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[00:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:03] <exec> 08└─How about a field, or even at the butchers' test for prions?
[00:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:05] <exec> 08└─Don't inject infected deer matter into your brains.
[00:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:07] <exec> 08└─How difficult would it be to use a cork screw to get some brain matter? Or some other brain matter extraction device?
[00:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:09] <exec> 08└─Americans already have a chronic wasting disease. That's why we need all those illegal alien immigrants!!
[00:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:12] <exec> 08└─> other brain matter extraction device? Like a bullet, arrow, or hunting knife ?
[00:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:14] <exec> 08└─Comments like this call for an inspection of the original submission.
[00:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:16] <exec> 08└─"Please stop using large calibre weapons to hunt deer - we need more brain tissue left to test!"
[00:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:18] <exec> 08└─Wrong: it's a chronic fattening disease.
[00:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:47] <exec> 08└─I definitely did, but have come to expect better. Who am I kidding, Windows is always screwed up. Repeat after me, The Blue Screen of Death is your friend.
[00:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:48] <exec> 08└─The current syntax is <spoiler>Stuff you want to hide</spoiler> I could write a feature request proposing <spoiler title="Boring Stuff">Stuff you want to hide</spoiler> as a way to replace the default text.
[00:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:51] <exec> 08└─Wintel strikes back, now with 73% more Micro$oft Windows on any operating system.
[00:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:53] <exec> 08└─Not *that* long ago, one place I worked referred to it as "the blue screen of coffee time" I doubt that the local coffee place realised how much it owed windows.
[00:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:55] <exec> 08└─Ummmm....yesssss..... ....we have recalled your fingers, please detach them by any way possible and return them to ACME FINGER-BANG. We will send you replacements. In the meantime, please use your toes. Your penis or clitoris can be used to "carry the one".
[00:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:57] <exec> 08└─Fuck it, where's my abacus?
[00:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:59] <exec> 08└─as it's not specifically triggerable We don't know that. A proof of concept hasn't been demonstrated/disclosed publicly. That's all we know. Intel's been vague, which may mean they don't know or that they do know an think there is an exploit risk.
[00:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:02] <exec> 08└─Linux users are likely to notice new reliability problems... (not to mention VMware etc)
[00:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:04] <exec> 08└─I doubt that the local coffee place realised how much it owed windows.
[00:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:06] <exec> 08└─hold off on all of its new patches. No, you can't uninstall them.
[00:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:08] <exec> 08└─> Your penis or clitoris can be used to "carry the one". There's gonna be a lot of math errors in obese America.
[00:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Game Consoles are Doing Better than Ever - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:27] <exec> 08└─My PR module says that video games consoles are failing because my survival and reproductive modules tell it to. My survival module knows that I am going to be homeless, uninsured, and dead soon because of my video games. My reproductive module knows that I am a male who will never reproduce until I...
[00:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Game Consoles are Doing Better than Ever - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:28] <exec> 08└─Grishnakh has a PR module. This PR module lies to Grishnakh and everyone else. This PR module says that video game console are only for children. Hidden motives in everyday life!
[00:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Consoles are Doing Better than Ever - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:30] <exec> 08└─game consoles are a great way of keeping kids occupied until they reach adulthood.
[00:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Amazon Go" Store Opens in Seattle - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:42] <exec> 08└─People displaced from jobs by technology need *new* jobs to go into, they can't all funnel into the existing jobs.
[00:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Amazon Go" Store Opens in Seattle - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:43] <exec> 08└─Ok. Now link to cashier jobs on your site.
[00:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Amazon Go" Store Opens in Seattle - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:45] <exec> 08└─I have always intended to cover other occupations. I've been doing computer jobs because that is what I know best. When I start listing them I'm going to focus on entry-level and minimum wage jobs. The URLs will be something like: http://soggy.jobs [soggy.jobs] http://soggy.job...
[00:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Could Soon be Manufacturing Your Own Drugs -- Thanks to 3D Printing - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:46] <exec> 08└─I've never noticed any appreciable medical benefits from any opiates/opiods. Still cough, still feel pain, still shit out all my fluids m the high is ok though.
[00:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fracking Wells With a Physical Connection to a Fault Are More Likely to Trigger Earthquakes - 1348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:05] <exec> 08└─Bleeding Heart Liberal Michael Moore did a movie where he looked around the globe and found nations doing things better than USA.[1] [google.com] [1] If you ask the same question multiple times, Google will stop asking stupid questions. [google.com] Germany will educate you gratis, as far as you can...
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[01:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuma Failure Emboldens SpaceX's ULA-Backed Critics; Gets Support from US Air Force [Updated] - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:00] <exec> 08└─> "Based on the data available, our team did not identify any information that would change SpaceX's Falcon 9 certification status," Hey ! How about you declassify the information pertaining to the failure? Telling us why it failed would not endanger "national security" since the nature of the paylo...
[01:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:17] <exec> 08└─Beat me to it. GP has it wrong. In fact, maybe this is a cure for obesity! I mean, it's not like most Americans use that thing in their head anyway. They already do monumentally stupid things like invasive surgery to lose weight, which never works anyway because stress is the root cause, not stomach...
[01:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:19] <exec> 08└─You say that like it is something easy.
[01:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:59] <exec> 08└─> What is the number of Unexpected Reboots that I am supposed to consider NORMAL when using Intel processors? Intel hopes that you have used Windows 9x/ME a lot.
[01:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:01] <exec> 08└─Looks like intel do supply affected chips for IoT devices, so some poor coffee shop may be unhappy.. https://www.intel.com [intel.com]
[01:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:03] <exec> 08└─CTRL+F Core2Duo not found Sucks to be you, guess my lack of initiative in ever upgrading my PC finally worked out. If I am wrong please read as: "We are all in this together brothers, make sure the problem is fixed in all processors and not just the new ones #StrongerTogether"
[01:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:05] <exec> 08└─But as it's not specifically triggerable, it's not really a security issue.
[01:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:08] <exec> 08└─there is no recall because there is nothing to replace the bad processors with.
[01:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:10] <exec> 08└─Or just use AMD
[01:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:12] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't call it a high priority, but that seems more indicative than sticking with the title spoiler for all uses. For all I knew the functionality already existed and was unused/unknown. Thanks for the clarification.
[01:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:14] <exec> 08└─Nitpicking: BSoD was over (in the original incarnation) before IoT became, well, a thing.
[01:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:16] <exec> 08└─Hey, I was back on-topic* referring to Specte/Meltdown/firmware-borked IoT devices. *has to happen somtimes!
[01:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:19] <exec> 08└─Surprise! The emergency patch you applied to fix a horrible problems are causing other horrible problems and there is no undo. They only had six months or so to come up with a fix and it turns out it was a bit complicated, but not complicated enough for a recall.
[01:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:21] <exec> 08└─Hey, I was back on-topic* [...] *has to happen somtimes!
[01:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drone Used to Save Two Swimmers Caught in Rough Surf at Lennox Head - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:09] <exec> 08└─So they are replacing lifeguards with Drones then since nobody seems to have gone out to meet them except to stand at the beach (to recover their flotation device?)? What if the people are not able to get into or onto the raft, they kind of have to launch both human and drones and not just stand aro...
[01:21:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Facebook to Prioritize 'Trustworthy' News Sources - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:36] <exec> 08└─It isn't like the NYT refrained from cheerleading for the Iraq war either. https://www.mediamatters.org [mediamatters.org]
[01:21:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Facebook to Prioritize 'Trustworthy' News Sources - 1561 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:57] <exec> 08└─Here's what's really going on: When you hear the phrase "fake news", what you probably think, and what you're meant to think, is "stories that are inaccurate, leave out critical information, or are outright lies." However, the anti-fake news efforts aren't about this at all, because the only thing t...
[01:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronaut Jeanette Epps Bumped from Space Station Flight - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:37] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't make a biopic on MLK Jr. and cast a white guy as Dr. King
[01:22:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Fracking Wells With a Physical Connection to a Fault Are More Likely to Trigger Earthquakes - 256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:54] <exec> 08└─In order to cause an earthquake, a fracking well needs to have a physical connection via the underlying rock to a fault that is oriented so that the pressure of fluid from the well can change the stress on that fault and increase the chance of it slipping.
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[02:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Zuma Failure Emboldens SpaceX's ULA-Backed Critics; Gets Support from US Air Force [Updated] - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:08] <exec> 08└─(Spoiler Alert: It is actually the United Launch Alliance and the Space Launch System that waste taxpayer money.)
[02:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuma Failure Emboldens SpaceX's ULA-Backed Critics; Gets Support from US Air Force [Updated] - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:09] <exec> 08└─Inflammatory rocket science? Not sure how safe it is, but in-flame-atory sounds better than inflammatory (just-in-case: don't tell me it's one and the same thing. Please)
[02:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Zuma Failure Emboldens SpaceX's ULA-Backed Critics; Gets Support from US Air Force [Updated] - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:11] <exec> 08└─No need, "It's all in newspapers," as they used to say. The rocket sent a signal to the adapter: initiate separation. The adapter returned: all done, satellite is free-floating. The rocket then scheduled and executed the standard deorbit burn. A bit later someone discovered that the satellite does n...
[02:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuma Failure Emboldens SpaceX's ULA-Backed Critics; Gets Support from US Air Force [Updated] - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:13] <exec> 08└─We don't know that. We aren't even entirely certain it failed. It is all mysteries wrapped in enigmas when dealing with the intelligence community. Maybe certain people had spied hard enough to know what this thing does and they faked the failure to distract em. Assume nothing. But we can be pretty...
[02:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:32] <exec> 08└─I'm fairly certain the deer caught it from the hippies.
[02:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:34] <exec> 08└─animals that had infected matter injected into their brains also developed CWD.
[02:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:26] <exec> 08└─waving a black flag with skull and bones
[02:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:27] <exec> 08└─A fix is in the works. Please use fingers.
[02:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:29] <exec> 08└─https://qz.com/901823/the-easy-way-your-smart-coffee-machine-could-get-hacked-and-ruin-your-life/ [qz.com] https://www.gemalto.com [gemalto.com] https://getpiper.com [getpiper.com] Wonder if a smart...
[02:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:31] <exec> 08└─I used to fix my very frequent 95 crashes using dual boot to OS2 Warp (3, then 4). OS2 was rock solid on the same HW. Win "97" (we also had NT5.0), then Win98, were not difficult to crash at all. It was in a home/school environment, so uptimes never exceeded a couple days (even had to power-cycle th...
[02:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:34] <exec> 08└─No need for something complex. Just change "spoiler" with "Would you like to know more?"
[02:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:36] <exec> 08└─Oh, so last season. You forgot the blockchain, quantum key distribution and in-vivo CRISPR realtime editing functionalities.
[02:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:38] <exec> 08└─> behold, rowhammer er i have DDR2, does it work? > NO, PLEBEIAN > behold, meltdown er I have core 2 duo, does it work? this is becoming a nightmare, I feel left out.
[02:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:40] <exec> 08└─Ryzen
[02:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:43] <exec> 08└─... but I don't want to enlist in the Mobile Infantry. The smart bugs might be offensive but who needs enemies like that when you have your friends at Intel.
