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[00:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:51] <exec> 08└─A lot. It's called PROSPERITY, folks. It's called SUCCESS. It's called WINNING. You're welcome. Now go and thank President Xi of China.
[00:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:06] <exec> 08└─WTF did you mean by this: I'd be more worried about it being easy access to other kids then for the employees at school.
[00:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:07] <exec> 08└─As far as I know it is still 18 here in Illinois for tobacco, although there has been some proposals to increase it. Some local juristictions may also be higher. For lack of a better link here's wikipedia, looks like most of America is 18 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:10] <exec> 08└─Crossing state lines, even between permissive states makes it a federal crime. With the US Attorney General making noises about going back into the business of violating state sovereignty issues even when the states in question don't want Federal 'help' the schools which accept federal $$$ may find...
[00:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:12] <exec> 08└─Mister Spicoli what is that you're doing? Why that's my awesome prescription bong, Dude. Wanna hit?
[00:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:37] <exec> 08└─Clearly, it depends on the engineer. There are plenty of examples that disprove your claim. Task-specific spins of Linux were around over a decade ago. Ubuntu Electronics Remix [google.com] Fedora Electronic Lab [google.com] N.B. Those were bootable and 100 percent usable without even installing. Co...
[00:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:38] <exec> 08└─So your lesson is to use Windows.
[00:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:40] <exec> 08└─You might look at this as a win-win. On the one hand, System76 gets to do the branding via their Linux spin for n00bs. On the other hand, folks who don't cotton to that particular distro and were going to pave over what shipped with the hardware anyway and install their preferred distro will be cert...
[00:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:43] <exec> 08└─Oh boy, more GNOME. KDE really deserves more attention than it gets from distros. It's polished, attractive, lighter, and by default provides a more familiar way for users to interact with the system. It also puts more effort into cross-toolkit consistency, something GNOME devs give no fucks about,...
[00:01:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06SPARCS CubeSat Will Assess Habitability of Red Dwarf Stars - 1536 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:50] <exec> 08└─If this type of star, with exoplanets are far more common, it is obvious to wonder if this might be the dominant type of life bearing planet and ours is a less common type. Suppose life already evolved to a high level on that type of planet before it did on earth. Maybe life on all those red dwarf s...
[00:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SPARCS CubeSat Will Assess Habitability of Red Dwarf Stars - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know - that's not what the title says. But, that's what I read a minute ago. Can't sleep, tired, cranky, I looked at the title, and saw something about red dwarves' bad habits. Always smoking foul smelling pipes, or chewing something that resembles tobacco, and gossiping, drinking - well, re...
[00:03:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:03] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the separate drinking fountains.
[00:03:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 1921 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:21] <exec> 08└─Not really neede, but I cite Obama. Seriously. Specifically the administration and agenda. We would've got four years (maybe eight), of the same toxic anti-consumer, anti-American, anti-privacy bullshit we had under Obama. Civil rights would've continued to erode, the globalist agenda would've been...
[00:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:49] <exec> 08└─Atheism is a religion like blowing a hair dryer on somebody else's collection of imaginary stamps is a hobby.
[00:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:51] <exec> 08└─I can spend half an hour calling you names too, but that doesn't make you a billionaire real estate mogul / tv celebrity / president. You'll still be a loser. So maybe try looking in the mirror and get off your high horse.
[00:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 1613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:53] <exec> 08└─Offtopic chatter in a topical thread or sub-forum is moderated/banned simply for being off-topic. Not due to it's specific content. If a forum on the topic of sewing and is designated 'no religious or political discussion', that applies to all religions and political leanings. In that forum if some...
[00:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:55] <exec> 08└─my house, my rules
[00:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:28] <exec> 08└─It's more complicated than that, though at a level you are essentially correct. The problem is that you need more than mass disaffection to make a change, you also need some organization, perhaps not in the hierarchical sense but certainly in the 'rally round the standard' sense, there has to be som...
[00:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:04] <exec> 08└─America should reconsider the bullshit democracy and regime-change they're peddling, which have led to the deaths of millions of gullible and not-gullible people. Not going to happen.
[00:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:28] <exec> 08└─This is a fundamental idea behind the European Union. The more the people from the different countries mix together, the less likely it becomes that one European country will go to war with another European country. For those that are interested, Wikipedia has a good article under "Schuman Declarati...
[00:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:30] <exec> 08└─They forgot to use Firefox in Incognito Mode with javascript disabled. It's times like this that the populace being so computer illiterate gets me less frustrated and more cynical overall. How stupidly easy any of this shit is to fake is just beyond the comprehension of so many people. Even keeping...
[00:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:09] <exec> 08└─Misogyny strikes again. Donate to Patreon's Kickstarter campaign to give every college-educated, debt-laden, iPhone-having oppressed American woman $1/day.
[00:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:04] <exec> 08└─Since when should lying be equated to decency? Since when should the truth be construed as an insult?
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[01:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:53] <exec> 08└─Just why?!
[01:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:55] <exec> 08└─Because apparently Best Buy wasn't enough. Or it is a scheme to fleece investors or launder some money.
[01:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:57] <exec> 08└─If what you say is true, which it is not, why are there so many abandoned businesses and homeless beggars on the street? You know something, Mr President, I want to thank you. I want to thank you for doing your part to help bring an end to segregation in the city of Chicago. During the prosperous ti...
[01:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:59] <exec> 08└─It's name recognition, an online retailer named "Circuit City" is going to attract more shoppers and make them feel more confident in doing business than one named "Gadget Geeks" (except maybe in the UK where there was a TV show....) The name has some residual value, even after the whole fiasco that...
[01:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:01] <exec> 08└─Or, because Best Buy was never anything approximating the Best. Breaking into the already overcrowded on-line market is going to be tricky. Still "a new, more personalized online shopping experience" is probably better chances than opening brick and motor stores again.
[01:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:04] <exec> 08└─Who needs Best Buy? We got Target. Who needs Target? We got Walmart.
[01:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:06] <exec> 08└─They are ticking a lot of the boxes -- AI, "Augmented Reality" (AR) .. search by photo that seems interesting ... but I'm really missing out on the block chain or cryptocurrency features.
[01:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:08] <exec> 08└─Are they also going to try and bring back the DIVX video disk players? ( https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] for those who have purged it from their memory) Customers are so used to getting raped up the butt, they probably could get away with it these days.
[01:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:10] <exec> 08└─My problem with that name recognition is that I, and many others, decided to never buy from them again, after the previous management decided to lay off all their experienced salepeople to replace them with cheaper bodies (optionally, offer them the new lower salary).
[01:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:12] <exec> 08└─we're keeping an eye on Radio Shack's own shambling corpse
[01:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:15] <exec> 08└─Sure if you want to hold a grudge like that then you will never shop again anywhere. Abandon electronics entirely and live off the grid because that is where you are headed. Capitalism is not going to get any better for your benefit.
[01:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but you know something and might be able to make a rational decision - that puts you in a small minority. Also, if you're really thinking rationally, you know the new entity has absolutely nothing to do with prior management. Most people deciding between A and B will choose the one they've hea...
[01:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:19] <exec> 08└─As I wrote, "previous management" did something dumb to line up their pockets, while screwing the workers and reducing the quality of service to customers. It turns out that didn't work out so well for the company (can't tell about their pockets). If some random unrelated guy wants to revive the nam...
[01:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:22] <exec> 08└─They totally need to have a pricing in BTC and Etherium option, that would guarantee a huge investment - this week. Next week? Nobody knows when the pop is coming, but this one is going to be so big, fast and hard that you can almost hear the echo from the future.
[01:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:24] <exec> 08└─Who needs stores ? We got Amazon ! Timely: http://www.gocomics.com [gocomics.com]
[01:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:42] <exec> 08└─I think it was quite clear. You even managed to pick it up. So what was the question again?
[01:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 1562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:43] <exec> 08└─Well, at least prohibit Adderall, which is just meth. It fucks with your heart rhythm. Concerta is Ritalin, but slow-release. They work OK, but depending on drugs is pretty messed up. Most places have banned public punishment. This includes posting grades. The misery of any resulting humiliation act...
[01:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:45] <exec> 08└─It might be. I didn't exactly do an extensive (re)search, a lot of links just said 21 when looking for what the age limit of tobacco in Illinois was, and so I went with that. She is still below 18 to tho so it might matter less. But yes it could have been wrong, it probably is wrong. But then it mig...
[01:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:48] <exec> 08└─So what was the question again?
[01:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:50] <exec> 08└─As I suspected then. I do wonder when this will start to become a real issue as more and more states are allowing cannabis for medical or recreational usage. I don't see any of them going back on that any time soon. Eventually it will become unbearable when the states allow something and then at the...
[01:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:52] <exec> 08└─What drugs can you sell me?
[01:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:54] <exec> 08└─speed matters with the kids most likely to benefit from this
[01:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:56] <exec> 08└─Being a Schedule I drug, marijuana CANNOT be prescribed,
[01:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:26] <exec> 08└─As a customer, I want standardization. I don't want almost standardization. Windows guys, try this: Buy brand X laptop with a customized version of Microsoft Windows! It works mostly like Windows, and all the apps we've installed so far seem to work!
[01:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:27] <exec> 08└─When and why did the flat, anti-functional, user-hostile "Material Design" aesthetic take over? [...] GNOME [...] third-rate copy of OS X or Windows 10 I think you answered your own question. The existence of GNOME is due to a scary quasi-proprietary license that Qt had back in the day. That toolkit...
[01:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:29] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but many in the list run on Linux: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:32] <exec> 08└─KDE 4 killed KDE for a long time. I still have doubts it has reached the usability of KDE 3.5.9, hah. On the bright side it drove a lot of people to XFCE and other minimal desktops/shells/WMs. Enlightenment looks like it's still a thing too.
[01:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:34] <exec> 08└─I set up my relative with a PopOS, and running apt-get install kubuntu-desktop provided an instant improvement :)
[01:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:36] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this is a peculiarity of the English language. In my native language, the term engineer is almost exclusively used for mechanical engineers, while also being an official state-designated title to acquire after completing education. Software "engineering" works for me as a metaphor, but t...
[01:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SPARCS CubeSat Will Assess Habitability of Red Dwarf Stars - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:47] <exec> 08└─"Life" may be a low bar if we are talking about subsurface oceans. http://www.newsweek.com [newsweek.com] There could be life [wikipedia.org] on Mars (interior ocean, not surface), Ceres, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Enceladus, Dione, Rh...
[01:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:38] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing your thought process went like this: 1. Read the phrase "Too confusing for Americans" 2. Hey Canada is in America!! 3. Eh 4. Must take jab at poster for not properly referring to people in the "USA" as "USians" or "the US population". 5. Hit Submit 6. Wait a sec, I'm Canadian? Did I jus...
