#comments | Logs for 2018-01-06

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[00:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:07] <exec> 08└─I assume it's different kinds of addiction. But indeed if there are no side effects why wouldn't I just keep popping that pill like it was PEZ? I would be "immune" to pain more or less, I'm sure that can be useful under certain circumstances -- assuming that you don't get zombie level drowsy from th...
[00:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:08] <exec> 08└─What is the reason for pointing out "international team" here?
[00:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Largest European Soil Dataset Was Born - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:17] <exec> 08└─Europe likes to fight wars.
[00:18:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:37] <exec> 08└─I wonder what differences, if any, there would be in the appearance of the Earth from a person standing on the moon, compared to a "normal" full moon?
[00:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:45] <exec> 08└─The irony of all of this is that these "walled gardens" were ALLEGEDLY supposed to protect users from this kind of abuse. But clearly, the various vendors are all for abusive advertising and tracking. In the old days people had to read application reviews in magazines, then physically go to the stor...
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[00:21:46] <exec> 08└─and I count five (Blosser's, Stanfill's, Höglund's NVidia, Mayer's, and Höglund's AWS).
[00:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:48] <exec> 08└─I say bring on the elliptic curves.
[00:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:19] <exec> 08└─Fuck you. And I define that to mean I dislike silly word games. YMMV
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[01:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:10] <exec> 08└─If a pill really does take away pain, how can it not become addictive?
[01:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:11] <exec> 08└─Shorthand for multiple universities across the planet working on it.
[01:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 1936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:14] <exec> 08└─While I find it great to hear there is research ongoing into non-addictive opioid painkillers, I don't believe the kappa receptor is a great target. Although it provides analgesia (in the case of oxycodone, its 14-hydroxy group allows it to bond to the kappa receptor, increasing the analgesia) it al...
[01:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:51] <exec> 08└─So... try again.
[01:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:52] <exec> 08└─The legal statement you're supposed to sign conveys to the FSF any future rights and patents that might in some way be connected back to your patch; on paper, you're basically giving up participation in the patent/copyright system, which is exactly what the FSF wants. The FSF only likes copyright la...
[01:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:54] <exec> 08└─Yes and no - rather depends on your goals and values. The main difference between v2 and v3 are the anti-Tivoization clauses. Others will be able to explain this much more eloquently than I am able in a short post.
[01:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:56] <exec> 08└─Linus Torvalds promoted sticking with GPLv2
[01:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:59] <exec> 08└─So... try again.
[01:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'PUBG' is Quietly Changing Video Games With its 3D Replay Technology - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:39] <exec> 08└─I'd like to add, as a former Source-engine server admin myself, the demos produced by the Source engine are great but are finite in terms of resolution. It makes for easily discerning those "spin-botting" individuals who don't even bother to hide their cheats. But when it comes to players who are tr...
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[01:20:41] <exec> 08└─CS:GO has a mechanism built-in that allows players to report suspected cheaters. These players' games are then disseminated to specific players who can review these demos in a program called Overwatch. Demos which are deemed to be suspicious are further forwarded onto the game developers to be looke...
[01:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:36] <exec> 08└─First hacks on a TI Spelling Bee, then touching department store computers, got an Amstrad CPC, learned BASIC, learned Z80 assembly to cheat and crack games, learned 8080 assembly to program in CP/M, learned Pascal because I got a compiler, tried Forth but wasn't disciplined enough yet, learned rudi...
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[02:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:07] <exec> 08└─The deregulation of the internet is totally making life better for the customers. Yes sireeee.
[02:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:08] <exec> 08└─You folks know Over The Air television is still around, right? Perhaps they should put the word "wireless" in front of it and put a blue LED in the box or antenna then people would flock to it. I get the major networks and the main TV shows. Hardly anything worth watching on cable anyway. Good enoug...
[02:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:11] <exec> 08└─You mean American Gods [wikipedia.org] don't actually exist? Hollywood will go crazy! They thought they were the new Gods.
[02:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:13] <exec> 08└─Don't care. No TV, no cable, no Netflix. No worries. Wake me up when they start burning books and I'll get my pitchfork!
[02:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:41] <exec> 08└─What are you talking to me for? I'm not the AC playing the word games.
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[03:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Touché) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:08] <exec> 08└─They were doing the exact same thing last year and every other year before. The amount of regulation didn't change anything. You obviously know this but still decided to make a stupid argument anyways. Why?
[03:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:09] <exec> 08└─They're also raising Internet bills.
[03:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:11] <exec> 08└─The home of whiny bitches that can't do shit.
[03:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:14] <exec> 08└─I gave away my TV in 2003 and found my IQ jumped by 20 points in just 71 days!
[03:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:16] <exec> 08└─The idiots yak about "cutting the cord" while still being raped by cableco for internet access. Dumb fucks.
[03:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:18] <exec> 08└─I know you asked me to keep the security card that grants access to the mazes of your ass safe, but I gave it away. Don't be alarmed, however, because the one I gave it to was a kind, magnanimous, and charismatic little man, about the size of a thumb. He would never do anything malicious, since his...
[03:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:20] <exec> 08└─What are you gonna do instead...?
[03:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:23] <exec> 08└─Damn, I'll have to increase my rate of piracy and sell bootleg DVDs of zero-day movies to Mexicans just to get my money's worth.
[03:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:25] <exec> 08└─I'm far enough outside the closest major city that your "reception if you live out in the country" applies to me. I ditched my paid service and set my television up with an antenna. I had forty channels including CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox. A few years later it was down to fifteen channels including...
[03:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:27] <exec> 08└─We don't have an escape for paying for the internet access. if I was single, I could just move some place with cheaper internet. But with kids in school and a mortgage, I'm stuck with whatever Comcast feels like charging.
[03:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:29] <exec> 08└─If you cancel by phone, and forget to return the box, they will charge you for it.
[03:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:43] <exec> 08└─Does big pharma actually want a non-addictive painkiller though? At the moment they're making a killing legally selling opium, why would they want to switch to just-another-painkiller?
[03:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:44] <exec> 08└─Depends who you ask/examine at big pharma. I'm sure they employ legions of workers trained in politically correct policies that would steer them away from producing addictive drugs, but those workers don't really make the decisions...
[03:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:46] <exec> 08└─Good point, but this is what I wonder: is it the pill that is addictive, or the addict that is prone to addiction to the pill? Clearly, opioids do bring on physical addiction, and I could tell from that taste of cocaine I had in college that it was too good to tempt fate by using on a regular basis,...
[03:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How the Largest European Soil Dataset Was Born - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:56] <exec> 08└─Well, speaking of metallurgy, the titanium-aged Europeans are technically losing the recent war against bronze-age savages. Didn't the Europeans already learn from 2 German ass-kickings and the ending of Demolition Man?
[03:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How the Largest European Soil Dataset Was Born - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:58] <exec> 08└─I once applied for a soil technician job, but blew it because during the interview they asked how I was a team player and I told them about how I found a problem my former idiot coworkers could not. So I became a piss technician, one who collects urine samples all day, because I was good solo and co...
[03:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:39] <exec> 08└─It's obvious to anyone who looks. So look.
[03:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:33] <exec> 08└─> with curated content why am I thinking about systemd all of a sudden?
[03:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Otto Smart Lock's Creators Are Suspending Operations - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:55] <exec> 08└─This one looks different though: CEO and founder Sam Jadallah says the company made an acquisition deal that limited its ability to fundraise, but the buyer pulled out at the last minute, leaving Otto with no remaining cash.
[03:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:42] <exec> 08└─Short reply: government budgets don't work like your household budget. Nor like corporations. Government budgets that are sovereign in their own currency creation work differently from government budgets that aren't (e.g. state governments, EU member states). Government debt denominated in the sover...
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[03:22:42] <exec> 08└─Number theory is to STEM college students as basic algebra is to Black high-schoolers, utterly a waste of time to all but the 1% who will actually use it later in life. More colleges need to have 2 different courses of undergrad discrete math -- one for people who give a flying fuck about bullshit l...
[03:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:44] <exec> 08└─" Often Greek style. "
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[04:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:26] <exec> 08└─IQ=20?
[04:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:27] <exec> 08└─Good thing you're way out in California or I'd break your legs for cutting in on my racket.
[04:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:44] <exec> 08└─I kinda liked salvia divinorom extract when it was legal... however it was far to violent and tolerance increased way too fast (about a minute to require a 10fold increased in dosages ) and took to much time to decrease to have the time to become physically addicted and only weirdos get addicted to...
[04:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:46] <exec> 08└─Chronic pain is not cool. It's hard to live with and it adds to depression, if not causes it. For me, the answer was to do nothing that stressed my back. The odds on surgery were too low to take the risk. So, I just changed my lifestyle. That helped but something as simple as washing dishes can be q...
[04:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alphatool [1145] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, a thousand times Yes! Big Pharma isn't a monolithic entity, there are hundreds of competing companies each trying to come up with the next big thing, and a less addictive painkiller would be worth billions. Sure it would screw Purdue, but most of the industry would view that as a good thing. Sa...
[04:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:42] <exec> 08└─Might want to bother to actually read the post you're replying to. Hint: the word hyperinflation occurred multiple times in my previous post.
[04:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:43] <exec> 08└─Pretty much any other non-volatile asset makes for a better store of wealth.
