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[00:12:25] <exec> 08└─quote>is a performance test suite specification and associated performance tiers. How long before manufacturers start installing test-suite sensing software and fudging performance. That's already been done in TVs and Cars, and who knows what else. Why would they go that way again?
[00:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:55] <exec> 08└─Well, I reckon he got scared of losing the pork barrel race in the competition with ARSE [spaceaustralia.com.au]
[00:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 1653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:57] <exec> 08└─Looks like there isn't much of a race: Russia and US will cooperate to build moon's first space station [theguardian.com] Japan moves ahead with plans to join U.S.-led project to build space station orbiting moon [japantimes.co.jp] Now there are also plans for manned landings or surface bases, but a...
[00:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:59] <exec> 08└─Humourless idiots got mod points today and desperately try to fall back into being pointless.
[00:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:01] <exec> 08└─that's the keyword right there. SLS will NEVER be cancelled.
[00:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:04] <exec> 08└─The moon can be mined for He-3. Maybe that's the reason?
[00:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:06] <exec> 08└─It's primarily thanks to Congress that NASA is in such an f-d up state these days. They control the purse strings on this as with everything else in the government, and a lot of the sad state that NASA is in today is thanks to them. What they did with the JWST [scienceblogs.com] is a case in point....
[00:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:08] <exec> 08└─Correction: Humourless idiots get mod points every day. *BLARES DENK MEEMS* [youtube.com]
[00:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:10] <exec> 08└─There's talk of ISS-style cooperation [scmp.com] on a lunar orbital space station [soylentnews.org]. Russia [soylentnews.org], China [soylentnews.org],
[00:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:13] <exec> 08└─Or do the analysis on-site with fleshbag astronauts
[00:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:15] <exec> 08└─It's a constant struggle, yes. (grin)
[00:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:17] <exec> 08└─The U.S., Russia, European Union, Japan, and Canada are the core ISS participants. Russia and Japan are likely to join the lunar space station project at this point. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) or the Office of...
[00:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:19] <exec> 08└─You don't want to send this guy [wikipedia.org] into space.
[00:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 1438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:22] <exec> 08└─Newer batches of Congressmen (post-2010?) have been a lot less tolerant of sacred cows and pork spending. SLS could be cancelled. But it will require the confluence of incredible SpaceX success (let's see what happens with the Falcon Heavy maiden launch in January), Space Launch System failure (addi...
[00:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Courts Drivers With Discount Education Program - 1980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:40] <exec> 08└─A Network Penetrator is a real job too. Companies hire those security professionals to attack their security systems to find holes. His joke was not sexists, not racist, and not classist. More men work in IT security and more women work in the sexual entertainment industry. Using truths to tell a jo...
[00:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:02] <exec> 08└─Clearly there are other forces at work against perfection than merely it's own intrinsic difficultypractical impossibility.
[00:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:55] <exec> 08└─Go here [soylentnews.org], switch the option under "Select Theme" to "NV" or "VT100", scroll down, hit Save. Our data indicate that offering green alternatives isn't enough to get people to actually use them. They must be forced. Preferably under threat of death or imprisonment.
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[01:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VESA Announces DisplayHDR Specification - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:33] <exec> 08└─If a particular HDR monitor or television doesn't offer the kind of peak brightness and contrast ratio you would expect, it will be noticed. And you don't have to be the one to notice it because you're not going to buy it on day 1, right? You'll wait for the reviews and the price to drop. If the pro...
[01:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VESA Announces DisplayHDR Specification - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:35] <exec> 08└─In the mean time thousands of users are defrauded by TVs that can be proven in court to meet the standards because they pass the test suite, but do not perform in real life. Simply because the test suite is published in advance. And its OK because you think no one will notice, and even if they do, t...
[01:12:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 264 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:47] <exec> 08└─If congress isn't messing with their funding by earmarking it for their constituents, we have a new executive every 4-8 years giving them new long term plans. You can't have effective long term planning, when the plans constantly change in the relative short term.
[01:12:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 3175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:51] <exec> 08└─A lot of NASA's cheaper unmanned missions have proceeded as planned (and they were planned over many years). Even expensive boondoggles like the JWST are pretty secure in their funding. Congress does interfere a little bit, such as the mandated mission to Europa, but it's not too bad. It's manned sp...
[01:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:19] <exec> 08└─A lunar colony is very expensive and risky. A martian colony is far beyond that. At this moment any martian project is pure vaporware. It was discussed here on SN that after a flight to Mars passengers will not remember their names. Colonization of Mars will require new robots and new space engines,...
[01:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:20] <exec> 08└─Good call, now that Trump likes space I don't like it either.
[01:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:22] <exec> 08└─Constellation got canceled and it even launched once, sort of. This stuff isn't as inevitable as it used to be.
[01:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:24] <exec> 08└─ISS-style cooperation excludes China, thanks to your congresskritters.
[01:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:27] <exec> 08└─It was discussed here on SN that after a flight to Mars passengers will not remember their names.
[01:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:29] <exec> 08└─Go on, read the whole speach, you can find it online.
[01:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:31] <exec> 08└─ISS-style cooperation excludes China, thanks to your congresskritters.
[01:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:33] <exec> 08└─https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_exclusion_policy_of_NASA [wikipedia.org]
[01:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:34] <exec> 08└─[previous pigeon story +] Lack of genetic diversity could be a factor that pushes populations over the edge
[01:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:04] <exec> 08└─Italy has activated its emergency plan which is working well. (the emergency plan consists in praying that the weather keeps featuring some unusually high temperatures, like +12C at night in the northern regions). Well, I hope this "heatwave" stays around. Sub zero temps and no gas for heating means...
[01:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:06] <exec> 08└─Honey, this is Italy. It's a wonder we managed to get ONE supplier.
[01:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:16] <exec> 08└─I'm calling bullshit. Your dwellings are rabbit hutches compared to our housing. Your cars are dinky, rattly things too, what we would consider someone's first car.
[01:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:23] <exec> 08└─That's a view that makes perfect sense - if you have a very narrow field of vision. But if you zoom back out to the macro scope, it's a disaster in progress.
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[02:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Three Photo/Videography "Appsperiments" - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:26] <exec> 08└─Like the world needs more selfies, or hacked up videos. I think Google is a little late to this party. Just about every camera app has some form of these "filters", both for stills and videos. There are as well boat loads of post processing apps offering the ability to apply these effects after the...
[02:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Three Photo/Videography "Appsperiments" - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:28] <exec> 08└─I think the smartphone can indeed be a good lab to try new techniques. For example, I heard about a different approach than the current sequence of frames. A sensor which "spots differences" and sends only those to an encoder might sidestep some small sensor / unstable movement limitations and yield...
[02:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Three Photo/Videography "Appsperiments" - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:30] <exec> 08└─We need more! [soylentnews.org] Google has beat Apple to AR stickers. [theverge.com]
[02:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Launches Three Photo/Videography "Appsperiments" - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:32] <exec> 08└─I had more fun monkeying around with Kai's Power Goo. It was great for satiring ones friends or occasionally instructors.
[02:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VESA Announces DisplayHDR Specification - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:43] <exec> 08└─I don't agree with your premise that the standard won't be respected. VESA will probably sue if the manufacturer lies.
[02:12:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:54] <exec> 08└─We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to post...
[02:13:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 743 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:18] <exec> 08└─It's primarily thanks to Congress that NASA is in such an f-d up state these days. They control the purse strings on this as with everything else in the government, and a lot of the sad state that NASA is in today is thanks to them. What they did with the JWST [scienceblogs.com] is a case in point....
[02:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:34] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Sorry for the typo, was posting while traveling (by train, in case anyone is curious)
[02:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:36] <exec> 08└─No. If we really need helium-3 it's cheaper to make it on Earth.
[02:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:38] <exec> 08└─3. Europeans are fools. All their stuff is going to be swiped by the Chinese. 4. Europeans have less-valuable technology, perhaps because it was already swiped, and they'd like an opportunity to swipe something from the Chinese. (good luck going up against the experts)
[02:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:40] <exec> 08└─Well, they're mostly a bunch of lunatics in any case. And while we're at it, send the lunatic-in-chief there as well.
[02:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:42] <exec> 08└─If Falcon Heavy can be successfully landed and re-used, then why couldn't SLS be modified to do the same? If NASA bought that technology from SpaceX, (its not all that secret, and there is more than one such solution in existence), it might be worth the money, and save the design. Its too expensive...
[02:14:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Apple Executive Details Self-Driving Car Research - 1218 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:11] <exec> 08└─Signs you have just bought an Apple autonomous car: 8. windshield covers half of the car's body 7. the exhausts are 1 mm thick. 6. there is only one door, if you need more you can buy an adapter. 5. you can fill'er up while driving with a wonderfully secure magnetic connection, ofc it's incompatible...
[02:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:44] <exec> 08└─Don't let a little herbivorousness discourage your mindplay. Deer are herbivorous, but have been documented to be quite willing to intentionally eat any birds careless enough to linger in reach. A quick burst of calories and protein is rarely ignored, even by animals not optimized for it. And to som...
[02:15:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 787 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:06] <exec> 08└─People really need to look at things from more than one angle. Those portions of the Ukraine "annexed" by Russia were predominantly Russian people. If you remember, the Ukraine government were acting like royal asses toward Russian people in eastern Ukraine, going so far as to dictate that they coul...
[02:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:17] <exec> 08└─Couldn't we just ship the Russian pickled cucumbers to Germany or France instead and source our gas from there?
[02:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:28] <exec> 08└─Lets look into this. What evidence do you have that tgis is the real plan?
[02:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06List of 72 Ultra HD Blu-Ray Keys Leaked - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:01] <exec> 08└─I need more write-only storage capacity than the 25120 provides, so I use Iomega ZIP drives.
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[03:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Three Photo/Videography "Appsperiments" - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:36] <exec> 08└─I think the smartphone can indeed be a good lab to try new techniques.
[03:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:43] <exec> 08└─NASA should just buy launches from SpaceX, and maybe support ULA, Blue Origin, etc. to prevent a complete monopoly or stagnation (along with supporting smaller launchers like Rocket Lab, which could be launching tomorrow [spaceflightnow.com]). ULA's upcoming Vulcan [wikipedia.org] design is only int...
