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[00:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:03] <exec> 08└─Cue the resident trolls and sociopaths bitching about what a terrible affront to..... Nah, fuck it!
[00:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:04] <exec> 08└─Want a healthier population ? Give them free doctors, free proven meds, free exercise facilities, ban advertising, ban drive-throughs, ban home delivery of unhealthy foods, discontinue any help to obese people, force employers to install showers (or tolerate smells) ... Easy, right?
[00:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:06] <exec> 08└─Get your hands out of my pockets.
[00:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:26] <exec> 08└─I see what you did there.
[00:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:27] <exec> 08└─Well we have open Software. The Risk guys are al gaga about open processors. But then there is everything else in the computer, the bus, the bridge, the power, the various ports and the video standard. Anyone who wants to go the open hardware route has a huge mountain to climb. We've got the paint a...
[00:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:29] <exec> 08└─The alternative is to wait until the hammer comes down on "hacker tools." Probably one will be able to install RHEL and Ubuntu, but forget being able to compile one's own kernel. Forget about even having access to a full compiler without paying some hefty fees to the likes of Red Hat or Microsoft. S...
[00:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:32] <exec> 08└─Oh, no! Froj! Not the car analogy!
[00:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:34] <exec> 08└─Open swimwear - there was a time I could be interested or at least intrigued.
[00:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:36] <exec> 08└─The second problem comes in the form of "will the new CPU+OS combo run all my applications?"
[00:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:38] <exec> 08└─The alternative is [optimism redacted]
[00:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:40] <exec> 08└─Verilog or VHDL are pretty much like c. Try getting into FPGA.
[00:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:43] <exec> 08└─And that's exactly why you should never allow yourself to become dependent on blobs. (Those programs aren't really software since you don't have usable source.)
[00:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:45] <exec> 08└─A time before you switched to Unix?
[00:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Insect Scales Analyzed With Help Of Nose Hair - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:00] <exec> 08└─It sounds like a $2 paintbrush from Lowes.
[00:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:30] <exec> 08└─Another speculation, to go along with DannyB's? Maybe Ubuntu is too restrictive, in some way. I can't name any, this is just speculation, after all. But, I remember making my own move away from Ubuntu, because Ubuntu was moving toward Unity. Basically, Ubuntu said, "This is the way we are going, li...
[00:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:32] <exec> 08└─THERE ARE NO DOCS. It is by design that the design is not visible to the public.
[00:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:34] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu is based on the branch of Debian that is explicitly marked as "not ready for prime time or production use." This is the reason why Canonical can make money supporting Ubuntu - it needs it!
[00:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:36] <exec> 08└─How would that help anyone? Systemd is fantastic for containerised, headless or rapid spin-up and spin-down deployments, the kind that Google would be using. Not just due to boot speed (which is almost entirely irrelevant), it starts things, isolates things and makes sure they're running - all from...
[00:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:38] <exec> 08└─It's about the same amount of work as any other Linux distro - end users aren't building an entire system from source like Gentoo. Just the gLinux central repo maintainers. Everyone else would still pull down binary packages with apt. It isn't uncommon for large organisations that find value in the...
[00:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Software Sales to Russian Firms Curbed by Sanctions - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:51] <exec> 08└─Making Russia Safe Again. (large grin)
[00:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:53] <exec> 08└─This reference was obscure enough that I don't know whether it was actually an intentional oblique slam [dictionary.com].
[00:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:59] <exec> 08└─I started on Apple DOS 3.3 and MSDOS. Apple DOS is amazingly primitive-- doesn't even have a native "copy" command, instead has this utility program they called FID to do various file operations, including copy. MSDOS was much more capable, if not as powerful as bash. But it sure can be a lot easier...
[00:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:01] <exec> 08└─If that was really how the term "shell" was derived, it makes it a portmanteau of "shit" and "hell". Could be worse. Could have been a bit of oil company propaganda, I mean, imagine if the languages Perl, Python, and PHP were instead named Chevron, Exxon, and BP.
[00:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:20] <exec> 08└─So... you noticed the dept line? :) I was tempted to change the title that came from the original story, but decided to leave it be and see how many noticed. You win the internet today.
