 08└─What about mighty English grammar? Can I answer all the questions with "Sir, it might have had happened, officer, Sir"
[02:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple to Design its Own Power Management Chips - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:02] <exec> 08└─Especially after the "trashcan" Mac Pro, an Apple hardware debacle. Again, ugh.
[02:10:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 1113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:53] <exec> 08└─Fire all the referees, umpires, and judges, and play sports without them! They're interfering officials, always spoiling the games, stopping innovation. It's like they think that's their proper role. Teams ought to be able to sabotage each other's transportation, poison the other's food, slip in per...
[02:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:30] <exec> 08└─"I'm not a troll!" - aristarchus (troll) "The whole site is going toxic!" - aristarchus (toxic user) "My flamebait submissions are getting rejected!" - aristarchus (sad) Oh - that's interesting: This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original... Alright - mod banned by the Buzza...
[02:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:31] <exec> 08└─Even if he voted for Gary Johnson, and not Trump, Gary Johnson has the same policy stance on net neutrality. So, yes, TMB voted for the policies he now complains about.
[02:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:33] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus was never his mother's favorite -- and he was an only child. -- Thomas Berger
[02:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:36] <exec> 08└─Oh, for fuck's sake, you big baby - how low does your karma go? Down to 40? Down to 10? Every time you refresh your page, you look first at your karma level? WHO GIVES A FUCK?!?! If you've got something to s̶a̶y̶ troll, then troll it. What do you care for karma? Baby fucking greeks don't believe...
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[02:11:38] <exec> 08└─Grvhfbjfdv ufcjktf
[02:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:40] <exec> 08└─The idea that it's the local deals that cause the problem is, IMHO, a mistake. California does not allow such exclusive deals, yet, there is effectively a duopoly in residential wired Internet services in many cities. Thus, the largest state provides an example that suggests that there is something...
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[03:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kymation [1047] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope's MUSE Instrument Studies the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:04] <exec> 08└─There is always Sci Hub [sci-hub.bz].
[03:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Rebuild its Redmond Headquarters - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:16] <exec> 08└─So Micro$oft is doing in the physical space what its users had to countless times on their computers - throw it all away and reinstall themselves afresh.
[03:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:44] <exec> 08└─> Today, everyone (well, not in Eritrea...) can count on at least free shelter with breakfast, showers and periodically clothes — those living under the bridge are there on their own substance-influenced wish. Maybe where you are. Here in Melbourne, Australia we have what appears to be a growing n...
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[03:07:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe the earlier data was spoofed and the new data is valid. The computer can't tell, and it's funny that you think the main issue is the visa status of the programmers.
[03:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review and Teardown of a Cheap GPS Jammer - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:08] <exec> 08└─Navicom? http://7car.tw [7car.tw] The pictures don't look like what I remember. In the 80s/90s I was interested in TSD rallys for the novelty and sheer technological challenge and curta calculators and all that stuff, then cheap GPS rolls out and the sport turns into a mode on th...
[03:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review and Teardown of a Cheap GPS Jammer - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:10] <exec> 08└─Use aircraft VOR navigation and ILS beacons and when you jam them the FAA with F-22s will show up.
[03:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review and Teardown of a Cheap GPS Jammer - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:12] <exec> 08└─I'm suggesting to the AC who recommended building an initial navigation system into the trucks j bus, that his method wouldn't work, or would be too costly, whereas something the size of a cell phone can fulfill the tracking needs of major shippers sending valuable cargo over the highways using cont...
[03:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:01] <exec> 08└─I have no love for any "I'm too lazy to type this out every time and too 1337 to just abstract it out with a wrapper function" code. Not in any language.
[03:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:02] <exec> 08└─You're entitled to your opinion. I just hope I never have to come behind and fix any of your code. I'd argue overly verbose commenting, like "expand the macro in a comment" does more to reduce readability...
[03:11:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 377 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:21] <exec> 08└─That's the CLAIM, and it is a claim shared by proponents of government. Considering that it's a safer bet to assume that the name of every government bill-and-would-be-law states the exact opposite as the consequence after its passage, you'll pardon me if I believe that you are the one who has no id...
[03:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:37] <exec> 08└─You agreed with Hillary on every position she held then? Voting for a politician always means you're going to get fucked. You just get to pick which available way you'd prefer.
[03:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:39] <exec> 08└─No, because there are degrees of being fucked. You chose the most extreme version of being fucked.
[03:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:41] <exec> 08└─No, that's what I usually do. Vote for the absolute worst candidate to bring about revolution quicker. This time I was hoping to throw some third-party chaos into the mix next election cycle. Didn't pan out but I don't bemoan my choice and I'd make the same one again.
[03:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:43] <exec> 08└─I agree to a limited extent, in that the prolific "unlimited Internet" which are of course not unlimited are fraudulent. Tiered plans with burst and extra fees beyond the specifically-defined data limits are of course possible to do, and can be reasonably priced since the servers I'm paying for in a...
[03:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:45] <exec> 08└─I disagree with Buzzard on this matter (less of the thing which caused the problem GOOD), but it's still funny/sad to see all the crabs in the pot clamping furiously at CraBuzzard to make sure he stays firmly within the confines of the pot. There are no winners. Buzzard sees this. Why can't the rest...
[03:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:47] <exec> 08└─California does not allow such exclusive deals, yet, there is effectively a duopoly in residential wired Internet services in many cities. Thus, the largest state provides an example that suggests that there is something else in play.
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[04:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New NASA Instrument Aboard the ISS Will Analyze Microdebris That Strikes It - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:04] <exec> 08└─> They should put it in front of one of the windows... Plz define "front" when in orbit. Unless you are just going to cover the window, in which case why put a window there?
[04:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New NASA Instrument Aboard the ISS Will Analyze Microdebris That Strikes It - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:06] <exec> 08└─Just as you surmised, my quinklesack has once again emerged. How do you intend to ballot this?
[04:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New NASA Instrument Aboard the ISS Will Analyze Microdebris That Strikes It - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:08] <exec> 08└─^^Use the SDS as a mouth protector!
[04:06:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02 - 06Microsoft to Rebuild its Redmond Headquarters - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:23] <exec> 08└─From the second linked article: First image shows Black man in booth
[04:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft to Rebuild its Redmond Headquarters - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:26] <exec> 08└─The new buildings will be based on Windows: full of ways to spy on their employees, with the whole place locked down and a nice padded room in which to crash!
[04:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Rebuild its Redmond Headquarters - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:28] <exec> 08└─Had a look over the nytimes article. Saw the "phone booth" style isolation cell. Looked to me like something that 20 years ago would have been laughed out of a dystopian sci-fi flick for being unrealistic to the point of being silly. I'm probably getting old or something.
[04:06:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 447 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:36] <exec> 08└─These numbnuts could have gone throughout Africa in rural communities to see what gruelling manual labour women perform. Today. Like, right now. I've been by fields where a row of women, often with babies strapped to their backs, were tilling the soil with mattocks. And singing chanties to keep thei...
[04:06:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:39] <exec> 08└─Studies are awesome, is there anything that they can't suggest?
[04:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:58] <exec> 08└─You can't get a hand job because you're unemployable. Now, beat it, punk, and let the working women work.