[01:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:40] <exec> 08└─Not in Australia. The banks take on the risk of transactions below a certain value for 'Tap and Go' (wireless use of the card). That limit is usually $100. This is to allow people to use the wireless cards for many small transactions without the slow down of entering PINs (and getting them wrong). I...
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[02:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:16] <exec> 08└─They totally need to have a pricing in BTC and Etherium option, that would guarantee a huge investment
[02:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:17] <exec> 08└─Amazon, Best Buy, and Newegg are all more established online sellers of electronics. Along with Staples, Walmart, Office MaxDepot, Target, etc. If someone decides to boycott Circuit City, they won't be starved for alternatives.
[02:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:19] <exec> 08└─Because they didn't cover the grave with concrete. Any good zombie prepper knows that.
[02:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:22] <exec> 08└─Best Buy is the most comparable to what Circuit City used to be. And it has a strong online presence today. But yes, there is also Target, Walmart, Amazon, Staples, Office Whatever, Newegg, and Fry's and Microcenter where available. Anything that can make it onto the front page of Slickdeals [slickd...
[02:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 1536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:24] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you about Chicago. I brought a lot of money to Chicago, and housed a lot of people, when I built the Trump International Hotel and Tower. The first skyscraper, as you know, was in Chicago. But there's only one building in Chicago that's taller than mine. I wanted it to be the tallest. Bu...
[02:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:24] <exec> 08└─This is pretty much why I use all sorts of OSes, but my main desktop is a Mac. All OSes suck, but the ways macOS sucks annoy me less than the ways Windows or Linux or *BSD or AmigaOS or Android suck.
[02:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:26] <exec> 08└─Quote Article: After some time passed, after I tested it out, and as System 76 release more and more information about their new OS I happily found that I was wrong. What is great about Pop!_OS is not what it is. At this point, it is just another distribution that honestly fragments the world of Lin...
[02:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:28] <exec> 08└─Except that XFCE is now more bloated than the current KDE. It uses more memory, and still looks sort of duct taped together, and is starting to suffer from haphazard integration of packages. They aren't even chasing the light-weight image any more. . On the other hand..... Some of the spinoffs fo XF...
[02:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:30] <exec> 08└─Thank you My theory is that your “clock” was s set when you are born then that second remains just as long at birth as at death it just the universe a second is getting shorter and shorter. Explains the accellorantion or star away from us without dark matter or other tricks.
[02:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:32] <exec> 08└─I had a look recently at Pop!OS. Installed it, fired it up and after a poke around, shut it down and removed it. Sorry, this distro is more likely to chase newcomers back into the clutches of Redmond or drive a long-time Linux user to tears (and installing something stronger). All the new pastel fla...
[02:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:34] <exec> 08└─article (yup read TFA) points out, integrating hardware and OS can make users' life pretty good, no matter their power level.
[02:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:37] <exec> 08└─I thought it looked like Windows 8. I mean, ye Gods, first Microsoft, and now there's a Linux distro that's succumbed to the same brain rot. Also, in reference to the, ahem, "review", I know the other site has the term Slashvertising, if it's posted here is it Soylentvertising? Doesn't quite roll of...
[02:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:39] <exec> 08└─I think Manjaro did something like that. They found a manufacturer that was already making Linux Laptops, and configured their Manjaro versions to run on the hardware. https://manjaro.org [manjaro.org]
[02:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:41] <exec> 08└─My 2 desktops are xfce and i3: i3 for when i need resources and quickness, xfce for when i can't remember how to do something (command i haven't written down, etc). I can remember stuff like 'palemoon' and 'smplayer', 'arandr' 'minecraft-launcher'...... but how to get my vpn going and getting to a s...
[02:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:43] <exec> 08└─Absolutely! Unless the plumbing's in order, it's somewhat irrelevant whether the carpet matches the drapes.
[02:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:46] <exec> 08└─Not for power users, not for traditional desktop users, not for anyone who dislikes this easily dislikeable theme... I wonder who is left.
[02:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:48] <exec> 08└─Same with google/android: "the world" says "nobody uses linux" until you point out that THEY are using it in their phones and tablets. Then they go "Huh?"
[02:04:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 1526 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:01] <exec> 08└─You're on to something there. I looked at that miracle working thing, a few decades ago. Yeah, prior to the internet. I actually dug into some of canonical law, and read some of the "authorities" on the saints and their miracles. I finished with the idea that if enough people swore that something ha...
[02:05:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 381 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:18] <exec> 08└─“Don't programmers deserve a reward for their creativity?” If anything deserves a reward, it is social contribution. Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the s...
[02:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:31] <exec> 08└─Thieving corporations and copyright _are not the same thing_. I argued that people should get paid for their work. We seem to agree there. Copyright is not inherently bad if it helps someone get their fair compensation. If you steal content because you think the corporation is a thieving bag of shit...
[02:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Engineers Demonstrate Fully Autonomous X-Ray Navigation in Space - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:45] <exec> 08└─With the technology today, it's shooting (seeds - grin if you know what I mean) in the dark - you'll never know if you succeeded or not. Since you can't verify, you can't even call it "an experiment". Besides, what do you think those robots will teach, scrambled human eggs? While embryo thawing is w...
[02:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Engineers Demonstrate Fully Autonomous X-Ray Navigation in Space - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:47] <exec> 08└─Little kinks... nobody really needs artificial wombs here.
[02:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:57] <exec> 08└─An ass whisperer might be able to tell me how many people have a subscriber badge but keep it hidden from view.
[02:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:59] <exec> 08└─Because it's not a sharp symbol, it's typically referred to as the pound sign or possibly the number sign. It's mostly morons that learned C# that seem to think otherwise. Most of us old enough to know better prior to MS inventing the language wouldn't be using that as our first guess at the meaning...
[02:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:15] <exec> 08└─Remind me, what wars has Trump started so far?
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[03:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:55] <exec> 08└─"But it also turns out the device we've created presents a way to generate laser light with an incrementally small amount of power."
[03:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:56] <exec> 08└─"Negative mass" also sounds like it might enable some sort of antigravity.
[03:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:58] <exec> 08└─Walter looked into the jar, but could see nothing. He removed the cover to get a better view, and a slight breeze ruffled his hair, but he could still not find the magic dust. He tried another jar. Then another, and another. Finally, after the last jar, he figured out that they guys in the lab were...
[03:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:01] <exec> 08└─You could always use multiple lasers [soylentnews.org]. Maybe even millions of chip-scale lasers.
[03:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:03] <exec> 08└─Flubber?!!
[03:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:05] <exec> 08└─It also sounds a whole lot like what the Alcubierre drive [wikipedia.org] needs to work, but I wouldn't get your hopes up just yet.
[03:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06SpaceShipTwo Performs Glide Flight in Advance of Powered Tests - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:13] <exec> 08└─Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! It's disgusting! It's revolting! It's diseased! It's... delicious! Your rancid rectum is going to be bubble gum for my fetid cock! Let's get this feces fiesta of the ages started, shall we!?
[03:01:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:21] <exec> 08└─A lot. It's called PROSPERITY, folks. It's called SUCCESS. It's called WINNING. You're welcome. Now go and thank President Xi of China.
[03:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:42] <exec> 08└─Because when you offer those homeless (most of them) a 10 or 15/hour job they tell you to fuck off. The lumpen prolitariate does not want to work, they just want handouts. Either that or meth/coke/booze or insane. My personal favorite was the girl who was excited about her "first night street sleepi...
[03:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:09] <exec> 08└─Physically assaulting others who behave in ways that you disagree with sure does sound like a good idea. I have to agree.
[03:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:10] <exec> 08└─How about prohibiting those three, and once again letting teachers scare the "ADHD" kids into behaving? There are very few "ADHD" kids who wouldn't be magically cured by a few public yardstick spankings.
[03:02:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 599 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:20] <exec> 08└─That theme is ugly as fuck. It looks like Android 7.x/8.x, and to me, that is not a good thing. When and why did the flat, anti-functional, user-hostile "Material Design" aesthetic take over? Even the melodramatic skeumorphism of mid-period OS X is better than this. The rest of the review boils down...
[03:02:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 662 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:33] <exec> 08└─Apple is about Form over Function. Symptom: you're holding it wrong! It's that way so we could use a certain material for the back cover that looks really cool but impedes the operation of the antenna. Engineering takes a back seat to design. It's all about design. (What is meant by this is fashion...
[03:02:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03melikamp [1886] 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:45] <exec> 08└─I set up my relative with a PopOS, and running apt-get install kubuntu-desktop provided an instant improvement :)
[03:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 1505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:00] <exec> 08└─Early adoption of KDE4 hurt KDE. Distros like Ubuntu ignored warnings from the devs and packaged up what was essentially a developer preview and shipped it to end users. By the time Debian adopted it, it was pretty well comparable to the 3.5 that replaced it and continued to improve from there. Now...
[03:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:02] <exec> 08└─Agree, there is something a bit too Barnum T. Bailey and Burning Man gee whizz about both the article and Pop!_OS's own site for my taste. The killer was this quote: “Apple of the Linux world.” Pradoed again we are.
[03:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 1336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:04] <exec> 08└─This is off topic and I deserve to be downvoted for it, I know, but I wanted to offer a suggestion: instead of keeping a bunch of paper with notes on how to do things, give Zim [zim-wiki.org] a look. It's a wiki-style notebook so you can have pages and sub-pages, plus some limited formatting and ima...
[03:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:06] <exec> 08└─I've seen "Soyvertisment" used.
[03:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:09] <exec> 08└─Early adoption of KDE4 hurt KDE. Distros like Ubuntu ignored warnings from the devs and packaged up what was essentially a developer preview and shipped it to end users.
[03:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:11] <exec> 08└─Ah, yeah, that sounds better.
[03:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:13] <exec> 08└─My 1st day using Linux, I discovered multiple workspaces|virtual desktops and loved that. (I understand that Windoze finally got this capability.) Being able to scroll a window without changing the focus was another thing I loved from the start. The *layers* thing with the various windows, where -yo...
[03:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SPARCS CubeSat Will Assess Habitability of Red Dwarf Stars - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:24] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing that the one with which most folks are familiar (most affordable??) is the 9oz thing. [google.com] Wow! $2.99 for 9oz of grain. That's $5.32/lb. Last time I bought grain, I got a 24oz loaf of bread for 99c. That's 67c/lb. I get five each 7oz packages of pasta for 99c. That's 45c/lb. I g...
[03:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:00] <exec> 08└─how do you propose that the millions of people working in the entertainment industry will get paid?
