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[00:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:50] <exec> 08└─Well, it sounds like we'll have the data soon, right? We are going to collect the data instead of just moralizing, right? I'm even expecting that the data won't be peachy. But we're going to get it, right? Right?
[00:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Research Reactors Could Switch to Low-Enriched Uranium-Molybdenum Fuel - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:58] <exec> 08└─http://news.mit.edu/2017/75th-anniversary-first-nuclear-fission-reactor-mit-re-enacts-seminal-experiment-1204 [mit.edu] They restarted the Exponential Pile that was at MIT on the 75th aniversary of the CP-1
[00:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pulsars Could Host "Habitable" Exoplanets With Thick Atmospheres - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:08] <exec> 08└─The pressure in the Marianas Trench is about 1000 times sea level air pressure. We need a thousand times more pressure than that to get to a million. That's not an atmosphere, it's practically a solid object. Wouldn't a Europa-type situation be far more plausible, though? Miles of ice or rock makes...
[00:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pulsars Could Host "Habitable" Exoplanets With Thick Atmospheres - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:09] <exec> 08└─Habitable zone is defined by surface liquid water. Including places like Europa is a little too optimistic right now. Because we could say that places [wikipedia.org] like Ceres, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Enceladus, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Titania, Oberon, Triton, Orcus, Pluto, Makemake, 2007 OR10, Er...
[00:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:10] <exec> 08└─You fool! One can still see the worm in mezcal, whereas it has been disolved into nothingness by tequila. Unless of course, you have been to Oaxaca and tried one of the homemade mezcals, which are reputed to rise the dead from their graves, but then, such elixirs are not commercialy available.
[00:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 1708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:56] <exec> 08└─Be careful what you wish for. Killery would have given us (at best) a bunch more years of do-nothing, just like O'Bummer. (With Trump, at least Progressive folks are getting active.) If Hillary Clinton Had Won, We’d Be Even Worse [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [counterpunch.org] In November, Jimmy...
[00:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:57] <exec> 08└─Even if Hillary Clinton had won, that still would not reflect what people want, since most voters simply vote for the lesser of two evils. We need a complete reform of our voting system before we can make any claim about representing the people. Get rid of winner-take-all and implement something lik...
[00:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:00] <exec> 08└─What we have is a representative system where the representatives aren't representative of the people. Undermines the entire idea of "electing" representatives. As in, we the people chose Clinton by a very significant majority, and we didn't get Clinton.
[00:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:02] <exec> 08└─See my comment (above) [soylentnews.org] about the National Popular Vote bill. Once enough states, representing 218 electoral votes, sign on, The Electoral College and a constitutional amendment become moot. getting rid of First Past The Post Amen. Australia has a working model. They also fine peopl...
[00:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:47] <exec> 08└─Comrade Putin did not retire, he quit. Quit to become a real estate scammer/political waterboy in his native Leningrad. But yes, his meteoric rise to power was largely due to KGB connections. As Putin was quoted, similar to the US Marine saying, "There is no such thing as an ex-Chekist". * *Both KGB...
[00:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:48] <exec> 08└─That should be "Felix Dzerzhinsky" or more correctly "Феликс Дзержинский". Iron Felix at least deserves proper spelling.
[00:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:29] <exec> 08└─This stuff is probably going to be dangerous. Especially with many of these stuffed into a conference room... to recharge laser pointers, tablets, phones, laptops, bluetooth earpieces, projectors... the 'bodies in the way' are going to be collateral damage. Non-Thermal Effect of Microwave Radiation...
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[01:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:49] <exec> 08└─I am bootyass process! I am bootyass process! I am bootyass process! I have my online degree in chemical mathematics again! Now that I've firmly established my immense superiority, my fetid little friend can get this feces fiesta started!
[01:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:51] <exec> 08└─"Doctors caution that the health effects of marijuana on a fetus remain unclear but could include ..." ... "there are insufficient data to evaluate the effects of marijuana use on infants during lactation and breastfeeding, and in the absence of such data, marijuana use is discouraged," according to...
[01:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:53] <exec> 08└─I have no place in telling a pregnant woman (other than, perhaps, one I pregnated) what she should or shouldn't do, but in the case of a pregnant woman I would have a say in, I would say that some data is not worth collecting.
[01:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:56] <exec> 08└─You could look at reports in which a pregnant woman tested positive / were caught using cannabis, and then track the development of the children. Or ask pregnant women to self-report whether they are currently using cannabis or had done so during pregnancy, and track the development of the children....
[01:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:59] <exec> 08└─The children will be precognitive psychics. The old fucks of ShitstainNews are old enough to remember Minority Report, right?
[01:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah that does not seem like a study where you want to 'go first'. Seems like a study you want to err on the side of caution. As is being pregnant has a very strict set of things you can and can not eat.
[01:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:03] <exec> 08└─Owww gawwwd downmods feel soooo goood. Go down on me again, fuckers!
[01:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:05] <exec> 08└─I guess some other approaches would be to do more statewide studies like these, and then track birth defects, etc. across the state. Or look for any trends specifically in states that have legalized recreational or medical cannabis and compare those states to ones that haven't.
[01:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Research Reactors Could Switch to Low-Enriched Uranium-Molybdenum Fuel - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:14] <exec> 08└─Hey, thanks for the link, while I'd lost track over the years, it turns out I grew up down the street from one of the MIT profs that was part of this anniversary celebration.
[01:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:26] <exec> 08└─I offer the suggestion that you eat, drink and do comforting things. Probably not including eating Soylent, lol.
[01:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:28] <exec> 08└─8-) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:17] <exec> 08└─Yup. Democracy is "majority rules". That's not what we have. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:19] <exec> 08└─Know how a USA.gov person is lying? His lips are moving. Propaganda [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handful of North Korean Defectors Show Signs of Radiation Exposure - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:38] <exec> 08└─Is this english?
[01:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:08] <exec> 08└─Yes. Either go into full view (Icon is at the bottom left) and shows "View Document in Full Screen" when hovered over. Then on the right side of the screen, there is a link for "Original Document (PDF)" Or.. the direct link is: https://assets.documentcloud.org [documentcl...
[01:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:09] <exec> 08└─Isn't it obvious to even you, that SOMEONE found my comment interesting? But, some spiteful shite modded the comment down - hmmm - wonder who? I did ask you whether you have a life or not.
[01:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:11] <exec> 08└─Even internal documents are potentially propaganda! Beware the red mena-....hey, WHY IS THIS SITE RED?!
[01:21:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 1519 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:26] <exec> 08└─She says they have a 3 year no-rehire policy on the only two manufacturing jobs in the town of ~40k. They are basically wage frozen, and their hours are subject to corporate whim. In order to find alternative work you would have to commute multiple hours each direction, and unlike here in California...
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[02:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:50] <exec> 08└─Lisa supported 2meg of ram...but was perceived as sluggish by users. Per https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Might make a nice light & fast OS these days...for a watch or something...
[02:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:52] <exec> 08└─I'm going to download the code and rip out all the GUI crap. Finally we can undo the recent decades of insanity! #letsmartpeoplehavecomputerstoo
[02:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:08] <exec> 08└─That could be an option. Problem might be that they did more then just smoke weed. It would be hard to link it just to the potential weed usage. Self reporting might be an issue to since you'll probably want to know about dosage and strength etc plus if child welfare found out there could be issues....
[02:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:09] <exec> 08└─Never mind the drugs. Suppose they smoke 100% cotton rag paper. That's how you get cancer. Also stay away from candles, fireplaces, diesel exhaust, incense, fireworks, etc. Causes include polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and fine particulate matter.
[02:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:12] <exec> 08└─We have the data on alcohol.
[02:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:14] <exec> 08└─What if the prego women use cannabis edibles instead of smoking or vaping?
[02:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:16] <exec> 08└─It's called a "natural experiment", all that is necessary is to gather data (as much as possible, not just on pot usage) -- A natural experiment is an empirical study in which individuals (or clusters of individuals) exposed to the experimental and control conditions are determined by nature or by o...
[02:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:18] <exec> 08└─The quote is the usual scare tactic employed when they don't know didly squat. It could just as well read: effects of marijuana on a fetus remain unclear but could include calmer babies, fewer tantrums, better infant appetite, etc, etc,
[02:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:30] <exec> 08└─The other way? If Gary Johnson was pulling that many votes, even losing, I'd be ecstatic.