[02:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:45] <exec> 08└─We recommend that [world+dog] stop deployment of current versions [because keeping up to date will cause reboot-itis].
[02:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:47] <exec> 08└─... as people replace generations of buggy processors. Not much accountability when you are essentially a de-facto monopoly (even given AMD and ARM). In other news, everyone seems to have forgotten about Equifax's breach already... May this Saturday Night Live skip applies to more than presidential...
[02:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:49] <exec> 08└─There are several reports of extreme slowdowns if these exploits are being used, because its almost impossible to ex-filtrate much data without taking up a bunch of cpu cycles. Besides, we are all behind firewalls, right? We don't run random software, read random emails, click on click-baity links,...
[02:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Patent Office Revokes "Broad Institute" CRISPR Patent - 1270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:19] <exec> 08└─The problem with all these patents is that the bar is far too low on that tiny bit of inventiveness / change that takes something that exists and adds something that is in parallel development by multiple entities that are working on the problem. IMO, patents should be kept secret for at least 12 mo...
[02:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Prioritize 'Trustworthy' News Sources - 1656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:44] <exec> 08└─That's very funny. It's not funny. Because we have a party made up of nothing but HATERS, LOSERS & OBSTRUCTIONISTS. They have no ideas, they can only obstruct. And they're not even any good at that. They shut our government down for the weekend. But they come to work on Monday, there's nobody in the...
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[03:17:09] <exec> 08└─Talking out of your ass, I see. The short version is that a lot of people need to know the physical characteristics of the box, otherwise it will NOT get to the right orbit. That payload adapter didn't appear out of thin air. Someone had to double-check that NG understood the specs and did not threa...
[03:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:30] <exec> 08└─Before I started hunting this past season I was mowing my fields and found a dead deer skeleton. It had been there for a while, but was not there last year. Very strange. This year I did notice there were a lot fewer deer out there. The rut was late due to the warm weather extending into November. I...
[03:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:32] <exec> 08└─...on something which probably works: then go right ahead, so long as it's your money. When one is spending other's money one has a responsibility to be more confident than "it wouldn't be surprising if this wasn't burning millions for no reason". Imagine if millions were spent preventing its transm...
[03:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:36] <exec> 08└─I just clicked install right before I saw this news item. So I guess I'll just keep my system running without rebooting and hope there won't be a power outage in the coming days.
[03:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 1675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:37] <exec> 08└─Intel HQ, interior afternoon, #CLASSIFIED!# oh sorry, wrong intel Intel HQ, interior afternoon, a top management meeting in the sauna, as everywhere else the chinks get to hear everything. Nervous voices come out of the fog. - "People are buying ARMs left and right..." - "We should force people to u...
[03:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Patent Office Revokes "Broad Institute" CRISPR Patent - 2306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:09] <exec> 08└─The intro to something I wrote over a decade ago: http://pdfernhout.net [pdfernhout.net] "Foundations, other grantmaking agencies handling public tax-exempt dollars, and charitable donors need to consider the implications for their grant...
[03:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Amazon Go" Store Opens in Seattle - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:16] <exec> 08└─If you look at it purely from a single market sector, then yea. In Amazon's case, the experience extends to complement their other market sector. For those that opt a digital lifestyle, it is an interesting proposition where you a singular seamless experience across various aspects of that digital l...
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[04:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neutron-Star Merger Grows Brighter - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:58] <exec> 08└─Puzzle? Well, what are you waiting for? You have a story lead! Go there, see what's going on, come back and report
[04:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Testing Delayed by Government Shutdown - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:06] <exec> 08└─Shutting down the government hurts everyone except for the assholes who do it, namely Congress. By my optics the Dems lost out big here, they were willing to deny 6 million CHIPs kids coverage in order to get 600k illegal aliens a green card. I know it's more complicated than this, and I am far from...
[04:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Testing Delayed by Government Shutdown - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:08] <exec> 08└─People and companies can sue individual corrupt clownfucking assmonkeys for damages, and said CCAs have to defend themselves with their own money. Even better, pay damages from their own cash. Not their re-election campaign, but the money they personally use to put caviar on the table. Oh, gee, you...
[04:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Testing Delayed by Government Shutdown - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:10] <exec> 08└─I feel like I'm a man with a fork in a world full of soup.
[04:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuma Failure Emboldens SpaceX's ULA-Backed Critics; Gets Support from US Air Force [Updated] - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:23] <exec> 08└─He's not talking out of his ass. SpaceX got the rocket into orbit, as evidence by where it reentered into the atmosphere. And SpaceX did not touch the payload adapter, which was made by Northrup Grumman instead of SpaceX as usual. The payload was added at a separate facility out of their sight. Spac...
[04:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuma Failure Emboldens SpaceX's ULA-Backed Critics; Gets Support from US Air Force [Updated] - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:24] <exec> 08└─That's not editorial bias. I didn't post or edit the story. It's also not bias, but simple fact. As for your submissions, maybe it's time to gas cull a few.
[04:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:48] <exec> 08└─Imagine if millions were spent... before someone realized that it was harmless in humans.
[04:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:49] <exec> 08└─How about a field, or even at the butchers' test for prions?
[04:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Amazon Go" Store Opens in Seattle - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:34] <exec> 08└─It will be difficult to see what the *new* jobs will be until they arrive. That's not terribly helpful for the waves of people being displaced right now. The local McDonalds has order kiosks and reduced human order takers to one from 4, the local grocery store has converted all but one of the expres...
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[05:17:11] <exec> 08└─No affiliation, just recommended for people who care: The New Frontier | Netflix https://www.netflix.com [netflix.com] After decades in decline, space exploration appears to be on the cusp of revitalization. This series forecasts new possibilities on the horizon.
[05:19:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06European Patent Office Revokes "Broad Institute" CRISPR Patent - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:23] <exec> 08└─why is a publicly funded institution/grant programs allowed to patent anything? at most they should be able to obtain a patent for all the nation's citizens.
[05:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Amazon Go" Store Opens in Seattle - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:37] <exec> 08└─Rich hipsters make me fucking sick. [...] I'm seriously tempted to rob them blind and force them to actually LIVE poor for a while
[05:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 Nissan Leaf Touts a Claimed 13,000 Preorders - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:01] <exec> 08└─But I still don't understand the 13,000 preorders. The Chevy Bolt is on sale now
[05:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 Nissan Leaf Touts a Claimed 13,000 Preorders - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:02] <exec> 08└─GM learned their lesson with the Corvair. They built a car that was "different" and product liability lawsuits came fast, by the hundreds, although the Corvair I had was a perfectly good car. While many liked the EV-1, all it would take was an accident or two and the ambulance chasers would be all o...
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[06:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:59] <exec> 08└─As a consumer, the state has a right to determine the criteria for services that they will purchase. There are plenty of other examples like this (e.g. ethical funds that don't buy oil mining stock, the Federal Government's restriction on some contracts that prevent them from going to companies that...
[06:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:00] <exec> 08└─Especially with policies I agree with :)
[06:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:02] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the Balkans of the Internet! Formerly known as the U.S. of A.
[06:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:57] <exec> 08└─And also don't eat laundry detergent.... oh shit
[06:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:58] <exec> 08└─The key there is that they injected the brains at the start (presumably) before the food wasn't affected. Basically an insurance policy: well maybe we won't be able to get results from food in the timespan we have (3 years), but there are probably people who eat venison more than that, so lets give...
[06:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:05] <exec> 08└─In other words, you're hoping you don't get any unexpected reboots?
[06:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Game Consoles are Doing Better than Ever - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:27] <exec> 08└─Japan is not the USA. Japan is a pretty good case for a unified culture and a vision of race and racial solidarity as a strength. Pretty much the opposite of "diversity is our strength" mantra you hear in the USA. It's also a honor culture and not a shame-based culture (Judo-Christan).
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[07:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:02] <exec> 08└─So we can then burn the fucking thing....
[07:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:03] <exec> 08└─Betteridge's law of headlines applies here.
[07:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:13] <exec> 08└─Fuck ajit pai.
[07:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:15] <exec> 08└─ISPs are going to claim that this is interstate commerce and, as such, states have no right to legislate.
[07:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Testing Delayed by Government Shutdown - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:33] <exec> 08└─Shutting down the government hurts everyone except for the assholes who do it, namely Congress.
[07:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuma Failure Emboldens SpaceX's ULA-Backed Critics; Gets Support from US Air Force [Updated] - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:48] <exec> 08└─Hmm, it says "takyon writes"? No auctorial responsibility? As for my submissions, you might read some of them before you rush to your unbiased prejudical decision to reject. Some of them may actually be interesting and about important events! And don't worry, there will be more. Lots, and lots more...
[07:18:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:35] <exec> 08└─This is why those of us in the know still stick to 6502.
[07:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Patent Office Revokes "Broad Institute" CRISPR Patent - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:54] <exec> 08└─It was revoked not just because of the specific patent being bad, but of a whole class of patents being inappropriate [techrights.org]. Several problems there include the EPO [techrights.org] management and the organization's way of bringing in money. Both prioritize quantity over quality. The EPO u...
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[08:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:10] <exec> 08└─Boris has a history of eye grabbing infrastructure announcements which turn into disasters, because he's something of an idiot who doesn't understand the real world and fails hard when it comes to actually doing things: https://www.theguardian.com
[08:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:12] <exec> 08└─Why are refugees/migrants trying to flee France for Britain?
[08:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:14] <exec> 08└─From http://www.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk] The British Red Cross said most migrants wanted to make the move because they believed there was a better prospect of finding work in the UK, or because they speak English and want to use the language. Others have relatives in the UK, or are dra...
[08:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:16] <exec> 08└─> Boris has a history of eye grabbing infrastructure announcements which turn into disasters, because he's something of an idiot who doesn't understand the real world and fails hard when it comes to actually doing things That... sounds vaguely familiar.
[08:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:18] <exec> 08└─To make refugee importation easier? You can hardly keep them from storming the Chunnel, who's going to machine gun them off of a bridge.
[08:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:20] <exec> 08└─It's also a red herring which has successfully completely distracted the press from the pith of the single market negotiations with France.
[08:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:23] <exec> 08└─Wrong
[08:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:25] <exec> 08└─he's something of an idiot who doesn't understand the real world I'm not convinced. His goal isn't to build a bridge, it's to distract people. Trump has the same playbook. Doesn't mean they're idiots.
[08:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:27] <exec> 08└─Why can't they just learn French like the rest of France? They're already in France.
[08:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:29] <exec> 08└─to make sure tankers didn't bump into it?
[08:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:41] <exec> 08└─Where do you get that weird idea? The commerce clause has arguably been used to intrude into areas where it shouldn't, but no one has ever claimed that it prevents additional state regulations. The closest would be where it prohibits states from putting tariffs on other states' products. Assuming th...
[08:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:42] <exec> 08└─Well, Montana better find some bigger compatriots, because big data and big media can afford to just write Montana off in it's entirety. Five or eight states tips the scales.