[04:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 1893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:06] <exec> 08└─When arteries are clogging in your heart, that generally means they are clogging elsewhere in your body like the brain and kidneys. Stents just temporarily help prop up the weak link of your heart. My father had stents put in and died less than a year later from a heart attack as the rest of his art...
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[05:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Birds Left Tracks in the Sky, They’d Look Like This - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:15] <exec> 08└─Well worth looking at TFA.
[05:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Birds Left Tracks in the Sky, They’d Look Like This - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:16] <exec> 08└─Those lines are exactly what bugs look like captured in my security cam in low-light conditions. Somebody wrote a web page about them: http://www.assap.ac.uk [assap.ac.uk]
[05:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Birds Left Tracks in the Sky, They’d Look Like This - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe 10-15 years ago, there was a guy taking pictures like this and claiming they were some kind of fast moving creature that can't be seen with the naked eye. He was popular on a latenight radio show for a little while until another person demonstrated how the pictures were taken and the host expo...
[05:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Birds Left Tracks in the Sky, They’d Look Like This - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:21] <exec> 08└─Does it look something like this [wikipedia.org]?
[05:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06If Birds Left Tracks in the Sky, They’d Look Like This - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:23] <exec> 08└─Are you sure it was a good idea to lock Slappy in your car, run up on your porch, and then proceed to point and laugh at him while slapping your knee? Wait, what was that!? A minuscule twinkling star just phased right through the door of your car and then flew directly through the back of your pants...
[05:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Birds Left Tracks in the Sky, They’d Look Like This - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:25] <exec> 08└─Fuck that shit - loads of javascripts from too many different domains.
[05:18:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:39] <exec> 08└─I gave away my TV in 2003 and found my IQ jumped by 20 points in just 71 days!
[05:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:49] <exec> 08└─I used asktrim.com to negotiate down my bill. It worked a bit, but when all is said and done, I only have one choice for ISP, so it was a minor miracle that they were able to get it reduced at all. This whole net neutrality thing would be far less of an issue if everybody had multiple possibilities...
[05:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:50] <exec> 08└─Comcast tried a nasty one on us a year ago - they jacked our internet rates, but offered a "bundle" with cable TV and internet for less than internet alone - for a 12 month introductory period - I bit, they handed me a box, I never plugged it in, after 12 months they jacked our rates again, we chang...
[05:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:53] <exec> 08└─What are you gonna do instead, read?
[05:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:55] <exec> 08└─Did you try the brightness knob?
[05:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:57] <exec> 08└─I received, just today, an email from Amazon telling me that the anime channel I was paying for has been canceled because it is now include with my Prime at no charge.
[05:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:59] <exec> 08└─In my experience, even if you take the box in, they will still charge you for it. So, take the box in, keep the receipt, then look carefully at your next bill to see if they are still charging you. Repeat this last step one and two months later, to ensure that the box doesn't reappear on your accoun...
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[05:19:02] <exec> 08└─"[...] Good enough to turn the 5 o'clock news on and see what I am supposed to be afraid of today." [...] In my neck of the woods, that would be fat, pudgy female reporters that 'no habla ingles' very well.
[05:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:04] <exec> 08└─Nah didn't bother to check on trends, I obviously DIDN'T know that. Point kinda stands, deregulation changed nothing so why do it? Where are my efficient market forces brah?
[05:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:06] <exec> 08└─I live in a condominium building with Comcast the sole available provider for both cable television and Internet access. I recently returned two Comcast cable boxes directly to a local XFINITY (ugh) store and canceled cable television service. Now I subscribe to Amazon Prime Video, Philo [philo.com]...
[05:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 1280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:26] <exec> 08└─I recently had tennis elbow flare up, a very bad one. One day at lunch I had some sort of faux-chicken-curry salad -- the dressing was mostly mustard. About an hour later I'm back at my office and my elbow felt awesome. I didn't think about my lunch at all, I was just so happy that after three weeks...
[05:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:27] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, most people do not have chronic pain. They have incident pain, related to an injury or surgery. People heal and get past most incident pain, usually in 3 to 4 weeks for everything except burns. Any Opioid replacement that won't addict you in that amount if time would be a godsend....
[05:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:30] <exec> 08└─Also, eating large quantities of mustard (about 3/8ths of a cup per day -- two tablespoons is 1/8th of a cup) did not have any sort mind-altering effect.
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[06:18:16] <exec> 08└─I forget who you are talking about but I remember this.
[06:18:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 651 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:24] <exec> 08└─You folks know Over The Air television is still around, right? Perhaps they should put the word "wireless" in front of it and put a blue LED in the box or antenna then people would flock to it. I get the major networks and the main TV shows. Hardly anything worth watching on cable anyway. Good enoug...
[06:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:11] <exec> 08└─You were lucky. [kym-cdn.com]
[06:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:13] <exec> 08└─That's what your old friend morphine is. One can't overdose on it (assuming one increases the dose as needed slowly, which is definitely enough). The only issue is that supply is limited by authorities. In the US they actually poison morphine to make sure this way out is closed.
[06:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Largest European Soil Dataset Was Born - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:24] <exec> 08└─eat in the same room as where the piss samples are sitting away on the counter
[06:20:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:16] <exec> 08└─You get what you pay for. Start paying for something better.
[06:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:00] <exec> 08└─You don't HAVE TO provide a credit card for any of the various App Stores
[06:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:01] <exec> 08└─EA games? Commodore 64? All I remember is how furious I would get as those bastard programmers kept banging the head of my expensive 1541 disk drive against the stop. Over and over and over. And knocking it out of alignment. That was one of the main things that got me very interested in reverse en...
[06:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:37] <exec> 08└─And there it is. The obligatory Vegan pontification.
[06:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:39] <exec> 08└─www.independent.co.uk/news/science/vegetarian-diets-heart-disease-link-higher-risk-health-food-sweet-refined-grains-potato-a7845286.html
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[06:24:41] <exec> 08└─Speaking from someone who has dealt with both systems: you're wrong. Under single payer, the cost and delivery pressures are still there, only you can't see them. You only know that your doctor is telling you that treatment X is the way to go - what you don't know is that treatment Y is available, b...
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[07:18:04] <exec> 08└─It totally has nothing to do with the fact that they drive like like crazy, speeding and lane splitting.
[07:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:06] <exec> 08└─Mid 70s, gas crisis, decided to save on gas as I was a teenager making minimum wage. I realized it wasn't that the other driver couldn't see me so much as they saw me, hated my long hair and everything it stood for, and subconsciously did their best to kill me. For you Sandy Eggins, it was El Cajon,...
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[07:18:08] <exec> 08└─I dumped coffee grounds on a lane splitting guy. Mid 80's, traffic was backed up for some reason, the coffee that usually lasted me halfway into my day got drained on I-8 westbound between College and Waring. Took the top off, tossed the grains out the window, and nailed some dude lane splitting at...
[07:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:10] <exec> 08└─That little toy that masqueraded as a kind little man finally made it through the smallest doorway in your ass maze! He forcibly pulled the sack he was carrying through it, sending him flying into the deepest reaches of the mazes of your ass! Major tickle on ass! Major tickle!
[07:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:12] <exec> 08└─It totally has nothing to do with the fact that they drive like like crazy, speeding and lane splitting.
[07:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:15] <exec> 08└─Alim tsk tsk, alim tsk tsk! Alim tsk tsk, alim tsk tsk! Alim tsk tsk, alim tsk tsk! Oh, my! That invisible toy is going to slurp off every single spec of graveyard fog off of your cheeks, and there's nothing you can do about it since not a single cheek of you ares is capable of movement! You will ru...
[07:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:00] <exec> 08└─That does it, I'm going to the alternatives! ... oh, wait.
[07:19:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03black6host [3827] 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:11] <exec> 08└─If a pill really does take away pain, how can it not become addictive?
[07:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:14] <exec> 08└─We are way worse off today. By means of the internet connection. Applications - even if they have nothing to do with the internet - can demand access to the internet ( and claim its for "checking for updates" ), and get it... or it will refuse to work. You WILL comply and give it what it demands....
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[08:18:18] <exec> 08└─I have seen numerous optical illusions of the form of sheets full of O and one C. Find the C. Or it shows a pen-and-ink drawing full of elephants... and one koala... Find the Koala. It does not jump out at me. I really have to look for it. When I am driving, I tend to see cars and trucks - in the...
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[08:18:19] <exec> 08└─My boss at Chevron had acquired one of the big old F350 refinery trucks. No sooner than he had it on the freeway, some motorcyclist took his mirror off. Lane splitting. Pissed, my boss took the truck over to the welding shop and one of the guys put the mirror back on so good you could pick the tru...
[08:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:21] <exec> 08└─My driver's education Course covered that too. That was back in the late 60s. So whatever they wewe teaching all these years clearly wasn't working. If they've been teaching something the same way for 50 year's and we still have the problem, maybe it's time to teach a different method.
[08:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:23] <exec> 08└─I've unilaterally decided to chew your rectum like bubble gum as I please like corn on peas. What's this...? Pinworm goodies!? Ah, too good!
[08:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 1511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:26] <exec> 08└─Dude (or chick) sitting in a nice air conditioned vehicle, big, solid, comfortable, driving along. He is looking for potential threats. That is, he is watching for anything that may possible hurt him, or his vehicle. Non-threats aren't noted. It's really just about that simple. A Mack truck represen...