[03:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:44] <exec> 08└─All the sample return containers for Apollo leaked.
[03:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:46] <exec> 08└─Water is not a fuel. Metals can not be economically landed, and would have to be used in space very near to where they were found. There is no amount of voodoo economic theory were this makes sense. And please don't mention gravity wells, they don't change the economics one iota.
[03:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:48] <exec> 08└─http://theconversation.com/making-space-rocket-fuel-from-water-could-drive-a-power-revolution-on-earth-65854 [theconversation.com] It can be used to make a propellant. Which is still necessary so long as EmDrive is not real.
[03:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:51] <exec> 08└─Water is not a fuel.
[03:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:52] <exec> 08└─I may have phrased that badly, I meant it's head was bigger than a horses head, not the whole horse. I have no doubt it would have had no problem defending itself if it had to, and plenty of birds defend their young, so yes, potentially very dangerous.
[03:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of HP Laptop Models Contain Keylogging Code - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:49] <exec> 08└─Not worried. I nuked all that pre-installed garbage with a nice clean Debian GNU/Linux installation.
[03:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:45] <exec> 08└─I'm not by any stretch saying not to keep on top of things as best you're able and write secure code to the best of your ability. That's one of the programming givens for me. Spending months or years making double-super-certain that under no circumstances can your program ever fail in an unfortunate...
[03:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:47] <exec> 08└─No more so than the ability to change the environmental variable of a running process from the outside. To do so requires external debugging permission, which is (on most modern systems) either the same user or root. Root is, obviously, not in need of an upgrade, and the same user can already run th...
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[04:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:34] <exec> 08└─They would gladly eat your toddler. They might even eat you; they will at least fuck you up pretty badly. The pros do not outweigh the cons.
[04:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:35] <exec> 08└─What are you, an African villager?
[04:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:57] <exec> 08└─Of course it is - you just have to add energy to convert it into a more useful form, just like you do on Earth. Hydrogen and oxygen gas for example. Or hydrogen peroxide if you're feeling especially adventurous. Either way will burn beautifully and send your rockets wherever you want them. And eithe...
[04:14:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Lyft Courts Drivers With Discount Education Program - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:06] <exec> 08└─"It is important that drivers feel loyalty to Lyft," Cohen says.
[04:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:01] <exec> 08└─Less entertaining, but I still wouldn't want to be stuck alone with one that hadn't eaten in several days...
[04:16:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zinho [759] 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:27] <exec> 08└─But why do the big internet companies support it? Shouldn't Google and Netflix and the others be against net neutrality because a closed internet would cement their success by protecting them from disruptors?
[04:16:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 667 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:31] <exec> 08└─And yet, Jesus said to give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's. It was an eloquent response to a question meant to entrap Him. In essence, He supported being a good citizen. So long as that didn't involve going against God's will. So, a Christian in the South, being...
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[04:16:32] <exec> 08└─Actually, saying to give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's was still a revolutionary answer. Part of the context is the money changers in the temple. Jesus effectively said that your Roman currency was no good to God, asserting that a good Jew must be primarily invested in the local Jewish economy...
[04:16:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 260 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:36] <exec> 08└─You're not cynical enough. What we have here is the ruling class of vampires and Pai, their Renfield in the field of telecommunications, feeling like it's safe to stop even pretending to be on the side of people any longer. This is a giant Neronian "fuck you."
[04:16:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:39] <exec> 08└─Something tells me you've never been to Europe. Because Europeans live with more modern conveniences than most US citizens.
[04:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:48] <exec> 08└─The EU Conventions on Human Rights actually protect a number of rights that the Bill of Rights doesn't. For instance, member governments cannot execute anybody. Of course, that goes the other way too: I'm guessing the one you're upset about is that there's no constitutional right to carry guns, but...
[04:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:51] <exec> 08└─I was actually thinking speech but yes, Europe has an exceedingly long history of disarming its populace for the express purpose of making them easier to subjugate.
[04:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secure Apps Exposed to Hacking via Flaws in Underlying Programming Languages - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:02] <exec> 08└─"I'm not by any stretch saying not to keep on top of things as best you're able and write secure code to the best of your ability. That's one of the programming givens for me." That's great and I think you are misunderstanding me a little. I'm not criticizing your personal practices, which I am sure...
[04:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:55] <exec> 08└─meat tax ... there just isn't a problem that needs fixing here
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[05:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:34] <exec> 08└─Solution to the wild horse problem [nationalgeographic.com]. Import them into the western US. Take lessons from the Australians. They've a lot of experience introducing foreign animals to solve other animal problems. Maybe they would take a few Cheetahs to take care of the rabbits. What could possib...
[05:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:35] <exec> 08└─He's also at odds with the people I know who have worked at big cat shelters who find cheetahs are pretty laid back compared to some of the others. They also don't have the weapon type claws that most cats do. Part of the relative danger is temperament, but much of it is size. When a housecat gets f...
[05:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:38] <exec> 08└─They seem more like canine - they live/hunt in a pack, lack retractable claws, built and run like greyhounds.
[05:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:40] <exec> 08└─Those dummies imported all them gorillas, but surprise, there is no winter to kill them off in that penal colony.
[05:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:42] <exec> 08└─They aren't lions or tigers. I'll grant you that. (nor hippo, cobra, puff adder...) A group of healthy young men can even chase one down and then give it a beating. (requires good eyes and some space; they get ahead but can't keep going) None of this changes the fact that they are dangerous to human...
[05:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VESA Announces DisplayHDR Specification - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:03] <exec> 08└─It's the age old problem of buyer beware. Manufacturers always want to reduce costs and boost apparent performance and value, and one sure fire way to do that is fake it and cheat any way they can. Some will get stupidly blatant about it and be quickly caught, but most of the time, they're striving...
[05:13:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:16] <exec> 08└─The directive should call for putting a Congressman on the Moon by 2018 elections, and all Congressmen by 2020.
[05:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:06] <exec> 08└─Nope, you don't. He'll just puke again, and again... from wiki The space sickness he experienced during the journey was so severe that a scale for space sickness was jokingly based on him, where "one Garn" is the highest possible level of sickness.[10] Some NASA astronauts who opposed the payload sp...
[05:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:07] <exec> 08└─How do you weld the container's lid shut without oxygen?
[05:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:12] <exec> 08└─"Its a bad indicator for monotheism... if our genetic code system was created instead of evolved, it was definitely not one smart engineer with one unified clear design, but definitely a very large ANSI / ISO standards committee involved." First paragraph was good but this one not so much. We don't...
[05:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 1263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:46] <exec> 08└─There were two minority language regions in Georgia. Neither is Russian, either by language or ethnicity. Russia tore these regions off to create Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Russia didn't do this out of benevolence. Georgia had dared to consider closer ties with the EU, possibly including membership...
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[06:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Depth of Jupiter's Great Red Spot Studied, and Two New Radiation Zones Found - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:31] <exec> 08└─It's thought by astroboffins that it's a cyclone sorta like hurricanes on Earth--and it's been going on since at least 1610 when Galileo saw it when he first viewed Jupiter through his telescope. ...and you thought there was bad weather where YOU are. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[06:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:45] <exec> 08└─The cheetahs would face stiff competition from our feral cats...
[06:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Three Photo/Videography "Appsperiments" - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:57] <exec> 08└─Even google spelling doesn't recognize the word. I googled it and all I got where links back to the article. Seems some code monkey coined the word.
[06:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VESA Announces DisplayHDR Specification - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:09] <exec> 08└─will any non-shitty aspect ratios be available?
[06:14:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Lyft Courts Drivers With Discount Education Program - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:31] <exec> 08└─Personally I'm puzzled that Lyft and Uber drivers aren't advancing on their corporate headquarters with torches and pitchforks.
[06:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:18] <exec> 08└─This is the second genetic diversity responsible for extinction article in as many months. Both exonerating human actions, if not explicitly then by inference. The passenger pidgon was the other. Genetic diversity as an Extinction mechanism is a relatively new theory, one that some people are trying...
[06:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of HP Laptop Models Contain Keylogging Code - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:20] <exec> 08└─TFS seems to suggest HP was throwing Synaptic under the bus. What's up with that?
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[07:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saturn's Rings Have an Effect on the Planet's Atmosphere - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:27] <exec> 08└─"That finding suggests the rings block ultraviolet light, the team concludes." This is amazing! It seems the rings have the capability to "stall" UV rays at the source of emanation thus "blocking" them. The saturn ring particles might allow a faster-then-light information transmission, if the they c...
[07:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saturn's Rings Have an Effect on the Planet's Atmosphere - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:29] <exec> 08└─Saturn UV death ray destroys Erf
[07:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:50] <exec> 08└─African villagers have a right to be safe. This right is often denied. Here is one of many such cases. Forcing them to be unsafe, or to move into filthy urban environments and be differently unsafe, isn't at all nice. We see the attitude here in the US as well. Nobody is releasing wolves in San Fran...
[07:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Launches Three Photo/Videography "Appsperiments" - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:03] <exec> 08└─Too bad, then we are back to raspberry and odroids with webcam modules or dashcam with reverse engineered firmware.
[07:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Launches Three Photo/Videography "Appsperiments" - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:05] <exec> 08└─https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitaltrends-uploads-prod/2014/03/horse-selfie.jpg [amazonaws.com]
[07:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:22] <exec> 08└─We can at least put them all out of house... Cheaper and quicker than firing them off into space.
[07:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:41] <exec> 08└─You should stop with that nonsense. You're not going to change legislation without changing the legislator. You don't have to reelect them, you know. It's not difficult to turn your back on their expensive propaganda, and turn all that money of theirs into confetti. It's not the money's fault if you...
[07:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:42] <exec> 08└─If there was any missing options, I don't seem them.
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[08:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:28] <exec> 08└─A minor thing that the submission lacked: https://devuan.org [devuan.org]. Devuan GNU+Linux is a fork of Debian without systemd. The latest 1.0.0 Jessie release (LTS) marks an important milestone towards the sustainability and the continuation of Devuan as a universal base distribution. Since the Ex...
[08:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:30] <exec> 08└─Why on earth did they choose "ASCII" as name? Do they want to suggest that they don't have proper Unicode support?