[03:06:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cyrano [1034] 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 596 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:52] <exec> 08└─2 years ago, the Mirai botnet was said to be Russian and set out to influence US elections and take down US online business. By the same sources as these rumours. Today we know the Mirai botnet was started by a couple of American students. The first was widely reported by MSM. The second fact was ha...
[03:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Engineers Demonstrate Fully Autonomous X-Ray Navigation in Space - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:15] <exec> 08└─Little kinks... nobody really needs artificial wombs here.
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[04:01:01] <exec> 08└─What's this!? A vision!? A vision of what? A vision of the future. I can see it. I can see the future of your ass. I'm the Assteller. You're relaxing at home when all of a sudden you're instantly transported to a mysterious location. It looks like some kind of large, dark cavern, and it's so large t...
[04:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:05] <exec> 08└─I live in WA and I've been in a recreational pot store. Everything sold is tested and comes labeled with clear percentages -- I've CBD, CBDa, THC, THCa with each component measured to a tenth of a percent or a hundredth of a percent. Edibles break out the various concentrations by mg. From this, I p...
[04:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:06] <exec> 08└─Holy cow -- that last sentence is an abomination. I can assure you, I wasn't high (not because I think it is bad, just because I don't get any enjoyment out of using cannabis). Also "I've _seen_ CBDa ..."
[04:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:08] <exec> 08└─Apparently, sampling and testing is so evolved, you can buy a slickly marketed device that shows results on your smartphone for $699. https://www.mydxlife.com [mydxlife.com]
[04:02:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 813 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:36] <exec> 08└─Oh boy, more GNOME. KDE really deserves more attention than it gets from distros. It's polished, attractive, lighter, and by default provides a more familiar way for users to interact with the system. It also puts more effort into cross-toolkit consistency, something GNOME devs give no fucks about,...
[04:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:04] <exec> 08└─It's logarithmic.
[04:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:05] <exec> 08└─KDE4 took until 4.12 and 5 took until 5.10 to be usable for me. I spend most of my time in Plasma 5.10, soon to be .11 now, with some in Fluxbox or Xfce with Compiz/Emerald as the mood strikes. code so I actually did get Gnome looking and working mostly, sorta, halfway decent, but only as an OS X...
[04:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:07] <exec> 08└─I've tried 'organization' software like that before and just find I get lost with it, not sure why. So I stick with paper and keeping .txt files for some commands. Of course, that means too many .txt files and too much paper, and.....I log into xfce and viola there it is, lol. Old dog trying to live...
[04:04:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:35] <exec> 08└─> Trump remains the lesser of the two evils that were offered to us. *Citation needed*
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[05:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Temporarily Pulls Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers Worldwide - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:54] <exec> 08└─That much cashcow money must actually be coming from someone who is stupid enough to be paying it; the only entity in this scenario that fits is government. This is what happens when you allow one set of people to spend the money of another set of people; this is what happens when you organize your...
[05:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Temporarily Pulls Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers Worldwide - 2181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:56] <exec> 08└─As you requested, I have looked into the matter. I can see it. It's not good, but I can see it. I can see the future of your ass. I'm the Assteller. You're feeling Tough. Why? Because you ingested a certain pill. You feel as though you could defeat anyone or anything, and as you look around your bed...
[05:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:10] <exec> 08└─One problem I see with negative mass particles is that they would tend to scatter, sort of like electrons, but without protons to reel them in.
[05:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:12] <exec> 08└─Now all we need is a bipolar drunk to go off his meds, build a warp drive for real, and panic when he realizes his work will make him more famous than he wants to be.
[05:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:14] <exec> 08└─Dark matter discovered?
[05:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:18] <exec> 08└─KDE4 took until 4.12 and 5 took until 5.10 to be usable for me.
[05:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:19] <exec> 08└─Zim's not really intended to be organisation software, it's just a way to display text files with wiki formatting inside folders. If you use folders and text files you're most of the way there already, zim just lists them on the side and lets you put some formatting in. It's more like a writing aid,...
[05:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:21] <exec> 08└─Probably not sound engineers or music artists either, given the continued, multi-decade joke of real-time sound on linux.
[05:05:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:12] <exec> 08└─And, yes, Trump remains the lesser of the two evils that were offered to us.
[05:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:07] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty alright with them not getting paid, actually. There is no god-mandated reason for an entertainment industry to exist. Either they can exist in the reality of current technology or they cannot. In the times of the Library of Alexandria the concept of restricting the copying and disseminati...
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[06:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Temporarily Pulls Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers Worldwide - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:56] <exec> 08└─More oikely private "hospitals", being paid by insurance, or, for those desperate enoug, directly by the addict (or eir family)
[06:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Temporarily Pulls Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers Worldwide - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:58] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[06:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Temporarily Pulls Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers Worldwide - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:00] <exec> 08└─Addiction treatment will be covered by insurance - if they really do have insurance. I was in Washington's Western State Hospital for six months. You do the math.
[06:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Temporarily Pulls Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers Worldwide - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:02] <exec> 08└─They use solid gold electrodes for your shock therapy?
[06:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:19] <exec> 08└─Let there be light "But it also turns out the device we've created presents a way to generate laser light with an incrementally small amount of power."
[06:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:21] <exec> 08└─It's as if a million lasers cried out at once... no wait... >.>
[06:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:23] <exec> 08└─Is it just me, or could we not use more positive news aggregation? You know, uplifting stories about the triumph of the human spirit, the victory of intellect over brawn, things about Hugh Manatees, aristarchus submissions! Besides, follow this: "negative mass", "dark matter", "Black Sabbath", "Bl...
[06:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:28] <exec> 08└─Be able to go for a Constitutional Amendment at the rate things are improving. You Americans really need to consider more Amendments, though considering your Supreme Court, it might not help.
[06:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:31] <exec> 08└─"I wonder if this is a peculiarity of the English language. " No, just a long-term campaign to erode the language and make more money. Script monkeys started calling themselves "software engineers" back in the 90s, if not before, in an attempt to gain status by association. Real engineers build thin...
[06:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:32] <exec> 08└─"GNOME started life as an all-FOSS-all-the-time alternative to KDE, and used GTK (the GIMP toolkit), which has always been gratis and libre." And then it took over GTK and perverted it beyond recognition. GNOME also originally stood for GNU Object Model Environment, and it had a clear mission. After...
[06:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:35] <exec> 08└─"the world" says "nobody uses linux" until you point out that THEY are using it in their phones and tablets. Then they go "Huh?"
[06:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:37] <exec> 08└─Probably not sound engineers or music artists either, given the continued, multi-decade joke of real-time sound on linux.
[06:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:04] <exec> 08└─The fact that she supported the Iraq war
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[07:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google App Matches Selfies With Catalog of Paintings - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:53] <exec> 08└─{'Michael David Crawford' => 'Homer Jay Simpson'}
[07:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Google App Matches Selfies With Catalog of Paintings - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:54] <exec> 08└─Your bubble gum rectumhole is with me now and soon something will join it. A fetid little entity just licked its chops...
[07:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google App Matches Selfies With Catalog of Paintings - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:56] <exec> 08└─Google seems to be obsessed with gathering data. They want even more data for face recognition. This is the biggest reason for this "feature". If you actually open up the article, you will notice the "matches" are not even particularly good. This is all a trap, in my opinion.
[07:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google App Matches Selfies With Catalog of Paintings - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:58] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to install it, much less use it, but I visited the linked Google store page: heaps of comments expressing disappointment about region locking. Has Google difficulties in finding art images which will match the skin colour prevalent in the region or what? In any case, I'm just curious w...
[07:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Temporarily Pulls Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers Worldwide - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:11] <exec> 08└─Each ward only holds a couple dozen patients, but even so they have five or six staff members in each one.
[07:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Temporarily Pulls Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers Worldwide - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:12] <exec> 08└─Now how will I find out about services to help treat my addiction to Google products?
[07:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:33] <exec> 08└─No
[07:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:09] <exec> 08└─The new management and the old management share the view that brand familiarity is stronger than the taint of shitty management decisions.
[07:02:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:35] <exec> 08└─Being a Schedule I drug, marijuana CANNOT be prescribed,
[07:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:47] <exec> 08└─install Debian (though the Gnome devs tricks
[07:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:49] <exec> 08└─I now see why you need those shades.
[07:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:19] <exec> 08└─I found his writings unnoteworthy except for their provenance. His speaking is underwhelming and not something you'd want in the senate going against articulate opponents. In one panel he said barely a peep and when he did it was not relevant and barely on topic. I can see the Republicans eagerly ba...
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[08:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google App Matches Selfies With Catalog of Paintings - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:06] <exec> 08└─..for closest match to Edvard Munch's "the Scream" is a choice of plastic surgery, therapy, or a paper bag...
[08:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google App Matches Selfies With Catalog of Paintings - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:07] <exec> 08└─Also good for keeping a collection of mug shots tied to an account most likely tied to a cell phone number.
[08:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google App Matches Selfies With Catalog of Paintings - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:10] <exec> 08└─If Google is true to form, a heavyset black lady will send in a selfie, and a painting of Gorillas gets matched... ( Troll mod expected - but this happened before! [theverge.com])
[08:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Temporarily Pulls Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers Worldwide - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:24] <exec> 08└─A lot of us question the efficacy of addiction "treatment". Does it really work, or is it mostly an excuse for someone ( "care provider" ) to open up a charge number on someone else's account? I know I have tried to counsel some people to ditch the drugs, but the most common response is that "I just...
[08:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:46] <exec> 08└─Oh, Sulla! So negative, again? What possible gain for the Republic is there in this? Pax Romana must endure, and for that we require Greek humor, even aristarchus.
[08:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:47] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately polaritons are actually quasiparticles. That is, they are not really particles (such as, you cannot pull them out of the material and send them somewhere in space), but they only exist as states of the material that behave as if they were particles. And the material still has positive...
[08:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:50] <exec> 08└─these things have negative mass just as much as air bubbles in water have negative mass. so you may as well use air bubbles for your alcubierre drive.
[08:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:52] <exec> 08└─Now, this would really be something... a dark light. Instead of a lit spot, it projects a spot of darkness. And instead of discharging its battery, it charges it. I could really use one of these...
[08:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceShipTwo Performs Glide Flight in Advance of Powered Tests - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:01] <exec> 08└─"Hey, Roy, what happens if I pull this?" Before: flaming fireball After: "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that"
[08:02:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 357 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:37] <exec> 08└─> "Prohibiting it in school would be the same as prohibiting other medications such as Ritalin, Adderall or Concerta." How about prohibiting those three, and once again letting teachers scare the "ADHD" kids into behaving? There are very few "ADHD" kids who wouldn't be magically cured by a few publi...