[08:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuma Failure Emboldens SpaceX's ULA-Backed Critics; Gets Support from US Air Force [Updated] - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:15] <exec> 08└─any spending on any Thing that is not on the supported / morally approved list is accused of "wasting" money, no matter if it is good, bad or cost neutral, if The Other Side does it.
[08:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:42] <exec> 08└─They already do monumentally stupid things like invasive surgery to lose weight, which never works anyway because stress is the root cause, not stomach size.
[08:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:44] <exec> 08└─requerdanos you don't get it. This used 12 animals. And you think the delivery mechanism was badly chosen? 12 animals died for this. Do you want 1,000 to be tortured by being rubbed against deer carcasses? And then killed - because you cannot re-use these now for science or food, so incinerated, utt...
[08:19:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 207 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:09] <exec> 08└─In general, you don't want the Marines touching anything that can possibly break. As they say, you can lock a Marine in a padded room with two ball bearings and he'd end up losing one and breaking the other.
[08:19:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Spamalope [5233] 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 247 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:20] <exec> 08└─as it's not specifically triggerable We don't know that. A proof of concept hasn't been demonstrated/disclosed publicly. That's all we know. Intel's been vague, which may mean they don't know or that they do know an think there is an exploit risk.
[08:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:51] <exec> 08└─What, never heard of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum updates?
[08:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:53] <exec> 08└─I used to fix my very frequent 95 crashes using dual boot to OS2 Warp (3, then 4). OS2 was rock solid on the same HW.
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[09:17:02] <exec> 08└─why don't we make a chunk of cement with these spores in it, and throw it on Europa? (the satellite, not the continent or the goddess). that would be one way of ensuring that the basic building blocks of live survive the death of the Sun (and probably humanity).
[09:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:21] <exec> 08└─His goal isn't to build a bridge, it's to distract people. Trump has the same playbook. Doesn't mean they're idiots.
[09:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:23] <exec> 08└─well, he is related to bloody stupid johnson [wikia.com], isn't he?
[09:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:25] <exec> 08└─You missed out: Because the French are lying to them that they would be better off in the UK, and Because the grass is greener on the other side.
[09:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:27] <exec> 08└─Interesting question - found an answer here: https://theconversation.com [theconversation.com] The channel is between 40m and 60m deep and some passenger ships are more than 70m tall. So to let ships pass underneath, the pylons...
[09:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:41] <exec> 08└─Montana will be attacked from at least a dozen different directions. The FCC will claim that Montana is interfering in a federal agency's jurisdiction. As mentioned already, interstate commerce will be invoked. It's going to come down to congress - they are either going to approve or disapprove of n...
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[09:18:16] <exec> 08└─Some of them may actually be interesting and about important events!
[09:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuma Failure Emboldens SpaceX's ULA-Backed Critics; Gets Support from US Air Force [Updated] - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:17] <exec> 08└─a pearl at the bottom
[09:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:47] <exec> 08└─I didn't know what these were the first time I found one. Now I do. It's... strange. Frightening. The birds mammals and insects still pick them clean, which actually kind of worries me, because a lot of stuff is downstream. Do I trust berries? Proooobably. Racoon? Not for now. Shame.
[09:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:56] <exec> 08└─Laugh if you want, but if the Iranians had been using a 6502 on their centrifuge controllers, someone would have had a helluva challenge to get Stuxnet to work on it... Same with our stuff too. We are adopting way too powerful of technology to do simple things... technology that can no longer be tr...
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[09:19:57] <exec> 08└─Now this was tricky to moderate... funny as hell, but also sounds just like the way the tie-people think. I've been around that type, and they don't think at all like an engineer.
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[09:19:59] <exec> 08└─333 ty!
[09:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:02] <exec> 08└─You are wrong. You're affected, though there might not be js exploits, and they might never go public, or they might be veerrry slow. There are other side channels that cannot be avoided in 300 cycle long trains. Things like L1-L2 cache latency. Those will include cache misses sometimes, which will...
[09:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:04] <exec> 08└─The 6502? The Z80 is clearly superior!
[09:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Game Consoles are Doing Better than Ever - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:27] <exec> 08└─Uh. Japan has a far more shame based culture than countries with "Judo-Christan" culture - which is more a guilt culture (but with Christianity you confess your sins and whoopee you're clean- you might still have lingering feelings of guilt but that's mainly up to you). http://www.nytimes.com
[09:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook to Prioritize 'Trustworthy' News Sources - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:11] <exec> 08└─Thanks! I would love to use this as another citation of the observation. Over my lifetime, I have seen way too much artfully presented technoshit sold for top dollar to the investor class, and try as I might, I would simply be ignored, classified by the presenter as one who is too technically obsol...
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[10:17:02] <exec> 08└─That's a cool one.
[10:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I was figuring 100m, but I was out by quite a bit. Tallest overall, so far is in France, at 343m (1125ft) built on land, and only 2400m long (8070ft) https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[10:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:34] <exec> 08└─From 1933 through 1937, the USA built the Golden Gate Bridge. It is 67.1 m above the water at high tide. You want a bridge that is only 5% taller than one we built over 80 years ago? I think this is not a problem. There is no need to build pylons 500m tall, though this is no obstacle for modern engi...
[10:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:36] <exec> 08└─Their estimate makes the absurd assumption that there would be one giant span going all the way across. That bridge in France isn't one span.
[10:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:38] <exec> 08└─Britain offers great welfare. While the natives are suffering high taxes and high housing costs, the migrants get free housing and lots of other benefits. Britain seems to hate itself. These migrants are neither Catholic nor Anglican, which makes them heretics. Back in the day, before the country go...
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[10:17:52] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the Balkans of the Internet! Formerly known as the U.S. of A.
[10:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:54] <exec> 08└─As has been pointed out above, interstate commerce has no say in the issue. You still need a Florida business license to sell Iowa Green Beans in Florida. And you can't bring just any old oranges into California. The outcome simply depends on how quickly other states do the same thing. The sooner t...
[10:19:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:12] <exec> 08└─No, I would say, "bug" is a perfectly legitimate definition. They just had you update your system to install the bug specifically to fix a bug that hasn't been proven to be exploited, yet.
[10:19:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 1168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:27] <exec> 08└─I'd like to report a bug with your finger counting system. I understand and accept the limitation of the 10 register (finger) system. However, I have an issue obtaining reliable, repeatable results. Whenever subtracting and removing a register (finger) it is impossible to reliably store a value on t...
[10:19:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:59] <exec> 08└─We recommend that [world+dog] stop deployment of current versions [because keeping up to date will cause reboot-itis].
[10:20:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 1675 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:03] <exec> 08└─Intel HQ, interior afternoon, #CLASSIFIED!# oh sorry, wrong intel Intel HQ, interior afternoon, a top management meeting in the sauna, as everywhere else the chinks get to hear everything. Nervous voices come out of the fog. - "People are buying ARMs left and right..." - "We should force people to u...
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[10:20:13] <exec> 08└─Reality went one better with the Capacitor Plague in the early 2000s. Older motherboards failing like mad, and Intel and MS were totally innocent!
[10:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:16] <exec> 08└─What? This is good engineering thinking. "What's the worst that could happen?" is question #2, so that it can be avoided. (Question #1 hopefully is "What outcome is desired?")
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[10:20:18] <exec> 08└─> If you add toes, you can go twice as fast. Argh! That compounded the problem! At first it worked and I was adding and subtracting with toes, but I rebooted - it happens daily, I use doors and windows - and entirely lost access to toes! And I cannot repatch - one of the toe-subtractions worked to r...
[10:20:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Video Game Consoles are Doing Better than Ever - 353 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:25] <exec> 08└─Kids need something to do with their spare time. We can't have them going outside without strict parental supervision, or else we have to arrest the parents for child endangerment, nor can we allow them to visit each other outside of strictly-supervised "play dates", so game consoles are a great way...
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[11:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:03] <exec> 08└─...ten more things it is easy to do in any modern scripting language; but you never even considered trying in bash (or any shell script).
[11:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:05] <exec> 08└─"Gluing things together with a shell script is the Unix way." Gilmour/Waters.
[11:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fungi Can Help Concrete Heal Its Own Cracks - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:13] <exec> 08└─I suppose it is too early for an Ethanol_fueled butt-crack application? Asking for a friend.
[11:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fungi Can Help Concrete Heal Its Own Cracks - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:16] <exec> 08└─So these spores fill the gaps in the concrete, but where do they get the materials to do so? There's only one place they can get it, and that's from the concrete itself. Does this mean that whenever the spores fill a gap, they weaken the concrete around the gap? Could this be mitigated by somehow pr...
[11:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:43] <exec> 08└─But in an island nation whose best defense against continental armies has always been the Channel, generations of military and political leaders saw proposed bridges and tunnels as potential invasion routes.
[11:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03clive_p [4631] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:45] <exec> 08└─Nobody recently seems to have considered the merits of a cross-channel dam. The straits of Dover are quite shallow - only 11,000 years ago people could walk across. While bridge supports would be vulnerable to poorly navigated ships, a dam would be robust enough to withstand impacts. The current fl...
[11:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:48] <exec> 08└─Britain put explosive charges in all the runways. A few may remain; not long ago a set of 15 were found in a runway. That isn't much good against a slow invasion, particularly with traitors in parliament who are eager to win votes from the invaders.
[11:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:50] <exec> 08└─Someone is, but not the French. My mother now lives in France and one of her friends works at one of the refugee camps. They're convinced that when they arrive in England that anyone who arrives will get a free house and a well-paid job. I've no idea where this idea comes from, but apparently it's v...
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[11:17:52] <exec> 08└─The people who have been taking this vaguely seriously (i.e. civil engineers who remember how much was invested in the tunnel and are salivating about being able to coax a similar amount out of the government for a vanity project) are anticipating that some of the spans will be tunnels. Their idea i...
[11:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:54] <exec> 08└─Starting in 1305, and continuing for 355 years, heads of traitors would be impaled on pikes on London Bridge. There would be dozens of them there, displayed for all to see. The proposed bridge would have lots of room for heads. This is good, because lots of things can be treason. A notable one is fa...
[11:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:56] <exec> 08└─While the pinch point falls within British and French territorial limits, you wil find that there are international agreements that other nations' shipping can pass freely. That even applies to the Dardanelles which is a much narrower passage and with Turkey on both shores. The Channel is one of the...
[11:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:58] <exec> 08└─It is easy to forget how Britain was made great. Life gets good, fighting is icky so don't bother... and before long you are overrun with savages. Kill, or be killed. This is the way of the world. I suggest having left-handed women feed the invaders to pigs. If this is the method of death, then the...
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[11:18:01] <exec> 08└─[refugees are] convinced that when they arrive in England that anyone who arrives will get a free house and a well-paid job.
[11:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:04] <exec> 08└─It may be busy, but you can trivially go around. Britain really isn't that big. Far more important: Suez Canal, Strait of Gibraltar, Panama Canal, and obviously any ocean. Avoiding any of these is a really, really, long trip.