[04:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review and Teardown of a Cheap GPS Jammer - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:25] <exec> 08└─Would it be legal to operate one in a RF-proof room or enclosure for testing purposes? The college I went to had such a room for testing student RF projects.
[04:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:17] <exec> 08└─You can get newbies in and out of a test sequence in just minutes; they'll never survive the most simple questions about language details. Better programmers will take longer to check out.
[04:09:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:11] <exec> 08└─When confronted with their guys being aggressively prosecuted for misdemeanors and trivial little matters that everyone in DC is guilty of
[04:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple to Design its Own Power Management Chips - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:19] <exec> 08└─> it would have been cheaper for Apple to just buy the company and it's patents,... It's even cheaper now, since TFA claims "Dialog shares down 19.16%". Not that Apple is short on cash, but everyone likes to buy things on sale, amirite?
[04:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:58] <exec> 08└─Your attempt at gaslighting brings me sadness at its dimness and flaccidity. Though I have such high regard for humans, I suppose I can't expect much more from a typical denizen of government-provided schooling. Fun fact: if there's a contradiction, there's a problem - even if that contradiction is...
[04:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:59] <exec> 08└─I do not have crabs, thank you very much. I shave regularly.
[04:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:02] <exec> 08└─Granted the implication that most ISPs are government-enforced monopolies, which MUST end immediately, and that delegation of authority to investigate and punish fraud is valid since an individual person does have the authority to defend against fraud.. That being said, please explain how the federa...
[04:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:04] <exec> 08└─Is that so? [wikipedia.org] Darn, I was so hoping I was the more intelligent of us. Thank you for clarifying the situation.
[04:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:06] <exec> 08└─It's still larger than zero. And I don't care that the thread got off message.
[04:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:08] <exec> 08└─Petrified cell towers nestled in petrified forests as petrified tourists take selfies on their petrified cell phones with petrified birds singing petrified songs. It's a rocking place.
[04:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:10] <exec> 08└─The straw man was in this post [soylentnews.org].
[04:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[05:06:07] <exec> 08└─A USAF officer told me about this: just puff some sand at it.
[05:06:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 466 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:46] <exec> 08└─Have you ever ground spices in a mortar/pestle? Have you ever kneaded dough for more than a couple minutes? Have you ever washed clothes by beating them against rocks for 20 minutes? Have you ever carried water for 20 minutes? Ok, I've only done the first two and let me tell you, it gets exhausting...
[05:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:57] <exec> 08└─The men were even stronger. Women have the advantage in tolerance of pain and blood loss. They sometimes, rarely, beat men in very long distance running. A pretty ordinary man can beat all the female olympic athletes. It's only about the 90th percentile man.
[05:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:59] <exec> 08└─Please tell me, why did you insult the AC? Did he say anything wrong? He complained that only female genital mutilation is banned, while male mutilation is actively promoted (like, Bill G. dumping $150M into promoting genital cutting in Africa). It would nice if there, you know, were equal rights wr...
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[05:07:01] <exec> 08└─Maybe where you are. Here in Melbourne, Australia we have what appears to be a growing number of homeless people. Rather than drug-addicts the two most common categories are mentally ill and indigenous, I'd say. Whether some were alcoholics before or after they became homeless I don't know. The one...
[05:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:03] <exec> 08└─Please tell me, why did you insult the AC? Did he say anything wrong? He complained that only female genital mutilation is banned, while male mutilation is actively promoted (like, Bill G. dumping $150M into promoting genital cutting in Africa). It would nice if there, you know, were equal rights wr...
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[05:07:30] <exec> 08└─I always like what you have to say, but haphazardly throwing around a bunch of military terminology in this case makes you look like a hammer treating every solution as a nail. Our situation needs to be a little more intimate to the problem at hand. We're way passed TACAN on the ground, we just don'...
[05:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:12] <exec> 08└─Well, if everyone is finished professing undying love for aristarchus, this was something of a serious question. Usually when my karma dips, as I imagine happens to everyone, there is an identifiable or at least proximate down-mod somewhere in my stats. Recently I have not been able to identify the...
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[05:12:13] <exec> 08└─*exclusive*
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[05:12:47] <exec> 08└─Very true. I sincerely doubt the body of evidence or their understanding of events has changed in the last year at least. I can't see much reason for a reasonable person to expect that to change in the last year. If they didn't have enough to be comfortable going to trial, they shouldn't have arrest...
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[06:07:04] <exec> 08└─"In some ways" is a pretty equivocal statement :)
[06:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:05] <exec> 08└─But, do those homeless people die of starvation? Their standard of life might be not what one could wish for, but it's bad only compared to other people in the same country — they still live like kings compared to an average peasant from medieval Europe or even certain places on Earth today.
[06:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:07] <exec> 08└─Her name was Bertha. Bertha Butt. She was one of the Butt Sisters...
[06:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:27] <exec> 08└─Actually, C macros sort of suck, compared with IBM assembler macros from the 1970s, or Motorola's macro assembler for the 68000. IBM macros had capabilities close to templates in C++. That said, within the limits of what C macros can do, I agree with your premise that it's not the tool's fault if th...
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[06:14:36] <exec> 08└─Before it became a movie, Johnny Mnemonic was a short story, whose events are also alluded to in Neuromancer, because Johnny was Molly's ex-boyfriend. The script for the film adaptation was written by Gibson as well, and has only a superficial resemblance to the original short story, and it was actu...
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[07:06:04] <exec> 08└─Do nothing at all and you have a shitload of beer. Sounds like a pretty solid win to me.
[07:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Rebuild its Redmond Headquarters - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:35] <exec> 08└─I see a sign that reads "Phone."
[07:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Satellite Tests the Equivalence Principle to an Unprecedented Precision - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:51] <exec> 08└─And now this new experiment has established the same thing to a precision of one part in 1017. Not that there ever was much doubt that the equivalence principle would hold, but if even a very small deviation in the principle were detected that might have been a sign of some new physics. This new exp...
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[08:06:23] <exec> 08└─They obtained spectra for 1,600 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
[08:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope's MUSE Instrument Studies the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:24] <exec> 08└─So, 1600, 72 of which are new, times twelve million.
[08:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surgeon Who Wants to Connect You to the Internet with a Brain Implant - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:45] <exec> 08└─We already live in such a reality.
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[09:06:01] <exec> 08└─"We were cheap." sums it up? :)
[09:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beer Distribution Game - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, my 15 million liter reserve does hold the fort. Never ever requiring to be sober, again.
[09:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Rebuild its Redmond Headquarters - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:43] <exec> 08└─That's not a good description of the Marshall Plan. A good description would be "blackmail". **Do what USA.gov wants or we'll do to your place what we're doing to East Germany (propaganda, sabotage, and murder). If you have any notions about anti-Capitalism, we'll not only not have healthy trade|rel...
[09:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Satellite Tests the Equivalence Principle to an Unprecedented Precision - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:00] <exec> 08└─How could this be a test of relativity when it was clearly known before that theory was developed?
[09:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Satellite Tests the Equivalence Principle to an Unprecedented Precision - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:01] <exec> 08└─More exactly, one pound mass of feathers generated the same weight force as one pound mass of gold. Which is a non-trivial statement, which doesn't work for other forces.
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[10:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:03] <exec> 08└─No, that doesn't explain it. D-shaped connectors are cheap.