[08:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:03] <exec> 08└─I have come to the conclusion that we as a society flat do not want to teach our kids useful stuff. We need them absolutely dependent on us, like a caged animal is to its owner. Caged by debt. So, we don't teach them how to survive. We teach them how to "go with the flow" and get the whole mess of...
[08:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:04] <exec> 08└─I have seen that same meme play out so many times. The young child is unwittingly taught that "Might makes Right", and the kid grows up to be a real problem that only keeps the police and courtroom busy, and the neighbors terrified. That is, until the kid finally does something that justifies a lo...
[08:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe the states also tell the Feds that if they don't get their slice of the pie, they will start telling the citizens of their state that they are a "sanctuary" state and no Federal tax needs to be paid there, said State taxes raised to cover the Federal shortfall.
[08:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:14] <exec> 08└─I have a science degree of sorts, and I apply the scientific method to my software development, unlike many others who apply hubris and superstition. I also did a bit of "proper" engineering at a nuclear power station before I went into software.
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[09:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:55] <exec> 08└─Dolores O'Riordan was the a big cause behind my first love to Rock. I bought the whole discography of Cranberries with my first salary. This is just, I don't know how to process this.
[09:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:56] <exec> 08└─rock singers and pop stars die when they are your parents' age. They shouldn't die when they are your age. Tortured souls put themselves intensely into their art or their performance, and it seems, Dolores was obviously one of those. RIP indeed.
[09:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:58] <exec> 08└─Who is this Rock fellow? Perhaps he has a brother?
[09:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:01] <exec> 08└─Please accept my sincere apologies if that came off as offensive. Let's try again. Perhaps this Rock fellow has a brother or sister you could take up with to grind out the stress of your loss
[09:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google App Matches Selfies With Catalog of Paintings - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:14] <exec> 08└─I'm sure this will sell like hotcakes to the "social media" consuming morons. And further add the reach of the most dangerous corporation ever existed.
[09:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google App Matches Selfies With Catalog of Paintings - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:16] <exec> 08└─He's such a... https://twitchy.com [twitchy.com]
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[10:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New York Times Profiles Jeff Bezos, the World's Richest Man - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:54] <exec> 08└─I try not to do business with people who hate our president. Trouble is, Amazon pretty much owns the market for damn near everything. If you go looking for something you can't find locally, somebody has created an Amazon store for it. There are some exceptions, oddly including textbooks! AbeBooks an...
[10:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:05] <exec> 08└─attack. Keep in mind Douglas Adams died within about 5 years of her, and he was exercising daily. While less often than someone in music dying of an OD, suicide, etc, there are plenty of bodily defects/injuries which can suddenly rear their head at any age and find you just as dead as if you were 80...
[10:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:07] <exec> 08└─I don’t want to hurt them. Trust me, they had nothing to do with this.
[10:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:09] <exec> 08└─In 1998 I was sitting in the local theater waiting to watch Dark City when a song came on the overhead speakers. I didn't pay much attention to most of the filler music, but there was something about the smooth, bouncy flow of this song and the idiosyncratic way the singer pronounced words like "fin...
[10:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:04] <exec> 08└─the gravitational force between negative mass matter and normal matter would be negative - repulsive. The normal matter would therefor accelerate away. However, having negative mass, the negative mass matter would accelerate towards the normal matter. They'd chase each other indefinitely!
[10:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:06] <exec> 08└─Is that Planko's Republic?
[10:03:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:10] <exec> 08└─How about prohibiting those three, and once again letting teachers scare the "ADHD" kids into behaving? There are very few "ADHD" kids who wouldn't be magically cured by a few public yardstick spankings.
[10:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:19] <exec> 08└─"As someone who's worked with ADHD kids, what actually made a huge difference is putting them in an environment where they weren't bored out of their minds." This. Drugging them is a stupid solution. Some kids - mostly boys - need a more active environment, frequent recesses to burn off steam, etc.....
[10:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:15] <exec> 08└─Another problem is that while people may agree that both R and D are not worth their vote, they cannot agree on what is worth their vote. Some say "Vote Greens", others find them too distasteful. When the mainstream parties are abandoned, people usually go to extremes (left or right wing), which fur...
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[11:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ingestible Electronic Pill Senses Gases in the Gut - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:54] <exec> 08└─Lots of jokes, but your farts only come from the last 30cm of so of the large intestines. Most of the rest of the gas is absorbed into your blood and goes out through your lungs. This device may be used to try to correlate the two.
[11:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:10] <exec> 08└─Negative mass also means negative momentum. Thus, a beam of these negative mass particles, striking an object made of ordinary, positive mass, would make it move towards the source of the beam, essentially acting as a tractor beam. And there I was thinking that Star Trek's tractor beams were even mo...
[11:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:12] <exec> 08└─Gravity is a very weak force. Nuclei are held together by the strong nuclear interaction, which is far stronger. Atoms are held together by the electromagnetic force, which is a lot weaker than the strong nuclear interaction but a lot stronger than gravity. If you don't believe me, get a fridge magn...
[11:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:33] <exec> 08└─You will probably not laugh when I'm telling you that I use JACKD for multi-platform, realtime, networked sound between Windows and Linux. JACK does a lot of things right and should have been adopted as default by some distros to give it the exposure it deserves, but instead it went under below the...
[11:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:23] <exec> 08└─Find some other content that treats its artists fairly and _support them financially_ by buying their product.
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[12:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New York Times Profiles Jeff Bezos, the World's Richest Man - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:02] <exec> 08└─I try not to do business with people who hate our president.
[12:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New York Times Profiles Jeff Bezos, the World's Richest Man - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:04] <exec> 08└─Mr. Trump has that covered. [wikipedia.org]
[12:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New York Times Profiles Jeff Bezos, the World's Richest Man - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:06] <exec> 08└─Trouble is, Amazon pretty much owns the market for damn near everything. If you go looking for something you can't find locally, somebody has created an Amazon store for it.
[12:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:19] <exec> 08└─I have been djing. Working at night with loud music is not ideal for the body. It did not take a toll on me because I didn't do alcohol pills or chicks (wtf girl, I am beat matching, go bother the lights guy), but I am sure it shaves off a decade from rockstars. Not enough to explain the high number...
[12:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Temporarily Pulls Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers Worldwide - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:51] <exec> 08└─That addition is normally serviceable via Googmosis, which your Android device tells us you may have developed a resistance to. If that is the case you may obtain your freedom from Google product addiction by choosing the Red Pill, the Blue Pill or a Tide Pod.
[12:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Temporarily Pulls Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers Worldwide - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:53] <exec> 08└─It seems like these addiction centers are addicted to dollars. It is a bad thing because that money is payed by insurance companies, who are payed by all of us.
[12:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Temporarily Pulls Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers Worldwide - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:55] <exec> 08└─Does it really work,
[12:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:24] <exec> 08└─"they only exist as states of the material that behave as if they were particles. And the material still has positive mass (and positive gravitation)." Umm, ok. It would still be reduced mass, no?
[12:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:25] <exec> 08└─http://www.rogermwilcox.com/darksucker.html [rogermwilcox.com]
[12:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:49] <exec> 08└─...He avoids actually reviewing anything meaningful, and explicitly points out that he's focusing only on the trivialities and gloss, as if that was something to be proud of.
[12:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:50] <exec> 08└─and TVs
[12:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SPARCS CubeSat Will Assess Habitability of Red Dwarf Stars - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:03] <exec> 08└─If this type of star, with exoplanets are far more common,
[12:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:41] <exec> 08└─"Some say "Vote Greens", others find them too distasteful. When the mainstream parties are abandoned, people usually go to extremes (left or right wing), which further divides their power." Yes. Polarisation has been increasing steadily for years, and it's one of the key things that's kept e.g. the...
[12:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 3763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:43] <exec> 08└─True, you argued that artists should be paid for their work. And, in fact, most artists ARE "paid for their work" according to contracts signed by them, and by the recording studios. They may be paid very well, while they ride the popularity charts, or they may be paid very poorly. It's AFTER they f...
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[13:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jshmlr [6606] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:57] <exec> 08└─I, like others, am upset that I didn't spend more time playing around with miners and hanging around the faucets. I don't wish any ill will on those that have found success and played the long game successfully. However, let's not delude ourselves that blockchain currencies are going to disrupt the...
[13:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New York Times Profiles Jeff Bezos, the World's Richest Man - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:15] <exec> 08└─It's not difficult to do business without Amazon. It's just inconvenient. More work to find their websites, typically poorer search features (though search on Amazon.com isn't great), etc... or just drive to a local place and get stuff. Amazon is conquering the world through convenience.
[13:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New York Times Profiles Jeff Bezos, the World's Richest Man - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:16] <exec> 08└─search on Amazon.com isn't great
[13:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New York Times Profiles Jeff Bezos, the World's Richest Man - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:18] <exec> 08└─> Anyway, I'm not eager to support non-American stuff. Why not?
[13:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New York Times Profiles Jeff Bezos, the World's Richest Man - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:21] <exec> 08└─I don't do business with bullies. Amazon has used their size and reputation to beat up many small publishers (and probably other small suppliers too), I've posted a personal example here in the past. Up until recently, I've managed to avoid buying from them completely, with no major loss of convenie...
[13:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:35] <exec> 08└─Middle ages woman dies at hotel, unless someone murdered her -- or the mentioned aneurism or heart attack that usually leaves drugs or suicide which sort of shot to the top of the list if you also have mental issues. I just hope she doesn't come back as a Zombieeeeeee ....
[13:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:40] <exec> 08└─Depends. Reduced mass compared to what? In any case, compared to the mass of the material as such, all those masses are negligible (as in, the mass difference will be below anything measurable with scales).
[13:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:41] <exec> 08└─"Reduced mass compared to what?" Reduced mass compared to the same material minus the quasi-particles which have negative mass.
[13:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:44] <exec> 08└─Since you have to add a photon (positive energy), you end up with a state that has more total energy, and thus more total mass (as E=mc²). The negative mass is only the effective mass of the quasiparticle describing its movement relative to the material. It is mostly unrelated to the real mass that...
[13:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:46] <exec> 08└─The problem with this idea is,of course, that the space between space ships tends to be filled with vacuum, not with monolayer MoSe2. Not to mention that the ships tend to be too far away from each other to form an effective cavity, no matter how shiny they are.
[13:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:11] <exec> 08└─My experience with KDE has consistently been that it's crash-happy. That's why I never stick with it. I have Kubuntu 16.04 on my wife's laptop, and it's rock solid and she likes it though I think they picked an awful color scheme. But otherwise, all the beauty in the world is irrelevant if stability...
[13:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:12] <exec> 08└─The ultra-thin bit is mighty convenient when you're taking your laptop all over the house, to the coffee shop, to work meetings, and so forth. And it becomes a competition with rival vendors. "Our new Apple ____ is 1.7 mm thinner and 4 grams lighter than the ultra-light laptop from our competitor De...