[08:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:32] <exec> 08└─https://devuan.org/os/releases [devuan.org] Still don't know why they picked ASCII. If they wanted to pick a Minor Planet with a Computer Science themed name, they could have picked Adalovelace.
[08:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:34] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Another link that I should have added to the summary is to a blog post about why Devuan has become increasingly important [ungleich.ch].
[08:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:36] <exec> 08└─When Devuan was first forked, just about the only information one could find about it was that its distributions would be named after minor planets. For compatibility with Debian, they'd start with 10464 Jessie, so that their Jessie fork would have the same name, and then they'd switch to names begi...
[08:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:07] <exec> 08└─They would gladly eat your toddler.
[08:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:39] <exec> 08└─Vacuum welding? [wikipedia.org] There's a lot of vacuum :)
[08:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:40] <exec> 08└─if Trump is lucky enough to stay out of a major military conflict
[08:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:42] <exec> 08└─If NASA bought that technology from SpaceX, (its not all that secret, and there is more than one such solution in existence), it might be worth the money, and save the design. Its too expensive to fly it as is.
[08:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:44] <exec> 08└─Going to Mars today is like trying to colonize America in rowboats.
[08:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:47] <exec> 08└─Funny how the Europeans don't have these problems.
[08:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:49] <exec> 08└─Where's the evidence to support your assertion?
[08:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:51] <exec> 08└─Terminology: "problems" in this specific context is meant to be understood as "the European aren't bother to sever the collaboration with the Chinese in space R&D for reasons of possible Chinese espionage".
[08:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Launches Preview Version of Q# Quantum Programming Language - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:41] <exec> 08└─Some anonymous coward already predicted that name. [soylentnews.org]
[08:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:12] <exec> 08└─You should stop with that nonsense. You're not going to change legislation without changing the legislator. You don't have to reelect them, you know. It's not difficult to turn your back on their expensive propaganda, and turn all that money of theirs into confetti. It's not the money's fault if you...
[08:20:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06All 535 Members of Congress, and How Much Money They Got From ISPs - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:08] <exec> 08└─Steny H Hoyer (D-MD05) = Democrat from Maryland's 5th congressional district. and so on.
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[09:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:25] <exec> 08└─It seems likely that during a bright night, more people are out on their motorcycle. Do nice temperature days also cause motorcycle accidents? A quick look at the paper reveals no data considered about the number of people out riding in various conditions, just the number of accidents. Yet the paper...
[09:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, like the drivers who hit things they didn't see..if only they had missed. Corellation is not causation. Full moons on clear nights are likely far more distracting, or maybe partially cloudy nights, where you get glimpses of the moon.. Sunny weekdays are dangerous as mkre old people are prepared...
[09:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:28] <exec> 08└─While this observational data cannot prove any firm conclusions, the researchers warn drivers of the risks of seemingly minor distractions, urging constant attention while driving at all times.
[09:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saturn's Rings Have an Effect on the Planet's Atmosphere - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:48] <exec> 08└─I've seen it too many times already: the moment those rings appear in the life of a couple, clouds and rain and shadows are creeping too.
[09:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Depth of Jupiter's Great Red Spot Studied, and Two New Radiation Zones Found - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:56] <exec> 08└─Storms in the atmosphere on Jupiter. Geophysical. Atmosphere. Jove. Geo-. Aristarchus - back me up here, please?
[09:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:13] <exec> 08└─ok, so your solution is to kill all the predatory animals who can harm humans. you're an idiot, and you can leave the conversation now. your vote will be taken into account, but I can already tell you that society will not do as you want.
[09:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:14] <exec> 08└─people would not kill them.
[09:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:53] <exec> 08└─In your view, what's the worst that can happen? The Chinese getting the technology and start producing it at lower prices? Cool, better prices for Europeans, less problems with 'Where'd we place the industry in countries with high population density?', a good foundation to discover so
[09:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:54] <exec> 08└─(shitty virtual keyboard) the message should have continued with 'to discover something else'.
[09:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:56] <exec> 08└─It's a collective effort, but for the individual, the choice is trivial to make. You do one thing, or the other.
[09:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:37] <exec> 08└─The emergency plan is to get all oil & coal powerplants running on 100%. I'm not aware if it's already in motion, I think 50% of Italy gas consumption still comes from gas reserves yet. Austria said it will get back to pumping gas in "days".
[09:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Launches Preview Version of Q# Quantum Programming Language - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:50] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be the other way around? You know there is a bug, because the output is wrong, but as soon as you start looking for it, the quantum state collapses, and the bug disappears. "The bug only happens in production".
[09:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:23] <exec> 08└─We're all aware of the psychological bullshit. You're only helpless (and/or tribal) as you want to be. Official congressional voting records are trivial to look up. Public financial records will tell you who your candidate/congressman serves. You don't need to hear the hysterical reporter read it to...
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[10:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:34] <exec> 08└─The safety you crave comes by loss of control by the individual. That loss will have other, undesired effects. But currently, the vast majority of people have a choice as to whether they want to take the risk of being on the road or not. And even if you are on the road, you could most of the time ch...
[10:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:35] <exec> 08└─How about just automate the human completely, why even have humans?
[10:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:37] <exec> 08└─Werewolves are terrible drivers.
[10:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:40] <exec> 08└─Our oligarchical overlords have their engineering department on it, and their beancounters and lawyers collaborating on the cost benefit analysis for when the majority of humanity just aren't worth the money any more. Don't worry, based on current estimates there are at least 5-10 years before the m...
[10:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:42] <exec> 08└─So werewolf hunters are *very effective* at their jobs, using motor vehicles.
[10:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:44] <exec> 08└─We must ban the moon. If it saves just one life, it's worth it. Now pass me the Doritos while I start to draft this legislation...
[10:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:55] <exec> 08└─They also made a mistake in naming their initial release jessie leading to name collisions in scripts the naturally assumed jessie was debian, making conversion to support devuan a pain. ascii, again poor choice. beowulf, means clustering to every one else. Odd choices.
[10:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:57] <exec> 08└─38086 Beowulf, 1 Ceres, and so on
[10:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:59] <exec> 08└─I am in a parallel universe with debs and no (or reduced presence of)systemd with antix and mx linux, but I am surely going to check the beta out. Whoever does things without systemd helps you too.
[10:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:16] <exec> 08└─Boeing may have primarily governmental customers for their space work (but by no means exclusively, have you never heard of the private company /Intelsat/?), that's irrelevant - they are *private enterprise*, which was the criterion mentioned.
[10:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:17] <exec> 08└─... and diverting funds (somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 billion) to SpaceX is a much smarter move.
[10:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:19] <exec> 08└─I know, but you should stop thinking like an Earthling landlubber. You don't need to spend energy to dissociate H2O just so that you could combine H2 and O2 again in a chemical reactor with a nozzle on one side. To much loss, both in separation and during recombination! In vacuum and small gradient...
[10:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:15] <exec> 08└─respect for and protection of fundamental human rights
[10:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:45] <exec> 08└─Unless you* make the the changes, they simply aren't going to happen. Life is simple that way.
[10:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:47] <exec> 08└─You do realize that someone saying "deport whiteys" is an attempt at getting you to realize what "deport mexicans" sounds like?
[10:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director Christopher Wray Keeps War on Encryption Alive - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:49] <exec> 08└─One of the costs of "investment" is that they have no obligation to show gratitude.
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[11:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google and NASA to Reveal Mysterious New Space Find - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:30] <exec> 08└─How do you keep a moron in suspense for a day? I'll tell you tomorrow!
[11:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:47] <exec> 08└─So werewolf hunters are *very effective* at their jobs
[11:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:48] <exec> 08└─Werewolves are terrible drivers.
[11:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:50] <exec> 08└─It seems likely that during a bright night, more people are out on their motorcycle.
[11:13:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KritonK [465] 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 711 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:01] <exec> 08└─When Devuan was first forked, just about the only information one could find about it was that its distributions would be named after minor planets. For compatibility with Debian, they'd start with 10464 Jessie, so that their Jessie fork would have the same name, and then they'd switch to names begi...
[11:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:30] <exec> 08└─A little predation keeps population genetics in shape. Extinction results from abrupt changes, when bar is suddenly raised too high and entropy (mutations) rate can't keep up - a problem similar to cryptographic security. So, I guess that geologic periods with explosion of species were probably peri...
[11:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:06] <exec> 08└─Italy has the gas coming, as do the other affected countries. Well done, Austria! http://noe.orf.at [noe.orf.at]
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[12:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:47] <exec> 08└─Had a drop bear attack a tent once. Never had one attack me on a motorbike. Not sure they travel far from camping areas. Haven't seen a correlation of dropbear attacks and full moons, either, but I suspect they are under-reported (owning to the lack of survivors)
[12:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:49] <exec> 08└─Note that they looked at the astronomical data, only, and did not factor in weather at all. (Not obvious from the summary)
[12:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:51] <exec> 08└─Well the summary does not state it, explicitly, but they did not look at weather data at all. Astronomical moon phase is the only factor under consideration. I do not see too plausible an explanation why you'd expect a higher rate of "old people, people on the phone, texting" on the roads in full mo...
[12:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:53] <exec> 08└─Sure. What did you think, why we'll be going there, again?!
[12:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:55] <exec> 08└─May I suggest the correct title "War on The Full moon"! Godspeed to the WTF Act!
[12:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:58] <exec> 08└─... on the cost benefit analysis for when the majority of humanity just aren't worth the money any more.
[12:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:00] <exec> 08└─I thought it was the "Revoke The Full Moon", or RTFM Act.
[12:13:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Appalbarry [66] 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 623 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:08] <exec> 08└─A minor thing that the submission lacked: https://devuan.org [devuan.org]. Devuan GNU+Linux is a fork of Debian without systemd. The latest 1.0.0 Jessie release (LTS) marks an important milestone towards the sustainability and the continuation of Devuan as a universal base distribution. Since the Ex...
[12:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:17] <exec> 08└─It was slightly a disappointment to find out that they actually ship with very old packages. But KDE was snappier, so I went on. Their testing (referred here as ASCII) is mostly broken if you want to use KDE, so thins is a good news for me. Not because I want the latest version of KDE, no! But becau...