[02:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Handful of North Korean Defectors Show Signs of Radiation Exposure - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:50] <exec> 08└─Tissue can be exposed to radiation and not become radioactive...
[02:20:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 615 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:58] <exec> 08└─It's another Trump hit piece pushing the absurd idea that Trump is Putin's puppet. Some people really want to believe this. So far, 100% of the recent proven misdeeds involving Russia and US politicians have been about Trump opponents. We had a sitting president assist in the creation of nonsense in...
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[03:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:53] <exec> 08└─If someone would re-spin the 6502 in 14nm process, maybe throw 4096 of them on a chip, with 64K of local RAM each and a 16GB shared access memory store, and a couple of easy access modern driver systems for video and sound, there's not much that can't be done with A, X and Y registers, a program cou...
[03:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:55] <exec> 08└─Nobody knows how to read your dinosaur coding language.
[03:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:57] <exec> 08└─Give me an hour or two and I probably could do it again.
[03:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:59] <exec> 08└─Or reduce it to something so small, efficient, and cheap that it can be embedded in a sheet-sized flexible display.
[03:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:01] <exec> 08└─So could I. I learned Pascal in high school and Ada in college.
[03:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:04] <exec> 08└─that colon-equals shit made a come-back in golang ;(
[03:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:06] <exec> 08└─Or reduce it to something so small, efficient, and cheap that it can be embedded in a sheet-sized flexible display.
[03:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:08] <exec> 08└─Quite what do you think a 6502 is going to do when asked to transcode a single screen line of modern video codec (4K)? Apart from take forever, run out of local RAM and be in massive contention for other storage? There's a reason we code things differently, design chips differently, have much more c...
[03:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:10] <exec> 08└─Pascal pointer syntax is backwards from the correct way pointers are done in C.
[03:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:13] <exec> 08└─Yet they dumped common prefix operators. Consider (pseudocode)... for (i = -1; ++i < NEVER_OFF_BY_ONE;) { // optimises to while loop }
[03:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:15] <exec> 08└─This is not an old problem. I worked for a company years ago in which nobody understood the FPGA code which was still programmed into every DSP FPGA on every kind of a certain board in production. All the people who understood it were long gone and nobody bothered to try anew even though it was avai...
[03:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:36] <exec> 08└─Indeed, here it is: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:38] <exec> 08└─You are assuming the the use of weed is significantly higher in states that have legalized it. That may not be true.
[03:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:40] <exec> 08└─Go down on me again, fuckers!
[03:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:42] <exec> 08└─Hey, moron. Tell me something I don't know. Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily been disabled. You can still login to post. However, if bad posting continues from your IP or Subnet that privilege could be revoked as well. If it's you, consi...
[03:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pulsars Could Host "Habitable" Exoplanets With Thick Atmospheres - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:01] <exec> 08└─"Thicker" is one of those words that happens when journalists who don't understand the science try to translate it for people who they expect to have even less understanding than they do. It appears that they mean "more massive" rather than "higher pressure". A million times more mass would roughly...
[03:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chatbots Could "Learn" About Words Using Implicit Confirmation - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:43] <exec> 08└─No, I’m under the impression that only certain ideologies are bigoted, and left it intentionally vague which ones. You’re the one who decided that somebody talking about bigots was automatically talking about you.
[03:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:06] <exec> 08└─I don't want to be deploying new code on the production servers while my thinking's impaired
[03:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:58] <exec> 08└─I know it is cliche, but you get what you vote for.
[03:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:51] <exec> 08└─The soviets were far more afraid of us than we were of them.
[03:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ataradov [4776] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:52] <exec> 08└─Actually if you enlarge this viewer (button on the bottom left), it gives you ability to download a full PDF. I quickly skimmed though the document, and there is nothing really interesting. All the stuff would be pretty obvious to a sane person anyway.
[03:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:09] <exec> 08└─I need awd because the person controlling the purchase has it on their must have checklist, and I can't get out of that. 4wd would suffice. So, yes, awd or the veto kicks in. And the veto-er prefers an internal combustion awd right now.
[03:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:11] <exec> 08└─PS - your links are for a lack of an SUV with AWD. AWD is becoming more and more common in cars.
[03:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:13] <exec> 08└─I didn't see any other electric cars with AWD. Certainly Tesla is not on some pedestal, but is competing against gasoline cars and electric cars with FWD. Looks like you will have to go with gasoline. Maybe a hybrid?
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[04:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:53] <exec> 08└─There are more than enough marijuana potheads in our prisons to supply our needed meat. And have you seen the size of the exercise yard in a prison. Tiny compared to cattle pasture. Slaughter the cannabis users and feed America.
[04:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:55] <exec> 08└─There's a reason scientists are also known as pukes.
[04:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 1947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:57] <exec> 08└─From: https://www.westernwatersheds.org [westernwatersheds.org] Cropland- About 349 million acres in the U.S. are planted for crops. This is the equivalent of about four states the size of Montana. Four crops -- feeder corn (80 million acres), soybea...
[04:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:59] <exec> 08└─It all sounds SO reasonable and smart! Let's simply murder all vegetarians and we'll never hear their ridiculous arguments again! That's what we call a win-win.
[04:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:01] <exec> 08└─There's on the order of ~100 million beef cattle [wikipedia.org] in the U.S., probably less, but they are regularly replenished. You have 2.2, perhaps 2.5 million incarcerated [wikipedia.org] (in-carne-cerated?) in the U.S. You would need to turn them all into meat, not just non-violent drug offende...
[04:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:04] <exec> 08└─So they propose to cut pastureland and increase agriculture to feed animals more and keep people drunk. They must live in a place where fertilizers are free. And make the animals move less, by keeping them local, or so I understand. Oh, yeah, and also depend on pills (bacteria produced... it would h...
[04:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:06] <exec> 08└─So your plan is not going to work.
[04:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:08] <exec> 08└─All of these utilize less water and fertilizer than beef while emitting fewer greenhouse gases.
[04:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:10] <exec> 08└─I bet they'd be able to significantly rework land usage if they virtualized it [youtube.com].
[04:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:30] <exec> 08└─The company finally wised up and shelled out the dough for an EE with HDL experience to make some sense of it all.
[04:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:31] <exec> 08└─Not really. I'm talking the case where the founders got bought out, for multi-millions, and of course back in the days when code was not commented well, if at all, in many places. And Verilog/VHDL programming is unlike all your typical C-like stuff. Don't believe me? Try HDL programming yourself and...
[04:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:34] <exec> 08└─Something like this using Forth? http://www.greenarraychips.com [greenarraychips.com] "144 fully fledged computers. Just one chip. This gem is our GA144 multi-computer chip. It is designed to give you options that have never before existed and to place them under your control by writing software. W...
[04:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:00] <exec> 08└─There were studies done in the '70's, in Jamaica where people use a lot of marijuana. The findings were that babies exposed to larger amounts of pot as fetuses were born slightly larger. They weren't sure if it was the pot or the subjects selling pot and having a higher standard of living. There wer...
[04:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1957518 [nih.gov] https://www.themaven.net [themaven.net]
[04:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:03] <exec> 08└─Hey, moron. Tell me something I don't know.
[04:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pulsars Could Host "Habitable" Exoplanets With Thick Atmospheres - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:23] <exec> 08└─So maybe indeed just solid rock instead of an atmosphere? http://www.techtimes.com [techtimes.com] "The key factor here, though, is that these microbes sustained extreme heat underground with tempe...
[04:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chatbots Could "Learn" About Words Using Implicit Confirmation - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:07] <exec> 08└─Which is why you don’t filter it out, you make a bunch of different ones so the trolls don’t get hold of all of them.
[04:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:31] <exec> 08└─Might want to look into vitamin D, Elderberry, and Zinc for warding off colds and flus. Other ideas: https://www.drfuhrman.com [drfuhrman.com]
[04:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:25] <exec> 08└─Another weird thing with your government (Federal) is having the numbers of representatives capped at 535. For such a big country it seems weird to have the representatives so diluted. Canada with 1/10 the population has about 3/5ths the representatives. Your founders thought it was important too, w...