[13:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:15] <exec> 08└─Real engineers build things that have to work.
[13:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:17] <exec> 08└─Just installed it. Will give it a try: from the initial instance it looks easier than some I've tried, thanks!
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[14:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:00] <exec> 08└─The bubble moment for me might have been seeing the headline of the latest blockchain-related submission [soylentnews.org].
[14:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:02] <exec> 08└─I think it's now time for my own cryptocurrency. It will be a revolutionary concept: I'll replace proof of work by proof of dork. I think I'll call the new currency Ripoff. ;-)
[14:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:04] <exec> 08└─Weedon't need your currency. We already have WeedCoin [marketwired.com].
[14:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:06] <exec> 08└─WarpCoin is the hot new cryptocurrency on the block, and it could help humanity reach for the stars. WarpCoin miners run tiny pieces of a simulation of warp bubble configurations in order to minimize the potential energy of warp field states. The first 10,000 coins have been reserved to fund the con...
[14:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:08] <exec> 08└─[Citation needed]
[14:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:10] <exec> 08└─[1] [soylentnews.org]
[14:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:13] <exec> 08└─But the Federation doesn't seem to use money... will WarpCoin be exchangeable for gold-pressed latinum, and will I need to deal with the Ferrengi to cash it in?
[14:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jshmlr [6606] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New York Times Profiles Jeff Bezos, the World's Richest Man - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:34] <exec> 08└─I've gotten pretty good at avoiding Amazon. I'm fortunate to live in an area with multiple Walmart and a nice Target (although they're not much better) and 3-4 different grocers. When I do need to buy something I can't find in locally, I first look on eBay or go directly to the manufacturer.
[14:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:51] <exec> 08└─Nor the continued existence of Ronnie Wood. :)
[14:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:52] <exec> 08└─You have no sensitivity towards LGBTQEDSDFNMERNW where R stands for Rock Lover.
[14:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google App Matches Selfies With Catalog of Paintings - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:08] <exec> 08└─I saw a picture of Pablo Picasso's hands and they were eerily similar to mine...just hoping I don't look like his chopped up people!
[14:02:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 357 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:36] <exec> 08└─Walter looked into the jar, but could see nothing. He removed the cover to get a better view, and a slight breeze ruffled his hair, but he could still not find the magic dust. He tried another jar. Then another, and another. Finally, after the last jar, he figured out that they guys in the lab were...
[14:02:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:39] <exec> 08└─It also sounds a whole lot like what the Alcubierre drive [wikipedia.org] needs to work, but I wouldn't get your hopes up just yet.
[14:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:02] <exec> 08└─As long as I can get the initial coin offering for WarpCoin going, sure thing.
[14:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:04] <exec> 08└─Hopefully he'll have a shotgun ready. A warp signature is going to light up so many long-range probes, and alien invaders are certain to follow the craft back to Earth. Hopefully he realizes this, shoots them on the gang plank, and takes their ship so we can understand what kind of technology those...
[14:03:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:51] <exec> 08└─uses a patch on her foot and an oil extract on her wrists. "No one's saying she wants to fire up a bong in math class," the judge said, reported the Chicago Tribune.
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[15:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:08] <exec> 08└─The Kodak one is one of the least bubbly ones I've seen (see Legal Fling for the most bubbly one). A blockchain is simply a way of providing a ledger that can record transactions in a non-refutable way. Kodak is creating a record of stock photos that people can license and is using a block chain to...
[15:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:49] <exec> 08└─I don't know but I hear that if you try really hard you can smell what he's cooking.
[15:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:00] <exec> 08└─Maybe. There's a actually a lot of speculation on what exactly negative mass would imply, with most models dismissed as extremely unlikley because, like your example, they would break conservation of energy and/or momentum.
[15:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:02] <exec> 08└─"Negative mass" also sounds like it might enable some sort of antigravity.
[15:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 1304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:04] <exec> 08└─Would they though? Electrons scatter because they experience bipolar attraction - i.e. opposites attract, while like charges repel. But gravity is a unipolar force, where like "charges" attract. What exactly negative mass would mean is actually a topic of some serious speculation. Negative gravitati...
[15:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:32] <exec> 08└─You're welcome, hope it works out for you. I friended you so if you have any questions or issues with it you can make a journal entry about it and I'll get notified. Or you can drop a note in the only journal entry I have, it's sort of a placeholder "drop a message here" post for that sort of thing....
[15:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:33] <exec> 08└─Soyvertiselent
[15:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SPARCS CubeSat Will Assess Habitability of Red Dwarf Stars - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:47] <exec> 08└─I don't expect any complex space-faring civilization could form on ocean worlds or in cold subsurface oceans.
[15:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SPARCS CubeSat Will Assess Habitability of Red Dwarf Stars - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:48] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately for him, by hobbit standards, dwarves have a lot of unsavory and downright annoying habits. Very bad habits
[15:06:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WillR [2012] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:14] <exec> 08└─So are the Westboro Baptists, and suing for religious discrimination is their main source of income.
[15:06:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 295 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:17] <exec> 08└─The real ball and chain is the ISP. They can *drop an anchor* on your connection at the drop of a hat, just for using an "unauthorized" protocol for instance (*cough* bittorrent). The internet should be only wires and switches, a dumb pipe, all QoS issues are to be dealt with at the end points.
[15:07:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 578 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:18] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that internet access is a natural monopoly, much like actual, literal pipes as in the case of water and electricity. Yet, somehow, the telecoms have bribed^W *convinced* the regulatory powers that be that they deserve all the advantages of a monopoly with none of the regulations....
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[16:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ham Radio CubeSat Launch Success - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:58] <exec> 08└─...is delicious when you add Hormel cubed ham.
[16:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ham Radio CubeSat Launch Success - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:00] <exec> 08└─Void where encryption is prohibited on ham radio.
[16:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:16] <exec> 08└─The Borg will crack your crypto and WarpCoin will be as worthless as gold.
[16:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:17] <exec> 08└─Charles Mackay [wikipedia.org] had [google.com] this to say: „But the most absurd and preposterous of all, and which shewed, more completely than any other, the utter madness of the people, was one started by an unknown adventurer, entitled "A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advant...
[16:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:19] <exec> 08└─Okay, maybe calling it a shitcoin is a bit much... It has been around for a while and does try to address a problem. Ripple is centralized by design. Nodes are Trusted. You cannot mine Ripple on your own and something like 60% of all ripple is owned by Ripple Labs. Ripple is basically SWIFT 2.0. Cer...
[16:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ingestible Electronic Pill Senses Gases in the Gut - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:28] <exec> 08└─Ingestible sensors are all well and good. What about the nanobots? Little dudes go in to your blood stream, and circulate just like white blood cells. Unlike white blood cells, they KNOW whether a tumor is benign, or malignant, and laser away the malignant ones. Doctor prescribes a medicine, the bot...
[16:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New York Times Profiles Jeff Bezos, the World's Richest Man - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:44] <exec> 08└─I've posted a personal example here in the past.
[16:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:17] <exec> 08└─Two electrons are repelled by the EM force, everyone is told this, but usually, they ignore that gravity is also pulling them together. Why? That is because the force of gravity is 4.1*10^42 times smaller than that of the EM attraction. That is: 4,100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,...
[16:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:55] <exec> 08└─That is why I stopped going there. Their salespeople knew nothing at all about technology, and invariably pointed me toward the mega-pack of something that cost the most. I have had better luck with Micro Center. They have everything Circuit City had plus a DIY section. Their salespeople know someth...
[16:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:57] <exec> 08└─No doubt, it will just be a site that sells cheap Chinese electronics, so poorly manufactured that there is a high probability that it will burn your house down. Just another advance in the current war being waged by the Chinese in order to demoralize us.
[16:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:52] <exec> 08└─Same experience here. Unfortunately, neither opensuse nor KDE have learned much since then. I filed some bugs with KDE only to get them closed or commented on derogatorily. If you watch a recent talk from a KDE maintainer given at a opensuse conference (on the opensuse youtube channel, sorry won't l...
[16:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:53] <exec> 08└─I'm confused by the review. All it talks about is the Desktop. Does the author not know that a desktop does not a distro make? What about the package manager or the utilities or the kernel or all the rest? Also, Pop!_OS is "cool because it's a continuation of Unity?" Are you kidding me? It was the d...
[16:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:55] <exec> 08└─Don't get me wrong. I'm not knocking thin. I think Apple has merely done it to excess. Now they're just trying for absurd.
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[17:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:55] <exec> 08└─Does this mean that we can have "clakety" laptop keyboards now?
[17:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trouble in the NAND Memory Chip Market... Or Not - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:02] <exec> 08└─It's almost like a new technology surges in growth for a while then levels off as it becomes commonplace. Wonder if anyone's ever noticed this trend before. They could probably write a new textbook for investors and journalists explaining it to them!
[17:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trouble in the NAND Memory Chip Market... Or Not - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:05] <exec> 08└─I for one, I am personally completely shocked that growth did not continue upwards perpetually, as was expected based on recent performance.
[17:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:31] <exec> 08└─But I'm willing to concede many others do. My profit was cut in half yesterday. But I do still have a profit I ordered an Antminer L3+ in December. It will be here in Karachi. It mines LiteCoin s. The hit win btc rigs all require 220V And in other news I have conceded victory to autocorrect.
[17:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:32] <exec> 08└─It's a gimmick. Blockchains have unique features but those features come with a price (more electric power, delays in transactions). Why does kodak need their ledger to be distributed and somewhat anonymous? Why do they want a ledger that features the ability for other people to outvote them on on t...
[17:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ingestible Electronic Pill Senses Gases in the Gut - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:42] <exec> 08└─No wonder your breath smells like ass.
[17:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ingestible Electronic Pill Senses Gases in the Gut - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:44] <exec> 08└─The bots won't mean immortality, but they will mean that you stay healthy from cradle to grave.
[17:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ingestible Electronic Pill Senses Gases in the Gut - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:46] <exec> 08└─Why There Aren't Yet Nanobot Doctors [theatlantic.com]
[17:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New York Times Profiles Jeff Bezos, the World's Richest Man - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:03] <exec> 08└─Same reason I never shop at Walmart.
[17:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New York Times Profiles Jeff Bezos, the World's Richest Man - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:04] <exec> 08└─He could've copied and pasted a link to the comment also. Obviously he's bullshitting.
[17:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New York Times Profiles Jeff Bezos, the World's Richest Man - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:06] <exec> 08└─Jeff Bezos' office in 1999 https://pbs.twimg.com [twimg.com] https://pbs.twimg.com [twimg.com] Jeff Bezos forcing everyone in Amazon to move to service oriented interfaces in 2002 was a big important step.