[12:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saturn's Rings Have an Effect on the Planet's Atmosphere - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:28] <exec> 08└─Sunscreen, also known as sunblock and suntan lotion... [wikipedia.org]
[12:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:37] <exec> 08└─You are arguing against the US and for Europe here right?
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[13:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ticks May Have Infested Feathered Dinosaurs - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:26] <exec> 08└─another is swollen with blood
[13:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticks May Have Infested Feathered Dinosaurs - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:27] <exec> 08└─I'm sure somebody will use DNA analysis to prove ancestry and proudly put it in their law-firm title, like "Consulting since -99M BC".
[13:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google and NASA to Reveal Mysterious New Space Find - 1544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:36] <exec> 08└─But in this case, the answer is not that hard to figure out, even if the article hadn't all but revealed it anyway. Google is making a big splash in AI, with these recent triumphs in the classic strategy games Go and chess. Now, what uses are there for this superhuman AI that is so good at learning...
[13:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and NASA to Reveal Mysterious New Space Find - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:38] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_(spacecraft)#Confirming_planet_candidates [wikipedia.org] If all they are presenting is Kepler data (nothing from other telescopes like Spitzer), they are likely to add to the list of exoplanet candidates, but they (Kepler team) can also confirm the exoplanets us...
[13:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03starvingboy [6766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:55] <exec> 08└─No offense, but I think you might be wrong. There are an awful lot of animals on the endangered species list that are dangerous to humans. It would seem that if human society finds you threatening, your days are numbered. Chickens/Cows/pigs on the other hand, are doing just fine.
[13:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:56] <exec> 08└─slow clap
[13:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:58] <exec> 08└─wolves are being reintroduced in places where they were hunted to extinction. conservation efforts are also focused on bears in several places, even though bears kill and eat people who get in their way. obviously, once you start talking about much poorer societies (such as those found in Africa and...
[13:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 2086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:42] <exec> 08└─I didn't pull the $10 billion number out of thin air: https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com] Musk made one thing very clear: SpaceX’s future is the BFR. The company is no longer going to put resources into improving i...
[13:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:25] <exec> 08└─What aggravates me is, we act as if our assholes are somehow better than the other assholes. In reality, they all play the same damned game.
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[14:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and NASA to Reveal Mysterious New Space Find - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:39] <exec> 08└─I agree - I never got the point of all of those "Announcement: We'll be having an announcement soon"-announcements. First up the first announcement is the one that will get all the attention (the second will drown in the noise and ire of the first one) and secondly just say what the heck you have to...
[14:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:06] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI [youtube.com]
[14:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:22] <exec> 08└─Thankfully it's pretty easy to install Debian without systemd. See here for instance: http://without-systemd.org [without-systemd.org] While that is still possible (and it doesn't seem like Debian is abandoning sysvinit currently) then I don't really see the point of De...
[14:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google Launches Three Photo/Videography "Appsperiments" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:17] <exec> 08└─Was it a code monkey with appspergers?
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[15:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:32] <exec> 08└─If this thing can come into our solar system, faster and harder to detect than any of the dangerous NEOs, what's stopping a 100 km asteroid or 1,000+ km rogue planet from smashing into Earth? Absolutely nothing!
[15:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticks May Have Infested Feathered Dinosaurs - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:41] <exec> 08└─Now we know where the race started!!
[15:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google and NASA to Reveal Mysterious New Space Find - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:52] <exec> 08└─Why stop there? "We announce that we will announce next week when we will announce the date of our announcement of new results."
[15:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:20] <exec> 08└─This is why we desperately need decent driver education and severely punish people for engaged in reckless driving. Autonomous vehicles are hardly necessary to cut the fatalities down to a huge degree. In crashes, the reasons pretty much always break down to some combination of inattention, drugs an...
[15:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:21] <exec> 08└─Driverless Cars Could Reduce Traffic Fatalities by Up to 90%, Says Report [sciencealert.com] Teaching a driverless car is a copy-and-paste operation. Teaching humans means teaching some normal folks along with complete idiots. And good drivers still get distracted and can't react in tens of millisec...
[15:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:38] <exec> 08└─A lot of our cyber companies give away their cyber. They call it free cyber. But they make it very confusing to use. Very confusing. So folks will buy the support. They make their money, the companies make their money, on the support.
[15:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:40] <exec> 08└─Thankfully it's pretty easy to install Debian without systemd.
[15:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:42] <exec> 08└─It is a convenient name to stay under the radar of meddling busybodies who would FUD Devuan in an organization. When an update to a new version happens, and the busybody says "why a minor fork, support, blah blah", you can say "it has been rock solid here for two years!"
[15:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:21] <exec> 08└─This is why Dodos are extinct. They were very dangerous to the ship going humans who killed them. /s
[15:15:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 556 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:00] <exec> 08└─The policy calls for the NASA administrator to "lead an innovative and sustainable program of exploration with commercial and international partners to enable human expansion across the solar system and to bring back to Earth new knowledge and opportunities." The effort will more effectively organiz...
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[15:16:09] <exec> 08└─Reusability isn't something that can easily be worked in to a design after-the-fact. It's something that really needs to be planned from the start. If they're going to make the SLS reusable, they need to effectively start over (which, granted, would let them fix a lot of the stupid design choices th...
[15:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:11] <exec> 08└─Depends on your specific goals - lots of maneuvers benefit from high thrust. Also, we don't currently have any reliable, field-tested ion drives suitable for moving large masses, though a few show promise in the lab. We also have some significant challenges in terms of developing a high-density powe...
[15:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 2020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:13] <exec> 08└─Believe me, we are working very hard on improving our relations with the Muslim world. In many ways. Through our friends in Israel, our friends in Saudi Arabia, by ending the lottery system (a Chuck Schumer beauty) and CHAIN MIGRATION, and with our military. We need our military, it's gotta be PERFE...
[15:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:20] <exec> 08└─I've got to agree it's not a death sentence, just an increased vulnerability. The thylacines managed to hang on 70,000 years after their genetic bottleneck, until Europeans came along and hunted them to extinction. For that matter humans bottlenecked at about the same time, with some estimates putti...
[15:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:57] <exec> 08└─> So was Austria and Czech Republic were German when Hitler took over too. Correction/clarification - Austria was annexed in the anschluss of early 1938, a full 5 years after Uncle Addie was made chancellor, and the Czech republic annexation was a further 6 months later. But your point about bigger...
[15:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking: Gas Pipe Explosion in Austria - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:59] <exec> 08└─> First, it rips a chunk right out of the middle of Georgia. This is horrible from a security perspective, and of course taking the long way around is costly. Kaliningrad being proof that horrible and costly doesn't need to mean incendiary. The baltic states get buzzed by Russian jets (without trans...
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[16:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:28] <exec> 08└─I want to hear about the penguin-sized humans who loafed about in Canada!
[16:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:30] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess_Meredith#/media/File:Burgess_Meredith_as_the_Penguin.jpg [wikipedia.org]
[16:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, only fatter, at about 100kg. The weight of a today's average American man, one could say. (grin)
[16:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:34] <exec> 08└─5'10" is hardly the size of a human, size of a manlet perhaps.
[16:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:43] <exec> 08└─Mostly the fact that we're an infinitesimally small target floating in a mind-boggling vast void. Seriously - you could fit massive Jupiter, along with all the other gas giants and rocky planets in the solar system end to end between Earth and the moon with room to spare - and that's just our own ba...
[16:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:45] <exec> 08└─A black hole could fling the object towards Earth at relativistic speeds!
[16:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:47] <exec> 08└─Ummm, what did you expect would stop it?
[16:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:49] <exec> 08└─Only if it already had relativistic speed before we involved the black hole - basic orbital dynamics means that no matter how fast something goes on the flyby, by the time it leaves it's going just as slow as it arrived. You can cheat a little slingshotting around moving objects like planets, steali...
[16:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:52] <exec> 08└─If they detect anything, we better rename it Rama and send a ship after it for a rendezvous, pronto.
[16:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticks May Have Infested Feathered Dinosaurs - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:03] <exec> 08└─This is a great book that shows how large parts of evolution were directly influenced by parasites. https://www.google.co.uk [google.co.uk]
[16:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticks May Have Infested Feathered Dinosaurs - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:05] <exec> 08└─It wiped out almost all the dinosaurs (except those which evolved into birds), but why couldn't it have wiped out the ticks too?
[16:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:45] <exec> 08└─How do those figures compare with the corresponding figures for automobiles? You can see the moon from a car too.
[16:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:47] <exec> 08└─and the dazzling supermoon, which comes into focus around once a year. What the hell is this bullshit? There's nothing "dazzling" about the "supermoon", and there's nothing "super" about it. Can anyone actually tell the difference between a "supermoon" and a regular full moon if they're not otherwis...
[16:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:07] <exec> 08└─ASCII no questions.
[16:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:38] <exec> 08└─Mars and beyond will require us to do away with our bodies and reconstitute them on arrival. What is it to be human will change. Must change. Our bodies are to fragile. It isn’t just space and the journey. It is the planet too. Reducing us to mind stored in a new body would allow all the expensive...
[16:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 1301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:39] <exec> 08└─Really, the only ones whom I would trust would be ESA and JAXA because they're already very dependent on successful cooperation with others and have demonstrated a reasonable level of trustworthiness and consistent attention to detail. They should just put JAXA in charge of everything, and other nat...
[16:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:41] <exec> 08└─I'm also not sure about the economics of trying to reuse solid fuel rockets (the SLS boosters). I suspect it wouldn't be worth it, leaving only the core stack as a possible cost saver. Better than nothing, but as long as the project is being driven by the pork it's pretty irrelevant. I thought they...
[16:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Leaked Screener of the Season: Unreleased Louis C.K. Film "I Love You, Daddy" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:01] <exec> 08└─Louis did a very ballsy thing. When he bought the rights to I Love You, Daddy. Smart cookie! Now CROOKS have stolen it. DISGUSTING!
[16:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:46] <exec> 08└─He never worked for Comcast. He did some great work at Verizon. And now he's Making America Great Again. 🇺🇸
[16:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:48] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your beautiful, beautiful support! We're doing the biggest Tax Cut this world has ever seen. But my taxes will go up tremendously. I don't mind. We're cutting the taxes on our middle class. It's going to make our economy EXPLODE. So I'll be making and KEEPING a lot more money. And so w...