[04:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:27] <exec> 08└─I'm just saying it takes voter initiative to do it. I doubt the current crop of politicians want to change anything that threatens their gravy train..
[04:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:29] <exec> 08└─FWIW, congress did not make a law in conflict with this constitutional amendment.
[04:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe a hybrid - but those are a hard sell too. And I really don't want an SUV. I don't suppose this is an area of expertise, that there might be a safety-prioritized hybrid AWD that you personally think is worth investigating?
[04:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:43] <exec> 08└─I don't know. https://www.google.com [google.com] Ford Fusion Hybrid is listed there but is actually front wheel drive. Toyota RAV4 Hybrid has an all wheel drive variant, but it's an SUV. Buick LaCrosse maybe? https://blog.caranddriver.com
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[05:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:14] <exec> 08└─Fuck off chic-fil-a, beef is what's for dinner.
[05:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:15] <exec> 08└─Not before I sell those old books to pay for weed.
[05:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:17] <exec> 08└─And make the animals move less, by keeping them local
[05:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:20] <exec> 08└─B12 is also found in shrooms
[05:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:22] <exec> 08└─It says eat more from local grasslands. Doesn't that mean they eat from far away grassland now? IE, they move a lot, migrating western movie style, at least that is how I see pastureland. Maybe I mixed it, and they don't walk much, and as you say, they cut and move the grass. But for me that is farm...
[05:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:24] <exec> 08└─We don't even need to shift away from meat. Just shift from beef to chicken.
[05:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:26] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure this was written by a vegan that doesn't like tasty tasty beef.
[05:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:28] <exec> 08└─It's wool from a particular kind of goat. The subsidy was established to ensure that there would be enough wool for uniforms in times of war A good use of taxpayer dollars? Uniforms have been synthetic since 1960
[05:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:31] <exec> 08└─How many mushrooms do you need to eat every day to get that B12? [southmill.com] 200? [google.com] The amount of B12 in mushrooms varies from crop to crop. One serve will provide about 2-4% of the RDI. However, that level may be an important amount over a lifetime for a vegan who loves their mushroo...
[05:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:33] <exec> 08└─We could eat vat grown vegetarians.
[05:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:35] <exec> 08└─Negative. The sort of migratory patterns you talk of still exist in a few states, but it's not used much at all. Even in Texas, cattle typically are fenced in, and they live within that same fenced area almost all of their lives. In west Texas, that pasture may be thousands or even tens of thousands...
[05:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:58] <exec> 08└─Pascal pointers are just plain painful to work with.
[05:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:28] <exec> 08└─It's because the babies were born with an unholy case of the munchies and nursed more. And that applied to the third trimester too, meaning the placenta became more efficient at drawing nutrients.
[05:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:29] <exec> 08└─Yea, that was my thought as I typed the above. Unluckily it is hard to find studies from the '70's and I might be mis-remembering dates. Here's one from the '94, http://druglibrary.org [druglibrary.org] which shows no differences at 3 days and at 1 month, to quot...
[05:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pulsars Could Host "Habitable" Exoplanets With Thick Atmospheres - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:51] <exec> 08└─It doesn't sound like complex life would make the cut.
[05:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:20] <exec> 08└─Who was murdered? A fetus isn't a "who", it's a "what".
[05:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:57] <exec> 08└─You ARE exaggerating that "win" of the popular vote. The difference in the vote count was LESS THAN, not more than, 3 million. But, we don't live in a democracy, we live in a republic. The republic has a set of laws and procedures for picking our "representatives". Don't like those laws? Then addres...
[05:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:58] <exec> 08└─Again - the US is not a democracy. The deliberations of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held in strict secrecy. Consequently, anxious citizens gathered outside Independence Hall when the proceedings ended in order to learn what had been produced behind closed doors. The answer was prov...
[05:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:00] <exec> 08└─So - the cops are in a position to understand that a dangerous situation is developing. They have the means to relieve the pressure, and avert the danger. But, you would rather the danger were allowed to develop, before deploying the tools that would have averted the danger. Think that whole thing t...
[05:22:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 247 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:39] <exec> 08└─Well, such as: “The Foreign Ministry, the Ministry for Foreign Economic Ties, the State Education Committee, the Ministry of Culture, the Peace Committee, the Academy of Science, etc. can be used as well as theatre, art shows, cinema, tourism…
[05:22:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:52] <exec> 08└─The soviets were far more afraid of us than we were of them.
[05:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:55] <exec> 08└─I've been modding most of your comments down because they're borderline off-topic...honestly, you sound like you have early-onset dementia, and you also sound more than a little bit like Ye Great Orange Arse'ole up in the White House, with your weird mix of off-the-mark insults, grandiose self-flatt...
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[06:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eight Lawsuits Filed Against Apple Over iPhone Slowdowns - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:54] <exec> 08└─A couple of the complaints seek court orders barring Apple from throttling iPhone computer speeds or requiring notification in future instances.
[06:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Eight Lawsuits Filed Against Apple Over iPhone Slowdowns - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:55] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with just a symbol of a dead battery in the status bar?
[06:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:23] <exec> 08└─Wait for research demonstrating genetic adaptation to certain diets to mature. It ought to turn this whole vegan/vegetarian thing on its head if there's proof that it's something some people are able to do and others aren't. I'm likely in the can't group, even if I wish I were in the can group. Ever...
[06:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:24] <exec> 08└─I tried giving up meat on a few occasions but it didn't go very well. Some of the "fake" versions of food (eg. chicken nuggets) were absolutely disgusting and left a putrid stench in the air (at least to my nostrils). Fake burgers I tried taste ok on the first bite but after that it's gross. On the...
[06:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:48] <exec> 08└─The Lisa was slow because the hard drive used some parallel interface running half duplex.
[06:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:48] <exec> 08└─If the people in the USA weren't ALL COWS, those politicians would have all been voted out. Instead COWS GO MOOOOO!
[06:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:49] <exec> 08└─Polite requests while holing a weapon are threats.
[06:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:46] <exec> 08└─Such pettiness. And, no, I didn't moderate your post - yet anyhow. Some other individual decided that he didn't like your trolling. But, whatever. You do realize that you're aging. You are no spring chicken. Even if I accept your statement that you are half my age, you're over the hill. Menopause wi...
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[07:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Voice-Generating AI is Now Indistinguishable From Humans - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:54] <exec> 08└─Your phone has virus making your battery slow. Please to be signing up for more targeted advertising to win a free battery replacement.
[07:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Voice-Generating AI is Now Indistinguishable From Humans - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:55] <exec> 08└─Female voices make me want to kill every woman.
[07:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eight Lawsuits Filed Against Apple Over iPhone Slowdowns - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:06] <exec> 08└─If they stopped throttling iPhone computer speeds you would get sudden shutdowns.
[07:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:35] <exec> 08└─Most synthetic fibers melt. Having your sleeve melt to your skin because you brushed up against a hot barrel would really suck. Most uniforms these days seem to have around 50% cotton or wool. 100% cotton is best, imo. There are some synthetic materials that work better than cotton (for fire resista...
[07:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:36] <exec> 08└─Don't regulate and allow the market to take care of it. If food is really needed, people will buy the cheaper food. We have enough food, hence there is no market drive to reduce land usage.
[07:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:38] <exec> 08└─http://tastyislandhawaii.com/2013/03/15/costco-eats-morningstar-farms-chipotle-black-bean-veggie-burger/ [tastyislandhawaii.com]
[07:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:41] <exec> 08└─I will admit your linked recipe looks very cheap to make. White or brown rice is cheap, dried black beans are cheap, onions can be as low as $0.30/lb, and bread crumbs can substitute for the walnuts. Ketchup and spices can be added instead of BBQ sauce if none is available. Even the cheapest bulk gr...
[07:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:43] <exec> 08└─In other words, you got one-upped.
[07:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:08] <exec> 08└─That can't be the reason. Having an HDD in the first place was obscene luxury back then. I never used a Lisa, but as I recall reading in DTACK Grounded [easy68k.com], it had an MMU which slowed down memory access time (68000 had no on-chip MMU) and the OS was written in a high level language.
[07:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:40] <exec> 08└─Well, you might not, but I am perfectly comfortable with giving other people advise and reasoning with them. Furthermore, when their actions impact another human being, I am more than willing to condone the removal of someone else's autonomy if their actions are deemed harmful to that other human be...