[00:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:22] <exec> 08└─I suppose we could widen up the acceptability. We could tolerate all Christians, Buddhists, and atheists. I suppose we could substitute a method of execution that is cheaper, faster, or more agonizing. The 12-gauge shotgun is effective. Feeding live to hungry pigs is nice. Dehydration in a prison ce...
[00:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuma Failure Emboldens SpaceX's ULA-Backed Critics; Gets Support from US Air Force [Updated] - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:38] <exec> 08└─What's even more interesting is how the Musky One and SpaceX got tangled up in either #MeToo or misogynerd narrative, not sure which one it was technically. I watched this whole slew of zero-content FUD stories about Zuma, and in their midst was some hyperventilating about rape culture at an investo...
[00:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuma Failure Emboldens SpaceX's ULA-Backed Critics; Gets Support from US Air Force [Updated] - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:39] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus seems to have toned down his submissions. I think the submission about the dank memes is good. What the story really needs is an angle showing how dank memes demonstrate the failure of the lamestream propaganda outlets to reach out to struggling populations who are seeing that they don't...
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[01:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:06] <exec> 08└─Buzzard looter shitheads lose their entire mind by asking them to rationally and logically explain their position without trying to claim "muh feelz" as a valid argument. Ninety-nine out of a hundred of them won't be able to do it and will lose their shit on the spot.
[01:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:07] <exec> 08└─Eight-ball in the corner.
[01:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:09] <exec> 08└─Only the smart people can be healthy. This means not just doing exercises and eating a healthy diet, but also not smoking tobacco, not drinking alcohol, not using other drugs... In other words, none of the "alternatives" of the TFA will have an effect.
[01:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:12] <exec> 08└─Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
[01:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:14] <exec> 08└─if taking profits from good, honest, companies isn't enough, this paper argues for wealth redistribution? "My comatose 96yo grandfather *deserves* $10,000 a day medical care, godammit!" https://www.axios.com [axios.com] http://knowled...
[01:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:16] <exec> 08└─If you do not doubt, obviously you did not understand what I posted. In Irish myth, there is a story about the Salmon of Knowledge. Douglas Adams changed it iinto the "Salmon of Doubt".
[01:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:18] <exec> 08└─There are definitely social services that could be improved that would help keep a population healthier, so that there would be less need for medical services. But those aren't the social services that typically get the money. E.g. football stadiums don't do nearly as much good for a population as 1...
[01:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:48] <exec> 08└─The kind of folks who will buy/use an open source CPU are the kind of folks who run Linux
[01:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:50] <exec> 08└─I definitely hear what you're saying. It's depressing.
[01:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:52] <exec> 08└─Is It Time For Open Processors?
[01:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:54] <exec> 08└─Not that it matters, but at my kids' elementary school and high school they have iPads and Windows laptops and classes on Microsoft Office. Is it any wonder Microsoft and Apple continue to own most of computing? Android sucks in terms of openness, but it's a miracle it was able to establish a footh...
[01:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Insect Scales Analyzed With Help Of Nose Hair - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:10] <exec> 08└─Eyelash hair often has just the right gradient of flexibility to give controlled manipulation of small objects that would otherwise get jerked around. My nose hairs are too stiff but most microscopists will try all available options before settling on what works the best for them.
[01:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Insect Scales Analyzed With Help Of Nose Hair - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:12] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/01/12/1549229 [soylentnews.org]
[01:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:00] <exec> 08└─While true, it's also important to remember that Charles Dickens would have devoted his life to not-really-good poetry if he hadn't needed to earn a living writing short stories (and later novels), which his disliked doing (at least initially). *Some* economic incentive is quite valuable. Too much i...
[01:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:01] <exec> 08└─6000sf houses in the suburbs and monster SUVs for everyone
[01:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 1533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:03] <exec> 08└─Fair point, and I imagine the desire to have a bigger living space, in a nicer place, maybe with your own personal transportation to use, and more costly food and clothing, and even some shiny consumer gadgets, all should be good incentives to not just lay about only "doing the things you love." We...