[10:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:04] <exec> 08└─What I don't understand about USB is why did it start out so slow. At the time it was developed we already had megabit nics and gigabit nics were starting to hit the market. Why did it have to start with 1.0 started out at 1.5 Mbit, and less than two years later 1.1 jumps to 12 Mbits. Nearly 10x as...
[10:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beer Distribution Game - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:14] <exec> 08└─I see you like warm, spoiled beer.
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[11:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:02] <exec> 08└─Having seen close and personal the American "justice" system (supposedly one of the best in the world), I have to report that I'm not at all convinced Slobodan's course of action is unjustified. Judicial systems tend to be Kabuki Theatre for ritualizing the exaltation of the powers and the relegatio...
[11:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:12] <exec> 08└─I find looking at what you are doing to help quite a lot.
[11:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beer Distribution Game - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:23] <exec> 08└─The alcohol remains. And with good storage(*) and time, there will be lots more of it (alcohol, that is). And then, by the time I get through a large swat, my liver will give up anyway. What could possibly go wrong with such fine strategy? (*) You did notice the "fort" I use for storage, didn't you?...
[11:07:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KiloByte [375] 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 336 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:27] <exec> 08└─Please tell me, why did you insult the AC? Did he say anything wrong? He complained that only female genital mutilation is banned, while male mutilation is actively promoted (like, Bill G. dumping $150M into promoting genital cutting in Africa). It would nice if there, you know, were equal rights wr...
[11:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Synthetic X and Y Bases Direct the Production of a Protein With "Unnatural" Amino Acids - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:42] <exec> 08└─The focus going forward should be on bolstering human defenses against biological agents rather than trying to regulate amateur biology and suppress citizen science, which will only turn ugly fast.
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[12:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:05] <exec> 08└─The International Court of Justice is in The Hague, in The Netherlands. That's in Europe. Not in any of the countries in America (like the US).
[12:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:06] <exec> 08└─Doesn't change the point. That Court has also been accused of being nothing more than a kangaroo court, the purpose being not to find the truth or dispense justice, but to just fulfill the political desires of the courts paymasters and influencers. When I hear the name "International Court of Justic...
[12:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:09] <exec> 08└─I said that having seen close and personal one of the best justice systems in the world, I have to say that I'm not impressed it, so I'm probably not going to be impressed with The Hague either.
[12:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:19] <exec> 08└─USB started out replacing RS-232 and parallel interfaces compared to which USB 1.0 was > 10x faster. The speed bumps came as a result of competition with Apple upping the ante with firewire/thunderbolt.
[12:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:20] <exec> 08└─Looking isn't always an option, if the socket is at the back of a computer you can't easily reach to look. The piece of PCB used in the connector was probably going to be double-sided anyway, and via's aren't exactly expensive either. PCB manufacturers generally don't charge you extra for via's, unl...
[12:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:23] <exec> 08└─There would have been a simple solution tho, some form of marking on one side of the connector for this side is "up", would probably work better at laptops since the connectors are usually positioned sideways compared to most, or a lot of, modern towers where they are positioned in a rotated positio...
[12:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 1582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:25] <exec> 08└─> Even at the start of development, they knew that making the connector flippable would be a better user experience in the long run. But doing so would require twice the wiring and more circuitry, which would increase costs. Or you know, don't make the damn connector rectangular (or any other symmet...
[12:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:27] <exec> 08└─Or color or shape... they were just incompetent and lazy. Business as usual.
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[13:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wine Robots Are Rolling Into Europe’s Swankiest Vineyards - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:04] <exec> 08└─... welcome our drunk robot overlords.
[13:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:15] <exec> 08└─Having seen close and personal the American "justice" system
[13:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:17] <exec> 08└─Typical. The sort of malignant psychopathic person who is capable of leading blindly loyal followers to commit atrocities against another group will in total sincerity declare that they are actually the victims of that same group and their acts are not revenge but for their own safety. They had to d...
[13:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:33] <exec> 08└─I'd have been happy if they hadn't made the plug fit so nicely into Ethernet jacks. Many a user problem fixed by plugging the USB cable into the actual USB port.
[13:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:34] <exec> 08└─There would have been a simple solution tho, some form of marking on one side of the connector for this side is "up"
[13:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:37] <exec> 08└─The problem wasn't so much that they didn't make the sockets double sided, it's that they made them symmetrical and not double sided. Mini USB was a lot easier because the connector and the port were obviously one way up. B type also wasn't really a problem. A type was symmetrical (at least, unless...
[13:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:39] <exec> 08└─Some of them have that. Some have a beveled logo or symbol, that really helps. Some have painted something on which doesn't help as much, certainly not very much in the situation you describe. A lot of cables and devices (sticks and such) do not have anything. So it's one of those things that they s...
[13:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:41] <exec> 08└─What I don't understand about USB is why did it start out so slow. At the time it was developed we already had megabit nics and gigabit nics were starting to hit the market.
[13:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:59] <exec> 08└─Sorry but your education on agriculture is off by a few centuries: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Similar to your description, from early Mesopotamia until the dusk of Rome you had the Two-field system where you planted once a year. But from around 800ad Europeans w...
[13:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review and Teardown of a Cheap GPS Jammer - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:28] <exec> 08└─So - you are annoyed at that they used the word "micro" in the sense small (which is what the word actually means) and decided to use "milli-" in the sense "1 to 10mm long"? I'm curious: when armed with ca 1930s knowledge what name would you have chosed for waves smaller than what is currently in pr...
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[14:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wine Robots Are Rolling Into Europe’s Swankiest Vineyards - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:03] <exec> 08└─Who the hell wants to run Windows executables on a robot? Who the hell even wants a full-on PC OS on their robot at all?
[14:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:16] <exec> 08└─Say... what? USians "justice" system is, at best, a market place.
[14:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:17] <exec> 08└─So, no. It ain't a "market place".
[14:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:19] <exec> 08└─Because this is what the Nazi and similar racists are - a bunch of cowards. They are really scared shitless of the "others". Their fear results in driving themselves into the proverbial corner where the murders convinced themselves that they had "no choice" and is it them that are "victims". And the...
[14:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:22] <exec> 08└─So, no. It ain't a "market place". "Troll"? OK. I guess I'll repost.
[14:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:24] <exec> 08└─So, no. It ain't a "market place". "Troll"? OK. I guess I'll repost.
[14:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:45] <exec> 08└─PATENTS ! Yep those pesky piles of word salad with a drizzle of legalese. Having a flippable plug/socket would have cost too much.
[14:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:46] <exec> 08└─The reason is that USB was always a scam. No one will update their hardware if they can get the maximum speed with the very first hardware. So versions are introduced which are deliberately crippled. Selecting the USB speed in BIOS would have been good, but they chose not to. More money can be made...
[14:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:48] <exec> 08└─And laptop designers trying to hide the sockets as much as possible, ideally black slots in the darkest part of a black case. To make the early ones look thinner? The blue insert of USB-3 is an improvement, but USB-C finally gets it right (at least on one end).
[14:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:51] <exec> 08└─USB is useless compared to RS-232. Ever tried screwing-in your USB connector? You can do that with RS-232 and parallel port. Now things can just fall out when they are needed plugged-in. Also, RS-232 cannot harm your computer because of how it works. USB is a virus-carrier which should be considered...