[16:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of HP Laptop Models Contain Keylogging Code - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:04] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/11/28/190201 [soylentnews.org]
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[17:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:26] <exec> 08└─Isn't there one since Robert Bork's rental records were exposed in the 1980s?
[17:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:27] <exec> 08└─Netflix gets concerned for redditor's mental health after they binged The Office in 5-10 days: https://np.reddit.com [reddit.com]
[17:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:30] <exec> 08└─We can't let that stand in the way of datamining all that sweet customer, er consumer, habit information!
[17:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:40] <exec> 08└─Is that the term dudebros at the gym use when their fragile masculinity is feeling intimidated? 5'9" is the average male in US, 5'4" for women. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:41] <exec> 08└─Am I alone in wanting to give it a hug?
[17:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:44] <exec> 08└─5'10" *and* 100 kilograms could crush a child though.
[17:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:46] <exec> 08└─It could be a good hug, but it might be the penguin species most likely to beat you up (if it still existed or was resurrected by geneticists). How about mammoth [sciencemag.org] riding [theguardian.com]?
[17:13:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 485 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:26] <exec> 08└─It seems likely that during a bright night, more people are out on their motorcycle. Do nice temperature days also cause motorcycle accidents? A quick look at the paper reveals no data considered about the number of people out riding in various conditions, just the number of accidents. Yet the paper...
[17:13:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 537 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, like the drivers who hit things they didn't see..if only they had missed. Corellation is not causation. Full moons on clear nights are likely far more distracting, or maybe partially cloudy nights, where you get glimpses of the moon.. Sunny weekdays are dangerous as mkre old people are prepared...
[17:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 2443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:11] <exec> 08└─What you say about Debian's sysv-init support is unfortunately true. But then Devuan people do not contribute to Debian, so they are not helping to improve sysv-init support of Debian. That is perfectly fine of course, but Devuan has only forked a couple of packages and forwards download requests fo...
[17:14:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 312 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:37] <exec> 08└─Solution to the wild horse problem [nationalgeographic.com]. Import them into the western US. Take lessons from the Australians. They've a lot of experience introducing foreign animals to solve other animal problems. Maybe they would take a few Cheetahs to take care of the rabbits. What could possib...
[17:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:51] <exec> 08└─It's a common misconception that humans hunting the Dodo birds is what led to their extinction. We definitely caused them to go extinct, but more so due to the introduction of invasive species. "The impact of the introduced animals on the dodo population, especially the pigs and macaques, is today c...
[17:15:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 776 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:47] <exec> 08└─The United Launch Alliance (Boeing + Lockheed Martin) have Atlas V and Delta rockets. Some of ULA's payloads have been commercial. Although ULA certainly are scumbags who have [soylentnews.org] shit-talked [floridatoday.com] SpaceX [soylentnews.org] frequently in recent years, they see the writing o...
[17:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:45] <exec> 08└─Mars and beyond will require us to do away with our bodies and reconstitute them on arrival. What is it to be human will change. Must change. Our bodies are to fragile.
[17:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 1565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:46] <exec> 08└─Ah, "Falcon" is not what I thought the F in BFR stood for. Thanks for clearing that up. If we're fine with having One True Launch System, then going all in on the BFR is probably a good idea. But as a congressman recently said (can't remember which one), space launch systems are critical strategic r...
[17:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 1532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:48] <exec> 08└─You don't need to spend energy to dissociate H2O just so that you could combine H2 and O2 again in a chemical reactor with a nozzle on one side. To much loss, both in separation and during recombination! Losses aren't important in space: you have limitless solar energy up there, at least anywhere ne...
[17:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:51] <exec> 08└─We will need psychological training to deal with our new selves but I think what we are is what we think we are. So very possible to overcome these sense of self issues. This reminds me of the Max Headroom episode where old people have their consciousnesses uploaded into a computer. "It's wonderful,...
[17:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:53] <exec> 08└─Mars and beyond will require us to do away with our bodies and reconstitute them on arrival. What is it to be human will change. Must change. Our bodies are to fragile. Looking around at my fellow Americans, most of them really could use new bodies. Heck, most of them could stand to lose half their...
[17:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:55] <exec> 08└─We need to put the 'mental' back into 'governmental'. Make Mental Grate Again
[17:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:57] <exec> 08└─Humourless idiots got mod points today and desperately try to fall back into being pointless.
[17:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:59] <exec> 08└─No bodies. Simplicity is most important. It isn’t just protecting them. It is keeping them alive. Dealing with waste or food etc. Sure to mars it might be of no consequence but interstellar space travel is hard. Just look at how hard it is to keep the ISS up and working and stocked for just two de...
[17:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:02] <exec> 08└─If Falcon Heavy can be successfully landed and re-used, then why couldn't SLS be modified to do the same?
[17:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:04] <exec> 08└─Trump is a guy that can be Tweet baited into a major military conflict. To the surprise of his staff who won't find out about it until it is BREAKING NEWS !!!
[17:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:06] <exec> 08└─For interstellar, sure, we can talk mind uploading. It will take a long time to come up with any good method of getting civilization to another star, long enough to work out the details of mind uploading and optional reconstitution in new bodies at the destination. Unless warp drives are realized fi...
[17:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:08] <exec> 08└─The Chinese getting the technology and start producing it at lower prices?
[17:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:16] <exec> 08└─But why do the big internet companies support it? Shouldn't Google and Netflix and the others be against net neutrality because a closed internet would cement their success by protecting them from disruptors?
[17:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:17] <exec> 08└─Ohh..., like having to pay to use the restroom?
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[18:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:30] <exec> 08└─> "Who hurt you?" "My children, but now they're old enough that I can use the TV as babysitter and get a break"
[18:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:31] <exec> 08└─I expect my nephew and niece were two of those. They watch the same few films over and over again; I find it mind-numbing. I guess their minds go blank when watching and they like the experience; equivalent to an adult being drunk. When I was a kid I never saw the same film twice - what would be the...
[18:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:33] <exec> 08└─The Nielsen box system has sent many TV shows to the graveyard. But in 2017, Netflix knows you watched the same sappy film 18 days in a row (and counting?).
[18:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:35] <exec> 08└─A Christmas Story [imdb.com] has been aired nonstop on TNT or TBS [cinemablend.com] from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day since 2002. It's a "tradition". That's not pre-DVD but it is pre-Netflix. Apparently, DVD rentals only outpaced VHS rentals starting in June 2003 [wikipedia.org]. What's my point?...
[18:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:38] <exec> 08└─Yes but it wouldn't really apply here since they didn't release enough info to identify any individual users. Nothing in the act prevents keeping internal records, it's the disclosure outside the business that the act covers.
[18:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:40] <exec> 08└─"This information represents overall viewing trends, not the personal viewing information of specific, identified individuals," agreed approximately 53% of Netflix employees, and definitely NOT one specific, expendable representative called John. Too obscure? I'll get me coat...
[18:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:42] <exec> 08└─Oh, the *same* 53 people watched it every day? I was trying to figure out whether they were complaining that 18 days * 53 people a day was too few, or too many, or what.
[18:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:57] <exec> 08└─At 5'10", they were a full foot taller than DeVito. Glad they didn't announce those before the movie was made, another actor playing the Penguin would have ruined this multi-Oscar masterpiece.
[18:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:59] <exec> 08└─https://aggelosapokalipticos.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/linux-vs-microsoft.jpg [wordpress.com]
[18:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:01] <exec> 08└─I find this kind of comments entertaining after witnessing manlets beating the crap out people with double the mass.
[18:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:14] <exec> 08└─I have modded you up as someone wasted mod points on mine. 😂😂😂
[18:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:16] <exec> 08└─The sheer amount of money and time it would take to do that makes your suggestion likely impossible.
[18:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:18] <exec> 08└─This post has convinced me that downstyle should be used. Not knowing about "Breakthrough Listen", I was getting grammatical parsing errors reading the headline.
[18:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:20] <exec> 08└─Indeed, Sheldon. Indeed.
[18:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticks May Have Infested Feathered Dinosaurs - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:32] <exec> 08└─I doubt a finding that there were ticks on dinosaurs is terribly surprising. Next up, there were fleas too!
[18:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ticks May Have Infested Feathered Dinosaurs - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:33] <exec> 08└─Considering the YUGE evolution step of hair foliciles expressing just a single strand of hair, then consider, not the the ability of feathers, but rather the complex hair folicule that ex-volopes from a single strand, dead, into a complex feather. Wow! Now consider ... for a moment, the normally dea...
[18:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticks May Have Infested Feathered Dinosaurs - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:36] <exec> 08└─> > Another is swollen with blood > And so it begins... Unless you have a baculum, that's indeed a requirement.
[18:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and NASA to Reveal Mysterious New Space Find - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:47] <exec> 08└─Sounds like an Early Access game.
[18:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google and NASA to Reveal Mysterious New Space Find - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:49] <exec> 08└─Google: "On Kolob we found copies of our personal tracking data on you."
[18:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and NASA to Reveal Mysterious New Space Find - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:51] <exec> 08└─Silly people. I learnt long time ago that the way to find out whether a celestial object exist is to check the Jedi database.
[18:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:22] <exec> 08└─How many of the crashes involved sportbikes? I've seen plenty of dumb sportbike drivers. You hear them as they are next to you and zooming off at some insane speed. At least you can hear the Harley, before it's right next to you. Admittedly perhaps a bit on the loud side usually, but it's definitely...
[18:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saturn's Rings Have an Effect on the Planet's Atmosphere - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:55] <exec> 08└─Worth 20 may-tahais of destruction :) -aka- titanium dioxide?
[18:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saturn's Rings Have an Effect on the Planet's Atmosphere - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:57] <exec> 08└─Good lord! Nobody wants a "negative laser". Point your dust-of-saturn-ring particle at the sun and .. oh dear, that part if the sun stops emitting UV rays. Then again, maybe THAT would be cool. Like alien-tech-like cool... and somebodies rocket would just have trnasformed into mining equipment :)
[18:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:35] <exec> 08└─Ah, "Falcon" is not what I thought the F in BFR stood for. Thanks for clearing that up.