[08:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:28] <exec> 08└─I see a lot of pulsing headlights on motorcycles around here. Don't know if they are legal, but they sure are Eye catching. Two lights, stacked vertically, blinking alternately might be better. The idea is to induce some cognitive dissonance in the mind of the driver.
[08:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ataradov [4776] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:30] <exec> 08└─Lights are not going to help. A typical pattern I see: 2 lanes stopped at a traffic light, from a number of cars behind a motorcycle appears and tries to get in front of everyone. There is no time to react to anything, there is no way to be aware of their presence up to the moment it is too late.
[08:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:32] <exec> 08└─Teaching is not the same thing as learning. I suppose if everyone rode a motorcycle as part of the class, that might do.
[08:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:35] <exec> 08└─I ride aggressively, not crazy, but moving often to keep you inattentive people from killing me. Guess what, after 50 years, I can say that works. Getting left handed is another story altogether, not much to be done about those who are too distracted to properly look for motorbikes.
[08:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Birds Left Tracks in the Sky, They’d Look Like This - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:48] <exec> 08└─If you enable just the scripts from "nationalgeographic.com", you can see the inline images, 5 of them in total. The image browser below the article doesn't work, but the inlines are nice.
[08:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:23] <exec> 08└─> What are you gonna do instead, read? Maine Governor Tells 16-Year-Old Worried About Net Neutrality Repeal To 'Pick Up A Book And Read' [techdirt.com] Scribbled in the margins of the letter the teen sent, signed "governor", and sent back. (What, use another sheet of paper? Are you crazy, we need it...
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[08:20:39] <exec> 08└─For longer than mankind has had the capacity to gaze at the night sky, and wonder about the lights in they sky, that rock has been there, going around, and around, in a slightly eccentric orbit. It doesn't know anything about a recently invented calendar, or blues, or reds, or even about eclipses. I...
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[08:20:41] <exec> 08└─So, the Japanese are involved? Americans and most of Europe are unable to run trains on time. The Japanese, whatever other faults they may have, can run a train on time.
[08:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 1672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:48] <exec> 08└─You hit on exactly what drove me to invest in petroleum. Going back ten - twelve years, I was seeing a home-debt bubble of epic proportions. I thought we had no choice to collapse the dollar so all those loans could be paid off. And I did not want to be left with devalued dollars. I really can't...
[08:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:50] <exec> 08└─Interesting... Which means that if you're trying to settle a debt in the US (say, a restaurant bill) and offer US dollars to pay for it, then you legally attempted to pay your debt and your creditor cannot both refuse your payment and go after you for it.
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[08:24:24] <exec> 08└─This is why TRump Voters always run over motorcycle riders, especially the alt-right of the post WWII type motorcycle ryders, with their bitches on the back, cause Trump voters are just assholes, not real conservatives, and especially not alt-transportation conservatives, like th Bikers that Charlie...
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[09:18:04] <exec> 08└─They will go to Canada and Siberia
[09:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:05] <exec> 08└─While other experts seem to think we are heading for a mini ice age... [google.com]
[09:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:07] <exec> 08└─With my box, I can slewp anything. With my box... I can slewp your snap. It contains a portal to every snap so I can slewp it all. My, my, what a drippin' snap you have there! I wonder what sort of slewpy existenceness could have done such a thing...? Vamoola, vamoola!
[09:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 1807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:29] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a good idea! Just don't have em so bright they blind. Some of these new headlamps are so bright they leave other drivers temporarily blinded. I carry a flashlight around with me when I walk at night, but will not aim it at a driver... that thing will blind someone. If I flat have to,...
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[09:18:31] <exec> 08└─reading the glee with which people on this thread are recounting stories relating to injuring motorcyclists, it seems we have demonstrated part of the problem: people hate motorcycles and motorcyclists. Once that is clear, SMIDSY [macmillandictionary.com] is actually missing some letters: "BIHY" ("B...
[09:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:33] <exec> 08└─I still fondly remember my driver's ed teacher in High School referring to them as "Donorcycles". Well, during that day, a lot of riders did not wear helmets, so traffic interactions commonly ended up with an intact body but smashed brain... Great source for spare kidneys!
[09:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:35] <exec> 08└─Hey, Snotnose... I like my hair long too! I know the feeling... a lot of people sure resent the signal I am trying to send. To me, it represents freedom and being out of the goddamm corporate noose.
[09:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:37] <exec> 08└─Someone needs to explain to motorcylists that it is a matter of life and death that the other drivers can predict what they are going to do. Most motorcylists seem to take pride in acting in the least predictable manner they can achieve. And riding on the wrong side of the road, even within the spee...
[09:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:39] <exec> 08└─Ummm.. pass anyone on the left at your own risk! I don't care who you are, cyclist or car. I wish I had a dollar for everyone who passed me on the left, while I was slowing down, turn signals ON, attempting a left turn! And motorcyclists take first prize for this one.
[09:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:42] <exec> 08└─I don't hate motorcyclists. But I do hate kids playing in the road, and putting us all at risk. Think I get great glee of splaying a motorcyclist's innards all over the road? Its gonna be a big pain in the ass for me with all the legal paperwork you have put me through. If I see someone else do it...
[09:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Birds Left Tracks in the Sky, They’d Look Like This - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:56] <exec> 08└─...and the magic is gone.
[09:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:56] <exec> 08└─Salvinorin A.... I would be far happier to see more research going into drugs that can treat addiction.
[09:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:50] <exec> 08└─Fucking idiot. Flat earth? THERE IS NO GLOBAL THEN!! If there is anything global about the earth, that blows your flat earth away. Fucking idiot. It should be against the law for people to speak, or write, if they don't understand the words they use. Go back to your cave, and practice grunting. Give...
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[10:18:09] <exec> 08└─that the first experts are full of it. Unverifiable wild numbers are a reliable marker.
[10:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:10] <exec> 08└─There is a movie, Kentucky Fried Movie, with a series of spoofs. In one of them a Bruce Lee type of figure is fighting, but finally he is caputured. The villain says he'll torture him. Our brave hero tells him that he can endure anything. The the villain says the guy is to be taken to Detroit. The h...
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[10:18:12] <exec> 08└─In comparison the current migration crisis that almost toppled EU is "only" about 10 million people. Once upon a time the Roman empire might have fallen to mass migration.
[10:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:15] <exec> 08└─From the second link [iflscience.com] I get from your Google link (which is probably not what you get as second link): However, Zharkova ends with a word of warning: not about the cold but about humanity's attitude toward the environment during the minimum. We must not ignore the effects of global w...
[10:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:17] <exec> 08└─It depends on the people. I'd rather have a million Jamaican immigrants than a thousand devout Muslim Arabs.
[10:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:19] <exec> 08└─And some of those migrants even might have been climate refugees [wikipedia.org] (although they were fleeing the cold, not the heat).
[10:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:48] <exec> 08└─And riding on the wrong side of the road, even within the speed limit (not that that happens a lot) should be dealt with very severely by the courts, seeing the alternative is a death sentence.
[10:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:50] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure this is the same effect as covered here, years ago: http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com [theinvisiblegorilla.com] Just give the gorilla a bike. Bottom line, for motorcyclists and cyclists, is that in areas where bikes are a normal part (and significant percentage)...
[10:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 1419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:52] <exec> 08└─So, I assume then that that is the reason for the huge increase in cyclist deaths? Its their own fault, right? no? The main reason motorcyclists get killed often is there are not enough of them, so, as the research says, people dont see them, and kill them. Yes, there are some nutters - same for car...
[10:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:07] <exec> 08└─You could try this for joint pain and/or arthritis: Reduce Joint Pain and Inflammation With Turmeric: https://www.drdavidwilliams.com [drdavidwilliams.com] Turmeric: http://www.arthritis.org
[10:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:00] <exec> 08└─1/ Write totally innocuous app that respects your privacy, doesn't phone home except for updates, and does some totally useful little function. 2/ Pay for your excellent not-spammy rating, and five stars for usefel and well designed behavior. 3/ Millions of people install your app. 4/ Your app phone...
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[11:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:07] <exec> 08└─I've been getting the impression more and more tech people are getting fed up with the way they are treated by intel, perhaps a flippening to AMD is in the future? I hear very little about how AMD are mistreating people. This would still be years down the road as purchase decisions are made, etc in...
[11:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:24] <exec> 08└─Perhaps there is a scheme to trick people into moving towards the poles before a predicted warming, while you move towards the equator. Suddenly there is cooling instead, and your equatorial land is worth more. Then you start extrapolating to catastrophic cooling while you sell your equatorial prope...
[11:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:25] <exec> 08└─Saw that, too. That's why I linked the whole shebang. Lots of insights from a lot of people. Both ways. I did not posit very much, as frankly I don't KNOW much about this. I could rant, but it would be the rant of an ignorant fool. But I do know there are some on these forums that are apt to post...
[11:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 1853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:27] <exec> 08└─You start building homes in the world's deserts, today. Get a headstart, build today. The Sahara, Arizona has some nice desert - California not so much because a lot of it is below sea level already. Any high deserts that won't be flooded if the seas rise a hundred feet. You don't want to move them...
[11:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:30] <exec> 08└─Desalination + graphene. Get people near the ocean, but build cities that could partially or completely float. Use the middle of the Sahara for solar panels.