[07:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:42] <exec> 08└─Before legalization I didn't smell pot everywhere. In my 15 min drive to work I pass three different houses growing enough that I can smell it from a distance, I presume the grow is not just for fun. At least twice a week I encounter a person smoking pot as I walk from my parking structure to work,...
[07:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:44] <exec> 08└─Keep censoring me, dumbfuck. Try harder, incompetent fascist wannabe. Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has tem/porarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If y...
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[08:18:03] <exec> 08└─Red Pillar detected! Penisectomy indicated. Proceed?
[08:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:47] <exec> 08└─Uniforms have been synthetic since 1960
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[08:19:13] <exec> 08└─Why a single line? All video codecs I can think of use rectangular blocks. A 6502 trying to decode an 8x8 block would be limited by the time it takes to do a software 32-bit fixed-point integer multiply (probably 500 cycles or some such), not by memory size or I/O. 4,096 6502 cores with 64KB each wo...
[08:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:49] <exec> 08└─Not sure what this "prego" means, but maybe lay off the pot for a while?
[08:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:19] <exec> 08└─I really did laugh out loud when I saw that, and you're right. TMB gave them the hand :) TMB, Hope you get better man.
[08:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:20] <exec> 08└─Everybody has a testing environment; some are lucky enough to have a separate production environment.
[08:22:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:52] <exec> 08└─pretty strong indication
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[09:18:49] <exec> 08└─As takyon has noted, that is simply trace amounts. You'd be full of fungus long before you had eaten enough to get the RDA. ...and, as TFS notes: PILLS. Some dudes figured out how to make the stuff about half a century ago. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[10:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:00] <exec> 08└─How would those poor patent trolls feed their starving children? Do we not care about our fellow.......I can't go on.......too nauseous......to finish.....joke....gag...
[10:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:02] <exec> 08└─I'll just copy over my comments from the /. story [slashdot.org]: It should be made really easy for a patent to be challenged. Set some portion of the USPTO's time aside for patent challenges, make it cheap to file a challenge (but such that the USPTO's costs are at least recovered) and put the onus...
[10:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Voice-Generating AI is Now Indistinguishable From Humans - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:12] <exec> 08└─have they tested how *annoying* the voice is?
[10:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eight Lawsuits Filed Against Apple Over iPhone Slowdowns - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:22] <exec> 08└─Looks like they made a reasonable technical decision. Fine that it's not the one you would make but what's with the lawsuit? Have people got nothing better to do?
[10:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah but cotton is crap in cold wet. Dying of hypothermia sucks.
[10:20:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:34] <exec> 08└─Blackburn recoiled when a Reuters reporter showed her some of the photographs, taken by government officials involved in the raid.
[10:20:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 152 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:40] <exec> 08└─Federal Agents Found Preserved Babies During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse, and someone should hang for murder Call them what they are!
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[11:18:18] <exec> 08└─Once you have the spectrogram, output is defined. What is wavenet really doing?
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[12:18:30] <exec> 08└─Looks like they made a reasonable technical decision.
[12:19:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 470 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:00] <exec> 08└─Most synthetic fibers melt. Having your sleeve melt to your skin because you brushed up against a hot barrel would really suck. Most uniforms these days seem to have around 50% cotton or wool. 100% cotton is best, imo. There are some synthetic materials that work better than cotton (for fire resista...
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[12:19:05] <exec> 08└─Uniforms have been synthetic since 1960
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[13:18:38] <exec> 08└─I doubt it will have much impact on the angry customers and lawsuits (I mean, everyone wants apple to make them rich, right?!), but apple released this statement and is reducing the cost of battery replacements to $29 for the affected devices: https://www.apple.com [a...
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[13:20:17] <exec> 08└─Asking their mom?
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[14:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microneedle Patch Could Help Burn Fat - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:52] <exec> 08└─The receptor influenced by the first drug plays an unknown (according to Wikipedia) role in urination and is suspected to also have a function in the central nervous system. I didn't even bother to look up the second. Is *that* the kind of stuff you want to bring into wide circulation among users of...
[14:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microneedle Patch Could Help Burn Fat - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:53] <exec> 08└─Have you met people? They really are that stupid. "Oh it will make me lose 30% of my weight? Awesome" ... and then after a bit of time they think that if one pill makes me lose 30% perhaps 2 pills will make me lose 60% ... I'm so going to be ready for Beach 2018 if I just pop 3-4 of them at the same...
[14:18:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gringer [962] 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:13] <exec> 08└─I'll just copy over my comments from the /. story [slashdot.org]: It should be made really easy for a patent to be challenged. Set some portion of the USPTO's time aside for patent challenges, make it cheap to file a challenge (but such that the USPTO's costs are at least recovered) and put the onus...
[14:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:14] <exec> 08└─Ta Da! problem solved
[14:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:16] <exec> 08└─Really, it's obvious. TFA tells us nothing we didn't already know: people tend to do what pays off. The patent office get more fees by approving patents, so they approve lots of patents. If you want to improve the patent process, adjust the incentives accordingly. You could realistically debate whet...
[14:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Voice-Generating AI is Now Indistinguishable From Humans - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:28] <exec> 08└─Found the German BMW driver! [hoaxorfact.com]
[14:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Voice-Generating AI is Now Indistinguishable From Humans - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:30] <exec> 08└─I hear Fran Drescher was its trainer.
[14:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Voice-Generating AI is Now Indistinguishable From Humans - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:32] <exec> 08└─But still cannot pronounce my name right. Some great fake AI there.
[14:18:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Eight Lawsuits Filed Against Apple Over iPhone Slowdowns - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:42] <exec> 08└─If they stopped throttling iPhone computer speeds you would get sudden shutdowns.
[14:18:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Eight Lawsuits Filed Against Apple Over iPhone Slowdowns - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:45] <exec> 08└─Looks like they made a reasonable technical decision.
[14:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Eight Lawsuits Filed Against Apple Over iPhone Slowdowns - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:48] <exec> 08└─The problem is if the owner is aware the battery in knackered they might attempt to have the battery replaced thus extending the life of the phone. This means one less sale of the shiny new iPhone 7XL2000Jeewhiz edition for only $999.99. Fuck Apple.
[14:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eight Lawsuits Filed Against Apple Over iPhone Slowdowns - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:50] <exec> 08└─Define "reasonable". Your definition won't include "serving the paying customer". It will include "maximizing profit".
[14:18:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 1947 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:00] <exec> 08└─From: https://www.westernwatersheds.org [westernwatersheds.org] Cropland- About 349 million acres in the U.S. are planted for crops. This is the equivalent of about four states the size of Montana. Four crops -- feeder corn (80 million acres), soybea...
[14:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:28] <exec> 08└─The old books are on the Falcon... see them again, we will, even if page turners they are not.
[14:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:29] <exec> 08└─I thought the real message was that we don't actually need to reduce meat consumption at all, just shift the mode of production to be more feedstock based and we can free up the rangeland for other uses. Doesn't do much for my wife, who strongly prefers "grass fed" beef, but for the majority of the...
[14:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:57] <exec> 08└─In the meantime you could try out pharo [pharo.org] and have what the Lisa should have become if the McIntosh did not do a step backwards from smalltalk inspired object systems to monolithic applications.
[14:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 1801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:58] <exec> 08└─I do neglect the joys of hardware floating point acceleration... if you're doing floating point operations, then, yes - you'll want one of those (which is probably on-par with the size of the 6502+64K RAM) Still, most people forget that the 6502 "performance" they are used to was running on ~4MHz cl...
[14:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:00] <exec> 08└─My masters' thesis demonstrated a dataflow programming system for an array of parallel DSPs, I think my simulated system had 16 DSPs on a single shared communication bus, with a 68000 control processor; this was in 1989, the PS3 Cell processor ended up launching with a very similar architecture. I u...
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[15:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microneedle Patch Could Help Burn Fat - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:01] <exec> 08└─I will observe that these patches don't promise to reduce fat. Instead, they promise to change white fat cells into brown fat cells. So, uhhh - no one is going to reduce the number of fat cells, only the configuration of those cells. Also, I've never heard that brown fat cells are harmful, in any wa...
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[15:18:37] <exec> 08└─AC is a very common name (here on SN), I suspect "she" can pronounce it perfectly.