[14:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New NASA Instrument Aboard the ISS Will Analyze Microdebris That Strikes It - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:11] <exec> 08└─Congratulations, you just added a new word to Google's database!
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[15:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:01] <exec> 08└─The problem is hardware. If you don't have access to the hardware, walled gardens of software will always develop. Support RISC-V and other such projects. Suffer the crudeness of early FOSH, so that our descendants (biological or otherwise) may enjoy Freedom.
[15:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:02] <exec> 08└─Cue yet another tedious BSD vs. GPL debate.
[15:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:05] <exec> 08└─The Tragedy of the Commons results from a lack of ownership—there needs to be an owner to control the resources; the Authoritarians say that owner should be centralized (e.g., it should be a "government"), while the Libertarians say that the owner (or owners) should be found through market forces...
[15:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:07] <exec> 08└─That's old news. The problem today is hardware. Support RISC-V and other such projects.
[15:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:09] <exec> 08└─To me this is MS' Shared Source initiative all over again. Sure, the companies are in their right. The users are also in their right to not care about "their" product. The availability of the source code is just one thing that makes FOSS so great. An open community is just as great. Since about 2008...
[15:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:11] <exec> 08└─If you want a taste of the old way of doing things, check out the web of Linux [kernel] mailing lists; it's a much better way to develop FOSS, because only those capable of good technical thinking can survive participation.
[15:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:13] <exec> 08└─Whatchoo talkin bout, Willis? I lurve me some RISC-V. I'll lurve it even more once I can get a competitively priced desktop system using it at 2/3-3/4 AMD's clock speeds. For embedded purposes, IDGAF as long as the data sheets don't suck too much balls and are only moderately false (you know what I'...
[15:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:16] <exec> 08└─Cue yet another tedious BSD vs. GPL debate.
[15:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:18] <exec> 08└─Pffft, you can survive Linus just fine. Contrary to what they're teaching in college lately, speech is not violence. All you really have to worry about is if your big-girl panties are clean when you need them.
[15:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:20] <exec> 08└─You don't deserve them, and then AC does. Invalid form key: ndDrnzR7sv
[15:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wine Robots Are Rolling Into Europe’s Swankiest Vineyards - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:30] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_fraud#Label_fraud [wikipedia.org] https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] http://winefolly.com [winefolly.com] https://munchies.vice.com
[15:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 1393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:48] <exec> 08└─"The sort of malignant psychopathic person who is capable of leading blindly loyal followers to commit atrocities against another group will in total sincerity declare that they are actually the vicitims of that same group and their acts are not revenge but for their own safety" You're absolutely ri...
[15:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:49] <exec> 08└─See subject.
[15:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:51] <exec> 08└─So, no. It ain't a "market place". "Troll"? "Spam"? OK. I guess I'll repost.
[15:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:53] <exec> 08└─naranja negro
[15:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:56] <exec> 08└─Tony Blair also won. And yet.... https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] While the period formally defined as occupation ended in June 2004, British troops remained in Iraq for a further five...
[15:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:58] <exec> 08└─IANAD, but it's my understanding that a lethal one-shot dose of cyanide would have shown its effects -- rather grisly ones -- much faster than they could "close the curtains".
[15:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:00] <exec> 08└─> about a third of the population are eager to follow a Great Leader anywhere, have a preference for being divided into "us" and "them" and being lead into conflict with "them". Well, fuck. Notice that Trump's approval rating hovers around 35% or so :/
[15:07:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:16] <exec> 08└─There would have been a simple solution tho, some form of marking on one side of the connector for this side is "up"
[15:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:25] <exec> 08└─It would be trivial to produce a modified tip-and-ring connector that had sufficient ways to accommodate USB wiring. You have to be pretty creative to insert it into a socket in the wrong orientation. Note that it would be like a tip-ring-sleeve connector used for stereo phono plugs [wikipedia.org],...
[15:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:27] <exec> 08└─Ug, black slots on a black case with black text and black buttons that light up black when you press them, black, black, black, black, any color as long as it is black. What planet are case designers from? Would it kill them to make a case that actually REFLECTS light so people can SEE it? I'd pay g...
[15:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Rebuild its Redmond Headquarters - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:12] <exec> 08└─They have the technology.
[15:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review and Teardown of a Cheap GPS Jammer - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:18] <exec> 08└─"Maybe the earlier data was spoofed and the new data is valid. The computer can't tell, and it's funny that you think the main issue is the visa status of the programmers." If you get a position via GPS that is 1000 miles away from your last position you received 1 second ago, what do you think is m...
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[16:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:10] <exec> 08└─People seem to be confusing "Open Source" with Free Software. No surprises there; the OSI's definition of "Open Source" was intended to foment this kind of confusion. Yes, it's good that when you buy software you get source, which is what the "Open Source" definition requires. But nothing in the def...
[16:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:11] <exec> 08└─Kind of. OSS was meant as a transition from proprietary to Free software. There is a lot of idelogical opposition to Free software and those opposing it put their weight into OSS alone to try to slow or stop a full transition. Of course lost in all that is the historical fact that prior to the 1980s...
[16:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's good that when you buy software you get source, which is what the "Open Source" definition requires. But nothing in the definition says you can redistribute.
[16:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:16] <exec> 08└─It's not the lack of ownership that causes the tragedy of the commons, it's the fact that the consequences are shared rather than apportioned based upon use. If each person knew that they'd be on the hook for a portion of the consequences, it would lead to a different outcome where there was some mi...
[16:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:18] <exec> 08└─It shouldn't be. And this is why nobody respects the free software people. Open source is about having access to the source to look at and patch. It does not and should not include a requirement about redistributing those changes and how that should be handled. This is something that the extremists...
[16:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wine Robots Are Rolling Into Europe’s Swankiest Vineyards - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:28] <exec> 08└─Capitalist incongruence, once again. These robots could be used to replace the slave labor done by hardworking undocumented citizens while paying benefits for them in places like California and reducing workplace hazard, and heck those citizens could move up the ladder by then being trained to servi...
[16:06:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:37] <exec> 08└─The International Court of Justice is in The Hague, in The Netherlands. That's in Europe. Not in any of the countries in America (like the US).
[16:06:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 1183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:42] <exec> 08└─Typical. The sort of malignant psychopathic person who is capable of leading blindly loyal followers to commit atrocities against another group will in total sincerity declare that they are actually the victims of that same group and their acts are not revenge but for their own safety. They had to d...
[16:06:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 1393 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:49] <exec> 08└─"The sort of malignant psychopathic person who is capable of leading blindly loyal followers to commit atrocities against another group will in total sincerity declare that they are actually the vicitims of that same group and their acts are not revenge but for their own safety" You're absolutely ri...
[16:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:57] <exec> 08└─See subject.
[16:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:59] <exec> 08└─People keep saying this but so far he has escalated our current military engagements less than Obama did. I am not saying that will last, but currently he doing better than Bush and Obama did. Syria conflict is dying down pretty fast, Iraq is looking good, nothing tood to say about Afghanistan but h...
[16:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:01] <exec> 08└─A preliminary autopsy determined that Praljak had poisoned himself with potassium cyanide, which caused heart failure
[16:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:28] <exec> 08└─Would it kill them to make a case that actually REFLECTS light so people can SEE it? I'd pay good money for that, but that's not being a good little consumeroid buying what I am told to buy.