[17:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New York Times Profiles Jeff Bezos, the World's Richest Man - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:08] <exec> 08└─And you consider Walmart better than Amazon? If you are avoiding Amazon because of its business practices, Walmart is no better, and historically, much worse. We can thank Walmart for promoting the lowest common denominator, destroying local businesses, suppressing worker rights, out-sourcing of man...
[17:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:27] <exec> 08└─> I've never been one of those people who can name songs or singers or even bands Same here. The attitude I got, especially in high school, for not knowing who some famous singer is had me wondering if I was the only person like that. Knowing classical music didn't count of course. And disco was doi...
[17:02:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03engblom [556] 02 - 06Google App Matches Selfies With Catalog of Paintings - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:36] <exec> 08└─Google seems to be obsessed with gathering data. They want even more data for face recognition. This is the biggest reason for this "feature". If you actually open up the article, you will notice the "matches" are not even particularly good. This is all a trap, in my opinion.
[17:02:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Google App Matches Selfies With Catalog of Paintings - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:40] <exec> 08└─Also good for keeping a collection of mug shots tied to an account most likely tied to a cell phone number.
[17:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google App Matches Selfies With Catalog of Paintings - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:46] <exec> 08└─Actually, it looks like the app is working really well.
[17:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Temporarily Pulls Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers Worldwide - 4898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:05] <exec> 08└─This applies to more than food; from: http://web.archive.org [archive.org] ==== The pleasure trap Figure 1 (above) depicts a devastating trap. People consuming a whole natural foods diet will experience a normal range of pleasure fro...
[17:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:01] <exec> 08└─There must be safe spaces for kids who want to opt out of public yardstick spankings! And for those who wish to opt out of conforming to behavioral norms! Those few ADHD kids who wouldn't be magically cured probably do need real treatment. But the rest maybe aren't really ADHD. It's funny how many k...
[17:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:02] <exec> 08└─Making it too easy to amend the constitution could lead to bad outcomes. Sort of like how the electoral college can lead to bad outcomes.
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[18:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 1304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:00] <exec> 08└─Unlike PC keyboards, where you can buy and plug in any keyboard you want thanks to the USB standard (and PS/2 before that), with a laptop you're stuck with whatever POS keyboard they stick in there, unless one of these keyboard companies decides to offer aftermarket replacement keyboards for select...
[18:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:01] <exec> 08└─> Why can't we just have the keyboards that Thinkpads had about 5-10 years ago? Because Apple. The slim laptop and copy-Apple crazes killed the good keyboard. Still have a small Dell at home with a great real keyboard. Off my cold dead carpal-tunneled hands! (anyone has a spare H key?)
[18:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:03] <exec> 08└─OK I do admit that I am one of those enthusiasts that like (and require) a mechanical keyboard. It should be a IBM model M keyboard. But other mechanical once might do it in a pinch. I might try one of those as a laptop keyboard, it might be ok -- at the moment I have a separate keyboard for my work...
[18:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe not, because it looks like the RGB switches are only the silent linear-actuation types. Which would also prevent them from being marketed effectively on consumer devices, because without the pressure point it's very difficult to train yourself not to bottom out on every keystroke.
[18:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trouble in the NAND Memory Chip Market... Or Not - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:15] <exec> 08└─The solution to your problem exists ! Grab your credit card, refi your home, for Cryptocurrencies will make you rich !
[18:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trouble in the NAND Memory Chip Market... Or Not - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:18] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/605/ [xkcd.com] - Extrapolating
[18:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:46] <exec> 08└─The Federation uses money; that stuff about them laughing about it was a combination of propaganda and the fact that aboard a Federation military vessel, you don't need money if you're part of the crew.
[18:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:37] <exec> 08└─At least someone dared mention the obvious S word, which everyone else was already thinking.
[18:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:55] <exec> 08└─> The problem with this idea is,of course, that the space between space ships tends to be filled with vacuum, not with monolayer MoSe2. Crazy talk. How can I hear all the explosions then?
[18:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:56] <exec> 08└─This is a uplifting story about the triumph of the human spirit. Why is it that you fail to see this? Because of a reaction to certain words to which you react emotionally instead of rationally? Aristarchus would not approve.
[18:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:14] <exec> 08└─Compared to having the Supreme Court being in the habit of rewriting it? This story for example, seems the US Federal government doesn't/shouldn't have the power to ban a little girl from taking her medicine, though does have some power to perhaps harmonize some regulations like how potency is measu...
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[19:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:52] <exec> 08└─Surely there must be underlying psychologies here that lead to all manner of repetitive, unhelpful, and sometimes dangerous behaviors. But whatever. March on, Western Civilization. Pathologize too much of behavior A and too little of behavior A, and too much of behavior B is a completely different p...
[19:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:54] <exec> 08└─This leads to the conclusion that Google Photos should detect this condition so that people can be automatically involuntarily confined for mental evaluation and treatment. Alternately, phones so equipped, could be commanded to deliver electro shock therapy.
[19:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:56] <exec> 08└─
[19:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:58] <exec> 08└─Did we really need a new diagnosis for it? It's it just another version of Narcissism?
[19:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:00] <exec> 08└─PAAAAAAAAPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH What was that? And what's with that drippin' sound!? What! What is that thing! It's a disgusting papoohiesack! Get that thing out of here! You told me your sackanuts was a dry, dry, dry, dry, dry sack, but it's drippin' with spit! Wha...
[19:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:02] <exec> 08└─If only we had a big fat Greek idiot who had met Narcissus to explain this concept.
[19:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:04] <exec> 08└─If we have 87 federally recognized genders, then Yes, we do, need a new diagnosis for it.
[19:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:07] <exec> 08└─I seem to remember an SN article some time back that Selfies can now be matched with Paintings. Could this help with diagnosis or classification of mental impairments that cause people to take selfies?
[19:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:09] <exec> 08└─Should we all pitch in $5 to offer a couple phones to the president? Make sure his hands stay busy between two tweets, glorifying his favorite person, and away from any pen or red buttons...
[19:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:20] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure i despise laptops. Usually get two stand-alone monitors, decent keyboard (cherry mx clear), and decent mouse. Plug it all up to the laptop, close the laptop lid, shove the laptop to the back of the desk and pretend it doesn't exist. If companies still employ me when i'm old then they'll...
[19:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:22] <exec> 08└─It is not specified in the specs or in TFA. Hopefully these new keyboard switches will have improved durability when repeatedly exposed to bodily fluids.
[19:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trouble in the NAND Memory Chip Market... Or Not - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:33] <exec> 08└─True, but I at least wouldn't expect a drop yet. I am sure there are a lot of people like me who would have a lot more use for SSDs, but just aren't willing to pay the current prices. I.e. I don't think we are at the point where demand is leveling off but rather where demand is getting more tightly...
[19:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:03] <exec> 08└─Citation needed? They have a post-scarcity economy (replicators + an apparent abundance of energy) and liberal social attitudes (which suddenly become way more practical in a post-scarcity economy) - if they use money, something has gone very wrong. There's not even much talk about trade between pla...
[19:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 2019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:05] <exec> 08└─Citation needed? I can't give you a good citation because the only canonical sources we have are propaganda pieces from Starfleet Command. We don't have almost anything that shows life in the Federation outside of Starfleet, so this is mainly conjecture. They have a post-scarcity economy (replicator...
[19:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:07] <exec> 08└─Thank you, it's been years since I read "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Mackay. I think it may apply well today to many things such as economic scams and bubbles and political scams and bubbles. It is available for download at Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg....
[19:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ingestible Electronic Pill Senses Gases in the Gut - 1212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:18] <exec> 08└─Hmmmm. Detecting and repairing aging damage goes pretty far beyond the staple nanobots in Sci-Fi. Most of what I've read and/or imagined is basically simple diagnostics, and mechanical destruction and/or repair. To do what you're talkiing about, those nanobots will have to manipulate stem cells, and...
[19:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:00] <exec> 08└─death by stupid @#$% doctor is also very likely.
[19:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:01] <exec> 08└─This is a shame. I didn't own any of their albums but they were a band i've thought about lately as something I need to acquire and was hoping they were still making music. When I was young I had very stupid ideas about what I should listen too, so they weren't it. Now that I don't care about what o...
[19:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Temporarily Pulls Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers Worldwide - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:38] <exec> 08└─Indeed, it's the business of insurance companies to pay as little as possible. If insurance is paying hugely inflated rates, one must ask why?! As with the rest of health care, the answer always comes back to the meddling of politicians.
[19:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:22] <exec> 08└─It sounds like it, but read the article. The "particles" that they are talking about are excitrons, i.e. in an unstable excited state. It's quite interesting, and it might well lead to a better laser pumping system, but don't read too much into this. You need quite controlled conditions to create it...
[19:04:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:55] <exec> 08└─Because they didn't cover the grave with concrete. Any good zombie prepper knows that.
[19:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:02] <exec> 08└─Are we tired of whining winning yet? Paid for by Americans for Renewable Complaining and Sustainable Whining
[19:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:04] <exec> 08└─Bring Back the Newpliance iOpener! [anandtech.com] Basically, at the turn of the millennium, when the cheapest Linux computer was about $400 or more, the Netpliance iOpener was a decent Linux computer for $99 that you were supposed to be magically obligated to subscribe to their $21/month dial up se...
[19:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:44] <exec> 08└─Doesn't the Supreme Court merely interpret the constitution? Regardless of which way the court is stacked. Each case to the SC is a single constitutional question. It seems some questions are going to be controversial no matter what. Whichever way the court decides is going to cause one group, or a...
[19:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:45] <exec> 08└─Geez, for way less than that I could hire someone to sample some. "test" it. And then report back to me on their experimental results.
[19:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:47] <exec> 08└─Mister Spicoli corrects poor use of English language. You do not ask: how's it hangin' The proper way to determine the answer to your question, any time you feel it necessary to inquire, when curiosity must be satisfied, is to simply grope sufficiently to satisfactorily discover the answer for yours...
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[20:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:02] <exec> 08└─Whoops left my phone on burst photo mode and took 200 pictures of myself when I meant to take 4. Well I'll just upload them all and pick the best later w- Oh hey some guys are here to give me a free white jacket! I'll be back later guys.
[20:01:03] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 413 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:03] <exec> 08└─Children are fascinated with mirrors, and photos of themselves. People should outgrow that fascination, at some point in their lives. HINT: you're simply not that very exceptional, despite what your Mama told you. Only your mama wants to see a new selfie of you every hour, or day, or week. Want to k...