[01:20:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:12] <exec> 08└─The pope and underlings used to sell indulgences. A direct consequence was Luther... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:06] <exec> 08└─If you think that's an obscure reference, you should read more.
[01:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:08] <exec> 08└─You just have to decide if that is the sort of world you want.
[01:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:10] <exec> 08└─If you think that's an obscure reference, you should read more.
[01:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03pen-helm [837] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:12] <exec> 08└─How can we stop it?
[01:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:21] <exec> 08└─Do you know how to write syntax files for vim? Why not?? Come on, it's only 10 pages of text to read through in the vim help!
[01:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:22] <exec> 08└─xargs - learn to use it. xe is nice as well
[01:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:24] <exec> 08└─${i:0:$((${#i}-4))}
[01:23:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:59] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the Balkans of the Internet! Formerly known as the U.S. of A.
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[02:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:02] <exec> 08└─We always bought Grado cartridges for our turntables -- reasonably priced and great performance. Some models claimed to have frequency response out to 40 KHz, for use in playing 4-channel records that were available for a short time https://en.wikipedia.org
[02:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:03] <exec> 08└─submitted a moment too soon...
[02:17:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 371 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:19] <exec> 08└─There are definitely social services that could be improved that would help keep a population healthier, so that there would be less need for medical services. But those aren't the social services that typically get the money. E.g. football stadiums don't do nearly as much good for a population as 1...
[02:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:21] <exec> 08└─Have you seen the Oscar-nominated documentary on your dream society [wikipedia.org]?
[02:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:23] <exec> 08└─Sounds like socialism. *loses shit instantly*
[02:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:25] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, how do we optimize profit? Sell product, sell services, advertise advertise advertise. Adverts when you read, adverts on your phone, adverts when you drive, adverts when you fly, adverts when you wait, adverts when you play, adverts when you go out, adverts when you stay in, adver...
[02:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:27] <exec> 08└─Well, at least we got some shit out of you, without having to violently impose laxatives and a high colonic.
[02:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:01] <exec> 08└─The alternative is [optimism redacted]
[02:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:02] <exec> 08└─Surely you want the WindowsSwimwear: frequently stops...working?
[02:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Software Sales to Russian Firms Curbed by Sanctions - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:07] <exec> 08└─This is a good thing. Russia will (hopefully) improve open-source as they use more of it, report bugs, add enhancements, etc.
[02:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:37] <exec> 08└─The MS stuff is not cross platform. MS released a python library to access "one drive", but it turns out there is the version of one drive that MS offers to the public (which their library works with), and the one drive that is bundled with o365 subscriptions which is incompatible. So, unless you ha...
[02:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:38] <exec> 08└─You can replace the Goog OS with Linux.
[02:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:14] <exec> 08└─> Automate as much as possible, and then reduce the population, preferably by attrition. Challenge accepted.
[02:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:15] <exec> 08└─However, if you're talking about the giants which Sir Issac Newton credited with giving him shoulders to stand on, then, no. Those figures in history didn't research, discover, or develop for a mere paycheck - the primary thing they have in common was rare opportunity to do the work while so many of...
[02:20:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arcz [4501] 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 181 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:57] <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.
[02:20:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:00] <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.
[02:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:23] <exec> 08└─And we were speaking of passing law to regulate said speech of the police union. The law is what is subject to the First Amendment.
[02:21:39] <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
[02:21:39] <exec> 08└─Why would levitating humans need a paved way?
[02:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:36] <exec> 08└─ROFL - best comment of the day
[02:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:28] <exec> 08└─US of A was supposed to be that way. A collection of States, a Republic. What you are attempting to describe is a confederation. It was never supposed to be the homogenized mess it is today USA[1] tried The Articles of Confederation thing (1777 - 1789). That was such a mess that it was replaced with...
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[03:17:03] <exec> 08└─Bluetooth sounds terrible, Grado or otherwise. It's like selling a string and two paper cups for $300.
[03:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:05] <exec> 08└─Fuck you and your ad for hand-made horse buggy. What the fuck is this BS? "Let's see where we are in another 65 years." Fuck you. You won't be around in 10 years.