[16:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:30] <exec> 08└─Indeed, the only thing that I don't get here is why the cables and ports aren't better labeled. The USB icon is usually on the same side of the jack, but since it's molded into the plastic in the same color, it can be hard to see. On the jack side, the icon should be on the same side as the icon on...
[16:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:32] <exec> 08└─That's for Facebook over USB. I find that Facebook over USB gives the best possible experience of Facebook.
[16:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:53] <exec> 08└─Grinding grain...gruelling
[16:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 1744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:20] <exec> 08└─__FILE__ and __LINE__, are, imo, two of the only useful macros. My favorite macro is one I made called AT. I just do: std::cerr << AT << "Something happened." << std::endl; And that turns into "./bla.c:99:void foo::bar(int): Something happened." Good macros: Do thing like this, using __FILE__ and __...
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[17:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:04] <exec> 08└─There should be a Federal program to forcibly integrate these 2 populations. The hood rat shouldn't be punished for choosing the wrong parents.
[17:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:05] <exec> 08└─I have thousands of chromosomes.
[17:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:07] <exec> 08└─I WANT TO BE RATMAN!! Da da da da da RATMAN!
[17:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:10] <exec> 08└─The worst rats are in D.C. Time for a new book: Fahrenheit 435
[17:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:12] <exec> 08└─And then there are the wall street rats.
[17:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:14] <exec> 08└─The Wall Street rats are probably the reason the downtown rats are distinct from the uptown rats. It's hard to tell who is boinking whom though . . .
[17:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:36] <exec> 08└─The consequences of poor management are apportioned to the owner. The consequences of damage are apportioned to the perpetrator.
[17:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:37] <exec> 08└─You don't deserve them, but the AC does. Invalid form key: ndDrnzR7sv
[17:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:39] <exec> 08└─I be karma whoring on a Sunday like it's nothing. 👌👌👌👌👌👌🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯💯 😎🍺 https://www.bit-tech.net [bit-tech.net]
[17:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:41] <exec> 08└─You don't deserve them, but the AC does. Invalid form key: ndDrnzR7sv
[17:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wine Robots Are Rolling Into Europe’s Swankiest Vineyards - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:52] <exec> 08└─"Château Mouton Rothschild" Of course. When the robot revolution swings into town the Rothschilds will be ahead of the game. The first robots will be used to build incinerators for the now unnecessary "little people".
[17:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:20] <exec> 08└─See subject.
[17:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:22] <exec> 08└─He was not a war criminal. He was accused but not convicted. Unable to convict him they instead kept him imprisoned for nearly 20 years, the term of the original sentence, using bureaucratic rules. Incidentally the original war crimes charge was for the destruction of a bridge. It was deemed valuabl...
[17:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:52] <exec> 08└─The port on the computer isn't always the same way up.
[17:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gertlex [3966] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:54] <exec> 08└─But really, for any desktop of reasonable size, based on every motherboard's connector panel I've seen, the "bottom" of the usb connector is almost certainly closer to the edge of the case.
[17:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:56] <exec> 08└─Actually, it is.
[17:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:58] <exec> 08└─Really! It must be to look good with the fog on light gray text colors they like.
[17:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:01] <exec> 08└─Serial port malware now: I'm going to plug in this USB drive I found. What's this 'composite device' mean? Hey, it is controlling my keyboard. Hey, it just opend its own drive and ran software. WTF IS GOING ON? Better disconnect this before something bad happens.... OH NOES! Where did my files go? S...
[17:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Rebuild its Redmond Headquarters - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:47] <exec> 08└─collaboration for sales, marketing, program management. Not such a bad thing. If your business is going to be directing and selling software written off-site (India, China, Eastern Europe) then maybe an open office system makes sense. You can have way better office parties with an open plan. Next st...
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[18:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:09] <exec> 08└─uptown grill, The've been living in a white bread world, now they're looking for a downtown van. But maybe someday when a ship comes in They'll understand where other rats have been
[18:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:11] <exec> 08└─New York has been the center of so much trade and immigration, yet the descendants of these Western European rats have held on.
[18:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:13] <exec> 08└─There's definitely a DreamWorks [tvtropes.org] kids movie script to be twisted out of this science.
[18:06:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 617 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:29] <exec> 08└─People seem to be confusing "Open Source" with Free Software. No surprises there; the OSI's definition of "Open Source" was intended to foment this kind of confusion. Yes, it's good that when you buy software you get source, which is what the "Open Source" definition requires. But nothing in the def...
[18:06:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 385 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:30] <exec> 08└─Kind of. OSS was meant as a transition from proprietary to Free software. There is a lot of idelogical opposition to Free software and those opposing it put their weight into OSS alone to try to slow or stop a full transition. Of course lost in all that is the historical fact that prior to the 1980s...
[18:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:39] <exec> 08└─You are either meticulously trolling at a very high level, or very, very misinformed; you're so good, I can't tell which. Open source is about having access to the source to look at and patch. It does not and should not include a requirement about redistributing those changes and how that should be...
[18:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:42] <exec> 08└─That's old news. The problem today is hardware.
[18:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:44] <exec> 08└─If you distribute the object code, you have to provide a reasonable way to get the open source and often also your stuff that links to it. But if you use open source in house and do not distribute the program, then you don't. The only case that would required you to distribute source to the general...
[18:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wine Robots Are Rolling Into Europe’s Swankiest Vineyards - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:55] <exec> 08└─There are only four things to drink in this world: Boone's Farm (well, not anymore) Mad Dog Southern Comfort Budweiser Anything else is unAmerican!
[18:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wine Robots Are Rolling Into Europe’s Swankiest Vineyards - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:57] <exec> 08└─You forgot the cold and refreshing Steel Reserve [newsmax.com], and other malt liquors [nytimes.com]. Steel Reserve has less than 10% of the market share of Budweiser but causes about the same amount of emergency room visits (in Baltimore). You'll agree that Steel Reserve tastes better than Olde Eng...
[18:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:27] <exec> 08└─See subject.
[18:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:28] <exec> 08└─Imagine the US civil war, but with great powers taking the side of the south. The secession succeeds, and Lincoln, Grant etc are handed over by the Northern States to an "international criminal court". Sometimes rather willingly, because the surviving North wants trade access to British North Americ...
[18:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:31] <exec> 08└─A better explanation [wikipedia.org] was written 85 years ago... (Also notable is who ordered his books to be burned) Of course we can go back to Plato, if you want.
[18:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:06] <exec> 08└─The split in the shield is always on the bottom, as far as I can tell. And the logo should always be on top.
[18:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:07] <exec> 08└─Nope, the back of my machine has ports in three different directions 4 vertical, and two horizontal off the motherboard, and two more horizontal, but upside down ports off an LP-PCIe card, which also connects to the front panel ports.
[18:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:09] <exec> 08└─USB is also based on a polling based model instead of an interrupt based model. The fallout from that decision is a bit of increased latency which makes some usage of a parallel port attached to a USB bus impossible. The latency can cause issues with the RS232 connection too depending on what is bei...
[18:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:12] <exec> 08└─The ports built in to the front of my case are upside down.
[18:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:14] <exec> 08└─But I don't notice which way I plugged them, whenever I get it right!