[11:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:32] <exec> 08└─You can't have their water. Any of it. Unless your desert villages include Perrier bottling plants, with suitable tax incentives.
[11:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 1678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:04] <exec> 08└─Here in the UK filtering (lane splitting) is legal for motorcycles, but overtaking on the left (right in other countries) is illegal for all other vehicles. I drive twice daily on a motorway. I've never ridden a motorbike because I consider it just too risky, and I'm often amazed at the sloppy way m...
[11:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:54] <exec> 08└─So it's now 20 points lower? <eg>
[11:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Largest European Soil Dataset Was Born - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:33] <exec> 08└─and put all the samples aside so we can eat in the same room as where the piss samples are sitting away on the counter. The boss doesn't like it when we do that, because he thinks it's "weird," or something, but every industry has that one uncool boss bitching and moaning.
[11:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:29] <exec> 08└─It's not politically correct to believe it (because the conclusion is that oil is practically unlimited), but you should read "Power from the Earth" by Thomas Gold. If you assume that what he wrote is even partially correct then it explains a lot about oil availability/prices. Follow it up with "De...
[11:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:31] <exec> 08└─During the dark ages that the international bankers want to reign in, we'll have chairmen and chairwomen and CEOs and COOs instead of kings and queens and barons and dukes.
[11:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:33] <exec> 08└─No, you will get your ass thrown in jail. They refused you a oom, you committed "break and entry". There never was any debt. If they let you stay, and then the next day refuse cash payment but demand a credit card, that might fit your scenario better.
[11:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:35] <exec> 08└─Not an oom. They refused you a room I need a new keyboad with a woking r.
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[12:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:05] <exec> 08└─Ohhhhh! I can see it, I can see it! I twisted my head sideways and I see it! The Tower! It's there! So that's it! Your bare bootysnap was transformed into a bouncehouse by the very cabbage patch kids you scammed! They're bouncing off and tickling every ass molecule...!
[12:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:06] <exec> 08└─What about Krzanich selling stock like crazy?
[12:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:08] <exec> 08└─Performance drop is situational, very dependent on workload. I don't know where you got the 50% figure from, but from what I heard, normal-person usage will see a fall in performance of a few percent, while some specific applications (mostly database and virtualization) could be hit by up to 30%, II...
[12:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:11] <exec> 08└─It was "preplanned" after he learned of the bugs. https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] Brian Krzanich, chief executive officer of Intel, sold millions of dollars' worth of Intel stock—all...
[12:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:13] <exec> 08└─What made him wait 5 months, before coming to that decision?
[12:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:15] <exec> 08└─"This is very very different from FDIV," Yes, the chips are soldered in now. We can't recall Microsoft Surfaces and Macbook Airs - think of the cost. So, the chips are basically working as designed. (Just like the FDIV CPUs were)
[12:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:17] <exec> 08└─It was "preplanned" after he learned of the bugs.
[12:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:38] <exec> 08└─I could rant, but it would be the rant of an ignorant fool.
[12:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:39] <exec> 08└─Unless you see hordes of climate scientists entering real estate business, this doesn't even rise to the level of unfounded speculation. It's, at best, ramblings of a madman :)
[12:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:13] <exec> 08└─Uhhhhhh - you're British? In most of the civilized world, we do pass on the left. Actually, all of the civilized world, you barbarian!
[12:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:14] <exec> 08└─You seem to be confusing bicyclists, who often ride on the wrong side of the road, with motorcyclists. It's very unusual to see a motorcyclist going the wrong way. Maybe some kid with a dirt bike, who isn't allowed on the road to start with, trying to sneak a short distance between home and his favo...
[12:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:17] <exec> 08└─Tell your friend to NEVER lay his bike down. The tires and brakes will slow your bike down faster than the metal and flesh sliding along. That laying bikes down to stop is from another day and age, when bikes may or may not have had working brakes at all, and they weren't very effective if they were...
[12:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:19] <exec> 08└─I hate everyone who gets out on my highway and slows me down. I have a lot of important shit to get done, and all of you mortals just get in my way. Oh, as a matter of fact, I DO own the road. signed Grim Reaper
[12:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:30] <exec> 08└─If your kids are indoors, staring at screens all day, then their eyes won't develop properly, and you'll have to buy them prescription spectacles for the rest of their lives.
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[13:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 1135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:13] <exec> 08└─There have been a couple of different stories about whom discovered the bug and when. Whichever is true they have known about it for some time, potentially over a year. During that time they have kept cranking out CPU:s and sold them at full price. I'm kind of interested to keep track of CPU-sales o...
[13:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:14] <exec> 08└─The pay us for the lower quaility. Buying a new surface and get 80% of designed performance then give back that 20%.
[13:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:16] <exec> 08└─That's not why it's different. The current CPU's have servicable microcode, they can probably patch the chips in-field. I'm guessing they're going to disable all speculative execution across memory protection boundaries. And this sets a precedent of course. If Intel gets away with this, they will pr...
[13:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:39] <exec> 08└─China is doing this for quite a while. We in the west like to laugh at them and call those Ghost Cities. It is ok though. We have money to spend when the time comes and the chineese will rent these cities to us. Or we can fuck off elsewhere.
[13:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:17] <exec> 08└─Strange. I got promoted recently to a very senior position. My bosses advice was to keep my hair long, but start wearing a suit. The idea being I would be welcomed by the seniors as I dress like them, but would be listened to over technical matters due to my long hair.
[13:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:19] <exec> 08└─I'd say the cyclists are worse, there are more of them nowadays. Constant newspaper articles that cyclists are "good people" and are all perfect, never break the law. I have NEVER encountered a cyclist that has not broken the law right in front of me. Every single one ignores traffic lights, every o...
[13:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:21] <exec> 08└─I understand driving a bike at 50kph following the laws is pure suffering. But then don't complain when other people care little about the laws too and get in your path.
[13:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:13] <exec> 08└─That is why they are starting to sell tv's with no tuner. Locks you into some provider. Also, there are plans to enable charging for over the air channels. Thank you republicrats your pro wrestling like acting is distracting the country while its citizens are robbed to poverty levels. https://www.co...
[13:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:14] <exec> 08└─Waiting for the market to unfuck itself is like opening your mouth and waiting for rain when you're thirsty. It *CAN* happen, it's just highly improbable.
[13:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:42] <exec> 08└─Then it will still get people addicted.
[13:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:40] <exec> 08└─Apart from the "blue" part, this hasnothing to do with calendars. The "super moon" is related to the excentricity of the moon's orbit. And the "blood moon" is related to the relative alignment of the orbits of earth and moon, and the fact that the earth has an atmosphere which bends light.
[13:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:41] <exec> 08└─The effect of the light going through atmosphere when coming from the moon and heading towards our eye is in no way different from the effect during a normal full moon (or any other moon phase, for that matter). The colour change relative to the normal moon is purely because of the light that reache...
[13:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:43] <exec> 08└─Err … I'm pretty sure a function defined on a flat Euclidean plane can have a global maximum.
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[14:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Attention Backcountry Skiers: Scientists Want Your Help - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:06] <exec> 08└─Will this replace Pokemon Go? Soon there will be people staring at their phones and causing snow avalanches, while taking snow depth readings...
[14:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Attention Backcountry Skiers: Scientists Want Your Help - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:07] <exec> 08└─We got 40% unemployment out here in flyover country, you elitist coastal eggheads. Instead of demanding free labor, you pay for it. That's how an economy functions, or did your big scientist brains fail economics class?
[14:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:49] <exec> 08└─I could rant, but it would be the rant of an ignorant fool.
[14:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:50] <exec> 08└─Googling housing starts per year in USA shows that we are already building something over a million units, annually in USA (enough to house several million people). It was harder to find global data, but it looks like most countries (except Japan and a few others) are also building, so the ann...
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[14:19:31] <exec> 08└─Yes! The human brain, at its most fundamental, is a pattern-matching machine. https://en.wikipedia.org(psychology) [wikipedia.org] We get too used to looking for a car-sized thing. Life is so complex in general, people are generally distracted, thinking about this or that;...
[14:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03lars [4376] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:32] <exec> 08└─I daily drive a motorcycle, and honestly, this has happened to me too. There are just so many cars on the road that when you are looking to see if the lane is clear you are really looking to see if there is a car there. Your brain just gets used to looking for cars. I don't think there is any way to...
[14:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:34] <exec> 08└─One of the other good things I've seen suggested is to play "spot the motorcycle" as a game with your kids, if you have any. It will help train them to spot them when they're drivers (although really, it's probably too late for that, drivers will have been replaced).. I think a bit part of why accid...
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[14:19:37] <exec> 08└─Thanks, this is the second time "laying the bike down" has been referred to, and it's another of those stupid riding habits like only using the rear brake like you did on your old bicycle. Luckily, both of these habits are eventually self-correcting.
[14:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Birds Left Tracks in the Sky, They’d Look Like This - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, great photos, thanks for submitting this article. But the bird paths are about what I expected -- since birds have some mass and limited amounts of lift for maneuvering, the paths will be smooth (low order differentiable?), any sort of kink would imply very high accelerations. Lower mass birds...
[14:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:31] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Net Neutrality wouldn't be required if there were at least three broadband ISPs for every home.
[14:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:32] <exec> 08└─Nice! A ringing endorsement of the changes by the FCC: hey, don't use the internet. Probably same goal for healthcare: it sucks, don't buy any.