[11:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:06] <exec> 08└─And rain is *never* a problem in the Channel. Just bring back the hovercraft! http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] https://www.express.co.uk [express.co.uk]
[11:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:09] <exec> 08└─The migrants kill with trucks. One struck on a bridge in London, running down lots of people. Let them see how it feels to get run down on a bridge. Oh, and the Chunnel needs a Cobalt-60 source... for stopping invasive species and bioterrorism of course. Run the trains through under computer control...
[11:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:11] <exec> 08└─... wants to build a bridge between Britain and France? He can't even paint the side of a bus properly.
[11:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:13] <exec> 08└─Agreed. The briefing this morning against Theresa May makes it look like he is starting a play for a leadership challenge...
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[11:18:30] <exec> 08└─Interstate commerce has been jammed down the state's throats many times before. But, I agree - the outcome will depend on how the various states react, and how quickly they act. If they all sit on their dead asses, waiting to see what happens next, the FCC is going to jam the worst possible regulati...
[11:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neutron-Star Merger Grows Brighter - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:38] <exec> 08└─from the if-only-we-could-make-the-general-public-grow-brighter dept. Science takyon writes: Neutron-star merger yields new puzzle for astrophysicists Neutron-star merger yields new puzzle for astrophysicists
[11:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuma Failure Emboldens SpaceX's ULA-Backed Critics; Gets Support from US Air Force [Updated] - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:08] <exec> 08└─He's not talking out of his ass.
[11:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:39] <exec> 08└─Well that's a technology combination I never thought I'd encounter - a diagnostic bullet: You fire it at the target, and as it impacts it grabs a tissue sample, tests for disease and transmits the results back to the shooter's phone / bluetooth enabled HUD sniper-scope. I can almost see this becomin...
[11:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:56] <exec> 08└─Computers don't just crash for no reason.
[11:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:57] <exec> 08└─> ... as people replace generations of buggy processors. With what? Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't Intels very latest processors still listed vulnerable, and even the status of the upcoming 9th Gen isn't clear (probably vulnerable given dev timescales). So the only current "replace" option woul...
[11:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Patent Office Revokes "Broad Institute" CRISPR Patent - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:34] <exec> 08└─Because some bright spark realised that they can spend less public money on research if research institutions get some of their funding from patent licenses. They fact that this has an overall negative impact on the economy doesn't matter too much, because politicians can blame that on other factors...
[11:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Amazon Go" Store Opens in Seattle - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:45] <exec> 08└─Marie Antoinette had a little cottage built on the palace grounds. She went there to dress up as a milk maid and played being poor. What happened to her is as they say History.
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[11:23:24] <exec> 08└─My hypothesis is that though this "very significant business benefit" exists, it isn't large enough to justify spending money on clearing out the inevitable backlog that a change from automatic to manual review would entail without some additional revenue source.
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[12:17:06] <exec> 08└─If they aren't deaf when they step into the beam, they'll be shortly after and stay so for the rest of their life. (grin)
[12:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:16] <exec> 08└─Let me guess, all your sessions default to xonsh [xonsh.org] instead of bash or zsh?
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[12:17:18] <exec> 08└─do you know de wey
[12:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fungi Can Help Concrete Heal Its Own Cracks - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:29] <exec> 08└─I for one welcome our new Mycotal Jovian overlords
[12:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:10] <exec> 08└─They are fed this bullshit by the people traffickers who charge them exorbitant fees to cross the Med in rickety death-trap boats.
[12:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:11] <exec> 08└─That's if you're going for a suspension bridge. There are other alternatives for the bit that spans the passage. Remember you don't have to bridge the entire channel in one span. A channel bridge would inevitably be many shorter bridges all joined together, and you don't need to have the same bridge...
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[12:20:55] <exec> 08└─Both were too constraining though - even when new the limitations of 8bit architecture were obvious and painful. Z8000 was much more enjoyable, 16bit was very liberating. 6502 had 16 bit variants as well. Neither got much traction and the mass markets switched to 68000 and x86, (apart from Acorn who...
[12:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:57] <exec> 08└─Windows is not a computer.
[12:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Game Consoles are Doing Better than Ever - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:21] <exec> 08└─This is where you need to fuck with the system and make it eat itself. Teach your kids what to say when someone says "show me on the doll where the policeman touched you".
[12:21:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06European Patent Office Revokes "Broad Institute" CRISPR Patent - 1270 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:31] <exec> 08└─The problem with all these patents is that the bar is far too low on that tiny bit of inventiveness / change that takes something that exists and adds something that is in parallel development by multiple entities that are working on the problem. IMO, patents should be kept secret for at least 12 mo...
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[12:21:36] <exec> 08└─0.00001%
[12:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Amazon Go" Store Opens in Seattle - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:48] <exec> 08└─ALDI does some cheap shit like requiring you to insert a quarter to unlock a shopping cart.
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[13:17:00] <exec> 08└─The pope and underlings used to sell indulgences. A direct consequence was Luther... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World's Most Powerful Acoustic Tractor Beam Could Pave the Way for Levitating Humans - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:07] <exec> 08└─I don't think we are in Kansas anymore, Toto.
[13:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:19] <exec> 08└─I never heard of that. I love the first line of their table, "Sane language" ... bash has no tick OTOH, I clicked on the xonsh "tutorial" link and got an empty page. Oh dear.
[13:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fungi Can Help Concrete Heal Its Own Cracks - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:30] <exec> 08└─If this really works, it sounds like it could extend the life of concrete highways, preventing/postponing frost cracking. In which case the highway builders (and the politicians in their pockets) will never have it.
[13:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fungi Can Help Concrete Heal Its Own Cracks - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:32] <exec> 08└─Indeed. What happens to the structural integrity of the concrete if it becomes all fungi filled? If it is the same then why just not replace concrete with it. My guess is that it doesn't have the same (or better) properties then concrete. So the fungi would just be a temporary fix so there doesn't c...
[13:17:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:46] <exec> 08└─It's also a red herring which has successfully completely distracted the press from the pith of the single market negotiations with France.
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[13:18:40] <exec> 08└─Neutron-star merger yields new puzzle for astrophysicists Neutron-star merger yields new puzzle for astrophysicists
[13:22:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06"Amazon Go" Store Opens in Seattle - 568 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:21] <exec> 08└─2) Nobody cares that you like Caraway Rye read or Ranch dressing. There's no money to be made by selling those facts. Why not? Companies selling rye bread or ranch dressing can use that info for targeted advertising: they can advertise their competing brand of dressing to you in an effort to get you...
[13:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Amazon Go" Store Opens in Seattle - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:52] <exec> 08└─I didn't specify why they did it, dumbass.
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[14:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:02] <exec> 08└─Just ask the officer for a pair of dice and see if you manage to throw two equals.
[14:17:04] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:04] <exec> 08└─The story isn't that the supply of these things is being reduced, it's that they exist at all. Private law has no place in a free society.
[14:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:06] <exec> 08└─What a crying shame. Fuck them.
[14:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:08] <exec> 08└─Always quick to ascribe arbitrary and capricious acts to foreign governments, while silently permitting the same to persist here.
[14:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:10] <exec> 08└─This is Hamurrabi tier stuff. But hey. Justice hampers progress. It was useful to destroy the previous system, now it's obsolete. Justice by tv programs is the future.
[14:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:13] <exec> 08└─Or, you could say, "always quick to call other governments blatantly corrupt, while not being any better". The NYPD really looks a lot like the police in Mexico.
[14:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:15] <exec> 08└─The reason they can exist is that they do not have or claim to have any legal significance. Any club can make promo cards and give them out, there's nothing sinister in that by itself. The story is that the policeman's union in places like NYC are so powerful that they can simply have their name pri...
[14:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World's Most Powerful Acoustic Tractor Beam Could Pave the Way for Levitating Humans - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:24] <exec> 08└─Or since sound travels through things like people, maybe it will "levitate" some things inside you while not others. You know, like how explosives tend to kill you why it is a terrible idea to jump into water if there are explosives (like grenades) going off around you (unlike in the movies). So, gr...
[14:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:37] <exec> 08└─You have to write software forever and all you have is the unix shells... and the scripts keep getting larger... larger... (no perl, that is a different hell--maybe purgatory)
[14:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:38] <exec> 08└─I have yet to see any significant software that is the product of unix processes glued together by shell code; it's only been things like configuration scripts or for interactive, "exploratory" programming. If you wanted to use a scripting language that called out to unix processes that also did rea...
[14:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fungi Can Help Concrete Heal Its Own Cracks - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:51] <exec> 08└─There should be more than enough concrete, so weakening the concrete around does not matter (plus, the material it "steals" would probably have been washed away by the water anyway). The point is likely to prevent water from washing out tiny cracks and have them become deeper and deeper, and particu...
[14:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:35] <exec> 08└─It's not his money he loses, he doesn't care that he gets stuck on zip wires, or calls table tennis whiff-whaff, or whatever PR stunt he pulls to get the headlines. None of that is the sign of an idiot. From what I can tell unlike Ken Livingston's bendy buses, the boris bikes are quite successful (a...
[14:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:36] <exec> 08└─Just goes to show you how ignorant these people really are. Good luck EU, good luck....
[14:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:38] <exec> 08└─Same with Germany as their destination. Many of them didn't need to be in mortal danger if it were not for their greed to get free money, housing, food and pussy. Though the German government was similarly greedy by thinking these hordes would provide cheap labor and somehow disappear when they were...
[14:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:40] <exec> 08└─The channel is a natural defense. The Channel single handedly prevented Hitler from winning. Because of the Channel, Hitler went east rather than North. Hitler then got mired in the mud traps of Russia, foiling his plans to take Moscow. Had he made it to London, the outcomes would have been differen...
[14:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:58] <exec> 08└─In the actual order, Executive Order No. 3-2018 [mt.gov], down at the bottom of page 2, and twice again on page 3, there is the term "lawful content". We saw the copyright cartel try to sneak that one in soem European legislation around 10 years ago. As used back then it was a euphamism for corporat...
[14:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:59] <exec> 08└─Net neutrality is about the connections, not the endpoints (where the data and the media sit, whether big or small).
[14:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:02] <exec> 08└─Interstate commerce _shouldn't_ have any say in the issue, but Willard vs. Filburn says otherwise. If growing wheat on your own land for your own use can be construed to be "interstate commerce" then anything can.
[14:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Testing Delayed by Government Shutdown - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:21] <exec> 08└─Elon probably has a clause in his contracts to cover his costs if there is a government shutdown.
[14:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Testing Delayed by Government Shutdown - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:23] <exec> 08└─a clause in his contracts to cover his costs if there is a government shutdown.
[14:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:13] <exec> 08└─And also don't eat laundry detergent.... oh shit
[14:20:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 13 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:24] <exec> 08└─"Clusterfuck"
[14:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alphatool [1145] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Second "Electron" Rocket Launch Succeeds, Reaches Orbit - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:44] <exec> 08└─$4.9 million is a significant reduction in current launch costs. Spaceflight Industries operate in the secondary payload market and they publish their prices [spaceflight.com]. Basically, it looks like Rocket Lab will be noticeably but not dramatically cheaper than current services, but the services...