[18:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New NASA Instrument Aboard the ISS Will Analyze Microdebris That Strikes It - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:36] <exec> 08└─And how does he propose to get that sand into orbit. Might as well just shoot it down with a missile [archive.org].
[18:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope's MUSE Instrument Studies the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:46] <exec> 08└─Not all of space is equal.
[18:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review and Teardown of a Cheap GPS Jammer - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, but if you were testing how well it did at messing with GPS, the room would kill the GPS signal first.
[18:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Satellite Tests the Equivalence Principle to an Unprecedented Precision - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:27] <exec> 08└─Sure, but its like having a theory that predicts "a dropped apple falls towards the earth". Passing that test is not impressive anymore. I'm not saying putting tighter constraints on deviations from the equivalence principle is a waste of time or anything, I just don't think this adds any support to...
[18:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:12] <exec> 08└─Instead of using macros for the last case, you could use separate files: // index1_pv_amd64.c static inline size_t index1_pv(size_t n) __attribute__((always_inline)) { if (rpnx_unlikely(n==0)) return 0; else { size_t i; ...
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[19:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:14] <exec> 08└─Based on NY subway advertisements, there is already raccoon diversity program going. http://i.imgur.com [imgur.com]
[19:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:15] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised nobody has raised a stink over that.
[19:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:17] <exec> 08└─My first thought was "Uptown rat, he's been eaten by a Downtown cat", but it's Sunday, I'm bored and the prospect of work tomorrow does not make my brain sparkle.
[19:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:47] <exec> 08└─I see it as rigid ideology vs. flexibility. A copyleft license is based on the idea that all software should be public, as in public health, public education, etc. There are times when this model works, but there are times when it gets bogged down. If the software is copylefted, you can't pull it ou...
[19:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:48] <exec> 08└─When it comes to software, write a competitor that is sufficiently open. The only time you cannot do this is when the hardware is locked down in some fashion; everything comes down to the hardware.
[19:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:50] <exec> 08└─You don't deserve them, but the AC does. Invalid form key: ndDrnzR7sv Invalid form key: PvyQaev5HU
[19:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wine Robots Are Rolling Into Europe’s Swankiest Vineyards - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:04] <exec> 08└─Mental image of Lucy, Ethel and Bender stomping grapes.
[19:07:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 530 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:34] <exec> 08└─He was not a war criminal. He was accused but not convicted. Unable to convict him they instead kept him imprisoned for nearly 20 years, the term of the original sentence, using bureaucratic rules. Incidentally the original war crimes charge was for the destruction of a bridge. It was deemed valuabl...
[19:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:38] <exec> 08└─Oil?! Please! *Wag the dog* Whatever why I’m so so missing Tony. Because he is so so charming and his clothes are so good. He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt… And he is slim tall and good skin. Pierce blue eyes which I love. Love his eyes. Also I love his power on the...
[19:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:40] <exec> 08└─I am ignorant of the ICJ. Do you have any examples of questionable conduct or decisions by the group?
[19:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:43] <exec> 08└─Doesn't change the point.
[19:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's so unfair that your criminals were on the losing side.
[19:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:47] <exec> 08└─See subject.
[19:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:49] <exec> 08└─Criminals always are on the losing side. Otherwise they would be heroes like Lincoln and Sherman.
[19:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:30] <exec> 08└─No, "too clueless to mandate a label on one side of the connector and one side of the plug" sums it up. Connectors don't have to be invertible; they just have to be comprehensible. If the A side of the connector had a solid, obvious bar, and the A side of the plug had a solid, obvious bar, you'd be...
[19:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:31] <exec> 08└─We have that already. The USB logo is supposed to be on the top of the plug. So long as the USB port isn't upside down (not always a given), you should in theory know how to plug the cable in by looking at. If it's embossed you could also do it by feel. The problem is that a lot of cables don't incl...
[19:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:33] <exec> 08└─Also solves that annoying problem of the one-sided USB ports by simply eliminating them. Still have the gay light-up Apple logo gimmick though.
[19:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:36] <exec> 08└─One easy thing they could have done is swapped the A and B connectors. The B connector is not symmetrical, and harder to mess up plugging in if you're fumbling around. You would move the problem on the device end which would now have the A connector. But since you usually can see what you're doing o...
[19:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Rebuild its Redmond Headquarters - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:25] <exec> 08└─Have they tried Ctrl-Alt-Delete?
[19:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prehistoric Women Were Really Strong - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:04] <exec> 08└─FGM often includes complete removal of the clit, which is considerably worse than just having some of the foreskin removed. So I'd say banning FGM definitely should be a higher priority than banning male circumcision. But yes, I agree the latter should be banned too.
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[20:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:06] <exec> 08└─Compounding matters, Japan has a declining birthrate and bans immigration.
[20:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:07] <exec> 08└─How dare they not want to become a dirty, crime ridden Muslim slum, filled with rapists, terrorists and welfare-lifers? That's what all noble good countries want.
[20:06:08] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 782 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:09] <exec> 08└─Bollocks to the pro-immigration dig at the end. Immigration would have nothing to do with whether a corpse is found or not, nor lonely deaths. Declining birth rate might possibly be to do with it, as family members might keep in touch, but even that is not guaranteed these days. Families no longer l...
[20:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03iru [6596] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:12] <exec> 08└─Japan does not ban immigration. High skilled work force is always in demand. Japan does however bans the dangerous kind of immigration that can lead to violence against its culture and citizens.
[20:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:14] <exec> 08└─Someone believes that a ghetto two or three miles away from this huge retirement complex is going to help discover bodies faster? Mmmmm - maybe I'm not thinking straight. Sure, bodies will be discovered by people breaking into apartments. The question is, will the burglars call the authorities? Or,...
[20:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:16] <exec> 08└─“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what...
[20:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:18] <exec> 08└─Wanting to keep a homogeneous population would be considered very racist were Japan a nation of white people. Why do the Japanese get a pass? For that matter, why do the Chinese get a pass? or the South Koreans? or Mexico, which constitutionally forbids changing the population demographics? Germany...
[20:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:21] <exec> 08└─Now this is one area where the Spics and Spic-like cultures excel. They actually look after their own elders and let them stay in the housing to be stimulated by family and die in relative comfort. The downside is when you're in America and living alongside families like that, because they are noisy...
[20:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:23] <exec> 08└─Wanting to keep a homogeneous population would be considered very racist were Japan a nation of white people. Why do the Japanese get a pass?
[20:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:25] <exec> 08└─Allowing increased immigration is an obvious remedy for a declining population. Might not be your favorite remedy, and you might not agree that declining population is a problem, but it makes sense for it to be mentioned. "Bans immigration" is an exaggeration, but they don't allow that many people i...
[20:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:27] <exec> 08└─My biggest problem with immigration is the decades of "your population is too high, stop having kids" followed by "wow you f'd up bad and caused population to fall by not having kids, now you must accept immigrants" . Makes it feel like it was intentional. I don't have a real issue with people movin...
[20:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:46] <exec> 08└─It is acceptable to notice two distinct rat populations only a few miles apart that diverged in a few hundred years with only a minor barrier to genetic flow between the groups. It is NOT, repeat NOT acceptable... so STOP READING NOW OR YOU WILL BE EXPOSED TO CRIMETHINK .... *SPOILER* (click to show...