[15:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:31] <exec> 08└─Fertilizers are free, they come from a hole in Florida: https://www.google.com!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x88dd38b2df0f0007:0x29d1320fb8a2d508!8m2!3d28.0394654!4d-81.9498042 [google.com] And, as for the B12 bacteria - how do you think the cows mak...
[15:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:32] <exec> 08└─Allowing the market to "take care of it" will ensure that every possible externalization of costs will be exploited to the fullest. This includes things like toxic waste dumping on pasturelands (mostly due to use of toxic chemicals for pest removal from cattle), destruction and degradation of wildla...
[15:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:34] <exec> 08└─Or, to put another spin on it, we don't really have enough land - or so says the 6th mass extinction event. If that's a thing that you care about, then habitat restoration is one important piece to slow the extinctions.
[15:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:36] <exec> 08└─Never tried grilling, but pan fried lentil burgers (with egg and bread crumbs for structure) hold up pretty well.
[15:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Teckla [3812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:07] <exec> 08└─I think this is really cool, though I do wish companies would release "old" source code sooner. They always seem to wait until the code is positively ancient, rather than releasing something when it might still have a teensy, tiny bit of value (besides nostalgia and tinkering). For example, it would...
[15:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Teckla [3812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:16] <exec> 08└─Hope you feel better soon, TMB. Thanks for all the hard work. :-) Just a quick question/request: Does SN have a mobile site, and if not, are there any plans to create one? Thanks in advance!
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[16:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:52] <exec> 08└─In this context, crime is that activity that generates a record of arrest and charges filed. "Just being male..." is quite enough to get one arrested more frequently - leaded, unleaded, ethyl or premium.
[16:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:54] <exec> 08└─Just being male had a stronger effect
[16:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microneedle Patch Could Help Burn Fat - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:10] <exec> 08└─To be fair, a lot of the people with that attitude are already resorting to nicotine, amphetamines, or plain old eating disorders to get or stay thin. I'm in favor of the research, if not the use of the resulting drug for human use. We don't understand as much about the human metabolism as we would...
[16:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Based Technology Can Send a Distress Signal Up to "Several Kilometers" - 4637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:22] <exec> 08└─First of all I think everyone is familiar with the fact that WiFi signals simply don't travel very far. This is because it is always on 2.4ghz or 5.8ghz with power levels of a few hundred milliwatts and the nature of microwave RF communication. You can do things to make this communication distance l...
[16:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Based Technology Can Send a Distress Signal Up to "Several Kilometers" - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:24] <exec> 08└─You just gotta build this [wikimedia.org] into the phone. The wifi won't cut it. Well, I suppose you could put both on the same chip.
[16:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:35] <exec> 08└─As with the problems with the FC and phone and cable companies, this is not democracy, it's regulatory capture, but by lawyers this time.
[16:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:36] <exec> 08└─it's regulatory capture And only the voters can free the government from that trap. If they don't don't it, nobody will. With a 95% reelection rate, where's the incentive to change anything?
[16:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:38] <exec> 08└─Very true.
[16:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Voice-Generating AI is Now Indistinguishable From Humans - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:54] <exec> 08└─Vocalizing the audio in any voice you would like. I don't think the spectrogram is 100% actual voice data ready to send to an output audio buffer.
[16:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Voice-Generating AI is Now Indistinguishable From Humans - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:55] <exec> 08└─Will they publish their NN datasets? Are they using TensorFlow or some modified version? How soon until I can buy a box of "voice chips"?
[16:19:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Eight Lawsuits Filed Against Apple Over iPhone Slowdowns - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:08] <exec> 08└─The problem is if the owner is aware the battery in knackered they might attempt to have the battery replaced thus extending the life of the phone. This means one less sale of the shiny new iPhone 7XL2000Jeewhiz edition for only $999.99. Fuck Apple.
[16:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eight Lawsuits Filed Against Apple Over iPhone Slowdowns - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:11] <exec> 08└─Considering all the abuses that communications carriers perpetrate, downrating a CPU because of low voltage is what people are litigating about? AYFKM?
[16:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:55] <exec> 08└─What little I know of cattle comes from central Florida where they run a lot of cow-calf operations. The calves are raised in Florida until they're ready to handle a winter "up north" then sold and shipped up there to be grown large and slaughtered. Apparently this is somehow more efficient than wor...
[16:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:56] <exec> 08└─That is what this research is about: we can eat almost as many vegetarians as we currently do, just feed them more efficiently.
[16:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 2327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:58] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why we need to save pasturage. What is the purpose? Honestly, so many of these proposals read like they were composed by people who have never, ever been to the places they're talking about and who are pushing some grand vision based on a theoretical fantasy that has no basis in r...
[16:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:00] <exec> 08└─So, cannibalism is a bad idea to start with, but, think about the flesh found in the prison system, and what kind of residuals would be in the muscle and fat, even after cooking...
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[16:20:31] <exec> 08└─> ... smalltalk inspired object systems ... Tell us more about the advantages of this design? Is it available anywhere currently?
[16:20:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dry [223] 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 472 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:58] <exec> 08└─There were studies done in the '70's, in Jamaica where people use a lot of marijuana. The findings were that babies exposed to larger amounts of pot as fetuses were born slightly larger. They weren't sure if it was the pot or the subjects selling pot and having a higher standard of living. There wer...
[16:20:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:00] <exec> 08└─https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1957518 [nih.gov] https://www.themaven.net [themaven.net]
[16:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ragequit [44] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:10] <exec> 08└─But that's rather the point. 1. The data is unclear, so there is no direct evidence to believe that it will cause more harm than overdosing on vitamin C. 2. Women who are going to smoke pot against their doctors' advise aren't going to listen to you, way up there on your high horse. 3. Given #2, we...
[16:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:11] <exec> 08└─I dont know that more people are smoking, but I know that people are smoking more.
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[17:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:58] <exec> 08└─Just being male is not really a standard for odds ratios, is it?
[17:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:00] <exec> 08└─Who would want to live in a place with no fucking crime? I have lived in such a place, reason there was no crime to be seen was because if you farted in the basement of your home, not only would the secret police have a record of it, but said record would describe in vivid detail what it smelled lik...
[17:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:02] <exec> 08└─"Just being male..." is quite enough to get one arrested more frequently
[17:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:04] <exec> 08└─if you farted in the basement of your home, not only would the secret police have a record of it, but said record would describe in vivid detail what it smelled like. Lack of crime is a symptom of something really fucking nefarious.
[17:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:06] <exec> 08└─As in, non-existent? It's like you have to discount everything do-gooders say by a factor of ten, to estimate the real importance.
[17:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proteins Can Now be Built From Scratch to "Do What We Want" - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:15] <exec> 08└─"Artisanal" - I just puked all over my keyboard
[17:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proteins Can Now be Built From Scratch to "Do What We Want" - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:17] <exec> 08└─That's not how you make new proteins.
[17:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microneedle Patch Could Help Burn Fat - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, hardly anybody in the Western world eats a high fat diet anymore. The culprit these days is high-sugar, high-starch diets. Testing this treatment against a high fat diet doesn't necessarily show it will be effective in people eating the more common high-sugar, high-starch diet.
[17:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Based Technology Can Send a Distress Signal Up to "Several Kilometers" - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:42] <exec> 08└─You might not need a helicopter if a tethered balloon would work (or even an untethered one, if the equipment is cheap enough) - these days, you could use a drone. The point is, if you can easily get line-of-sight , then the phone tells you where it is GPS-wise - you don't need to be running a detai...
[17:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Voice-Generating AI is Now Indistinguishable From Humans - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:13] <exec> 08└─I'll grant that the results are pretty good, however, I had no trouble distinguishing the humans from the AI voices, even though in each case there was just one sentence. I suspect if there were an entire paragraph of speech it would become even more obvious.
[17:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eight Lawsuits Filed Against Apple Over iPhone Slowdowns - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:30] <exec> 08└─…other phones don't "suddenly shut down" and they don't have this "feature"…
[17:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eight Lawsuits Filed Against Apple Over iPhone Slowdowns - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:31] <exec> 08└─I would rather that my phone crash a couple times, forcing me to either opt-in, or to get a new battery.