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[15:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Attention Backcountry Skiers: Scientists Want Your Help - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:13] <exec> 08└─No, capitalism demands you take the cheapest offer that you can get. So if someone is willing to work for you for free, the only capitalist choice is to take that offer.
[15:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Attention Backcountry Skiers: Scientists Want Your Help - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:14] <exec> 08└─AC, pro bono isn't in your dictionary, is it?
[15:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:33] <exec> 08└─I don't know where you got the 50% figure from
[15:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:35] <exec> 08└─Well, that was a glib and bloodless dodge of the fact that upper management in the US is hugely overpaid, and that if anyone has insider knowledge, it is them. However, it is correct to say that their pay has little to do with performance or problems such as these processor bugs. No matter the circu...
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[15:19:02] <exec> 08└─Build homes underground. Yeah, the view will be terrific! But regular basement dwellers will love it. I would rather run the pipes underground to cool off the water being used to cool down the house. And that won't stop you from planting a little garden on the roof to keep it cool, so you can be sor...
[15:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:03] <exec> 08└─Floor to ceiling, wall to wall display screens. You can have any view you want, and different views in each room, or even on each wall. Don't want a still? How about a real time display of winter in the Poconos on one wall, and the beaches of Maui on another wall, and yet another wall can show real...
[15:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:05] <exec> 08└─Display screens cannot mimic a window. There are better ways to cool a house without using any power at all [bfi.org] (Ctrl+F "Part 13"). And if you insist, you can still have a basement with all the screens you want.
[15:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 1487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:07] <exec> 08└─Its not a useful prediction in that too many other things are changing. Depletion of aquifers and oil wells means they'll have no energy which means no industrial agriculture which means no food and no water, which are somewhat more important problems. Kinda like those predictions that based solely...
[15:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:52] <exec> 08└─I call bs -- F350 mirrors are well above motorcycle handlebar height.
[15:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:53] <exec> 08└─Sigh, not this ignorance. Motorcyclists lane split for two reason, one because some motorcycles lack liquid cooling which can mean they break down completely if stuck in traffic during the summer. It's also safer to get sideswiped than run over. American driver's education programs fail miserably in...
[15:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 1708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:55] <exec> 08└─The problem is lack of augmented reality and crash proof A pillars A pillars are the sticks by the windshield that hold your roof to the hood, kinda. I'm older; my first car had stylish A pillars that were thinner than my heavy steel Sears kids bicycle tubing. My current commuter vehicle has A pilla...
[15:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:58] <exec> 08└─What's really freaky is when you get it wrong and then the brain realizes that you've gotten it wrong and replaces the image you saw with the correct one. Around here we have some trees that have weird lumps near the bottom of them. They have the same basic shape as a person with a backpack crouchin...
[15:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:00] <exec> 08└─Ape hanger height? Browse the images - https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com] Most of them range from weird, to strange, to kinda cool. Look at that preposterous bastard on the yellow machine. http://www.dpccars.com
[15:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:02] <exec> 08└─We know that and most of what we do is in fact highly predictable. The fact that other motorists don't know how to predict is speaks volumes about the lack of competency in typical drivers. We're going to cut across the lane from outside to inside and back to outside much of the time when we go arou...
[15:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:04] <exec> 08└─Sigh, this ignorance. Bikers ride faster than traffic typically because it makes is less likely that we'll be stuck in somebody's blindspot. What's more, those speed limits are set based on car traffic. We take up less space in a lane, which means we're more likely to be able to swerve around a haza...
[15:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:07] <exec> 08└─The pillars are alright, IMO. I hate most rear view mirrors. I come up to a stop sign, and a car on my right can be approaching the same intersection. I don't see it until I duck my head, to look under the damned mirror. This is the most dangerous at 4-way and 3-way stops, but anything moving at a m...
[15:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:09] <exec> 08└─You see them pretty well if you bother looking for them. The issue is in many countries drivers aren't used to looking for them so they don't see them. The other issue is more motorcyclists do too many changes per second. The more changes you do within a short time period the more likely you're goin...
[15:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:05] <exec> 08└─Why should satellite TV providers send you a cable bill? Last I checked, there's no cable going to the satellites. :-)
[15:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:07] <exec> 08└─It would still be a problem, it's just that under that scenario there would be at least some hope of market forces fixing the problem. Comcast is upgrading my connection here from 55mbps to 60mbps allegedly for free because of all this. But, the reality is that they previously hiked rates recently,...
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[16:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:12] <exec> 08└─How about we just stop treating infections that aren't life-threatening or at least debilitating with antibiotics at all? I've seen doctors prescribe antibiotics for infections they knew damned good and well were viral even just to assuage worried parents.
[16:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:13] <exec> 08└─It should be: "we need to look at any solution that could fix the antibiotic drug discovery pipeline [for] now" Super Super! bugs are on the way.
[16:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:15] <exec> 08└─How about idiot farmers who keep feeding this stuff in the bushels to their animals, too? That's a even bigger problem.
[16:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Attention Backcountry Skiers: Scientists Want Your Help - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:25] <exec> 08└─Pro boner? A gigolo? Yeah, I saw some boy whores on my trip to New York City. And, some freak sang a song about a boy whore. Sounds like you been walking on the wild side to long!!
[16:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Attention Backcountry Skiers: Scientists Want Your Help - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah it's those egg-head SCIENTISTS making $65k who are crushing the little guy....
[16:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:47] <exec> 08└─Flipping between Intel and AMD is like flipping between republicans and democrats. (You can discuss amongst yourselves which is which.) There's just not enough difference to make it worth the effort. Intel's somewhat better compatibility with most things and lower temperatures make it the basically...
[16:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:49] <exec> 08└─FDIV was 1 line of chips. This is probably 50 lines of CPUs pretty much the ones with FDIV and up. The scope is pretty much everything they have shipped since 1997. I could see them *maybe* recalling this years and last years but that would be it. At the very least get the ones that in the pipe at t...
[16:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:51] <exec> 08└─it's all automated and preplanned, and not unusual. Heh, so was the bug... I kid! I kid! But they could have sat on it for a very long time. These days it does pay to assume the worst.
[16:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:53] <exec> 08└─servicable microcode You misspelled 'vulnerable'. Now we can do to CPUs what we've been doing to BIOS for years. Bad dog!
[16:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 1662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:55] <exec> 08└─That's a terrible analogy. The Dems and Reps are somewhat equal competitors, in terms of number of dedicated voters, funding, etc. Which one is dominant flips every decade or so. Intel vs. AMD is very different: AMD is a fraction of Intel's size and sales volume. AMD has *never* been dominant, it's...
[16:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:58] <exec> 08└─If Intel gets away with this, they will probably scale down their QA, since they can rely on their customers to do beta-testing for them, like Google and Microsoft are already doing. Microsoft is absolutely right to eliminate QA and let their customers do their beta testing. Why should they pay QA p...
[16:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:28] <exec> 08└─Well, I guess you're right, in at least one way. You can't open the display screen, stick your head out, and holler at the good looking babe walking across the display. Or, yell at the dogs chasing the deer, or whatever you approve/disapprove of.
[16:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:29] <exec> 08└─Were you under the impression that Detroit is in Minnesota?
[16:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:31] <exec> 08└─You start building homes in the world's deserts, today. Get a headstart, build today.
[16:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:34] <exec> 08└─Depletion of [...] oil wells means they'll have no energy
[16:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:36] <exec> 08└─If it's insight that's really wanted... We have some idea what Global Warming will do, and what we can do about it. What we should have done was phase out fossil fuels starting 3 decades ago. It was the easiest solution. Now, the options are all harder. Reducing CO2 is still helpful. Lot of people s...
[16:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:38] <exec> 08└─Try to fertilize, plant, harvest 2000 acres of wheat with natgas provided fertilizer and diesel tractors, then try again on the same 2000 acres with a solar panel, geothermal, and river water. In the long run in a rich white country, maybe. In the short run in Africa where they can't even feed thems...
[16:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:40] <exec> 08└─"Only obstacle I see, is someone is going to have to re-route some rivers to water those cities in the desert." We're decades ahead of you in Vegas. And it's booming again with the metropolitan area expanding into the surrounding desert and hills. But that re-routing rivers will meet with perhaps in...
[16:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:43] <exec> 08└─MN famously has been flooded with Somali refugees to ruin it, so its an interesting analogy. The summary mentioned refugees going to Detroit although recently we've sent refugees to ruin MN so I'm not necessarily seeing going to Detroit as a likely outcome.
[16:20:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 559 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:06] <exec> 08└─reading the glee with which people on this thread are recounting stories relating to injuring motorcyclists, it seems we have demonstrated part of the problem: people hate motorcycles and motorcyclists. Once that is clear, SMIDSY [macmillandictionary.com] is actually missing some letters: "BIHY" ("B...
[16:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:36] <exec> 08└─Besides the physical threat, like getting hit by a truck, there is also the legal consequences threat. Nailing a pedestrian or bicyclist will have the car driver liable by default, hurt a motorcyclist, and a car driver has a pretty good chance of getting off by saying "but I didn't see him!"
[16:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:38] <exec> 08└─but don't pretend like car drivers are any better
[16:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:40] <exec> 08└─I want more weather war. :(
[16:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:42] <exec> 08└─Then maybe these pwecious bikes should have liquid cooling.