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[15:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:59] <exec> 08└─Automate as much as possible, and then reduce the population, preferably by attrition. That is the only way to improve Quality of Life.
[15:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:15] <exec> 08└─The difference being that in Mexico they usually dispense with the specially-printed cards and use commonly available, government-issued slips of coloured paper (aka money) right away. This method is widely acknowledged as bringing equality to the country and efficiency to the process ... but of whi...
[15:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:16] <exec> 08└─The fact that these even seem to exist is counter to everything the police organization is supposed to represent. There was a story out of Austin I saw today where a cop has finally been fired stemming from an event over two years ago for using excessive force during an arrest and then claiming ther...
[15:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:18] <exec> 08└─pair of links to mentioned articles: http://kxan.com [kxan.com] [kxan.com] & http://www.statesman.com [statesman.com...
[15:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:21] <exec> 08└─Okay, $200 for the first one. There are plenty of printers out there who can mass duplicate it exactly for a setup of ~$100 and unit cost of a few cents. That's if it is laminated card stock, maybe slightly more if it is a plastic card. Sounds like a business opportunity to me.
[15:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:23] <exec> 08└─Otherwise, you just have a violently imposed monopoly. However, this story is not example of "private" law.
[15:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World's Most Powerful Acoustic Tractor Beam Could Pave the Way for Levitating Humans - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:34] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering what someone's underwear will look like after they were levitated in an acoustic field.
[15:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:48] <exec> 08└─Don't use $RANDOM to create temporary files, as you're not guaranteed to get a unique number. Use the 'mktemp' command instead. eg. tmp_file=$(mktemp) if you need a temporary directory: tmp_dir=$(mktemp -d)
[15:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:50] <exec> 08└─#6: These are very handy for knocking up scripts. I didin't know scripts could get pregnant.
[15:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:52] <exec> 08└─In hell . . . * you get Usenet, but there is only one newsgroup: alt.soc.rec.talk.comp.news.sci.misc. * You only get Windows 3.1 * On an 8 MHz 80386 * The only programming language is Perl * The only shell is command.com * The only editor is edlin (that would stop the fighting about vi vs emacs and...
[15:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:54] <exec> 08└─...starts with the same two letters as "shell". There you have it. That's what shells with their scripting are. UNIX shell acts completely unpredictable to someone who has not used it daily for years. And if someone is made to use it daily for years, it's a waste of development resources that couldn...
[15:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:54] <exec> 08└─Avoiding both Suez and Strait of Gibraltar makes getting to/out of the mediterranean sea more than just a "long trip". Hauling freight ships over land tends to be a bit of a pain.
[15:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:55] <exec> 08└─That's if you're going for a suspension bridge. There are other alternatives for the bit that spans the passage.
[15:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:17] <exec> 08└─Big Data and Big Media would be the ones IN FAVOR of net neutrality. They need good connections and good pipes to get their data and media around the network. It hurts them if networks create choke points, strangleholds, troll bridges and unfair discrimination of traffic.
[15:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:50] <exec> 08└─So Intel is simply trying to even the playing field so that Linux users can experience the unexpected reboots that Windows users take for granted.
[15:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:51] <exec> 08└─It's okay if you lockout changes. The password (launch code) can be guessed one digit at a time. Computer 1: Try this password: 12345 Computer 2: Nope, but you got the 2nd digit correct! Computer 1: Try this password: 82571 Computer 2: Nope, but you got the 2nd and 5th digit correct! Etc.
[15:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Second "Electron" Rocket Launch Succeeds, Reaches Orbit - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:04] <exec> 08└─After all, they do have rocket scientists in engineering, hopefully the marketing and accountants can project their window of opportunity and amoritize the cost of development across the competitive life of the launch vehicle. +/- 50% maybe, marketing isn't as precise as orbital trajectories.
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[16:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:06] <exec> 08└─Automate as much as possible, and then reduce the population, preferably by attrition.
[16:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:08] <exec> 08└─The cost of robotic arms has dropped considerably in the last ~10 years. Glancing through Ebay quick, you can get tons of robotic arm models for less than $20,000. I anticipate many more processes getting automated in the next couple years especially with the rapid pace of computer vision improvemen...
[16:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:10] <exec> 08└─If you can automate something, then said automation always makes economic sense; hence, automate as much as possible. The fear is what to do with a bunch of people whose existence no longer makes economic sense; the major problem with those people is that they reproduce. I'd suggest paying people no...
[16:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:12] <exec> 08└─Humans are already using existing machines to achieve the level of precision required. So it's hard to believe that non-crap robots can't manage to do similar stuff. If robots can't handle "normal" changes in weather and temperature then more planes would be falling out of the sky. Because that's wh...
[16:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:14] <exec> 08└─If you can automate something, then said automation always makes economic sense
[16:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:17] <exec> 08└─The difficult stuff is when some twig or animal somehow gets in the way of the brick, or the brick breaks or is nonstandard shape, then what does the robot do? Does a programmer have to write code for all the different scenarios? Or some human helps/prompts the robot?
[16:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 1608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:19] <exec> 08└─A reduced population leads to reduced innovation. Most people aren't very innovative or brilliant, so you need a big population to get a decent number of those. High automation should lead to a lack of need for regular work; people eventually should be able to live very comfortably without having to...
[16:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:21] <exec> 08└─I am more concerned about the ability to find an automatic stapler that actually works..\
[16:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:42] <exec> 08└─They do seem to be crying about nothing really. So some freebie they invented themselves so that they can hand them out to friends and family have now gone commercial, thereby nullifying the initial purpose. It was so that well I guess friends could get away with some minor things like parking viola...
[16:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:43] <exec> 08└─No law making such a practice illegal would actually help transparent and fair government because it would inhibit the free speech of the organization in question. It's like the Citizens United case. You can't restrict the speech of an organization without restricting the speech of the people in tha...
[16:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:45] <exec> 08└─They are not "Get Out of Jail Free" cards as near as I can tell, none of the things they help with involve jail time.
[16:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:47] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the news is that these cards work -- that people can get out of minor infractions by using one.
[16:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:50] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with restricting free speech: we do it all the time. Try this: go to your boss, and call him some nasty names. See how long you stay employed. Same goes for the police: they should submit to speech restrictions, or else they can find another job. Technically, their speech isn't...
[16:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:18] <exec> 08└─Someone needs to read the Unix Koans of Master Foo.
[16:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:19] <exec> 08└─This level of ignorance ensures that there will always be gainful employment for those who can give the illusion of working magic.
[16:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03negrace [4010] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:22] <exec> 08└─1. Python 2. Python 3. Python 4. Python 5. Python 6. Python 7. Python 8. Python 9. Python 10. Python
[16:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:24] <exec> 08└─I was going to do something fancy to fix a bunch of photos that had the same name. Then I just moved everything into iCloud and paid the fee.
[16:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:26] <exec> 08└─That will get the reply - ten times Hiss, which is what snakes do. Therefore, while we are at the sssss, why not do it properly shhhhh and then more conveniently, bash. Case solved.
[16:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:28] <exec> 08└─Xonsh is a Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt.
[16:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:31] <exec> 08└─15 years ago, the internet would like a word with you. Hell even now, but to a lesser degree.
[16:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fungi Can Help Concrete Heal Its Own Cracks - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:44] <exec> 08└─Does this mean that whenever the spores fill a gap, they weaken the concrete around the gap?
[16:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fungi Can Help Concrete Heal Its Own Cracks - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:46] <exec> 08└─Except of course, if the licensers of the technology pay the appropriate kickbacks. That works even in rocket science.
[16:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:35] <exec> 08└─Despite what some people tell you, most do not want to go to the UK. But language, and family ties, is probably the nr 1 reason for those that do go there.
[16:21:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tftp [806] 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:29] <exec> 08└─But where does Intel say that all those products are recalled? Affected, yes, but recalled? No "recall" in the page.
[16:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:32] <exec> 08└─You used an incomplete term: "engineer". It should read "fscking engineer". Relax, it's just a JOKE :-)
[16:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:34] <exec> 08└─You're right, but computers don't crash in that sense, either. It's the software on the computer that's crashing. Possibly due to hardware malfunction, but as is generally more likely a software bug.
[16:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking News: Intel Says you SHOULD NOT Install its Meltdown Firmware Fixes - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:36] <exec> 08└─They could have just had them on a Linux, FreeBSD, or other thing that wasn't connected to a network. The only other way to protect something like that would be to have special built hardware / software and keep it off the network. It would probably just be easier to go with a standard OS without ne...
[16:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Amazon Go" Store Opens in Seattle - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:28] <exec> 08└─That thought has crossed the mind of anyone who has ever eaten out of a trash can. "Criminal mind" my ass. If I scare you that much, you can always leave the site and pretend the big scary mean lady doesn't exist :D
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[17:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:00] <exec> 08└─Just. die. already! Like.... come on. Yeah! Come. On! Next version of Windows.... MS Timmy! Jimmy... Timmy!
[17:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:02] <exec> 08└─"Class, today we are going to learn how to get excellent value for the money by installing a more efficient operating system on a low-end notebook. I hope you've all brought your USB sticks in. Now, first we're going to get into the UEFI settings..."
[17:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:04] <exec> 08└─They didn't say what kind of education it would be did they.
[17:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:06] <exec> 08└─Tell me about it. The idea of a low priced computer with an OS that eats up like 60 GB of your disk before you even do anything on it is already nuts. Never mind the CPU and RAM that all their BS eats up. As little as I think of Google at least they've approached this market with something that actu...
[17:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:08] <exec> 08└─Sex. It's sex education. Microsoft to Challenge Sex-Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189
[17:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:11] <exec> 08└─"Haven't we been here before....." Wow! Windows releases a new netbook generation! This is exciting because.... because........ Oh, nevermind. Here's wondering if this is will be as much a hit as Windows RT.
[17:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:26] <exec> 08└─The thing is, even if we're charitable, and assume the $40 electric stapler works perfectly (we can always spend more for the higher quality staplers, if it doesn't - there is some level of spending for which the staplers will be reliable), we still end up with a costly solution to a simple, occasio...
[17:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:27] <exec> 08└─Then use the brogrammers and bricklayers in the foundation of the buildings. Am I right.
[17:17:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WizardFusion [498] 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:38] <exec> 08└─What a crying shame. Fuck them.
[17:17:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dale [539] 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 881 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:46] <exec> 08└─The fact that these even seem to exist is counter to everything the police organization is supposed to represent. There was a story out of Austin I saw today where a cop has finally been fired stemming from an event over two years ago for using excessive force during an arrest and then claiming ther...
[17:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:56] <exec> 08└─Well, speaking of Karma--I guess whoever victimizes your son/daughter should get a nice massage and not even be sent to jail? I'd hate for poor, poor criminals to actually get roughed up for raping someone.
[17:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:58] <exec> 08└─People in NY have been buying PBA stickers for ages. Think so many people would buy them, if there were not at least anecdotal evidence they "worked"?
[17:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:01] <exec> 08└─Replace "restricting free speech" with "killing people". It's still just as true. There's nothing wrong with killing people: we do it all the time.