[18:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:36] <exec> 08└─I think they should put ISRO in charge of everything. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Better track record to Mars than Russia! And cheap!
[18:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:38] <exec> 08└─Trump found a way to moon the world.
[18:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:40] <exec> 08└─I'm a little conflicted about this: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://archive.fo [archive.fo] After a decade of “What If” hypotheses concerning SpaceX, its European competitors now accept that the company may in fact be able to reduce costs b...
[18:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tasmanian Tigers Were in Poor Genetic Health Prior to Extinction - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:49] <exec> 08└─It seems like we should have had a nuclear war to pay our dues to the nature and introduce more diversity.
[18:20:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06Support Net Neutrality Day / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Tone-Deaf "Verizon Puppet" Skit - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:15] <exec> 08└─But established corporations have a God-given right to bleed everyone else dry otherwise COMMIES!!!!!!!
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[19:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:28] <exec> 08└─Got a new phone at work about a month ago, as soon as it was turned on it wanted to download about 1GB of OS-updates. I had not even gotten it to connect to the work secure wi-fi yet. After about 700MB I was notified how the included carrier "free surf" for the month was all used up. What I wanted t...
[19:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:29] <exec> 08└─Seems possible to do it from a computer instead of over-the-air: https://www.wikihow.tech [wikihow.tech]
[19:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:31] <exec> 08└─Shove it into a Faraday cage until it decides the download failed, then get it on the WiFi. Doesn't everyone have a Faraday cage handy? I use the one that also warms things up, because I'm too lazy to make one out of Al foil.
[19:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:49] <exec> 08└─I was thinking that's a really small number of people, but realized they'd been watching the movie every day for 18 days. Still not a terribly high number of people considering how often my Wife plays certain things for my kiddo. It's typically a particular show / movie, nearly every day. Kiddo stil...
[19:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:50] <exec> 08└─Of course a service knows which users performed which activities. It would be weird if they didn't. Who is surprised by this? Talking about is kind of tasteless. In fact, the tweet is actually pretty damned mean - the kind of thing that makes one think the author was probably a bully or a mean girl...
[19:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:52] <exec> 08└─People going to hate, but it was an insensitive comment. Probably shouldn't be receiving the amount of flak they are from the comment. Though, perhaps that's what they were wanting? In some cases, more publicity is better, especially since, it's not like they were being deliberately evil.
[19:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:54] <exec> 08└─I still don't much care to watch the same Movie / Video twice. I do with a few exceptionally good movies / videos, but usually quite some time apart. Unless, I'm watching what the Wife or kiddo wants to watch. Then, it's probably XYZ time having seen X thing. At least there's no Barney or other equa...
[19:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:57] <exec> 08└─It is actually not uncommon for young children to do that. Many children in my family rewatch the same handful of movies on a regular basis for a few weeks before getting over it. This is at their own request; not because we just didn't have anything else for them to watch. I've heard a couple of di...
[19:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:15] <exec> 08└─Sooo....this one, then? [goo.gl] (underrated movie, BTW, if you aren't familiar)
[19:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:16] <exec> 08└─n/t
[19:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:34] <exec> 08└─The evidence for the asteroid shape is pretty flimsy. It is all based on brightness oscillation (not direct observation). It seems quite plausible that one side of the asteroid is more diffusive than the other (e..g due to surface roughness), so when the asteroid rotates it makes a different brightn...
[19:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:35] <exec> 08└─Additionally, those gas giants make good planet-buster-magnets.
[19:14:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lx [1915] 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:16] <exec> 08└─Werewolves are terrible drivers.
[19:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:36] <exec> 08└─I thought the logical explanation was that werewolves lose the immense self-control required not to kill the Harley and tuned-exhaust-sportbike riders. Or maybe they can find those preys from much farther compared to the effort of hunting cagers and lover-lane couples.
[19:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:38] <exec> 08└─> 1,000,000+ dead a year in almost always preventable collisions. Thank $Deities for that! At the micro- level, it sucks for people involved. At the Macro- level, humans are becoming too good at surviving, and avoiding the giant plagues and constant fights that used to keep the population from growi...
[19:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:40] <exec> 08└─....darker nights lead to longer-lived motorcyclists? Could this be a type of vampirism? Correlation and not causation says, sure, whatever sells the papers! Seriously, you'd think a bit of moonlight would improve visibility both for and, more importantly, of the biker.
[19:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, organ donors on their crotch rockets.
[19:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saturn's Rings Have an Effect on the Planet's Atmosphere - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:17] <exec> 08└─Clouds block sun rays, casting a shadow beneath.
[19:15:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 379 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:35] <exec> 08└─He's also at odds with the people I know who have worked at big cat shelters who find cheetahs are pretty laid back compared to some of the others. They also don't have the weapon type claws that most cats do. Part of the relative danger is temperament, but much of it is size. When a housecat gets f...
[19:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VESA Announces DisplayHDR Specification - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:17] <exec> 08└─No. Or yes... A quick search suggests that "non-shitty aspect ratio" rules out 4:3 with certainty, may advocate or rule out 16:9, and includes 16:10. Admittedly, there aren't a lot of discussions of that exact topic to choose from, so I chose to include both.
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[20:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:30] <exec> 08└─HTC's U11 is one of the first non-Google phones to get Android Oreo So long as you have an unlocked model, that is. HTC is releasing an Oreo update for the unlocked U11 on November 26th (that's today, if you're reading this when it's fresh). There's no timetable for carrier-locked models just yet, b...
[20:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:32] <exec> 08└─A couple weeks ago I saw on Ars [arstechnica.com] that a metalic snack food bag of chips can be used as a Faraday cage.
[20:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:34] <exec> 08└─Layered tin foil sleeve is best. Confirmed works.
[20:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:36] <exec> 08└─I've got a nearly 2 year old Nexus 6P from Google. It got Oreo in September. I got the Dec 5 Security Patch a few days ago (I think on Dec 8). Phone says now running 8.1.0. Clicking on the 8.1.0 several times gives a picture of an Oreo. This is the reason I think I will probably only buy phones dire...
[20:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:58] <exec> 08└─at least you don't have to worry about rewinding a DVD. The video hire place would charge extra if you didn't rewind before returning a video (yes, VHS, shelf after shelf of VHS) Our video (player, but did anyone, ever say "video player"?) would sometimes have trouble with old videos - so we'd end u...
[20:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 1373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:59] <exec> 08└─Obviously, Netflix knows who watches what. But that they would be so cavalier about publicly mocking their own customers like this is pretty crass. That some folks are up in arms that it's 'creepy' just shows that they don't understand either how puerile marketing drones can be, or the GIFT [penny-a...
[20:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:01] <exec> 08└─a bully or a mean girl
[20:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:04] <exec> 08└─Considering 98%** of the movies are very predictable, what is the point in watching them in the first place? Currently I'm into my *looks at logs* 16nth run of watching this playlist of Countdown but that simply is because I can't be bothered to decide what music to listen to so I just left the thin...
[20:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:06] <exec> 08└─People going to hate, but it was an insensitive comment. Probably should be receiving twice the amount of flak they are from the comment. Though, perhaps that's what they were wanting? In some cases, more publicity is better, especially since they were consciously being assholes.
[20:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:08] <exec> 08└─(player, but did anyone, ever say "video player"?)
[20:13:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:18] <exec> 08└─Is that the term dudebros at the gym use when their fragile masculinity is feeling intimidated? 5'9" is the average male in US, 5'4" for women. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:13:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 1203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:34] <exec> 08└─Mostly the fact that we're an infinitesimally small target floating in a mind-boggling vast void. Seriously - you could fit massive Jupiter, along with all the other gas giants and rocky planets in the solar system end to end between Earth and the moon with room to spare - and that's just our own ba...
[20:13:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 1068 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:38] <exec> 08└─Only if it already had relativistic speed before we involved the black hole - basic orbital dynamics means that no matter how fast something goes on the flyby, by the time it leaves it's going just as slow as it arrived. You can cheat a little slingshotting around moving objects like planets, steali...
[20:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:47] <exec> 08└─I Already Made the Title Case Button That Everyone Uses and I'm Too Lazy to Change It Lol Xd
[20:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:49] <exec> 08└─Bruce Willis and the rest of a rag-tag bunch of heroes, of course!
[20:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:52] <exec> 08└─The safety you crave comes by loss of control by the individual. That loss will have other, undesired effects.
[20:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:15] <exec> 08└─The Devuan developers and users are free to use their software as they like in the spirit of free-as-in-freedom software. I wish them all success and happiness. But I don't get the horror stories over systemd. I've been using it for years without problems. We use it on hundreds of bare metal and vir...
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[21:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:31] <exec> 08└─In an era where the entire media proclaimed a man guilty of being a pedophile and harped on it for weeks the Democrats were only able to pull off a win by ~2%. Hopefully for the Democrats they run someone equally as terrible next election or I doubt the Dems will be able to maintain the seat.
[21:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:33] <exec> 08└─will this Doug Jones concede the victory to Roy Moore then? Or do the ends justify all kinds of means these days?
[21:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:35] <exec> 08└─In an era where even top Republican Mitch McConnell believed their candidate guilty of being a pedophile [foxnews.com] the Republicans were still able to come within ~2% of pulling off a win.
[21:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:37] <exec> 08└─Nick Saban (the coach for U Alabama football team, you ignint geeks) fucked over the child rapist. Good job.
[21:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:39] <exec> 08└─God remains in control.
[21:12:41] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 337 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:42] <exec> 08└─A win by 2% in AL is a twenty-plus points win for a D. Unless the story about Moore being banned from the mall is false, it's not just the media. The fact that he got removed twice from the AL Supreme Court (hopefully that's a record), for putting his religion ahead of his duties tell me I'd rather...
[21:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:44] <exec> 08└─the Democrats were only able to pull off a win by ~2%
[21:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:46] <exec> 08└─Or do the ends justify all kinds of means these days?
[21:12:48] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:48] <exec> 08└─Or do the ends justify all kinds of means these days?
[21:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:51] <exec> 08└─In an era where the entire media proclaimed a man guilty of being a pedophile and harped on it for weeks the Democrats were only able to pull off a win by ~2%. Hopefully for the Democrats they run someone equally as terrible next election or I doubt the Dems will be able to maintain the seat.