[16:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:44] <exec> 08└─I'm a cyclist and I agree with this. Stop signs basically do not exist unless cars are already there waiting. Switching side-walk / road / verge is fair game. Lights and helmet are a must and reflective vest. Other than that tho, cyclists (especially men in lycra) are ASS HOLES.
[16:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Birds Left Tracks in the Sky, They’d Look Like This - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:01] <exec> 08└─There are actually 21 pictures: https://www.nationalgeographic.com [nationalgeographic.com] Yes, I know javascript etc. I used to fight the man but I gave up. The web has basically stopped wo...
[16:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:44] <exec> 08└─Oh, and the pile of retarded religious channels that have to be filtered out, but those are probably on cable too. Someone needs to tell these sick idiots that their magic god-thing does not actually exist.
[16:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:46] <exec> 08└─risen almost twice as fast as inflation
[16:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:48] <exec> 08└─Black Mirror has been fun. It's like a modern version of Outer Limits or Twilight Zone.
[16:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:16] <exec> 08└─I was bored and did some google searches https://www.statista.com [statista.com] Seems to imply half the total OTC painkiller revenue in the USA in 2014 was Advil. Just advil. I had no idea it was that popular. Anyway insert tons of hand...
[16:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:17] <exec> 08└─I assume it's different kinds of addiction. But indeed if there are no side effects
[16:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:19] <exec> 08└─Painkillers, even non-addictive ones, make billions of dollars. A one-time treatment for addiction stands to make next to nothing.
[16:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:36] <exec> 08└─No, if you click on the username, you can clearly see he/she hasn't been waiting to make the joke: he/she has already made the joke half a dozen times previously. Obviously a regular user who just logs into that account to make that joke whenever someone says the phrase "new here."
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[17:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:09] <exec> 08└─"Shoot a nuke down a bug hole, you got a lot of dead bugs!" —Ace Levy Listen to this while you ponder the immortal words of Ace Levy. [youtube.com]
[17:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:11] <exec> 08└─There's always at least one that gets away [sickchirpse.com]
[17:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:13] <exec> 08└─I've got an idea: When it is only to assuage worried patients, doctors should prescribe homoeopathic antibiotics.
[17:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Attention Backcountry Skiers: Scientists Want Your Help - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:26] <exec> 08└─Pro bono is all well and good when you have a job. Unemployment isn't in your vocabulary, is it? You're one of those oblivious idiots who claim full employment exists because you have a job, aren't you?
[17:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Attention Backcountry Skiers: Scientists Want Your Help - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:27] <exec> 08└─Or: I see you enjoy a hobby. If you need some additional justification for spending time with your hobby, why don't you help the scientific community?
[17:18:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 908 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:39] <exec> 08└─It was "preplanned" after he learned of the bugs. https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] Brian Krzanich, chief executive officer of Intel, sold millions of dollars' worth of Intel stock—all...
[17:18:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 1135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:43] <exec> 08└─There have been a couple of different stories about whom discovered the bug and when. Whichever is true they have known about it for some time, potentially over a year. During that time they have kept cranking out CPU:s and sold them at full price. I'm kind of interested to keep track of CPU-sales o...
[17:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:54] <exec> 08└─Why should they recall anything at all? You can just use a software workaround to avoid the problem. It might cause your system to run half as fast, but that's OK. What are you going to do about it, switch to AMD?
[17:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 2136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:56] <exec> 08└─That's not why it's different either. The two bugs have totally different impact. FDIV meant some FP ops gave actual wrong results, for some operands. I was in research at the time, a lot of people had to redo a lot of work (I didn't - I used my own machine and had bought AMD!), only a fraction (may...
[17:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:58] <exec> 08└─Intel has a reputation for manufacturing half fast CPUs?
[17:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:36] <exec> 08└─They will go into boxes of Soylent Green. Soylent Green is made of people! ... Delicious People!
[17:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:38] <exec> 08└─with natgas provided fertilizer
[17:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:40] <exec> 08└─Somalian food is great though! The last time I was in Minneapolis I ate a ton. Very friendly people too.
[17:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:42] <exec> 08└─Some experts estimate that climate change could force between 150 and 300 million people to find a new place to live by the middle of this century, though there is considerable uncertainty about the amount.
[17:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:44] <exec> 08└─Build housing half-dug into hillsides. Leave flat land tillable. There enormous undeveloped hilly areas in the Northeast, close to jobs and everything else.
[17:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:43] <exec> 08└─FYI, lane splitting is perfectly legal in some states (I think California). I can't speak to the safety aspect, which I think is debatable, but it's not illegal everywhere.
[17:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:44] <exec> 08└─Around here they just banned motorcyclists from bus lanes - why? no one seems to know, cyclists are allowed - oh yes, cannot touch them!
[17:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 1672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:46] <exec> 08└─Stopping for a stop sign is stupid, in a car or on a bike. If there's no traffic, and you can see well enough to verify this, you don't need to stop. All stop signs should be changed to yield signs instead. But it's worse on a bicycle, because the transition time between taking your foot off the ped...
[17:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:49] <exec> 08└─Huh? It sounds like your seat sits too high. Try leaning it back a bit. Your rearview mirror should be above your main line of vision, not blocking it.
[17:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:52] <exec> 08└─I vote "cut the (cable tv) cord". Local phone companies still exist and most have fiber backbones that you can access at a consumer level (and cost). This will probably raise cable TV rates even higher though : P
[17:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:53] <exec> 08└─You can just download those shows on BT. You can also get an antenna and watch them OTA.
[17:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:40] <exec> 08└─A keyboard with an r that makes Chinese food?
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[18:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:17] <exec> 08└─How about not? Having more doctors prescribe homeopathic remedies is only going to bolster the delusion that there is something credible behind homeopathy and cause people who actually need proper medication to waste their time on glorified placebos instead. What's needed when it's just a worried pa...
[18:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:18] <exec> 08└─Excellent. This should improve beef yields by 0.3%. Begin feeding it to the cattle immediately.
[18:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Attention Backcountry Skiers: Scientists Want Your Help - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:34] <exec> 08└─I don't think your average back-country snowshoer is out of work.
[18:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Attention Backcountry Skiers: Scientists Want Your Help - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:35] <exec> 08└─I see that you are unfamiliar with how it works in academia. Professors are paid great, everyone below them are paid peanuts and are almost like indentured servants. Why pay you to do something when you can get some ph.d-slave to do your heavy lifting or a research assistant or a teaching assistant...
[18:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:48] <exec> 08└─Ignorant fools like yourself are WHY there is so much pressure. You bought the anti-science propaganda and now question all the valid science, you are their sucker.
[18:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:49] <exec> 08└─The entire Greenland ice sheet will not melt in 50 years, although in 500 years it could make a good start. That doesn't mean we should do nothing about it now.
[18:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:51] <exec> 08└─thats not going to make Detroit a Star Trek like paradise, its going to make it like Somalia.
[18:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:54] <exec> 08└─Seriously you sound like a psychopath.
[18:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:56] <exec> 08└─I thought it meant 2 vehicles, side-by-side in a single lane, travelling together. This is OKish if they agree and cooperate. California allows this; most other places do not. You seem to be referring to when some fool drives right along a lane division, squeezing between vehicles that might be stop...
[18:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:01] <exec> 08└─Local phone companies still exist and most have fiber backbones that you can access at a consumer level (and cost)
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[18:27:07] <exec> 08└─Seriously, go get your screws retightened.
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[19:18:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:12] <exec> 08└─How about we just stop treating infections that aren't life-threatening or at least debilitating with antibiotics at all? I've seen doctors prescribe antibiotics for infections they knew damned good and well were viral even just to assuage worried parents.
[19:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:21] <exec> 08└─a lot of times they don't know whether it's viral or bacterial. have you seen the low standards of their diagnostics tests? go read the wikipedia page for pneumonia, it's freaking hilarious/terrifying.
[19:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:23] <exec> 08└─so now when the bacteria ups the anti a patient will be dead no matter what. good job...
[19:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:25] <exec> 08└─Vancomycin was first isolated in 1953... [wikipedia.org] Daptomycin... was discovered by researchers at Eli Lilly and Company in the late 1980s. [wikipedia.org] What else need be said, now in 2018? Some time in the last century, there was research. Since then, there was marketing, marketing, and m...
[19:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:10] <exec> 08└─He will put up a fight, but it'd much easier for everybody to simply bankrupt and perhaps divide Intel. He knows it and everybody knows it.
[19:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:57] <exec> 08└─6 feet underground. What, you didn't think that 150 million people moving from one place to another would start a war?
[19:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:58] <exec> 08└─where's the map that shows what will be under water, etc.?
[19:20:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 1679 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:13] <exec> 08└─I have seen numerous optical illusions of the form of sheets full of O and one C. Find the C. Or it shows a pen-and-ink drawing full of elephants... and one koala... Find the Koala. It does not jump out at me. I really have to look for it. When I am driving, I tend to see cars and trucks - in the...
[19:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:04] <exec> 08└─One can make a thin A-pillar that will handle a rollover crash. One can't do that out of cheap steel, with padding, with a handle, with an airbag, and still keep it attractive. The sort of material to use is probably a metal-matrix composite. For example, this is what is used for the F/A-18 nose gea...