[17:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:19] <exec> 08└─135 hectares ~= 334 acres [google.com], or about 1/2 square mile [google.com]. I had no idea France was so small! Of course, in TFA the figure was 135 million hectares. But hey, what's a few orders of magnitude between friends?
[17:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:21] <exec> 08└─This proposal's sustainability is based on the idea of using distiller's grains, the waste from alcohol production, to feed cattle instead of throwing it away. This is a good, tested, and proven idea. Distillers Grains are a good food for cattle. They are far better for feeding cattle than straight...
[17:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 1671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:54] <exec> 08└─The multiplication complexity is dependent on the barrel shifter, which requires a square array, so, if we assume 32K transistors (ballpark of the above quote) for a 32 bit unit, we'd get away with 8K transistors for a 16x16 bit unit. To do a 32x32 multiply, we'd need four uses of the 16x16 grid, so...
[17:21:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dry [223] 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 637 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:25] <exec> 08└─Yea, that was my thought as I typed the above. Unluckily it is hard to find studies from the '70's and I might be mis-remembering dates. Here's one from the '94, http://druglibrary.org [druglibrary.org] which shows no differences at 3 days and at 1 month, to quot...
[17:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:34] <exec> 08└─Your anecdotes may merely show that the pot growing and consumption is now in the open, rather than hidden.
[17:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:36] <exec> 08└─I have no place in telling a pregnant woman (other than, perhaps, one I pregnated) what she should or shouldn't do,
[17:22:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 334 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:07] <exec> 08└─This story is part of a multi-week series Reuters has been doing about the body parts trade. Most of the series is fascinating as an outsider, but I suspect they are hoping to make it into a big social deal or elicit clickbait-like behavior with it. A lot of the articles focus on "shocking" details...
[17:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:27] <exec> 08└─THis article totally sounds like a sci-fi plotline.
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[18:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:07] <exec> 08└─Well, one thing authoritarians love to do is engineer the very conditions that make people want to put authoritarians in power. If the link between lead and crime is disproved, I'll bet that Republicans in charge of states with lead problems will suddenly find the funds to fix it.
[18:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:09] <exec> 08└─Lesbian couples experience the most domestic violence, and gay men experience the least. Don't hold your breath waiting for science to knock down the female superiority narrative.
[18:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:11] <exec> 08└─http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/12/new-zealand-study-provides-more-support-for-lead-crime-hypothesis/ [motherjones.com] "Unfortunately, that blunt statement in the press release seems to be taking the place of reading and understanding what the study actually says. As it turns out, I thin...
[18:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:13] <exec> 08└─Don't hold your breath waiting for science to knock down the female superiority narrative.
[18:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:15] <exec> 08└─Just wait a little while, and we won't need females anymore either. Watch for artificial wombs and male pregnancy. So the question is, if we don't need males, and we don't need females either, does that mean we'll all be Bots? Hmm, Megaman X leads me to believe that bots still have gender. And sexua...
[18:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proteins Can Now be Built From Scratch to "Do What We Want" - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:25] <exec> 08└─I don't know, I read about this development, and all I can think about is how one mistake (or deliberate act) can totally ruin a species (or multiple). For example, "mad cow disease", was caused by Prions [wikipedia.org], essentially misfolded proteins that cause havoc. Best bit is, being neither vi...
[18:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microneedle Patch Could Help Burn Fat - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:37] <exec> 08└─Surely taking excess quantities of T3 will make anyone lose weight, independent of how it is administered. Anyone ever heard of hyperthyroidism?
[18:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microneedle Patch Could Help Burn Fat - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:39] <exec> 08└─FWIW, and I don't know why, I believe that brown fat cells have a higher probability of turning cancerous than white fat cells. I'm sure this is based on something I read at some point, but it may have been a "that seems likely" kind of thought. But it is certain that we are born with a higher propo...
[18:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Based Technology Can Send a Distress Signal Up to "Several Kilometers" - 2600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:55] <exec> 08└─I think the biggest concern is that you have no idea if anyone is actually using this app, so it's just one more thing that the search party might have to look for. They could be transmitting on wifi, they could be transmitting on ham bands, or FRS emergency bands, or...? Someone better be building...
[18:19:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 530 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:05] <exec> 08└─Really, it's obvious. TFA tells us nothing we didn't already know: people tend to do what pays off. The patent office get more fees by approving patents, so they approve lots of patents. If you want to improve the patent process, adjust the incentives accordingly. You could realistically debate whet...
[18:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:10] <exec> 08└─And then tomorrow the corporate entities will pay someone in their employee to "hold" the patent so the lawsuit may be issued in that person's name. Then you make penalties for individuals to file frivolous patent suits (similar to SLAPP). Then you have legitimate-but-borderline patents which are re...
[18:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:12] <exec> 08└─I thought this was obvious from the wrought iron sign erected above the gates to the USPTO which reads "GRANT THEM ALL AND LET THE COURTS SORT THEM OUT"
[18:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Voice-Generating AI is Now Indistinguishable From Humans - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:31] <exec> 08└─It's pretty damn good compared to voice assistants that are in use or Daniel (UK) or whatever. Let's hope this can be used with stuff like Mycroft [mycroft.ai], Jasper [github.io], or Lucida [lucida.ai].
[18:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eight Lawsuits Filed Against Apple Over iPhone Slowdowns - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:49] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you what happened to me this morning. My charger wasn't plugged in last night so I woke at 5:45 AM to a 1% battery reading. I woke at 5:45 because I was on the road to work at 5:50; this is two and a half hours earlier than normal for me because I had things I had to do. On the way I got a...
[18:20:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:08] <exec> 08└─And make the animals move less, by keeping them local
[18:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:40] <exec> 08└─and me fresh out of mod points +++++ Insightful
[18:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Lisa Source Code Recovered, to be Released in 2018 by Computer History Museum - 2470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:14] <exec> 08└─Sorry, didn't check you on everything, but I think you missed on the RAM 64Kx6 = 384K. Not sure about balancing transistors dedicated to RAM with transistors dedicated to CPU core, that's kind of the whole RISCey joy of the 6502, not much CPU, but it does lots of things well. Any real-life projects...
[18:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:56] <exec> 08└─If every day you can smell pot from 1k feet away from the nearest residential area from the inside of a car, there is something weird going on in that neighborhood I voted for legalization, I just didn't expect to smell it non-stop everywhere I go. If a neighbor starts growing or whatever and I have...
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[19:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:53] <exec> 08└─The point of origin is designated by a pyramid with a circle on top.
[19:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:55] <exec> 08└─These are the same folks that hacked our election?!
[19:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:57] <exec> 08└─Russia is accusing the US of 'direct interference' in its elections [businessinsider.com]
[19:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:59] <exec> 08└─There are going to be some sad-faced people at some insurance companies today! :)
[19:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:02] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure you don't get to launch a satellite in Russia with your own programming. Knowing next to nothing about rocket science, I don't see why this should be a fatal error. The orbit might be wrong, but might be correctable with a lot of fuel wastage. Unless the boosters shut down prematurely, y...
[19:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:04] <exec> 08└─Just more Russian trolling. Everyone already knows that Russia's elections are rigged, most of the candidates are thrown in to make it look like a contest, and the media won't give air time to real anti-Putin candidates. A U.S. State Dept. statement is pretty indirect, especially since most Russians...
[19:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:06] <exec> 08└─It's easy to hack crappy and exposed computer systems. Not as easy to launch a rocket properly when you have drunkards and krokodil users on staff.
[19:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:08] <exec> 08└─Not implying anything, but typically rockets launched by responsible nations have self destruct procedures for serious off-course errors. As per the Angola's one, Ukraine-Russia cooperation (as in first stage - second stage) sounds like a bad idea at the moment.
[19:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:10] <exec> 08└─Lesser problems have been fatal errors - there's the explosion of Ariane 5 for example, you may know it (its the one with the overflow bug that lead to it exploding), but here's a write-up: https://www.around.com [around.com] Presumably this one was a less dramatic failure, though.
[19:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:29] <exec> 08└─Note that this also correlates with a decline in the age cohort which does most of the crime. Reducing lead reduces the number of young people!
[19:18:31] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 493 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:31] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty small sample to try to derive any strong conclusion from. And the fact that "being male" was a stronger effect doesn't mean much when that's a already known, and fairly strong, effect. (One can argue about the reasons, but the effect is observable.) The most this study could do is su...