[21:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:53] <exec> 08└─So if Mitch McConnell believes something, it must be true?
[21:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:55] <exec> 08└─I fully expected Alabama voters to happily elect a molesting pedophile over a Democrat, just because the molester was religious and Trump supported him. I'm glad I was proven wrong, though not by much considering the narrow margin of victory here.
[21:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:57] <exec> 08└─God Hates Fetuses Thank God For Dead Babies
[21:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:59] <exec> 08└─About one of his homeboys? Yeah I'd believe it.
[21:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:02] <exec> 08└─So if Mitch McConnell believes something, it must be true?
[21:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:04] <exec> 08└─Also... A state Trump won by nearly 30 percentage points. (The biggest republican stronghold in the country according to one news report I read.) Had the support of Trump and most republicans despite the accusations. In a state that allowed marriages to 16 year olds at the time of the accusations. (...
[21:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:06] <exec> 08└─I'm there there are dozens of others between the Federalists and the anti-Federalists as well. Mudslinging between self righteous assholes is a time honored tradition in america, as is disadvantaging the poor. Many forget that only landowners could vote in early America. It wasn't just african-ameri...
[21:13:07] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 1665 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:08] <exec> 08└─Moore specifically advocating getting rid of all constitutional amendments after the Bill of Rights. That would include: - Ending slavery. I get the impression Mr Moore would be fine and dandy with slavery, and might be interested in buying a few pickaninnies for late-night visits to the slave quart...
[21:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:11] <exec> 08└─Giving people aged 18-21 the right to vote.
[21:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:13] <exec> 08└─Dirty campaigns go all the way back to 1800 with Jefferson against Adams. The website this links to is awful but an interesting read http://mentalfloss.com [mentalfloss.com] Perhaps you should go back to Europe if you want to not deal with ne...
[21:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:15] <exec> 08└─Those were good times...alas, I can no longer remember them, but I assume things were once better then they are now.
[21:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:17] <exec> 08└─Dirty campaigns go all the way back to 1800 with Jefferson against Adams.
[21:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:19] <exec> 08└─Roy Moore is not a pedophile. He is an Ephebophile [wikipedia.org]! Ephebophilia is the primary sexual interest in mid-to-late adolescents, generally ages 15 to 19. [14 is fine.]
[21:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:22] <exec> 08└─Alabama seems to suffer the same fate as most of the rest of us, the party primaries are designed to put forth the most radical of their party and then throw them against each other with the people choosing the lesser evil because they don't understand third parties. In this case there was a democra...
[21:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:24] <exec> 08└─Hey now those proscriptions were perfectly valid and necessary to save the Republic *Adds Thexalon to the list
[21:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:26] <exec> 08└─This guy sure is a crackpot. I don't like telling other states what to do, but this guy sure is a crackpot and hopefully they see that.
[21:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:28] <exec> 08└─"people choosing the lesser evil" Like Cliton vs Trrrrrumph?
[21:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:42] <exec> 08└─Why would they? They'd much rather have you buy a new phone rather then spend money implementing and testing upgrades to phones for which they've already been paid. Not to mention that the carriers don't want to deal with the hassles of software upgrades unless they have to -- if they did, people mi...
[21:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:44] <exec> 08└─So now I need to sew a pouch in my tinfoil beanie?
[21:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:46] <exec> 08└─Got a new phone at work about a month ago, as soon as it was turned on it wanted to download about 1GB of OS-updates.
[21:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:48] <exec> 08└─Layered tin foil sleeve is best. Confirmed works.
[21:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:50] <exec> 08└─Integrate foil lining into pants or coat pockets? Wait for second Kickstarter? [kickstarter.com] Not kidding about the foil, BTW. [soylentnews.org] (Alumin(i)um is the actual material.)
[21:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:52] <exec> 08└─It isn't just Samsung. The networks and re-sellers load phones with everything from splash screens, recharge apps, adware, trackers, etc etc. My phone had three music players and three music streaming apps, as well as four different games (log on to play on central server) apps. I am amazed there wa...
[21:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:20] <exec> 08└─OMFG I think you have made this "~99% of movies are bad!" rant before! No wait, it was these peeps [soylentnews.org]. https://www.theonion.com [theonion.com]
[21:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:22] <exec> 08└─#bookz on undernet. cheaper than physical books, and much better selection than the goodwill down the street.
[21:14:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:40] <exec> 08└─Sooo....this one, then? [goo.gl] (underrated movie, BTW, if you aren't familiar)
[21:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:43] <exec> 08└─Probably not; but I'm guessing its instincts would be to peck your eyes out.
[21:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:45] <exec> 08└─Birdman!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
[21:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:47] <exec> 08└─5'9"... pathetic. Glad that I'm one in a million... Literally... 6'11" (approx 2.1m)
[21:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen to Observe Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua for Radio Emissions - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:08] <exec> 08└─The sheer amount of money and time it would take to do that makes your suggestion likely impossible.
[21:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:14] <exec> 08└─Might be related to the well known effects of full moons on behavior - people tend to do more stupid and crazy shit.
[21:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 1639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:15] <exec> 08└─Probably because, for most, flying on an airplane is an infrequent occurrence, while driving or riding in a car happens daily. Also, before the TSA existed there was still screening to get on a commercial aircraft. So any loss of autonomy with air travel by the TSA is of low effect in practice on pe...
[21:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:39] <exec> 08└─> they could have picked Adalovelace. Ya, pornstar names would have worked better. [thatsthejoke.jpg]
[21:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:41] <exec> 08└─Angband? Quit playing games at work!
[21:17:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:10] <exec> 08└─What are you, an African villager?
[21:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:26] <exec> 08└─Pigs are plenty dangerous to humans. They WILL eat you, given the chance.
[21:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:38] <exec> 08└─That would count, but I personally rate the saber rattling on both sides as unconvincing - unnerving, immature, and extremely worrying, but ultimately unconvincing that either would really follow through.
[21:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:39] <exec> 08└─I think you need to define major. I doubt he has the power and political support to do much more than send a few SEAL teams, or a couple of drone strikes per day... basically business as usual. If he tried to reinstate the draft and launch a ground assault on Kabul... that might not actually happen.
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[22:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geminid Meteors to Peak on December 13–14 - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:26] <exec> 08└─Did you know that chestnut trees bloom every year? Thanks for the reminder to look up and away from the smoke, even if it's not really news...
[22:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geminid Meteors to Peak on December 13–14 - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:28] <exec> 08└─You will see a lot of these, even if you live in a megalopolis. It's cool, grab your kids, get a bucket of fried chicken, and drive up the hill. You don't even need telescope. Chomp down on drumstick, chicken wings, just look up at the sky while you are at it. Your kids may end up becoming astrophy...
[22:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geminid Meteors to Peak on December 13–14 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:30] <exec> 08└─With the Phaeton encounter it's news (kind of).
[22:12:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03quacking duck [1395] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:40] <exec> 08└─In an era where even top Republican Mitch McConnell believed their candidate guilty of being a pedophile [foxnews.com] the Republicans were still able to come within ~2% of pulling off a win.
[22:12:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:45] <exec> 08└─the Democrats were only able to pull off a win by ~2%
[22:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:06] <exec> 08└─We need to send congress to live a year in Liberia. They will either love it there and work even more fervently towards making America the White Liberia. Or they will finally understand what it is they have been working towards and consider a *SLIGHTLY* less conservative political stance.
[22:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:07] <exec> 08└─He be dead in a month in a pent. Even the worst of criminals need to look down on someone, and that's pedophile.
[22:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:10] <exec> 08└─If God is in control that would make God responsible for all the death and suffering in the world, since He has the knowledge and ability to stop it. But doesn't. And as the saying goes "The greatest evil is when the good do nothing"
[22:13:11] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 1711 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:12] <exec> 08└─Alabama seems to suffer the same fate as most of the rest of us, the party primaries are designed to put forth the most radical of their party and then throw them against each other with the people choosing the lesser evil because they don't understand third parties. This isn't really true in this c...
[22:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:14] <exec> 08└─It's not illegal as long as there's no actual sexual contact, but dating usually does lead to that pretty quickly, so it's safe to assume that someone who expresses romantic interest in minors has that as their intention. It's definitely very creepy.
[22:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:16] <exec> 08└─Also... A state Trump won by nearly 30 percentage points. (The biggest republican stronghold in the country according to one news report I read.) Had the support of Trump and most republicans despite the accusations. In a state that allowed marriages to 16 year olds at the time of the accusations. (...
[22:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:18] <exec> 08└─if one person alleges ...then you can have serious doubts if 9 persons allege + people around him knew he was "dating" your girls + he was banned from mall... you have to have a collusion of sorts that i have never seen before...because usually such collusion fails as one or the other will come out...
[22:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:21] <exec> 08└─That's what you do after an election, right? We should set cars on fire, assault democrats, set buildings on fire, block roads... or is that only a democrat thing?
[22:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:23] <exec> 08└─Pedophilia is not illegal, it is a brain condition may be, unless you do something about it.. Same thing with Ephebophilia ...the law is 16 in alabama...trying to kiss and touch a 14 year old is illegal by any definition, irrespective of the state of the brain of the person. Just like i envy a Lambo...
[22:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:25] <exec> 08└─Had her middle initial also been K, he would have married her on the spot?
[22:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:28] <exec> 08└─What happened to the yearbook accusation? Oooh, we're not supposed to talk about that now. ;-)
[22:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:30] <exec> 08└─Screw Moore and the horse he literally rode in on!
[22:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:32] <exec> 08└─Alabamians prefer to bomb black churches. [chicagotribune.com]
[22:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:35] <exec> 08└─No, we should still talk about it [snopes.com] because apparently people like you still think there is something to it.
[22:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:37] <exec> 08└─"who had faced multiple allegations of sexual assault" i've only heard of him being accused of "dating" teenagers. he admits at least some of it and says it was always with parental consent. the laws used to be more lax in regard to age, as people used to get married earlier. you were expected to ge...
[22:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:39] <exec> 08└─A lot, a lot of people THREW AWAY their votes. Because they did what they call a write in. They wrote in the name of somebody who wasn't a candidate. Somebody who lost. If they'd voted for Judge Roy Moore, they'd be voting for a WINNER. Judge Roy is asking for a recount, they're doing a recount. But...