[20:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:47] <exec> 08└─The uptown rats are light-colored but have very large hooknosed snouts, breed with only their own kind, and are best at hoarding anything they can find. They are an invasive species brought from Europe and with Middle-Eastern origin. The downtown rats are dark-colored, noisy, with a preference for s...
[20:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:50] <exec> 08└─Can they make a law that says transmitting rabies is not a felony and just a way of life?
[20:07:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 308 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:16] <exec> 08└─You are either meticulously trolling at a very high level, or very, very misinformed; you're so good, I can't tell which. Open source is about having access to the source to look at and patch. It does not and should not include a requirement about redistributing those changes and how that should be...
[20:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 1386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:22] <exec> 08└─It is patently obvious GRSecurity can distribute source only with the binaries they sell as part of a support contract. It is equally obvious the clause in said contract forbidding redistribution is invalid on its face in the case of GPL licensed code. It is also obvious they can get away with it be...
[20:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:15] <exec> 08└─So this guy (along with his side) committed the grave sin of defeating the wrong enemy. When you win you don't face a war crimes tribunal, so obviously they lost. Since they defeated what they thought was their enemy it is obvious this assumption was mistaken. From the Wiki page it is clear he did n...
[20:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:17] <exec> 08└─I think going further back is even more telling. Had the American revolution failed, the people we know as the founding fathers would have almost certainly faced "trial" and summary execution in kangaroo courts. And the execution, in English style at the time, would likely have been to have each man...
[20:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:19] <exec> 08└─There's no justice in Hague, they're a kangaroo court. There is a reason they go after Praljak for the grave crime of breaking a bridge during wartime and not Bush or Obama for the petty crime of killing hundreds of thousands.
[20:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah yeah so you all want to blame the engineers who designed the cable but I know the truth! Its patently obvious that the true culprit here is that all non-reversible USB connectors are actually in a superposition of both states, up and down. Its only until the end user tries both up and down that...
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[21:06:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 1084 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:08] <exec> 08└─Wanting to keep a homogeneous population would be considered very racist were Japan a nation of white people. Why do the Japanese get a pass? For that matter, why do the Chinese get a pass? or the South Koreans? or Mexico, which constitutionally forbids changing the population demographics? Germany...
[21:06:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 728 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:12] <exec> 08└─My biggest problem with immigration is the decades of "your population is too high, stop having kids" followed by "wow you f'd up bad and caused population to fall by not having kids, now you must accept immigrants" . Makes it feel like it was intentional. I don't have a real issue with people movin...
[21:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:14] <exec> 08└─There was an article either here or on the green site regarding one of the japanese serial killers or christian cults that had a long discussion on Muslims in Japan. They are now up to I believe 12 mosques, compared to 1 20 years ago and have been losing japanese women to emigration to muslim countr...
[21:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:16] <exec> 08└─Partial truth but hispanics are a lot quicker to whoop a kid's ass than white folks nowadays. When's the last time you saw some bitch from Berkeley beatin that ass in Wal-Mart?
[21:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:18] <exec> 08└─Wow. Another stupid comment. Consistent. As in consistently stupid. I'm guessing welfare brat from a junkie mother.
[21:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:21] <exec> 08└─The Vulcan mind meld?
[21:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:23] <exec> 08└─It was suggested by Machiavelli in his infamous book "Prince". In short, if said Prince wants to hold concurred nations long term he has only two choices: 1. Exterminate them. 2. Provide for them a better living than to his own people. Stalin had done both. The US has done the former and is doing th...
[21:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:25] <exec> 08└─They are in fact on-paper more liberal than the US in that naturalized citizens can hold *ANY* government office, unlike the US with restrictions on the presidency.
[21:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:27] <exec> 08└─Why do the Japanese get a pass?
[21:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:30] <exec> 08└─TMB, keeping it real.....
[21:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:32] <exec> 08└─Increased immigration is NOT a cure for a decreasing population. It is, instead, a prescription for that declining population to be smothered, and displaced.
[21:06:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:43] <exec> 08└─The Wall Street rats are probably the reason the downtown rats are distinct from the uptown rats. It's hard to tell who is boinking whom though . . .
[21:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:54] <exec> 08└─Does the article state what percentage different the two species are from another? Or is this another giraffe or orca? What is the threshhold that determines whether something is a new species? Back from the green site there was an article about orca distribution between species ending up being less...
[21:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:55] <exec> 08└─You might want to lookup the definition of "species" because in general two different species can't normally breed. There are exceptions, especially with artificial intervention. See Ligor, mule, etc.. Varieties / races can generally reproduce. It is currently thought that all human varieties can i...
[21:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:29] <exec> 08└─Pretty much this here. Take a recent one. The Intel ME. Open source right at the root of our pretty much all of our systems. Yet we have 0 access to it. It contains known vulins. My laptop is 6 years old. I have 0 chance of getting access to my own hardware without a ton of hacks and workarounds. Ev...
[21:07:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:56] <exec> 08└─Say... what? USians "justice" system is, at best, a market place.
[21:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:26] <exec> 08└─jmorris/Balkans/Ottoman Empire/Janissarie: it all makes sense now. jmorris is a young Christian boy, kidnapped at a very young age, raised to fight the enemies of the Caliphate! Makes almost too much sense, if you know what I mean.
[21:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:12] <exec> 08└─And also use cases. Mice, keyboards, printers, they developed USB to the specifications best suited to its use cases.
[21:09:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pav [114] 02 - 06Microsoft to Rebuild its Redmond Headquarters - 1083 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:54] <exec> 08└─As an I.T person one would expect you to think systemically. After WWII America was not only funding its own welfare state, but also that of Europe and Japan through the Marshall Plan and other aid programs. This was to give the rest of the world liquidity and create a world market that could buy Am...
[21:12:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02 - 06Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I. - 741 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:39] <exec> 08└─its time to TRULY drain the swamp. many believe that trump AND pence will both roll. this will cause many R's to switch sides and could change the landscape of things for the next election cycle. we're all hoping this can cause some return to normality. with ajit the idiot burning down the internet...
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[22:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:04] <exec> 08└─Advocate banning 'microplastics' in general when they meet certain criteria (e.g. not typically degrading within a certain timeframe under specified conditions) or fuck off. If you want to ban them being used in certain ways (e.g. washing 'microplastics' into public water systems/littering with them...
[22:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:05] <exec> 08└─What they should really do is ban all non-essential plastics and styrofoam, period. For bike helmets, yes, allow it. For food containers and grocery bags, ban it. I always laughed at the hypocrisy of surfers, they're almost all environmentalists, and yet the forming of the foam cores of surfboards i...
[22:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:07] <exec> 08└─Seems to me that the volume of 1 board is pretty small. Do a lot of surfers have more that 1 board? Do boards get broken and need replacing that often? Cali tends to outlaw nasty chemicals. Didn't that happen for surfboard manufacturers many years ago? Pretty sure that you're just hand-waving. -- Or...
[22:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:09] <exec> 08└─The market decides. This is a problem of poorly defined property rights. Whose rights are being infringed? Who is doing the infringing and must therefore pay or change his ways? Because the property rights are so poorly defined in this matter, nobody knows what to do except to turn to the vote-grabb...
[22:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:12] <exec> 08└─And solutions [ecostardust.com] from the first-world to small-scale environmental concerns.