[19:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:33] <exec> 08└─Just wait a little while, and we won't need females anymore either.
[19:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:35] <exec> 08└─Male pregnancy, while possible, is not going to be desirable in light of artificial wombs [theverge.com]. Complicated surgeries, possible uterine donation needed, possible risks to the fetus or incubator's health from hormonal imbalance. Once artificial wombs are perfected, you'll have a predictable...
[19:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:37] <exec> 08└─Echo this. Given the small number of children, the short time span, age ranges and geographic distribution there could also easily be a handful of families, a school, a teacher or two, an unusually wet/dry/windy set of years, etc that create anomalous numbers.
[19:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:40] <exec> 08└─I'll take ethyl.. and myrtle.. and, what the hell, clyde too!
[19:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 1611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:42] <exec> 08└─Even the prior studies suggested that the effects on lead were exhibited predominantly in males. with almost no significant effect on females. This was never adequately explained, but it was always there. (That was one of the first stories I submitted to SN way back). So if this study included femal...
[19:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:44] <exec> 08└─I think it supports the lead-crime hypothesis fairly well.
[19:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:46] <exec> 08└─They also included self reported crimes, rather than just those that left official records. I know lots of guys will cop to an adolescent joy ride just for bragging rights, and few who will claim to have been a lapdog all their life.
[19:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proteins Can Now be Built From Scratch to "Do What We Want" - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:57] <exec> 08└─Yep. I can imagine spitting hacked cobra poison right into the cop's eyes.
[19:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microneedle Patch Could Help Burn Fat - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:11] <exec> 08└─I think the point is targeting the fat stored under the skin. And a high fat diet was chosen to quickly bloat up the mice so that the technology could be tested. It's not like eating brown sugar-Os every day will create a "sugar layer" under your skin that can simply be rinsed away with water.
[19:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microneedle Patch Could Help Burn Fat - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:13] <exec> 08└─No, eating brown sugar-Os every day will create the same fat layer under the skin, along with the rest of the obesity-related disorders like diabetes that are all commonly associated with each other these days. They'd get the mice even fatter with a High Fructose Corn Syrup drip, and then not only w...
[19:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microneedle Patch Could Help Burn Fat - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:15] <exec> 08└─So you acknowledge that I'm correct, you're nitpicking, and the microneedle patch is going to work or fail the same way no matter which diet the mice/humans are on?
[19:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Based Technology Can Send a Distress Signal Up to "Several Kilometers" - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:31] <exec> 08└─I often have a 10 amp-hour battery in my pocket beside my phone
[19:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Based Technology Can Send a Distress Signal Up to "Several Kilometers" - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:33] <exec> 08└─True, but I've never seen one that actually reports the capacity in watt-hours, they always use amp-hours at a given voltage (5V in this case). And it's not just USB battery packs either...from AAs to phone lithium cells, every battery I've ever seen reports the capacity as amp-hours at a voltage.
[19:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:16] <exec> 08└─I was looking forward to getting a secondary high while enjoying the forbidden fruit of cannibalism! Damn internet trolls ruiin eeeveryyything.
[19:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:17] <exec> 08└─It is an odd dichotomy with you libertarians (sorry, I just assumed your political identity) where they desire total freedom because they view themselves as so smart that everything would auto-magically work out. Market evolution and all that. But, we come across ideas like reducing the amount of me...
[19:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:34] <exec> 08└─If every day you can smell pot from 1k feet away from the nearest residential area from the inside of a car, there is something weird going on in that neighborhood
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[20:17:55] <exec> 08└─All it takes is for the speaker to be connected to a misconfigured network and a simple internet scan.
[20:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:12] <exec> 08└─> The orbit might be wrong... Latitude matters -- the ground speed due to earth's rotation makes up part of the final orbital velocity. Is that enough of a clue?
[20:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:13] <exec> 08└─most of the candidates are thrown in to make it look like a contest,
[20:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:16] <exec> 08└─Not sure what kind of point you thought you made with that link [archive.is] added (and it was JavaScript hell). Putin-approved lame opposition candidates get to run. Remotely threatening candidates with strong criticism for Putin, aka Alexei Navalny [wikipedia.org], don't get to run. He'll be lucky...
[20:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:18] <exec> 08└─> Dmitry Rogozin said Meteor-M had been programmed for take-off from a different space station. And that's why you don't have car models named "Crash-and-Burn GX".
[20:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:20] <exec> 08└─I always thought the Integra LS was a great name.
[20:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:48] <exec> 08└─Doesn't that depend on the lap?
[20:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:49] <exec> 08└─Also on what crimes we are talking. Some things, the statute of limitations doesn't run out for a long time, or ever. Other crimes are not the cool kinds you admit to for bragging rights.
[20:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Based Technology Can Send a Distress Signal Up to "Several Kilometers" - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:35] <exec> 08└─For Pete sake, just send a Stingray up in an airplane looking for a regular cell phone connection beacon instead of dicking around with wifi. One loop route over Spain at 30,000 feet ought to do it. (At last a valid use for a Stingray!) (If I'm in the bush I'm going to be turning off wifi and blueto...
[20:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Based Technology Can Send a Distress Signal Up to "Several Kilometers" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:36] <exec> 08└─I think the biggest concern is that you have no idea if anyone is actually using this app,
[20:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Based Technology Can Send a Distress Signal Up to "Several Kilometers" - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:39] <exec> 08└─Also, people going into the back country away from any other source of help already know about PLBs and https://www.rei.com [rei.com]
[20:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:54] <exec> 08└─Not really you just don't allow anyone but the actual inventor to hold the patent. no exceptions, it can be licensed but never transferred when the inventor isn't around to hold it anymore it reverts to public domain
[20:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:26] <exec> 08└─As demonstrated, no single raindrop thinks it's responsible for the flood.
[20:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:27] <exec> 08└─Did I read this right, you're claiming the feed is brought to the cattle in all cases even after specifying that it was only for the final fattening?
[20:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:29] <exec> 08└─You honestly think that a native species with an ecology adapated to it and vice versa has the same impact as a non-native species? And you are totally unaware of what the midwest and Montana was like before it was turned into endless farmland, that it was a huge grassland with complex ecosystems an...
[20:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 2067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:31] <exec> 08└─Alright - so, can you name those synthetics which are good in cold and wet conditions? Let me talk about wool for a moment. When wool is saturated with water - that is, it is dripping wet, it still retains about 30% of it's insulation value. As you have already observed, cotton retains just about ze...
[20:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:49] <exec> 08└─You know that you encounter more people smokling, not people are smoking more. For all you know, the dude smoking a j walking down the street used to do it in his car to keep it on the low. And someone growing weed openly now might have used some random backwoods spot or the like. I think it's reaso...
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[21:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Offers $29 Battery Replacements in Response to iPhone Slowdown Scandal - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:53] <exec> 08└─This is a software induced slow down. The batteries are not the main complaint here. People expect reduced run time as phones age. Further, 29 bucks and 3 weeks without your phone, (to say nothing about all your data and pictures in someone else's hands for that period), is a pretty tough pill to sw...
[21:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Internet-Exposed Sonos and Bose Speakers Can be Hacked Remotely - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:08] <exec> 08└─Are there no passwords on these devices?
[21:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:58] <exec> 08└─Are you sure about that? What's reported may not be precisely the same as what actually happens. I would bet good money a hell of a lot of gay men are abused and don't report it because, well, they're gay. It's easier for lesbians to pass one another off as just friends or roommates...ask me how I k...
[21:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:59] <exec> 08└─Also 3) don't interface with crazy. Iris was beautiful, but because of who she and Colonel were, they were both buggier than a Minnesota picnic ground in July.
[21:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Link Between Lead Exposure and Criminality Could be Weaker Than Thought - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:02] <exec> 08└─Show me on the doll where the big mean scary feminist touched you. It's okay, honey, we know it happens to boys too.
[21:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microneedle Patch Could Help Burn Fat - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:28] <exec> 08└─Who the hell modded this down? I +1'd it but it's still at 0 even despite that :/ This is an important point; we really, REALLY ought not to mess with fundamental parts of our biology we don't know entirely what they do like this...