[17:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:03] <exec> 08└─Things may not be recorded as a criminal charge if the cop sees that someone is buddies with Jim from the 54th precinct.
[17:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 1300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:05] <exec> 08└─OK so they seem to look like some kind of every plastic creditcard, helps being wallet sized and all. It seems kind of nondescript really, hard to say since the image doesn't show the backside. But for these cards to have some kind of purpose you sort of have to have at least two fields on the backs...
[17:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:07] <exec> 08└─Still there is probably a big difference in crime here -- minor speeding or a parking violation. Sure they can probably ignore that if you have a card and just give you some kind of verbal warning instead. If they find you standing all covered in blood looking over a corpse with an axe in your hand....
[17:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:10] <exec> 08└─It would be better is if the officers were not handed bland cards but sign up forms which must be submitted with a small administrative fee. The applicant becomes linked to the "issuing" officer's badge and said officer assumes responsibility for their issuing of the cards.
[17:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:12] <exec> 08└─As was noted by Arik earlier in this thread, these are just promo cards with no legal significance. What would be the point of such a list? It doesn't do anything useful and it has potential for blowback (say if a hostile city or state government gets ahold of the list and uses it to punish supporte...
[17:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:14] <exec> 08└─Particularly, when those criminals happen to be police officers [cnn.com]. Would be quite the shame.
[17:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:17] <exec> 08└─Sigh. Getting fired for calling your boss names has NOTHING to do with the 1st Amendment.
[17:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World's Most Powerful Acoustic Tractor Beam Could Pave the Way for Levitating Humans - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:27] <exec> 08└─We can build another pyramid using ancient Egyptian alien methods. Next up: Stargate.
[17:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:53] <exec> 08└─2GB is too large. 80MB would be much more realistic for the hardware you're talking about. Even then, that would have been top of the line.
[17:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:54] <exec> 08└─I've been using Unix since before most of these scripting languages existed. It always takes me by surprise people don't know this stuff. When I started you had sh, sed, awk, lexx and yacc for scripting. Tcsh, perl, etc etc etc came much later. / that's my lawn you're on // I put a lot of work into...
[17:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmh [721] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:57] <exec> 08└─Author put in an extra, uneeded, caret. You only need two: $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash $ echo hllo hllo $ ^ll^ell echo hello hello
[17:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:59] <exec> 08└─I have been using Octave for most things beyond trivial bash one-liners. It's way too heavy... but then so is Python :)
[17:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:01] <exec> 08└─You put a tab in there somewhere and blew up your smarmy post. Or was it a space? I can't tell because I can't see it. Oh well.
[17:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fungi Can Help Concrete Heal Its Own Cracks - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:16] <exec> 08└─Impregnating all concrete with live fungal spores that are constantly growing in some piece of concrete around you at any given moment sounds like a major health hazard. Has anyone ever lived in a house with a moldy basement? It can make you really sick.
[17:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fungi Can Help Concrete Heal Its Own Cracks - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:18] <exec> 08└─You could, you know, plaster over the concrete on interior surfaces? Or don't use it in your house. This sounds like a great idea. Whatever the fungus does is MUCH PREFERABLE to what water + freezing cycles will do.
[17:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fungi Can Help Concrete Heal Its Own Cracks - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:20] <exec> 08└─"Plaster over the concrete inside your house." Sounds like someone has zero experience with how that works on concrete that has moisture problems. Hint: it doesn't last even 6 months. And the concern is not ONLY basements, but the entire built environment. Another hint: seasonal outdoor mold issues...
[17:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:10] <exec> 08└─It would work more like the bridge part of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. It is just slightly above the water level at high tide for most of it, then a couple of big spans to let ships through. Though, I bet the channel is much deeper than Chesapeake, so either way this would be impracticably exp...
[17:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:11] <exec> 08└─Uhh, but won't the water just go around the other side between Scotland and Iceland? Actually with tides this would make a very interesting concept. Maybe build a two-way hydroelectric plant? :)
[17:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:13] <exec> 08└─While true, I don't think a bridge would have helped too much.
[17:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Zuma Failure Emboldens SpaceX's ULA-Backed Critics; Gets Support from US Air Force [Updated] - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:16] <exec> 08└─"Inflammable means flammable? What a country!" -Dr. Nick
[17:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:49] <exec> 08└─requerdanos you don't get it.
[17:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:50] <exec> 08└─It is entirely possible to have that done. This past year I had to get my deer tested and the MN DNR had stations where you could bring them. I wouldn't trust an average deer hunter to do a proper field test but testing stations aren't uncommon in areas where there was an outbreak in some farmed ani...
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[18:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Software Sales to Russian Firms Curbed by Sanctions - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:58] <exec> 08└─Poor Russia... what WILL they do without Windows, etc. Oh...man... Psst...hey Putin: have I got a deal for you! --Linus Torvalds ---This message approved by Edward Snowden 'cause he knows how fucked America is by using Windows.
[18:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Software Sales to Russian Firms Curbed by Sanctions - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, talk about the unintended consequences. Treasury Department dumps NSA tool chest into dust bin. However, on closer reading, its really more an issue of tightening credit terms for the Microsoft Re-sellers, which in turn forces them to have their customers pay quickly. It seems weak leverage, b...
[18:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:13] <exec> 08└─In the two school systems my nine year old has been to both are firmly entrenched with Google Apps and Chromebooks. Anecdotal to be sure but I'm not seeing any Microsoft stuff out there.
[18:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:15] <exec> 08└─Bad news for you M$ guys, that horse has already left the barn. 3 years ago you had a chance, but it's all over now.
[18:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ingar [801] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:17] <exec> 08└─That's 189$ minus the 100$ for the windows 10 license.
[18:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:19] <exec> 08└─Today's class will be learning about DRM and vendor lock-in as we discover there are several methods beyond UEFI to prevent any other OS from running on ARM powered systems.
[18:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:22] <exec> 08└─But the schools will eat it up since Win 10 already has spyware built-in.
[18:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, you have earned a bonus.
[18:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:41] <exec> 08└─The difficult stuff is when some twig or animal somehow gets in the way of the brick, or the brick breaks or is nonstandard shape, then what does the robot do?
[18:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:17] <exec> 08└─Dumb. Just arrest and jail so that the courts can decide on the punishment. It's not the job of the police to handle punishment for legitimate reasons. They should just do their damn job and be professional about it.
[18:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:19] <exec> 08└─The difference being that in Mexico they usually dispense with the specially-printed cards and use commonly available, government-issued slips of coloured paper (aka money) right away.
[18:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:21] <exec> 08└─If they find you standing all covered in blood looking over a corpse with an axe in your hand. Then probably not so much
[18:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:23] <exec> 08└─If they find you standing all covered in blood looking over a corpse with an axe in your hand.
[18:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World's Most Powerful Acoustic Tractor Beam Could Pave the Way for Levitating Humans - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:35] <exec> 08└─Depends on whether they hit the brown note.
[18:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:06] <exec> 08└─What nix programmer doesn't know these or the awfully prosaic original 10?
[18:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:08] <exec> 08└─I could deal with all of that except edlin and command.com. I feel my tourrettes acting up again, gotta go.. ;)
[18:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:10] <exec> 08└─Sure they can. How do you think they get child processes?
[18:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:12] <exec> 08└─OTOH, I clicked on the xonsh "tutorial" link and got an empty page.
[18:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:14] <exec> 08└─You have to write software forever and all you have is the unix shells... and the scripts keep getting larger... larger... (no perl, that is a different hell--maybe purgatory)
[18:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:16] <exec> 08└─Given that you have Perl, it should be easy to avoid using command.com almost completely.
[18:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:49] <exec> 08└─Small-to-Medium Data and Media should be in favor of Net Neutrality, but to properly Big data/media it's an acceptable cost of doing business. They can afford to pay the protection money while their would-be-competitors cannot, giving them an effective monopoly. Or at least that's the best rationali...
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[19:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:47] <exec> 08└─Most people aren't very innovative or brilliant
[19:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:48] <exec> 08└─But when you're working on something as large-scale as building a house and a light breeze could lead to bricks being laid way out of position, it can get very dangerous.
[19:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 1720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:50] <exec> 08└─Quite possibly. But it's also very debatable how the population size is going to change once people are given more leisure time and resources, so we don't really know if this will be a problem or not. These days, we find that giving people reliable contraception, access to education, and a middle-cl...
[19:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:30] <exec> 08└─The courts handle punishment. You also seem to be assuming that that anyone arrested by a cop is a criminal, or that if they are a criminal, then surely they must have victimized someone. Neither is true. Regarding the latter, we have countless unjust laws that create victimless crimes, such as the...
[19:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:32] <exec> 08└─I would expect that this violates the equal protection clause and the no-nobility clause. It's the end result of proprietorial discretion taken to its extreme. It should be stopped.
[19:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:34] <exec> 08└─...while silently permitting the same to persist here. This thread must be a figment of my imagination.
[19:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:36] <exec> 08└─> I would expect that this violates the equal protection clause and the no-nobility clause. Nonsense, they're just better at being equal than you are.
[19:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World's Most Powerful Acoustic Tractor Beam Could Pave the Way for Levitating Humans - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:49] <exec> 08└─I think you'd probably die before you go deaf, or at least realize you've gone deaf. Being blasted with enough physical energy to lift you off the ground hurts, doesn't matter if that energy is being transferred by air, water, or steel. Even TFS only mentions moving around small particles within the...
[19:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03rootsquasher [6851] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:26] <exec> 08└─perl, that is a different hell So true. I would take bash over perl any day.
[19:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:28] <exec> 08└─Another way of saying "I didn't read the manual and didn't realize all of these useful features exist, and I'm proud of my ignorance!" Go read the Bash manual, it's not that long and contains all of these and more. Hell, go read the POSIX shell specification, it's even shorter and contains a third o...
[19:20:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:27] <exec> 08└─They are fed this bullshit by the people traffickers who charge them exorbitant fees to cross the Med in rickety death-trap boats.
[19:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:40] <exec> 08└─Not totally a Troll... Britain offers great welfare. While the natives are suffering high taxes and high housing costs, the migrants get free housing and lots of other benefits. Britain seems to hate itself.
[19:20:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 620 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:57] <exec> 08└─Interstate commerce has been jammed down the state's throats many times before. But, I agree - the outcome will depend on how the various states react, and how quickly they act. If they all sit on their dead asses, waiting to see what happens next, the FCC is going to jam the worst possible regulati...
[19:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:03] <exec> 08└─And who was supposed to be in charge of regulating commerce and communications between the states, again?
[19:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:06] <exec> 08└─While the interstate commerce clause has certainly been abused in the past the internet is pretty damned inter-state.
[19:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:08] <exec> 08└─Net neutrality is about the connections, not the endpoints
[19:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuma Failure Emboldens SpaceX's ULA-Backed Critics; Gets Support from US Air Force [Updated] - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:51] <exec> 08└─You should post them in your Journal when they're rejected. They still might be worth a discussion and if they're frontpage-worthy a case can be made. I put all sorts of flamebait in mine!