[20:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:05] <exec> 08└─Before you go, can you tell me . . . is the white jacket being offered by a robot? Are they taking you away in a self driving car? Cool! At least no humans involved in the process from diagnosis to confinement to treatment. Wonderful. If you don't take selfies, is this a different mental illness ind...
[20:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:07] <exec> 08└─They enable clients to be true to themselves Psych medicine is working when you don't feel medicated
[20:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:10] <exec> 08└─Hell, clinging on life would be "mental illness". Once again psychs demonstrate their useless "science".
[20:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:12] <exec> 08└─Surely there must be underlying psychologies here that lead to all manner of repetitive, unhelpful, and sometimes dangerous behaviors. But whatever. March on, Western Civilization. [Blah Blah recognizing aberrant behavior equals societal mind control rant rant etc.]
[20:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:14] <exec> 08└─left my phone on burst photo mode and took 200 pictures of myself when I meant to take 4
[20:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:16] <exec> 08└─You get out of college. You suddenly have this realization. No, a revelation really. Almost an epiphany. You have no vital or useful skills, talent or knowledge. All the jobs in Marketing, Management and Politician are taken! OMG! WHAT are you going to do!!!! To make matters much more worser, the US...
[20:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:19] <exec> 08└─There is Twitter. People hang on every word you tweet. There is Facebook. Look, a page about . . . Yourself!
[20:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:21] <exec> 08└─Tell us, oh high priests of psychology, what is the exact thing we should be doing every last fucking minute of our day? Anybody else who disagrees is mentally ill! Drug them until they can't move! Invent better drugs so that You're confusing psychologists with psychiatrists. Psychologists don't pre...
[20:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:23] <exec> 08└─How about "you are a douche!"...get a life!
[20:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:25] <exec> 08└─To make matters much more worser, the US stupidly doesn't have Universal Basic Income paid for by people who DO have useful skills, talent, knowledge AND initiative. Thank goodness . . . there are still jobs where you can pretend to contribute something to civilization. Most people who DO have some...
[20:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:28] <exec> 08└─Coincidentally, civilization offers a well-paid no-skill profession where taking selfies is a requirement: prostitute !
[20:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:30] <exec> 08└─They seem unwilling to publish it in their public documentation, but HL7 health records have a bunch of non-standard gender codes for a different reason than you might think. Specifically, "pregnant", "lactating", and "pregnant + lactating". Basically, they abused the gender column in the schema bec...
[20:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:32] <exec> 08└─You just went wrong by listing people who actually do something complex, even if it doesn't add value. How about Dealership Salesmen, Walmart Greeters, half of the waiting staff in most US restaurants, so many Pentagon employees, TV talking heads, and anyone whose primary income comes from social me...
[20:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:46] <exec> 08└─The best keyboard I've ever used was a ENORMOUS 48 function key (two rows of 24) keyboard on an IBM terminal (circa 90's). It was likely a buckling-spring design. These were likely custom ordered for the university, as they had at least 8 APL characters per key (the key-caps were covered on every po...
[20:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trouble in the NAND Memory Chip Market... Or Not - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:58] <exec> 08└─Improve the product. New NAND memory chips. Now with Alzheimer's!
[20:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:32] <exec> 08└─exactly, ripple is an internal bankster project that lets you buy their "coin" if you're that @#%$ stupid or that much of a sellout. this is what happens when these projects pander to windows and mac users. they support projects that should be shunned.
[20:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:33] <exec> 08└─Star Trek is just like Lord of the Rings: propaganda for the winning side. LotR covers up the real story, about a peaceful society entering an industrial revolution being attacked and brutally annihilated by a war-mongering, imperialistic faction led by Gandalf and the Elves. They even go so far as...
[20:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ingestible Electronic Pill Senses Gases in the Gut - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:47] <exec> 08└─Cleaning up "intracellular" and especially "extracellular" junk as SENS outlines may be possible, and is another important aspect of aging besides mutations. Aging in the human body is related to how many times, since conception, the cells have reproduced, and how many errors have been introduced wi...
[20:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:32] <exec> 08└─At least it won't threaten Radio Shack's genius business model of rebranding American electronics and selling them above retail price of the non-rebranded product sold at other retail stores.
[20:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:15] <exec> 08└─Doesn't the Supreme Court merely interpret the constitution?
[20:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 1493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:37] <exec> 08└─Fragmentation is basically the spiel used to turn every distro into a Fedora clone, with Systemd and Gnome as the "headline attractions". Fragmentation has not been and never will be the problem. The problem has always been with mayfly programmers that think they can rewrite decade-plus battle harde...
[20:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:39] <exec> 08└─KDE4 also badly broke with KDE3, resulting in a software schism where programmers had to pick sides.
[20:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:41] <exec> 08└─None of the big name userspace projects have learned anything. It is the same behavior that can be observed with Mozilla, Gnome, the various stuff happening under the Freedesktop umbrella, etc etc etc. It is basically the behavior observed by JWZ and summarized as CADT. And these days it seems to ha...
[20:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:43] <exec> 08└─What happened was a group of people that thought mobile/touch was the future (largely inspired by experiences working on the software side of the Nokia Maemo device platform), followed by a drive to chase after Microsoft as the latter unveiled their GPU powered Vista desktop. All this lead to a fren...
[20:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:45] <exec> 08└─I am coming up to where I will be thanking my work laptop (Dell with Win7 and linux in a virtual machine) for its years of fine service. This time around I want to run linux with Windows in a virtual machine. Does anyone have experience or opinions on these guys for their laptops? Or for that matte...
[20:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:48] <exec> 08└─Sadly so much of Gnome, Freedesktop, and a few other big projects that glue Linux userspace together, have the same names and emails attached to them. And more often than not said emails are either redhat or collabora ones. End result is that one is looking at a massive echo chamber.
[20:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:50] <exec> 08└─That would be GNUStep.
[20:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:52] <exec> 08└─The sad part is that the DE people will not recognize that the reason the kernel is that much used, while the desktop lingers in the wastelands, is that said DE people and their compatriots at the plumbing layer, can't be assed to maintain stable APIs.
[20:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:54] <exec> 08└─Given that it was founded by Icaza, that then went on to unsuccessfully start a couple of companies based on cloning Microsoft software (the file explorer, Outlook) before finally getting aqui-hired by Microsoft over the .NET clone Mono, one may wonder. Never mind that we have another code monkey ru...
[20:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, my iPad Mini (which I like a fair amount) was so thin I went out and bought a centimeter of black plastic Otterbox to surround it for the inevitable occurrence of bouncing it off my tile floors.
[20:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:59] <exec> 08└─The payware part was gone long before Nokia grabbed Trolltech.
[20:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:01] <exec> 08└─thanks, this cracked me up and i love FOSS. virtue signal RELEASE!
[20:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:03] <exec> 08└─I general, I agree. However, there is one exception, namely Libreoffice. While far from perfect, the project actually improved software quality over the years going from unusable (like every new KDE series) to decent (hardly ever achieved by KDE). Also the project attracts a lot of non-technical peo...
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[21:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta 4 Rocket Successfully Lofts Clandestine NRO Satellite Into Orbit - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:58] <exec> 08└─Kids came out of class to see that one fly overhead. Let's hope they are more interested in the rocket than in the spying part. That retrograde orbit means that you have to be pretty fast at processing the terrain below you, cause it's going by fast! On the other hand, it likely means getting to a s...
[21:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta 4 Rocket Successfully Lofts Clandestine NRO Satellite Into Orbit - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:59] <exec> 08└─Response to a clueless newbie who thinks something is wrong with his Mac: "I suggest that you avoid reading the log unless something is really going wrong. You'll always find frightening messages in there, even when the computer is working perfectly."
[21:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta 4 Rocket Successfully Lofts Clandestine NRO Satellite Into Orbit - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:01] <exec> 08└─Best part about the NROL missions are the launch patches. Pretty generic if you ask me, white knight, bad red dragon, latin phrase (mali nunquam praevalebunt, evil never prevails or something like that). Still nothing that comes close to NROL 39. http://www.americaspace.com
[21:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:33] <exec> 08└─"Being from Norway is not a skill." Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT)
[21:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:34] <exec> 08└─Want a better idea than "hook me up"? Try finding a woman interested in procreation, build a relationship, then start a family. The gestation and latation will happen with due process. As a bonus, being involved in a real relationship should help you to overcome your own narcissism. Eventually, you...
[21:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 1605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:37] <exec> 08└─No, I didn't go wrong at all, you misunderstood my point. I was specifically pointing to workers who supposedly do "real", "productive" work as opposed to bullshit like car salesmen and Walmart greeters. How much better would society function if the engineers and technicians at Chrysler didn't do th...
[21:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:39] <exec> 08└─Governor of Missouri? Posting as AC bob_super, right here on SoylentNews? Amazing.
[21:01:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02 - 06Trouble in the NAND Memory Chip Market... Or Not - 250 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:59] <exec> 08└─It's almost like a new technology surges in growth for a while then levels off as it becomes commonplace. Wonder if anyone's ever noticed this trend before. They could probably write a new textbook for investors and journalists explaining it to them!
[21:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:39] <exec> 08└─Remember, however, that in Enterprise they did show a freighter in at least one episode. Life didn't look quite so nice there.
[21:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ingestible Electronic Pill Senses Gases in the Gut - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:53] <exec> 08└─without fresh stem cells
[21:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cranberries Singer Dolores O'Riordan Dies Aged 46 - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:37] <exec> 08└─From what I understand she suffered from bipolar disorder, so suicide is a possibility. People who have bipolar tend to phrase it as "she died from bipolar" rather than suicide though for what it's worth.
[21:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google App Matches Selfies With Catalog of Paintings - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:55] <exec> 08└─Don't you just love that rush you get from thinking you're better than most people? The best part is that I can actually see the derisive sneer in the words you wrote.
[21:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:59] <exec> 08└─menu driven nav is outdated. gnome was right about how to handle workspaces. it's not even close once you get used to gnome3.
[21:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:01] <exec> 08└─you should let them try it. my non tech family members were impressed with it's purdy and wanted it. they actually gasped and said, "what is that. i want that". you'd be surprised what a little eye candy will do.
[21:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:03] <exec> 08└─"An engineer will not find his engineering tools there (they are 95% on Windows.) A maker of pictures won't find his Adobe tools here. " all of you whores will be routed around and left to rot in your prisons.
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[22:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Games With Pornographic Ads Sneak Into the Play Store, Get 3 Million Downloads - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:58] <exec> 08└─A cow-orker got one of those on a free (ad-supported) game in the iOS store. Don't remember the exact name, but it was one of those games that was initially in Flash on FB. So much for "careful curation" saving us from malware.
[22:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta 4 Rocket Successfully Lofts Clandestine NRO Satellite Into Orbit - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:08] <exec> 08└─an earlier version of this manual page said true when it meant false and said false when it meant true. You may only ask one true/false question to determine which one is correct. Just kidding! This version of the manual page is definitely telling the ...