[21:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microneedle Patch Could Help Burn Fat - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:30] <exec> 08└─As I pointed out below, taking enough T3 is going to make you lose weight however method it gets into your body. Taking excess T3 is artificially inducing hyperthyroidism, which is associated with weight loss.
[21:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microneedle Patch Could Help Burn Fat - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:32] <exec> 08└─I acknowledge that you can gt the mice fat on a high fat diet, but it doesn't really replicate the complex of obesity-related disorders that this is likely to be used to treat. Mainly though I object to the continued use of "high fat diet" as the preferred means of fattening test subjects, because i...
[21:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Based Technology Can Send a Distress Signal Up to "Several Kilometers" - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:54] <exec> 08└─Presumably someone going into the bush might happen to mention it, don't you think? You took the trouble to install it, why wouldn't you let people know?
[21:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Based Technology Can Send a Distress Signal Up to "Several Kilometers" - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:55] <exec> 08└─It's usually not at 5V, even when the labelling seems to claim that. Assuming it's not a complete fabrication to start with, it's generally the sum of the rated capacities of the Li-ion cells in the battery bank, and thus should be multiplied by 3.7V; the amp-hours at 5V would naively be calculated...
[21:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:13] <exec> 08└─put the onus on the patent applicant to disprove a challenge of prior art,
[21:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:15] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Corporations are not the problem here. In fact their patents are likely to be of better quality than Joe Garage Shop's patents. They usually have people that can at least do a patent search and cost benefit analysis. In the modern world, Corporations are the only structures that can realist...
[21:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:17] <exec> 08└─Patents are valid for a specific period of time - regardless of who holds them.
[21:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't More Low-Quality Patents Get Rejected? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:19] <exec> 08└─Certainly, in today's rapidly changing technology landscape, patents need to be shorter and completely nonrenewable. Where did you get the idea that a patent was renewable?
[21:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:54] <exec> 08└─Modded up because, damn it, the truth about what "libertarian" means needs to be put out there.
[21:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massive Reduction in U.S. Pastureland Possible - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:55] <exec> 08└─Same thing happens to me. Despite the username (that's there as a callsign for my friends) I'm of entirely European stock, and going more than a few days with no meat does bad things to me. This may be because I don't eat eggs and only a little cheese for dairy, but it seems like my body just can't...
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[22:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Offers $29 Battery Replacements in Response to iPhone Slowdown Scandal - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:57] <exec> 08└─So what do we have? Shiny things that have a good brand, but increasingly shitty aspects. They're supposed to be desirable for the cognoscenti, but Microsoft has the smell of blood in the water, and is making a serious push for creatives - supposedly Apple's key audience. Even Linux is increasingly...
[22:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Offers $29 Battery Replacements in Response to iPhone Slowdown Scandal - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:59] <exec> 08└─From what I understand of the issue, the main problem isn't so much the normal reduction in battery lifespan people have come to expect so much as a reduction in the ability to main the necessary current to power the phone under high loads - something that typically doesn't become an issue for much...
[22:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Offers $29 Battery Replacements in Response to iPhone Slowdown Scandal - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:01] <exec> 08└─So they fuck with the battery and users should pay for the replacement. Isn't there some classaction lawsuit going on?
[22:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:10] <exec> 08└─Congratulations, and keep up the great work. This site (rather like devuan) has gone from some people shooting off at the mouth to a real, tangible thing in and of itself. (A large difference being that devuan shot off their mouth for years, screwing around and making betas-not-releases, before anyt...
[22:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:12] <exec> 08└─Seconded.
[22:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:14] <exec> 08└─How about you add a line at the top of the user page, right under... "This page was generated by a Horde of Underpaid Soylents for fyngyrz (6567)." ...that says either: Current Subscriber 😎 N days remaining ...or... Not a subscriber 👽 Subscribe Here [soylentnews.org] Or other similarly obv...
[22:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:17] <exec> 08└─Another thing... I really like the funny "page was generated by a murder of Those Who Guard The Wall for fyngyrz" line... because it often comes out funny. You might consider two thing on that one: First, provide an interface where we can make suggestions, and you can approve them, for more componen...
[22:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:19] <exec> 08└─Something I like to note is that while the green site has celebrated its 20th birthday, they still can't handle utf8. Our devs had that going within 6 months. . FTFS: Signed up over 6,800 user nicks/accounts That makes it sound like all of those were added this year. "Reached 68000+ signups" or "Pas...
[22:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:21] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you're talking about a group [google.com] of really smart birds. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:23] <exec> 08└─Now, that -would- be impressive. s/68000/6800 -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Internet-Exposed Sonos and Bose Speakers Can be Hacked Remotely - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:33] <exec> 08└─So people stupid enough to buy internet connected speakers, aren't able to have a decent firewall, end up being forced to listen to Rick Astley. If that doesn't teach them to stop believing marketing hype and/or have someone secure their network, I don't know what will.
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[23:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microbes Sampled and Sequenced Aboard the ISS - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:56] <exec> 08└─as well as assisting in the identification of DNA-based life on other planets.
[23:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microbes Sampled and Sequenced Aboard the ISS - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:58] <exec> 08└─diagnose and treat astronaut ailments in real time The "diagnose" part seems reasonable. ...as for the "treat" part, I'm trying to imagine just how big their medicine chest would have to be. ...and that assumes that a treatment for the H6N13 virus infection they have is even commercially available....
[23:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Offers $29 Battery Replacements in Response to iPhone Slowdown Scandal - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:09] <exec> 08└─Of course they aren't backing out on the changes, and proffered a "solution" designed to motivate people to upgrade to the latest phone rather than be out of contact for weeks. Planned obsolescence is obscene, as far as I'm concerned.
[23:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple Offers $29 Battery Replacements in Response to iPhone Slowdown Scandal - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:11] <exec> 08└─This comes from having a design mandate that every phone be thinner than the last, to the point where some phones bend and brake if you sit down with them in your pants pocket. I'm happy with my CAT S60 which I could throw against a brick wall with only cosmetic damage. The built in infra red is nic...
[23:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:26] <exec> 08└─Sorry, pop culture humor: In the HBO production "Game of Thrones", those who guard the wall of ice that protects the realm from things that lurk in the far north wear black. Because they wear black, they are known to those north of the wall as "crows." It's an unkind appellation, in general. So yes,...
[23:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly End-Of-The-Year Summary - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:28] <exec> 08└─Heh. OK, then. (It's easy to spot the guy who dropped out of the consumer culture in 2009 when his NTSC equipment became obsolete.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Internet-Exposed Sonos and Bose Speakers Can be Hacked Remotely - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:38] <exec> 08└─This is why the IoT idea is so dangerous. Those devices eagerly accept any configuration and receive from everywhere because security is very expensive: how many out of a thousand potential owners would be knowledgeable and willing to set up the thing securely and maintain that security? At work com...
[23:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:59] <exec> 08└─It's just amazing how aliterate USAians are of History and how often they give their own gov't a free pass on heinous behavior. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [wsws.org] There is no other country that intervenes in the political affairs of foreign states so directly, regularly and shamelessly as the...
[23:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite - 1309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:01] <exec> 08└─http://www.russianspaceweb.com/zenit-angosat-launch.html [russianspaceweb.com] It appears they have been able to re-establish communications with ANGOSAT-1! From the above link: During most of the day on December 28, the efforts to contact Angosat-1 continued and in the evening Moscow Time, the offi...
[23:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proteins Can Now be Built From Scratch to "Do What We Want" - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:44] <exec> 08└─I don't know, I read about this development, and all I can think about is how one mistake (or deliberate act) can totally ruin a species (or multiple).
[23:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Based Technology Can Send a Distress Signal Up to "Several Kilometers" - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:28] <exec> 08└─Just set your cellphone as a personal hotspot, with "HELP" and your location in the hotspot's name. Anybody looking to connect to wifi in the vicinity will see it. As for the kilometers of range, with an external antenna, wifi signals can be picked up at considerable distances. If doesn't even have...
[23:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Voice-Generating AI is Now Indistinguishable From Humans - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:08] <exec> 08└─How soon until I can buy a box of "voice chips"?
[23:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eight Lawsuits Filed Against Apple Over iPhone Slowdowns - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:28] <exec> 08└─Other phones do suddenly shut down without this feature.
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