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[20:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:04] <exec> 08└─Back in 2012, Canonical had clarified that Google is not their largest business desktop customer. However, it is safe to say that Google was a big customer for them. As Google prepares to switch to Debian, this will surely result in revenue loss for Canonical.
[20:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:05] <exec> 08└─Probably Google could teach Canonical a whole bag of tricks, especially with regard to reducing extraneous packages and making servers very efficient
[20:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:08] <exec> 08└─Because Google doesn't market their internal distro, they don't have to return anything they develop.
[20:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:33] <exec> 08└─"Today we're going to take a look at the source code to this software to see how it wo- oh."
[20:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 1950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:34] <exec> 08└─Anecdote to anecdote -- my kids elementary school gave out ipads for a year; teachers found them an interesting way to engage students in things, but consensus of teachers and parents was that tablets didn't encourage learning the way a real laptop did. The school district also had a laptop program...
[20:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:36] <exec> 08└─The main point of it is to give all the kids a school cloud email, folder sync/storage, and access to some productivity apps for assignments.
[20:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:38] <exec> 08└─I could use a netbook. I really just need a terminal and maybe a web browser.
[20:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, you can make a super fancy robot that perfectly compensates for environment and material variations... Or ... you could make a robot that assembles houses like Lego pieces (minus the gaps) at full speed, because the material itself compensates for some variability. Guess which one will make the...
[20:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:02] <exec> 08└─Giving people more leisure time and resources should improve the number of productive innovators, without a need to increase the population.
[20:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:04] <exec> 08└─Obviously, the assumption is that a certain task is repetitive and without end.
[20:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:48] <exec> 08└─Do you normally sigh when you achieve reading comprehension? Yes, the parent post was talking about "restricting free speech," not the First Amendment (which wasn't mentioned). One can restrict free speech in many scenarios. What was your point again?
[20:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World's Most Powerful Acoustic Tractor Beam Could Pave the Way for Levitating Humans - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:03] <exec> 08└─Next up: dialing another gate near a black hole and destroying Earth.
[20:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:43] <exec> 08└─The leper in a leper colony will regard leprosy as something perfectly normal. It's not that shell magic is not understandable, just as leprosy is well understood by those with medical knowledge. (Also remember the scene in "Princess Mononoke", where Lady Eboshi employs the lepers as gunsmiths, very...
[20:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:44] <exec> 08└─How often did I come across scripts that broke with spaces in filenames?
[20:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:46] <exec> 08└─And I'm sure you could re-implement vi in a dozen lines of Perl.
[20:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:48] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun [wikipedia.org]
[20:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:51] <exec> 08└─Perl also turns the f$!#%ing tourettes into a programming skill.
[20:20:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 652 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:18] <exec> 08└─Boris has a history of eye grabbing infrastructure announcements which turn into disasters, because he's something of an idiot who doesn't understand the real world and fails hard when it comes to actually doing things: https://www.theguardian.com
[20:20:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 710 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:39] <exec> 08└─Someone is, but not the French. My mother now lives in France and one of her friends works at one of the refugee camps. They're convinced that when they arrive in England that anyone who arrives will get a free house and a well-paid job. I've no idea where this idea comes from, but apparently it's v...
[20:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:03] <exec> 08└─Just bring back the hovercraft!
[20:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:05] <exec> 08└─This sounds interesting, but I really question the utility. They already have the Chunnel, so why do they need more links? Especially with Brexit; the last thing they need is more economic links, when Britain is pulling away from the EU and becoming more isolated. And if the Chunnel is really not en...
[20:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hereweareagain [6590] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:07] <exec> 08└─--Bloody Stupid Johson, from Terry Pratchett novels...
[20:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:09] <exec> 08└─The channel is a natural defense. The Channel single handedly prevented Hitler from winning.
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[21:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Ancient Insect Scales Analyzed With Help Of Nose Hair - 1908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:02] <exec> 08└─He was a relatively unknown magician who finally stumbled upon the opportunity to perform in front of a large audience. He did not intend to waste this chance, so he decided to pull out all the stops... The obese magician pointed at a little boy in the audience to signify that he would be the volunt...
[21:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Insect Scales Analyzed With Help Of Nose Hair - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:03] <exec> 08└─Did they try butt muff hair? How well did it measure up? These are important questions.
[21:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Insect Scales Analyzed With Help Of Nose Hair - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:05] <exec> 08└─Eyelash manipulators [scienceservices.de] are a common tool used when you are collecting samples for scanning electron microscope analysis, which is what they did in this paper. They come with a single hair affixed to a wooden handle. They can be sterilized and cleaned.
[21:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 1850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:16] <exec> 08└─He was a relatively unknown magician who finally stumbled upon the opportunity to perform in front of a large audience. He did not intend to waste this chance, so he decided to pull out all the stops... The obese magician pointed at a little boy in the audience to signify that he would be the volunt...
[21:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:18] <exec> 08└─I'd be curious whether Google actually did ever pay Canonical much. Google has their own colossal set of engineers and admins, why would they pay an outside company for support? And to be fair to Canonical, Google has to support their own internal services and tools. They don't have to support thous...
[21:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:20] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu is a Debian derivative. What was the reason(s) for the change anyways?
[21:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:23] <exec> 08└─gLinux is being built from the source code of the packages and Google introduces its own changes to it. It's just like gentoo, except they have to do far more work and they have a package manager that's inappropriate inappropriate for the purpose. They could at least have used Devuan, geesh.
[21:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:25] <exec> 08└─It is a shame they did not pick Devuan instead of Debian. Same flavour but without systemd.
[21:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:27] <exec> 08└─Why does it matter? It's Google. How does it affect you? Do you just want them to hand Devuan devs some $$$?
[21:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Software Sales to Russian Firms Curbed by Sanctions - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:37] <exec> 08└─I'm sure they will continue to borrow the free trial version of Windows on bittorrent.
[21:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Software Sales to Russian Firms Curbed by Sanctions - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:39] <exec> 08└─They're most likely the ones that put it there in the first place.
[21:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:01] <exec> 08└─Get a Chromebook. Mine was an Acer brand about $95 on sale. You can replace the Goog OS with Linux. https://slickdeals.net
[21:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:02] <exec> 08└─Does the Windows store even have a terminal app?
[21:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:04] <exec> 08└─It's called Powershell, and it's like trying to get yourself off with a cactus dildo.
[21:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:06] <exec> 08└─Powershell isn't my first choice for a shell, but it isn't hardly that bad. More like a regular dildo that someone stores in the freezer between uses. It will work if you work it long enough, but it won't be anyones first choice.
[21:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:32] <exec> 08└─Obviously, the assumption is that a certain task is repetitive and without end.
[21:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:33] <exec> 08└─And we've moving goalposts. Before, it was said "If you can automate something, then said automation always makes economic sense". Now, we see that a certain task has to be repetitive in some way. As my stapler example indicates, tasks can be repetitive and still not be repetitive at a high enough f...
[21:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:36] <exec> 08└─Yes couldn't they cheaply print some UV or magnetic dots onto each brick that the robot can align its sensors against to orient itself? That could be combined with some kind of optical fail safe or some push switches to feel the edges of the wall. Then, so long as the dot is still triggering the sen...
[21:18:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:47] <exec> 08└─Always quick to ascribe arbitrary and capricious acts to foreign governments, while silently permitting the same to persist here.
[21:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:21] <exec> 08└─Now that they've been called out on Soylent News, the cops will be forced to clean up their act.
[21:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:22] <exec> 08└─Ok buddy everything is free speech. Speeding? Free speech, Dick waving, Free speech. jesus christ can't you see that people want things to be free speech because freedom of speech is the law that trumps all others... not because they're free speech. This is racketeering and corruption. Now mind you...
[21:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah as soon as I heard about this it's the first thing I thought of. If they're "unofficial" then certianly forgeries are completely legal. Even if they afford me a small amount of protection from the police, I'd rather have a chill encounter instead of one of these roid fueled interrogations.
[21:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:27] <exec> 08└─"No law making such a practice illegal would actually help transparent and fair government because it would inhibit the free speech of the organization in question. It's like the Citizens United case. You can't restrict the speech of an organization without restricting the speech of the people in th...
[21:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:29] <exec> 08└─Ok buddy everything is free speech.
[21:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World's Most Powerful Acoustic Tractor Beam Could Pave the Way for Levitating Humans - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:43] <exec> 08└─If the pressure applied to lift the human is proportional to the area it's applied to, men will not enjoy the ride.
[21:19:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:59] <exec> 08└─Don't use $RANDOM to create temporary files, as you're not guaranteed to get a unique number. Use the 'mktemp' command instead. eg. tmp_file=$(mktemp) if you need a temporary directory: tmp_dir=$(mktemp -d)
[21:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:28] <exec> 08└─fish
[21:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:30] <exec> 08└─$ mkdir test $ cd !$
[21:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmh [721] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:32] <exec> 08└─alt+. is 2 keys, !$ is 4. It's like golf man.
[21:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fungi Can Help Concrete Heal Its Own Cracks - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:51] <exec> 08└─> the structural integrity of the concrete if it becomes all fungi filled? Peace on Earth: Looking forward to exploding heads of the conspiracy theorists who scream about jet fuel melting steel beams, when you tell them about concrete that may burn.
[21:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:15] <exec> 08└─If that was all the federal government did, it would be a small fraction of the size it is today.
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[21:22:17] <exec> 08└─But the ISPs providing the services to the local people are in the state. Even if those same ISPs have operations in other states, they can still follow different rules depending on where the infrastructure is. It doesn't matter who is being communicated with, because this is simply not an interstat...
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[22:17:08] <exec> 08└─I remember reading about the work of Dr. van de Schootbrugge maybe a week and a half ago (before Dems shut down our government). Amazing that he found these TINY scales from 200 MILLION years ago. So inspiring, I'm going to save my nose hairs for him!
[22:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Ancient Insect Scales Analyzed With Help Of Nose Hair - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:09] <exec> 08└─I bet that entire lab fears the guy with the tweezers.
[22:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Insect Scales Analyzed With Help Of Nose Hair - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:11] <exec> 08└─If they used the hair on top of their head it wouldn't have been covered by the press
[22:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:27] <exec> 08└─In principle: I don't like systemd! I think the problems systemd solves could have been better solved in a more modular way instead of one giant MCP from Tron. Being pragmatic, if systemd is going to be rammed down my throat, then I sure do want it to work well. Having lots of development resources,...
[22:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:28] <exec> 08└─I'm just guessing. Pure speculation. Google might find it to be in its best interest to move upstream from Ubuntu. If Google helps improve Debian, doesn't this still help improve Ubuntu? And other Debian derived distributions? Therefore Google might have a choice of more Debian derived distributions...
[22:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:30] <exec> 08└─Companies of Google scale are exactly the benefactors of systemd. That said, I haven't had any significant problems with systemd. The docos are readable, the source code is easily perused, and writing you own systemd services is drop dead simple. I now groan when I have to maintain older systems. An...