[22:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:41] <exec> 08└─I don't see a hell of a lot of difference (leaving aside all the icky/rapey/molesty stuff)
[22:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:02] <exec> 08└─Hey, leave my 4.4.2 alone! It works. (Especially since I have deleted or disabled almost everything) kernel date 4 July 2014. Does it qualify as an antique yet?
[22:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:04] <exec> 08└─When I feel like going paranoid, I put it on Airplane Mode AND insert it into a layered aluminum foil sleeve. You could remove your battery, but is there a hidden secondary battery? Unless you've rooted your phone, you can't really trust that it's not transmitting. Unless you probe it with lab equip...
[22:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:06] <exec> 08└─Not true, Most manufacturers will upgrade your OS if the device is capable. At least for the first three years. Its the carriers that drag their feet. Which is why you should never get a carrier phone ever again.
[22:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:08] <exec> 08└─My wife's Nexus 5x bricked (well, boot looped with no recovery path) after installing an OS update recently, may have even been Oreo... not sure, don't care, was doing just fine with the old OS and had no desire to update, but just like butt-dialing, the "update now" button occasionally gets hit uni...
[22:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:11] <exec> 08└─Layered tin foil sleeve is best. Confirmed works.
[22:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:13] <exec> 08└─My last Samsung phone came with 2 preinstalled Web Browsers. Then I added FireFox which is what I wanted for certain sites. It also came with a crap ton of apps that I was never going to use ever. And then they kept adding more over time. Apps that I neither wanted nor asked for.
[22:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:15] <exec> 08└─Most manufacturers will upgrade your OS if the device is capable. At least for the first three years.
[22:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:45] <exec> 08└─With my memory, watching a movie a second time isn't that much different than watching it the first time.
[22:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:46] <exec> 08└─enough information tell you what you do all day, every day.
[22:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:49] <exec> 08└─Aren't they obligated to keep some records, to pay royalties? And isn't it likely that those royalties have an "out" for re-views by the same account, like a dvd rental would? This thing is the penultimate tweenage girl flick, and they will watch something like this over and over just to cover the c...
[22:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:51] <exec> 08└─Well lots of people just turn it on as a backdrop out of nostalgia. Same for the Wizard of OZ, I know a certain grand mother who can recite every line in that film in sequence. This is too new to be that, but the storyline is bound to be a hook for tweener girls, who will watch over and over to fall...
[22:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human-Sized Penguins Once Roamed New Zealand - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:14] <exec> 08└─Yeap!
[22:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticks May Have Infested Feathered Dinosaurs - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:50] <exec> 08└─Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on; While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
[22:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and NASA to Reveal Mysterious New Space Find - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:05] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping someone figured out how to use the Kepler data to discover lots of new Asteroid and Kuniper belt objects (i.e, things in our solar system) or some other novel use of the Kepler data it wasn't intended for. That would be cool, and it'd be interesting to learn what they came up with. On the...
[22:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and NASA to Reveal Mysterious New Space Find - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:07] <exec> 08└─It can be done: https://phys.org [phys.org] I think it will be about exoplanets, but we'll see. The real Kuiper Belt MVP [usra.edu] is likely to be LSST [wikipedia.org].
[22:16:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:25] <exec> 08└─Werewolves are terrible drivers.
[22:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:47] <exec> 08└─A quick look at the paper reveals no data considered about the number of people out riding in various conditions, just the number of accidents. Yet the paper is packed with fluff about how dangerous motorcycles are and how distractions are a serious threat...
[22:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:49] <exec> 08└─I don't ride a sportsbike, and I generally endeavor to ride as safely as possible. However, I've found myself staring up at a full moon before for periods definitely longer that what might be wise. As they teach you in basic riding courses, "your bike is going to follow where you're looking," so tha...
[22:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:51] <exec> 08└─Of course you missed the most obvious objection: There is precious little real world evidence that having all vehicles (or even a substantial part of them) being autonomous will actually save lives. Its all guess work. This is simply assumed by looking at accident records for the microscopic number...
[22:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:53] <exec> 08└─You've got it all backwards, it's not the (full) moon causing the accidents. It's the accidents' spilt blood causing the moon to enlarge! First to full, then to supermoon. Want more moon? Kill motorcyclists!
[22:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:55] <exec> 08└─Your cited study is pretty much guesswork science at best. Did you actually read it, or trace it back to the source? Clue: There is no study. It was all speculation dating from 2015, when there were 48 such cars on the road world wide. Lab rat cars in controlled conditions with an unknown (and tight...
[22:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:58] <exec> 08└─When arguing against the idea that everyone will be safer in a padded cell, the strongest argument is not that padded cells are not as safe as you think. One can always work on making a safer padded cell. Making that argument allows the discussion to be shifted to something which, in my opinion, is...
[22:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Urge Endangered Species Classification for Cheetahs - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:08] <exec> 08└─what a fucking pussy. i hope you're trolling.
[22:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:21] <exec> 08└─I would define major as: * some action Trump could take * without his daycare minders noticing * that would start a conflict * which escalates into a major conflict * requiring major commitments of resources from the US and possibly other allies and if he's as 'clever' as I think . . . * escalates i...
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[23:12:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 454 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:54] <exec> 08└─Also... A state Trump won by nearly 30 percentage points. (The biggest republican stronghold in the country according to one news report I read.) Had the support of Trump and most republicans despite the accusations. In a state that allowed marriages to 16 year olds at the time of the accusations. (...
[23:13:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tizan [3245] 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 755 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:12] <exec> 08└─if one person alleges ...then you can have serious doubts if 9 persons allege + people around him knew he was "dating" your girls + he was banned from mall... you have to have a collusion of sorts that i have never seen before...because usually such collusion fails as one or the other will come out...
[23:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:25] <exec> 08└─Look at you, getting all judgy when you like to screw horses.
[23:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:27] <exec> 08└─This just shows that the people of Alabama are a bunch of religious morons
[23:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:29] <exec> 08└─Which god? Whose god? Where is this god? Show me this "god".
[23:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:31] <exec> 08└─Looking at this Washington Post1 exit poll result [postimg.org], I would say that racists could easily blame black people for the outcome. So maybe Alabamians will continue to practice their favored bombing activity. Those results look pretty clear. 1so it must be fake news
[23:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:34] <exec> 08└─There are some answers to this classic philosophical problem. Mine is "There ain't no such thing as a benevolent omnipotent god", but there are also answers like "There's an omniscient omnipotent god, but that god isn't benevolent" (This idea is basically Gnosticism) and "The evil that happens in th...
[23:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:36] <exec> 08└─...or to Trump's favorite country, Nambia. [google.com] "I am very smart." --Donald J. Trump, Sr. [google.com] "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had." --William T. Kelley, Trump's marketing professor at Wharton [alternet.org] Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades t...
[23:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:38] <exec> 08└─That was democrats.
[23:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:40] <exec> 08└─Which party do they reside in today? Republican.
[23:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:42] <exec> 08└─He did enough things on camera that disqualify him as a candidate that those particular allegations being false shouldn't change the outcome. He was literally kicked off the Alabama supreme court more than once.
[23:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:45] <exec> 08└─Doesn't seem to be the case. The big difference in this case came from 22k voters that were so unwilling to vote for a Democrat that they wrote other candidates in rather than vote for what was clearly the better candidate. You can't blame that on the primaries. It's a state with enough purposefully...
[23:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:47] <exec> 08└─Don't forget "he made it perfect, we screwed it up", leading to "all suffering (& evil) in the world is our fault" so "get on your knees and pray for forgiveness" Tl;dr: it's all Eve's fault.
[23:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:15] <exec> 08└─You can use a Pringles can to stop it connecting. That is, if you break your phone in small enough pieces to fit the can. (grin)
[23:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, for the first three years. After three years, they will upgrade your device if they think it is NOT capable, but if they think it will result in a new sale of another phone.
[23:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android 8.0 Oreo Running on 0.5% of Android Devices - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:18] <exec> 08└─My problem isnt that the device updated. My problem is the device did it without asking me if I wanted to download 1GB of data. It would have been nice if it had asked and not just started doing it when the phone was just charging its battery. Clearly it failed a bit since there was a data-limit on...
[23:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:53] <exec> 08└─Dude, if only 99% of new movies was bad I'd probably bother hooking the antenna up to my TV (currently its primary use is as a secondary monitor). But in all honesty, a lot of good movies are still being made - primarily in S.Korea and Japan however, with the occasional good thing from Thailand, hav...
[23:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:54] <exec> 08└─... now we have proof they are watching... we can play their system! Who knows, those 53 people could have actually been trying to achieve this?
[23:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:56] <exec> 08└─No one seems to have pointed out yet that what Netflix have is the data that 53 "users" watched it 18 days in a row - which isn't the same as people. I mean, no one uses one netflix account for the whole family/household, or shares netflix usernames/passwords, ever, right? When your TV logs you into...
[23:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Mocks Christmas Film Viewing Habits in "Creepy" Tweet - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:58] <exec> 08└─What's my point? I just wanted to drop those factoids.
[23:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Full Moons Linked to Increased Motorcyclist Deaths - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:58] <exec> 08└─Tomorrow, I want you to take that R2 unit to Anchorhead and have its memory erased. That'll be the end of it.
[23:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017 - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:24] <exec> 08└─> Thankfully it's pretty easy to install Debian without systemd. Alcoholics Anonymous has 12 steps. Your instructions have 14.
[23:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:23] <exec> 08└─I have some amount of faith in his babysitters, a lot of them are the same crew that has been in place through Obama, Bush, and even before. Not saying he can't completely piss off the world with a tweet, or send a SEAL team or two on missions that are a very bad idea before he gets stopped, just th...
[23:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:25] <exec> 08└─I truly hope that is the case. I never would have thought it. The fact I have to hope for babysitters to do their jobs in preventing childish tantrums is not something I expected to ever see the United States devolve into.
[23:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:27] <exec> 08└─He's such an idiot-child, even when I love the policy he's putting forth it makes me cringe to listen to him speak: http://abcnews.go.com [go.com]
[23:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:29] <exec> 08└─And Pence actually led with military dominance as the first reason to do it... amazing!
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