[22:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Delta 4 Rocket Successfully Lofts Clandestine NRO Satellite Into Orbit - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:09] <exec> 08└─Shit like that happens when people spend too much time in front of their [N|W]intedo.
[22:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta 4 Rocket Successfully Lofts Clandestine NRO Satellite Into Orbit - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:12] <exec> 08└─That would have a high closing velocity if it were directed to collide with another satellite.
[22:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta 4 Rocket Successfully Lofts Clandestine NRO Satellite Into Orbit - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:14] <exec> 08└─Combine that orbit with another already in-orbit bird and you probably get three times as many passes per day and random-ish arrival times over any given area of interest. Yes you pass faster, but that's probably not a big issue given today's photo capabilities. We'll be seeing you. I got no problem...
[22:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta 4 Rocket Successfully Lofts Clandestine NRO Satellite Into Orbit - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:16] <exec> 08└─Michael: Back on your meds buddy.
[22:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta 4 Rocket Successfully Lofts Clandestine NRO Satellite Into Orbit - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:18] <exec> 08└─A patch for each launch? Come on!
[22:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:54] <exec> 08└─Or being a Kardashian. The entire point appears to be turning all of life into one long selfie.
[22:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:10] <exec> 08└─I'm using a laptop with a USB mechanical keyboard plugged into it right now, also a 21" external monitor... of course, I'm using it like a desktop workstation, but... if you've got the space and don't need to be mobile all the time.
[22:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:11] <exec> 08└─Is coffee a bodily fluid now?
[22:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:14] <exec> 08└─Well yeah, you can do that with any laptop, that's no revelation. Lots of people who use a laptop on the same desk every day have some kind of USB keyboard they plug into it, especially in corporate settings where docking stations are the norm. But that doesn't help when you take your laptop with yo...
[22:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:16] <exec> 08└─Maybe not a 104 but an 87 (tenkeyless) is portable and usually the same width as the laptop. https://deskthority.net [deskthority.net]
[22:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks, you owe me a keyboard. Just snorted out coffee all over : /
[22:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:20] <exec> 08└─That was nothing special; those were derivatives of the famous Model M keyboard, but used on minicomputers or other non-PC systems. They weren't anything terribly rare; you can easily find them on Ebay today.
[22:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:08] <exec> 08└─Decentralized monetary system will in fact disrupt the world order. That's why we are seeing endless attempts to infiltrate, subvert, and gain centralized control. Saying we need to be "empowering the poor and the masses" may make you feel good but there is little indication that it will lead to any...
[22:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:10] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that Ripple is only used as a intermediary in bank to bank transactions. In addition to all of the other properties you mentioned. It will never be used for transactions involving real goods.
[22:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New York Times Profiles Jeff Bezos, the World's Richest Man - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:45] <exec> 08└─I hate how Walmart has abandoned the made-in-USA preference of the founder, but Amazon never had that preference. The stuff about destroying local businesses and forcing manufacturers to bid against each other is a big hint that Walmart has some monopoly power. This is bad, but I won't hold it again...
[22:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google App Matches Selfies With Catalog of Paintings - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:27] <exec> 08└─Do you ever feel bad for going with the herd? Never thinking for yourself? Give it a try once, you might like it. And maybe if many others follow suit, the world will not go to shit.
[22:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:32] <exec> 08└─Fine, so you can build a nucleus out of negative mass particles, then what? These negative mass nuclei are going to scatter.
[22:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:33] <exec> 08└─The tip-off is the "room-temperature" thing. Smells like "room-temperature cold fusion", only will less nuclear energy. Color me "Skeptical".
[22:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Device Creates Particles With "Negative Mass" at Room Temperature - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:35] <exec> 08└─A healthy dose of skepticism is a good trait, but you seem to be drawing conclusions simply because certain words happen to make other words surface in your mind. Certain apparatus in physic experiments require extremely cold temperatures. It is easier to reproduce an experiment at room temperature...
[22:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:38] <exec> 08└─Dunno. As long as Libreoffice was stuffing in the improvements that was held back by Openoffice mismanagement it was doing fine. But recently they held a mascot competition that turned into a right farce, suggesting that the "social" people are creeping in and taking over there as well.
[22:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:39] <exec> 08└─> install Debian (though the Gnome devs tricks are getting old too), or Mint. Devuan or AntiX may be alternatives, as Mint is on track to succumb to the Gnome devs tricks as well.
[22:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:42] <exec> 08└─> (I understand that Windoze finally got this capability.) In a craptastic, Mouse driven, manner. You can't easily switch between desktops using the keyboard, as doing so involve the windows/super key and finger contortions.
[22:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:44] <exec> 08└─The instances of time is the same, the perception on the other hand... What seems to be going on is that as we grow older, we do not notice/remember individual moments that are similar to the ones we had before. Effectively the brain is applying a very aggressive de-duplication process to conserve s...
[22:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:46] <exec> 08└─In large part because JACK was seen as complicated and cumbersome, while PA was seen as "automagical" and could offer that pr app volume slider that Windows had introduced recently...
[22:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:48] <exec> 08└─It is a lovely idea to offer that as an option. I would keep customizing my own distro as it would reduce the installation variables. User likes antix because his old laptop works well. Wants to keep using it. Downloads the configuration. Antix is without systemd. Systemd service files get downloade...
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[23:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Games With Pornographic Ads Sneak Into the Play Store, Get 3 Million Downloads - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:10] <exec> 08└─from the remember-when-the-internet-was-a-safe-place? dept.
[23:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Games With Pornographic Ads Sneak Into the Play Store, Get 3 Million Downloads - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:11] <exec> 08└─At least a couple decades ago (rule 34 wasn't invented yesterday). Oddly they always forget to show us how well the girl actually chains the combos, or anything else on her screen, for that matter.
[23:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta 4 Rocket Successfully Lofts Clandestine NRO Satellite Into Orbit - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:28] <exec> 08└─Or if another satellite were https://breakingdefense.com to collide with it.
[23:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta 4 Rocket Successfully Lofts Clandestine NRO Satellite Into Orbit - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:29] <exec> 08└─ALL OF YOU MUST BOW DOWN BEFORE THE GREATNESS THIS IS ME
[23:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Delta 4 Rocket Successfully Lofts Clandestine NRO Satellite Into Orbit - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:32] <exec> 08└─I just built the installer for our internal QA to test. It's looking real good so I don't forsee any problems with testing by my client's customers. (My client is a fabless semiconductor firm. Their customers manufacture finished products for end-users.) When all the customers are happy with my prod...
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[23:01:34] <exec> 08└─They need better patches, so they stop ripping open at Max-Q. Note that it's a lot easier to get the Agile standup meeting focused when the lady is already reading the countdown.
[23:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Delta 4 Rocket Successfully Lofts Clandestine NRO Satellite Into Orbit - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:36] <exec> 08└─How about a refill on the meds instead of a car?
[23:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:14] <exec> 08└─The ancient Greeks have a possibly contradictory saying: Know Thyself. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] But, you know, Moderation in All Things.
[23:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:15] <exec> 08└─That many codes ought to cover everything. What's the one for Motie?
[23:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:17] <exec> 08└─Most people who DO have some useful skills and talent are still wasting them in jobs where they pretend to contribute something to civilization, and we'd be better off without them producing anything.
[23:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:20] <exec> 08└─But why should you tell others what they should or should not be interested in. Heck all personality disorders are bullshit. Unless someone is seeing things that don't exist, forgetting things, or unable to control their emotions, there's nothing wrong with them imo.
[23:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:22] <exec> 08└─To make matters much more worser, the US stupidly doesn't have Universal Basic Income paid for by people who DO have useful skills, talent, knowledge AND initiative.
[23:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:25] <exec> 08└─Greeters are useful, because they are an anti-theft device.
[23:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:27] <exec> 08└─I've never taken a selfie, there must be something wrong with me.
[23:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:29] <exec> 08└─If it is not obvious what I wrote is soaked in sarcasm, I will simply say that the most powerful argument for UBI is that the UBI recipients would prefer not to work, and therefore should expect to be supported by the people who DO work.
[23:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constantly Taking Selfies May be Sign of Mental Illness - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:32] <exec> 08└─I have taken one selfie used as a profile picture at work.
[23:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:53] <exec> 08└─Ebay heck, you can still get them brand new. http://www.pckeyboard.com [pckeyboard.com]
[23:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:54] <exec> 08└─You can get the closest thing to the original IBM keyboards here [pckeyboard.com]. I bought their Classic 101 White Buckling Spring years ago and can't really work with anything else. People on the phone always complain about the noise it makes though.
[23:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:56] <exec> 08└─How to get Lenovo keycaps back on my x201 currently has three off and for the life of me I can't get the scissor to fit properly
[23:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cherry's New Low-Profile Switches may Help Bring Mechanical Keyboards to More Laptops - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:58] <exec> 08└─Because Apple. The slim laptop and copy-Apple crazes killed the good keyboard.
[23:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:49] <exec> 08└─This is something that a block chain is actually good for.
[23:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:51] <exec> 08└─Woman in the story cleans houses and movie theaters for a living (I'm guessing that doesn't pay a whole lot), but... she invested $1000 in BTC and it went up! So, she forked over another $11000 and invested that too, after it already went up... but it could go up higher? It could... The thing is: pe...
[23:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Faces of Blockchain Success - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:53] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that the main utility of crypto-currencies (unless you're a principled anarchist) is to hide from government oversight, i.e. break the law. So if you're putting money into bitcoin, you're likely helping a criminal or speculator cash out.
[23:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:43] <exec> 08└─"One thing I do know... one grows far more then animals and veggies on a family farm. They also grow relationships and values. And the self-worth that comes with knowing something very valuable exists because you made it so." You can do that a lot of ways, but yes, family farms can be that. In my ca...
[23:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:28] <exec> 08└─I too hate the flat UI design that seems to be standard these days. How am I supposed to know what is an interactive element and what is not? Do NOT tell me to hover the mouse over everything or click everything, that is not helpful advice, I want to use my eyes! That is the point of a screen.
[23:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:29] <exec> 08└─Menu driven nav *is* outdated, and it was outdated before it was invented. Know the proper replacement? Keyboard shortcuts. Which I can set up in just about any WM or DE. I'm mostly in Plasma now and have the same small set of shortcuts for Plasma, Fluxbox, and Xfce. In a roundabout way, one that re...
[23:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I've had my suspicions about de Icaza and Poettering for years now. They're blunting Hanlon's Razor, because at this point the question "are they double agents or just completely up their own asses?" pans out the same way with either response...
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