[19:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:06] <exec> 08└─same thing with driving. i drive like speed racer. good luck hitting me. it will be just like the cartoon. ch-ch-ch-ch and i jump right over you. :)
[19:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:08] <exec> 08└─i don't mind motorcyclists. i think it's funny when they drive in between lanes of stagnant traffic. screw the normals. i also don't know why people can't hear the motorcycles. they are loud as hell.
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[20:18:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fadrian [3194] 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:20] <exec> 08└─How about idiot farmers who keep feeding this stuff in the bushels to their animals, too? That's a even bigger problem.
[20:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:30] <exec> 08└─This actually is a bigger problem then misuse in humans. The sad thing is that the reason they do it has nothing to do with the health of the animal... it is used to fatten them up and grow faster.
[20:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:17] <exec> 08└─I don't keep up on the very latest in the CPU wars, so I can't really speak to "lower temperatures", but Intel with its own fabs and leading fab technology generally has had superior power consumption figures
[20:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:18] <exec> 08└─Intel has a reputation for manufacturing half fast CPUs?
[20:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:20] <exec> 08└─AMD seemed to have grabbed some desktop market share but not that much. Ryzen mobile chips, a segment where they do well because of budget laptops, were delayed a pretty long time. AMD should be releasing a 12nm refresh of Ryzen desktop chips around March. Maybe a 10% performance improvement.
[20:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:09] <exec> 08└─Well, when authorities wanted to move people to American West, scientists came up with a very convenient theory "Rain follows the plow" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:10] <exec> 08└─That doesn't mean we should do nothing about it now.
[20:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:12] <exec> 08└─Ignorant fools like yourself are WHY there is so much pressure.
[20:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:15] <exec> 08└─Oh - yeah, I know. A lot of New Jersey will be underwater
[20:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:17] <exec> 08└─It's any contour map. For USA try USGS...
[20:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:25] <exec> 08└─Lean it back? You mean, like reclining? Uhhhhhhhh - sorry - NO FUCKING WAY! First, my back would hurt like hell. Second, reclining is for sleeping. Okay, so I'm not going to actually fall asleep, unless I'm driving for to many hours. Still, reclining means relaxing. Relaxing is anathema to paying at...
[20:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:26] <exec> 08└─That's why in some states there are explicit laws which allow cyclists to treat stop signs as yields. In general a lot of the "dangerous" behavior for cyclists is the same reason motorcyclists do the same "dangerous" stuff: it keeps you moving and away from traffic, because stopped and near cars are...
[20:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:29] <exec> 08└─Only using the rear brake is one of those perpetual wrong-teaching things, that should be coming to an end, soon after the Baby Boomers are gone. There weren't any riding classes when I came up. No internet. Few authors had written anything authoritative about motorcycle riding. There was nowhere to...
[20:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:31] <exec> 08└─I ride. I ride fast a lot of the time. In fact, I ride pretty aggressively. But, your excuses for breaking the law are pretty feeble. I drive fast because I'm a fucking speed demon, and I like going fast. I like to see the expressions on people's faces as I whip past them. I'm not going to bullshit...
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[21:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:12] <exec> 08└─This has to be good for that business. Don't carry anything with your primary accounts on them.
[21:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:14] <exec> 08└─When we crossed the border i wondered if my vpn activity,etc, might create a fuss at the border. It didn't, but it is always something i'm thinking about. Going anon because. It's bad that you gotta worry about that kind of thing. I had my tablet encrypted and passworded but...... Too bad free trade...
[21:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:16] <exec> 08└─Moreover, have a travel OS for your systems in general. Encrypted like normal, but honeypot data you don't give a shit about. Data should be backed up to the "cloud" with zero-knowledge, like tarsnaps. You can ship the working drives via courier, insured for the loss of the drives. I'm hoping to cre...
[21:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oumuamua Likely Originated in the Local Association (Pleiades Moving Group) - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:23] <exec> 08└─That seems awful high, or deep space is more populated with debris then we think.
[21:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:42] <exec> 08└─And I've had a Doctor not prescribe an antibiotic for a serious infection because he was so concerned about antibiotic resistance. I have yet to see data proving that antibiotic resistance germs are more widespread now than they used to be. Yes, they are seen with increasing frequency, but doctors a...
[21:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:43] <exec> 08└─I hope you posted this from the lab while slaving over your PhD.
[21:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:33] <exec> 08└─Ryzen laptops are only just now coming out. It'll be a few more months before we see more variety. Here's one with the Ryzen 5 2500U: https://www.newegg.com [newegg.com] If you want a LOT of cpu in a laptop there is this monster: http://store.asus.com
[21:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:34] <exec> 08└─That's not a business laptop. Here's one [newegg.com] that actually is.
[21:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:29] <exec> 08└─According to the theory, increased human settlement in the region and cultivation of soil would result in an increased rainfall over time, rendering the land more fertile and lush as the population increased. As later historical records of rainfall indicated, the theory was based on faulty evidence...
[21:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:31] <exec> 08└─Why, to the first world states with stagnant population rates. What fortune to get highly trained displaced engineers and doctors paying into the social security funds, so that the generation in power can retire comfortably. When they're no longer needed, they can just disappear. Unless they have be...
[21:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:33] <exec> 08└─Ya know I've searched and they aren't the easiest things to find!
[21:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:35] <exec> 08└─"In the U.S., there are very few habitable places that aren't already occupied" Yeah, that's not even close to true. "Meanwhile, rural areas would provide few opportunities for migrants to find employment and rebuild their lives." Oh, I see what's going on here. Written by a blue stater for whom lif...
[21:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:47] <exec> 08└─According to my quick bit of research, those "some states" are comprised of: Idaho, and.... that's it. I think Delaware and California are considering such laws. But you're exactly right about the "dangerous" stuff. There's also a law in Virginia (not sure about other states) that bicycles and motor...
[21:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:49] <exec> 08└─I don't mean recline all the way back, just enough so your mirror isn't at the same height as your eyes (while making sure your wrists can touch the top of the wheel, otherwise you're leaning too far back). Or lower your seat if that's possible. If those don't work, it sounds like your car just does...
[21:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:51] <exec> 08└─Or do you never overtake unless there are multiple lanes? No, I don't normally overtake unless there are multiple lanes, but I live in London, and on most roads around here, there is always traffic going both ways - even at 3AM. If you live somewhere where there is only one car an hour, that is not...
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[22:18:11] <exec> 08└─Don't carry anything with primary accounts sounds like a good idea. Or, just don't carry electronics. How hard can it be, to cross the border without anything, then purchase a throwaway, log into whatever you want to log into, then discard that throwaway before re-entering the country. There is noth...
[22:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:13] <exec> 08└─They want your social media account?
[22:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:15] <exec> 08└─Waste of time. Carry nothing and relax. Everything is in my head. Nothing to see. I can get another machine anywhere.
[22:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:17] <exec> 08└─Don't travel to the US.
[22:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:19] <exec> 08└─Sounds like grub should be able to do that with minimal hacking... Ik have to check it out
[22:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:21] <exec> 08└─If you dont show them what is on there, they can always just confiscate it. ( and detain you for being 'suspicious' since 'what do you have to hide from us' ) Assume anything you carry across wont make it.
[22:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:24] <exec> 08└─veracrypt hidden partitions, and virtual machines are your friend if you *need* to carry data around locally. Would it stop the NSA? No, but they dont work the border either.
[22:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oumuamua Likely Originated in the Local Association (Pleiades Moving Group) - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:33] <exec> 08└─I see something like "yo mama".
[22:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oumuamua Likely Originated in the Local Association (Pleiades Moving Group) - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:35] <exec> 08└─6.0 × 10−3 au−3 = 166.66 per cubic astronomical unit. 46 million divided by that = ~276,011 cubic AU The radius of a sphere with that volume would be 40.39 AU. Sounds pretty close, since Pluto has a semi-major axis of 39.48 AU. We use a sphere and not a disk? Because the solar system actually l...
[22:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oumuamua Likely Originated in the Local Association (Pleiades Moving Group) - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:37] <exec> 08└─Whoops. 166.66 cubic AU per object. 46 million objects * 166.6 cubic AU = 7,666,666,666.666 cubic AU Radius = 1223.22 AU So now the sphere encompasses Planet Nine and most ETNOs [wikipedia.org].
[22:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:58] <exec> 08└─Profits before anything else. An American idea. An American problem. when profits become more important than people, you know you got a problem.
[22:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:59] <exec> 08└─Don't know about the REAL definition of homeopathy, but i know there are a lot of non-drug remedies that work. Instead of a puffer, i use Buckleys mixture: it keeps my breathing clear. Tonic water instead of drugs keeps my restless leg syndrome away: the quinine is a musle relaxant (since i've gone...
[22:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:01] <exec> 08└─For viral ailments, more MDs need to hand out samples of Obecalp [google.com] (Spell it backwards.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:04] <exec> 08└─I'm not doubting you, but just out of curiosity, what other things do you believe? For instance, which of the following do you think are at least reasonably likely? JFK conspiracy, moon landing faked, vaccination causes autism, 911 was an inside job, there's a pill that can turn water into gasoline...
[22:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Attention Backcountry Skiers: Scientists Want Your Help - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:20] <exec> 08└─You see, the reason they have to resort to volunteers is because the US does not value science. If they could get the budget you bet they'd be paying for field techs. I'm guessing you're just a troll, but if not then you're waaay off base.