[22:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:14] <exec> 08└─Duh! That's why kung-fu panda uses bamboo!
[22:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:16] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of balsa. Problem being that I don't think that it will grow near the surfing consumers. The impact of shipping would likely offset any environmental gains. 8-( -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Incremental improvements. I remember decades ago when glitter was bits of aluminum and some people were stupid enough to throw that at other people (sometimes getting it in the eyes of their "friends"). -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:06:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 544 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:30] <exec> 08└─“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what...
[22:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:45] <exec> 08└─Junkie, no. Food stamps, yes. I don't know how welfare works because my parents were married but I'm sure they would have got that as well if it applied to the time and situation. But that gives me some standing to talk trash and my dad was smart enough to get his tubes tied after the second kid --...
[22:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:47] <exec> 08└─I think we'll launch right into an international genetics race akin to the old arms races. White people, along with everyone else, will be left behind by the augmented class. ----- Flamebait? What's the point of a discussion forum other than flamewars, you worthless website of whiners??? Invalid for...
[22:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:49] <exec> 08└─I dunno about you, but I wasn't born alone. My mom was there when I crawled out of her, my dad was hovering nearby too... but yea the respect bit makes sense.
[22:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:13] <exec> 08└─Start with this [youtube.com], add a little Adobe AfterEffects, and you've got a pilot teaser ready to go!
[22:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:14] <exec> 08└─I want to know how their accents differ.
[22:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:45] <exec> 08└─To be clear, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [wikipedia.org] (ICTY) is a specific entity that was created for the purpose of dealing with Yugoslavia war crimes. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) deals with disputes between states. The International Criminal Court...
[22:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:32] <exec> 08└─D-shaped connectors Yeah. It's not like this stuff wasn't figured out long ago. Standard practice in systems that contain multiple PCBs is to cut out one of the fingers (traces + board material) and put a plastic stop in the corresponding spot in the edge connector into which that plugs. Every board...
[22:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:33] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the USB connector is an object from the fourth dimension. Proof: http://c0.thejournal.ie [thejournal.ie]
[22:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:35] <exec> 08└─It has to be a functional part of the interface. In other words, the shape of the connector. Have you ever heard of someone trying to connect an RS232 connector [wikipedia.org] upside down? Or a parallel port connector? [wikipedia.org] A VGA connector? [wikipedia.org] A Firewire connector? [wikipedi...
[22:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:37] <exec> 08└─Looks like you haven't used much USB hardware in your life. I've seen ports in all 4 orientations. It all depends on the orientation of the underlying circuit board and the connector used. I remember when PCI first came out, I wondered why all the connectors were upside down. The reason is, that PCI...
[22:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:40] <exec> 08└─No, it just proves the cable has spin 1/2: [wikipedia.org] For example, rotating a spin-1/2 particle by 360 degrees does not bring it back to the same quantum state, but to the state with the opposite quantum phase; this is detectable, in principle, with interference experiments. To return the parti...
[22:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditable Macros in C Code - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:37] <exec> 08└─How about Lisp? Syntactic macros make C preprocessor macros look like a baby pacifier with razors glued on, and hygienic macros are completely safe. You can just map C syntax into Lisp syntax, and good riddance, C syntax is absolute shit [c-faq.com].
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[23:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:12] <exec> 08└─" Do a lot of surfers have more that 1 board? Do boards get broken and need replacing that often? "
[23:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:13] <exec> 08└─The market decides. This is a problem of poorly defined property rights. Whose rights are being infringed? Who is doing the infringing and must therefore pay or change his ways? Because the property rights are so poorly defined in this matter, nobody knows what to do except to turn to the vote-grabb...
[23:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:15] <exec> 08└─You got modded down, but I think property rights is the best way to solve this problem as well, especially given that men aren't angels. Property owners should be able to bring class action lawsuits against polluters (including manufacturers of products that are known to cause environmental problems...
[23:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:17] <exec> 08└─I remember decades ago when glitter was
[23:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:20] <exec> 08└─That's probably exactly what they do want. "Ban glitter" just makes for a snappier headline that will give the story more exposure.
[23:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:22] <exec> 08└─So, I'm sure the ban would specify some rationale as to why "glitter" is targeted and that some ingenious entrepreneur somewhere can come up with an environmentally acceptable glitter that can be sold after the ban has passed. (Cynical take: somesuch already exists and the financial backers of that...
[23:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:24] <exec> 08└─Being serious here, there are a handful of hipsters who surf on plywood boards. Except that they're not hipsters, because hipsters are pusillanimous punks. The plywood surfers are the true super-autists of surfing, and they do it well.
[23:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:26] <exec> 08└─nitrocellulose lacquer is the clear-coat of choice for true guitar addicts.
[23:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:29] <exec> 08└─One surf board every year or two for 40 years per person isn't so bad. Beats the hell out of carving them from Koa wood. The styrofoam insulation that ships with dry-ice packed foods, that's some heinous usage. And, at least in my line of work and personal lifestyle, it seems like I end up consuming...
[23:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ban Glitter - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:31] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of chaff cutters for radar tracking missile lock evasion - super cool from the tech front: a spool of material is fed through a high speed cutter that tunes the length of the chaff bits according to the wavelength of the locked radar signal, makes a huge cloud of tuned metal confetti in s...
[23:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:01] <exec> 08└─When my wife's grandmother was on her own, they set up a system where they called her every day and visited her a lot. That way they knew if something happened to her. Twice, they'd found she'd fallen and couldn't get up (cue the lol). They knew when she'd eaten or hadn't and knew when she was sick....
[23:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:03] <exec> 08└─Okey dokey, well I think I'm done here. This entire submission page is filled with nothing but xenophobic nativists modding each other Insightful, as if every immigrant to every country is a brown Islamic extremist looking to destroy the native culture. I fully expect to be Trolled and Flamebaited t...
[23:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:29] <exec> 08└─Yea.. I smell a rat!
[23:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York's Uptown Rats Are Genetically Distinct From Downtown Rats - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:31] <exec> 08└─Thats what I thought as well, but the recent deal with the orcas and giraffes confused me. So what it comes down to is that the same rule that differentiates species still applies, it is just ignored to push various agendas.
[23:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Open Yet Closed Is Not OK - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:06] <exec> 08└─Iceweasel is a much prettier name! :)
[23:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Criminal Drinks Poison at The Hague, Live Streamed to the World - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:05] <exec> 08└─I have never been convinced that war crimes trials make a lot of sense.
[23:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:57] <exec> 08└─a port on the back of a vertical computer and having to figure out which way is up from the perspective of the socket
[23:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:59] <exec> 08└─IF you use the Monster cables, that is.
[23:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reason You Always Plug in USBs the Wrong Way, Revealed - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:01] <exec> 08└─How many end users know about the USB logo on the plug telling them about the orientation? I only know because I read about it, and I'm a nerd. Even with this logo, it doesn't help when the socket is in a vertical orientation. Is it left or right? All the connectors on my current systems are vertica...
[23:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beer Distribution Game - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:12] <exec> 08└─Sloan School? You know what they call it at MIT? What if we were to throw the cannibal-missionary problem, or the traveling saleman, at these baby MBAs? Maybe it would be better if we designed a flash game where they could shoot birds at pigs, or something. We could offer a loot box that may, or may...
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