[22:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:33] <exec> 08└─That's my guess as well. They wanted to cut out at least one layer of middle men. Note that they moved from Ubuntu Stable (lte) to to Debian Testing. Apparently with the subset of server oriented stuff that Google needs, testing is more than good enough. Testing is where end users are banging away o...
[22:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:35] <exec> 08└─Man who rants about police state demands single packaging tool. Film at 11. Bitches about Giant MCP, having never looked at the code, then dreams about all the things systemd already does, and says wistfully "Wouldn't that be nice".
[22:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:37] <exec> 08└─What would be the point of different distributions if they were all essentially the same with only cosmetic differences?
[22:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:40] <exec> 08└─Reading comprehension, do you need a refresher course?
[22:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:42] <exec> 08└─Reserve a little paranoia for systemd now making it really easy to hide backdoors that now get pushed to all Linux systems.
[22:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Software Sales to Russian Firms Curbed by Sanctions - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:52] <exec> 08└─I wonder if Russia has imposed sanctions against the US for it's involvement in the coup against Assad in Syria?
[22:18:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:16] <exec> 08└─It's called Powershell, and it's like trying to get yourself off with a cactus dildo.
[22:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:18] <exec> 08└─Funny, just hours before reading this I had been in our local big-box retailer and saw these cheap-as-chips mini laptops on sale. I was wondering how hard or easy it would be to get one of these bargain basement specials and civilize it by installing Linux (via USB). Has anyone tried this?
[22:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:21] <exec> 08└─I currently have an old Dell laptop in testing with Enlightenment installed on it. I have given it to a group of PFY's we have working here at the moment to see what they think. It's early days, but they seem to like it.
[22:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 1329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:49] <exec> 08└─many aspects of the consumption economy is just that. consumption. we have consumption of food, obviously. but now we have consumption of durable goods. consumption as in: use it for a short time, until it breaks (and can't be repaired) or is no longer in fashion. Sure, short time frame this is "goo...
[22:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:51] <exec> 08└─If you have modern automated robots building obsolete brick walls
[22:19:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:15] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the news is that these cards work -- that people can get out of minor infractions by using one.
[22:19:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:27] <exec> 08└─Dumb. Just arrest and jail so that the courts can decide on the punishment. It's not the job of the police to handle punishment for legitimate reasons. They should just do their damn job and be professional about it.
[22:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:42] <exec> 08└─The key thing is that the First Amendment is the dominant law here. It's a US organization engaged in speech. Grishnak made a very general statement about restricting free speech in reply to my post observing that making law restricting the practice of merely printing promo cards would restrict the...
[22:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:43] <exec> 08└─That's because you're proposing the wrong law should be made.
[22:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:46] <exec> 08└─So maybe Mexico is onto something: Selective enforcement by financial considerational methods?
[22:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:48] <exec> 08└─Money isn't speech and the SCrOTUmS screwed the pooch on that one. Money isn't speech, it's money. At this point, I'm not even sure what one could do that would constitute bribery as paying off debt for politicians isn't legally bribery. The cards are being used to solicit special treatment and that...
[22:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:50] <exec> 08└─I don't think anybody really knows if they work. Just because you get pulled over doesn't mean that the officer is planning on writing a citation or making an arrest. Sometimes they just issue a warning. What's insidious about these things is that there's no real way of knowing whether or not the of...
[22:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:52] <exec> 08└─Money isn't speech and the SCrOTUmS screwed the pooch on that one. Money isn't speech, it's money.
[22:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:54] <exec> 08└─Believe me, money works BEAUTIFULLY in the USA.🇺🇸 As a businessman and a very substantial donor to very important people -- Crooked Hillary was one of them -- when you give, they do WHATEVER the hell you want them to do. I know the system far better than anybody else, and I know the system is...
[22:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:57] <exec> 08└─Example of the need for "insightfunny".
[22:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:59] <exec> 08└─"clean up"... isn't that some sort of code word for the mafia? Yes I can see it happening...
[22:20:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:23] <exec> 08└─"Gluing things together with a shell script is the Unix way." Gilmour/Waters.
[22:20:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:47] <exec> 08└─Sure they can. How do you think they get child processes?
[22:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:01] <exec> 08└─So it's like . . . Who knew that health care was complicated? Or Ten Things I Wish I Knew About Being President.
[22:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:03] <exec> 08└─> How often did I come across scripts that broke with spaces in filenames? How often did you get STDs from unprotected sex with popular prostitutes?
[22:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:05] <exec> 08└─All I need to know about whatever command shell is running: For some cases, how to prevent a command shell window from opening (Windows... bah)How to pass parameters to it on the command line without them getting interpreted or expandedHow to catch those parameters, unmolested, inside the command sh...
[22:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:23] <exec> 08└─Or maybe, maybe, it came out of the how-to-groom-a-suicidal-jihadist playbook: Brainwash the fools with high hopes and expectations, when the get disillusioned and their hopes crushed, swoop in and offer them an easy exit into paradise. P.S. For those with family and loved ones left behind, offer mo...
[22:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:51] <exec> 08└─So we're in agreement that interstate commerce and communication is within the purview of the federal government. Glad we could get that settled. I will happily join you in your efforts to get them to stop regulating anything that's outside their purview.
[22:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Testing Delayed by Government Shutdown - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:14] <exec> 08└─You know, I wouldn't have believed that the D team would be the one to start a Reichstag Fire a few years ago. I mean, I hardly ever vote D or R, but fuck, has it become obvious how they work together. But just on the horizon, the misogynerd narrative, #MeToo, OMG Russia, and net neutrality are abou...
[22:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Studies Raise Concern Over Chronic Wasting Disease from Deer Jumping to Humans - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:10] <exec> 08└─Yep. Also stress about flipping through the latest pop culture potboiler magazine and religiously sticking to some sham fad diet. Stress about the diet not working past the first week. Stress about failing to religiously stick to it. Stress about how much the new fad diet costs. But mostly the stres...
[22:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Amazon Go" Store Opens in Seattle - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:28] <exec> 08└─That thought [to rob a "rich" group beyond what is needed for the robber's survival and to the point where the victims "are FORCED to live poor"] has crossed the mind of anyone who has ever eaten out of a trash can.
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[23:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:06] <exec> 08└─Sigh. Hardware isn't like software. I've worked for 2 companies that designed chips. For the first (start up) doing a spin was $150,000. For the second established company that sells millions of chips/year) it was a $1,000k. That's not counting the software required to test the hardware. Any bored F...
[23:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:08] <exec> 08└─money and other issues aside... yesterday was too late, that's all i have to say.
[23:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:10] <exec> 08└─Nice FUD, Krzanich. You're going down.
[23:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:12] <exec> 08└─Shit up, Linus
[23:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:14] <exec> 08└─-? I don't have much of a clue about Electrical Engineering. However I have worked on two different Electronic Design Automation tools. The first one I reverse-engineered Zeni 4's physical design file format, the other I wrote a prototype of a physical design tool that had some novel features that m...
[23:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:16] <exec> 08└─The problem when it comes to actually making some chips to test, that costs $$$.
[23:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:19] <exec> 08└─But yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.
[23:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:21] <exec> 08└─Don't try to Yoko this project to ...
[23:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:23] <exec> 08└─This is in essence what it comes down to. While it run Windows? If not will it run something that I can run all the standard application on? Will I have to replace all my other hardware to fit in with this? What companies are going to support this? I guess the best thing that could happen would be i...
[23:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:25] <exec> 08└─Open standards benefit everybody who is not able to set the de facto standard. That's true when you're talking about hardware, software, or swimwear.
[23:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:28] <exec> 08└─The first level of compatibility is to provide compilers for your new chip. Then there is the fact that an OS kernel must be ported -- you can't just magically compile it even having a compiler for your chip. Once you have the kernel, if user space software can be simply recompiled and run on your n...
[23:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:30] <exec> 08└─You just need to make your OS compatible with the Android App store. All the apps get recompiled at install time, so it doesn't matter if you're using a weird Arch. > Larry and Jane and androgynous Bob's apps I see what you did there.
[23:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:32] <exec> 08└─then you've really got something!
[23:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Insect Scales Analyzed With Help Of Nose Hair - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:44] <exec> 08└─Whose nose hair? Do they get credited in the paper?
[23:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Insect Scales Analyzed With Help Of Nose Hair - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:46] <exec> 08└─And there's a size/texture difference between black, blonde, and red carpet... As long as it matches the curtains.
[23:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:10] <exec> 08└─Note that they moved from Ubuntu Stable (lte) to to Debian Testing. Apparently with the subset of server oriented stuff that Google needs, testing is more than good enough.
[23:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:11] <exec> 08└─yes
[23:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:14] <exec> 08└─It can be more than cosmetic differences. First, the "cosmetics". Different desktop environments do have real, material usability differences. Users have strong preferences for different ways of working. Distributions can be focused on different primary users based on default applications. Second, l...
[23:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:16] <exec> 08└─So you are saying thatg systemd solves the right set of problems in the wrong way. ? As a Arch linux user I find that the systemd guy was the only one to come with a comprehensive solution and I understand the distro packager choice of going with systemd.
[23:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:18] <exec> 08└─Yep. I was originally a complainer about systemd. I haven't had any trouble with it. It seems to work. As you say about services.
[23:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:20] <exec> 08└─True. But there are lots of places to hide backdoors into large numbers of Linux systems. And the whole "trusting trust" type of compromise / paranoia. Compromise is possible in the boot loader. And in the firmware. (And ability to lock you out of even booting!) And thanks to Intel Management Engine...
[23:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Software Sales to Russian Firms Curbed by Sanctions - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:32] <exec> 08└─its really more an issue of tightening credit terms for the Microsoft Re-sellers
[23:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:00] <exec> 08└─I'll never think about Windows 10 S the same way again.
[23:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:32] <exec> 08└─Let us note in history most inventions are due to people getting paid to invent things
[23:19:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:46] <exec> 08└─Or, you could say, "always quick to call other governments blatantly corrupt, while not being any better". The NYPD really looks a lot like the police in Mexico.
[23:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:32] <exec> 08└─The key thing is that the First Amendment is the dominant law here. It's a US organization engaged in speech.
[23:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:34] <exec> 08└─[Cops] should just do their damn job and be professional about it.
[23:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:39] <exec> 08└─I have yet to see any significant software that is the product of unix processes glued together by shell code; it's only been things like configuration scripts or for interactive, "exploratory" programming.
[23:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:59] <exec> 08└─Like many Tory cabinet ministers Mr. Johnson is the product of inherited wealth, and has never had to suffer consequences for his actions, as regular people do. That is how the Conservative Party works.
[23:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:28] <exec> 08└─Montana fought the Citizens United decision, and lost, as well. Nice to see that one State has the gumption to take on the Globalist Republican Corporate agenda!!! Go, Montana Democrats!!!
[23:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Testing Delayed by Government Shutdown - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:53] <exec> 08└─Congress has to pass a budget to give to the President to sign. The one appropriation they always pass without a hint of partisan bluster is the Legislative Branch appropriation. That one always passes and is signed before the beginning of the fiscal year. What that means is that when there is a gov...
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