[22:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:56] <exec> 08└─" No, they can't drop into each other's sockets, but all the sockets are entirely proprietary and change every chip generation anyway, so it's irrelevant" I'd like to interject for a moment and state that AMD has far more support for their sockets than Intel does. There is no Intel generational comp...
[22:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:58] <exec> 08└─Welcome to 1995, Nostradamus.
[22:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:56] <exec> 08└─No need to create giant wallpaper displays. Just give me the AR/VR headset of 15 years from now.
[22:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:57] <exec> 08└─Incorrect.
[22:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:13] <exec> 08└─That only solves part of the problem. We also don't have air conditioning or even a fan while wearing what amounts to winter gear in the heat. There's nothing particularly dangerous about lane splitting when motorists don't drive like dicks.
[22:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:15] <exec> 08└─That's a dead red law. In WA. it's not a time period, the light has to go around once without giving you a green at which point you can go anyways as long as it's safe. There's one big issue with it that cops may or may not recognize it as a legal excuse for ignoring a red light.
[22:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:17] <exec> 08└─It's not bullshit and it's barely illegal. Riding 5-10 over the speed limit is often safer than riding the speed limit. Especially in cities where the speed limits have been artificially lowered. Hell, I'm regularly behind cops driving their cruisers that fast.
[22:23:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:01] <exec> 08└─Did you try the brightness knob?
[22:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:23] <exec> 08└─Not available quite yet but Fort Collins, Colorado is headed in that direction (like Wilson, NC and Chattanooga, TN). A ballot measure in November passed there, approving a municipal fiber broadband network. Days ago, the city council took the 2nd step and voted to go ahead. After beating cable lobb...
[22:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:24] <exec> 08└─So the governer told a citizen to boycott her ISP and the Leftists screeched; If the governer had told her to enjoy the internet anyway, the Leftists would have screeched louder. This is becoming tiresome.
[22:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:26] <exec> 08└─You might want to start sharpening that pitchfork now. By the time they start burning books it will be to late. Just look at Germany mid to late 1930s
[22:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:56] <exec> 08└─I was under the conception I *had* to surrender my credit card info to get onto Google Play.
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[23:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Here’s the Spaceflight Stuff We’re Most Anticipating in 2018 - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:10] <exec> 08└─Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite [wikipedia.org] (exoplanets, March 2018 launch) Chandrayaan-2 [wikipedia.org] (Lunar orbiter, lander, rover, Q1 2018 launch) Parker Solar Probe [wikipedia.org] (Venus flybys, very close study of the Sun, summer 2018 launch) CHEOPS [wikipedia.org] (exoplanets, en...
[23:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Here’s the Spaceflight Stuff We’re Most Anticipating in 2018 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:12] <exec> 08└─After all, the rest are just pedestrian. Landing a Falcon Heavy would be the cat's meow.
[23:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here’s the Spaceflight Stuff We’re Most Anticipating in 2018 - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:14] <exec> 08└─Will 2018 be the year Musk impregnates the Red Planet? Will he cheat and spill a space probe filled with Musky sperm on Mars instead?
[23:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here’s the Spaceflight Stuff We’re Most Anticipating in 2018 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:16] <exec> 08└─Shit, it could be in the trunk of his BRIGHT RED Tesla Roadster.
[23:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here’s the Spaceflight Stuff We’re Most Anticipating in 2018 - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:18] <exec> 08└─They make a good case for the Falcon 9 Block 5 [wikipedia.org]. It has increased thrust and improvements that could make it much easier and faster to refurbish/reuse. Even if Falcon Heavy works, there won't be that many flights of it. There will be more Falcon 9 flights per year (some payloads origi...
[23:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:35] <exec> 08└─There are far too many people here as it is, and foreigners lack a sufficient internalization of germ theory to behave in a healthy, civilized manner, especially Southeast Asians.
[23:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:37] <exec> 08└─I have 2 hard drives, one with Linux and grub bootloader, the other with Windows. It boots directly to Windows via bios hard drive selection. Press F-whatever to change boot drive and you get grub, then Linux. Windows doesn't see the other drive.
[23:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:39] <exec> 08└─The Verge [theverge.com] is reporting that Customs and Border Patrol has been told to dial back the searches of electronics to only those cases where they have ever so slightly changed the rules about what they can and can't search. Of interest they can not search cloud data, or any data that is acc...
[23:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:41] <exec> 08└─Don’t take anything. Machines are cheap to replace.
[23:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:43] <exec> 08└─border without anything, then purchase a throwaway
[23:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:46] <exec> 08└─If they ask you if you a social media accound and you say no its instantly suspicious. Probably grounds enough to hook you up right then and there and frog march you to a holding cell. You've after all, lied to a federal agent. Even your account here at SN qualifies as social media.
[23:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:48] <exec> 08└─That would be great, but most of the time it's "quick trips" for business; either a secondary employer or for yourself. Not even in the realm of possibility for the majority of people or companies. It does appear that if the "don't search the cloud" restrictions are real guidelines that will be fol...
[23:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Oumuamua Likely Originated in the Local Association (Pleiades Moving Group) - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:58] <exec> 08└─Our star is called Sol; our star system can be called the solar system. There is no other solar system. This thing was ejected from its home star system.
[23:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:24] <exec> 08└─so now when the bacteria ups the anti a patient will be dead no matter what. good job...
[23:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 3310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:26] <exec> 08└─http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9910/S00096.htm [scoop.co.nz] "I watched BBC's Horizon programme The Virus the Cures on Prime TV on 11 October. The programme revealed that we - ie humankind - had discovered a superior cure (to antibiotics) for bacterial infections around the same time that penicill...
[23:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:28] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't the effect be better if it ends in "-cillin"? "Placillin" sounds like a good name.
[23:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercharged Antibiotics Could Turn Tide Against Superbugs - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:30] <exec> 08└─But what if the bacteria evolve magic? :-)
[23:20:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Don't Expect Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says - 1662 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:12] <exec> 08└─That's a terrible analogy. The Dems and Reps are somewhat equal competitors, in terms of number of dedicated voters, funding, etc. Which one is dominant flips every decade or so. Intel vs. AMD is very different: AMD is a fraction of Intel's size and sales volume. AMD has *never* been dominant, it's...
[23:20:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 1487 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:55] <exec> 08└─Its not a useful prediction in that too many other things are changing. Depletion of aquifers and oil wells means they'll have no energy which means no industrial agriculture which means no food and no water, which are somewhat more important problems. Kinda like those predictions that based solely...
[23:21:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 348 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:22] <exec> 08└─"In the U.S., there are very few habitable places that aren't already occupied" Yeah, that's not even close to true. "Meanwhile, rural areas would provide few opportunities for migrants to find employment and rebuild their lives." Oh, I see what's going on here. Written by a blue stater for whom lif...
[23:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:25] <exec> 08└─They do it because it's the latter-day implementation of the Great Leap Forward, when they were faking all their numbers to make their crazy production quotas. Building empty cities now makes no sense in China because they are poor quality, and left untended will quickly fall to ruin again. On the o...
[23:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:27] <exec> 08└─Cause you don't seem to understand how complicated the systems are and how difficult it is to predict global weather. You toss out valid science just because some of the more wild predictions haven't come true yet. We achieved global action for the hole in the ozone layer. It took a long time but th...
[23:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 1371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:29] <exec> 08└─Building homes underground works well thermally. There are other issues like ground water, drainage, cave-ins, mold, vermin. In some places the geology is perfect for subterranean dwelling. Cappadocia in Turkey [ancient-origins.net] has a deep layer of tuff [wikipedia.org] that's easy to excavate, i...
[23:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:32] <exec> 08└─In the 60's they drafted a plan [gizmodo.com] to move water from Alaska and the Great Lakes to California and to replenish the Ogallala Aquifer. It would be the most massive civil engineering feat in human history, but it would solve the water problem in the North American continent once and for all...
[23:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:34] <exec> 08└─I rather think vertical farms [wikipedia.org] will solve a lot of those limitations with arable land and transportation simultaneously. There are a few commercial operations that run farms in converted shipping containers.
[23:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:36] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't be a bad thing if it meant the New Jerseyans didn't wind up migrating someplace else. South Park did an excellent episode that warns of the dangers of New Jerseyans spreading to the rest of the country.
[23:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:39] <exec> 08└─BTW I dunno if "New Jerseyan" is the proper form, because here in New York City we call them "Bridge & Tunnel People."
[23:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:41] <exec> 08└─There's a nice side dish of the usual worthless coastal elitism, why life isn't worth living if you can't live next door to Harvard in Boston, etc. LOL at "there are very few habitable places that aren't already occupied".
[23:22:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:02] <exec> 08└─Teaching is not the same thing as learning. I suppose if everyone rode a motorcycle as part of the class, that might do.
[23:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inattentional Blindness: Why Drivers May Fail to See Motorcycles in Plain Sight - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:59] <exec> 08└─Quick search said it started in Idaho, it was added to Delaware last year, and various municipalities have added it in Colorado. As far as the 2 cycle thing, I think that's a thing here in NC but that may just be hearsay. Depending on the traffic (cyclist) sometimes I deal with a light, but if it's,...
[23:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Cable Bills Are Rising Again and What Can You Do - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:09] <exec> 08└─Apart from the fact that "cable" is colloquialism for multichannel pay television in general, there's a cable going to both the transmitter dish at Dish's headend and the subscribers' receiver dishes.
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