[03:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:07] <exec> 08└─You need to get Monster bluetooth for your speakers! It has much thicker air between the receiver and the speaker, or between the tranmitter and the receiver (speakers). And besides, it has ion neutralized pathways, prayed over by and Audiophilic Druid, for nearly realistic sound. Yes, it costs $20...
[03:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:09] <exec> 08└─I have the BT headphones from Voxoa. The BT link is only conditionally ok. It does not reach into the adjacent room, and even within range you have to orient yourself in a specific way to have a relatively clean cassette-tape quality. And don't move! If someone thinks that it's the particular pair'...
[03:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:30] <exec> 08└─E.g. football stadiums don't do nearly as much good for a population as 1/10th the amount spent on local basketball courts open for 24 hour use.
[03:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:31] <exec> 08└─The shit must flow.
[03:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:33] <exec> 08└─It will not "improve the health of everyone". Rich and upper-middleclass will not get healthier from more social spending.
[03:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:35] <exec> 08└─The commentary author suggests governments should allocate social spending fairly for both young and old to ensure that the younger generation is not being shortchanged.
[03:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:38] <exec> 08└─Hippocrates — 'Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.' No income = no food = weak/sick Poor education = taking the wrong food/medicine = sick.
[03:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:40] <exec> 08└─Hey its not the boomer's fault that you didn't just walk up to the CEO of the local industry, shake his hand, and ask for a job. You could have been ceo by now but instead you fail to make good eye contact and aren't willing to scale a 12ft electric fence. Boomerism - Fuck you I got mine
[03:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:16] <exec> 08└─Both GNU/Linux (on x86 or x86-64) will run some of your Windows shit using Wine, which is lighter weight than a full VM. But neither Windows nor Linux will run your macOS shit, particularly Xcode for porting your Android shit to the only western mobile operating system whose users actually buy shit.
[03:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:08] <exec> 08└─From what I've seen google do it's not even that, they just add more PRNG iterations to their various AI (bruteforce by another name) algorithms which nobody there actually understands anymore.
[03:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:54] <exec> 08└─[The terminal of Windows 10 S is] called Powershell
[03:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:55] <exec> 08└─Pay who for tethering? It is free here. How can they stop me using the net through my phones AP?
[03:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:57] <exec> 08└─At my work it is a choice of learn to Get-Help or Get-Fries Learning powershell is completely optional. Maccas is always hiring.
[03:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:00] <exec> 08└─It hurts at first, can make you bleed from sensitive places, and breaks *just when you really need it*? Sounds about right.
[03:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:02] <exec> 08└─Before they die they will turn into a patent troll to end all patent trolls though, not sure if that's something to look forward to.
[03:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:04] <exec> 08└─You need a warranty for a $90-$200 computer? Just get a new faster one when it breaks after 4-8 years. And throw the old one into a volcano.
[03:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:06] <exec> 08└─Sure! Let's have a look at that code.. Stab-Eye -with finger whyyyyyyyy just whyyyy this isn't perl so why did you arrgghh Bash-Forehead -on Desk -repeat 8 if (! (Test-Sanity) ) { TravelTo-Pub -quickly }
[03:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:09] <exec> 08└─You need a warranty for a $90-$200 computer? Just get a new faster one when it breaks after 4-8 years.
[03:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:11] <exec> 08└─Pay who for tethering?
[03:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:48] <exec> 08└─Well, if you're referring to the recent patent and product explosion, then, sure - brassieres with simulated nipples, glow in the dark flashlights, homemade ice-cream candy mixing machines, and their like are all fruits of the great free market invention machine where paid employees invent, develop...
[03:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:56] <exec> 08└─Money isn't speech and the SCrOTUmS screwed the pooch on that one. Money isn't speech, it's money.
[03:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:58] <exec> 08└─The law says you can't spend money advocating the defeat of a candidate. They had that law overturned so they could spend money advocating the defeat of a candidate. How, exactly, is that not about money?
[03:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:00] <exec> 08└─The law says you can't spend money advocating the defeat of a candidate. They had that law overturned so they could spend money advocating the defeat of a candidate. How, exactly, is that not about money?
[03:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:13] <exec> 08└─That must be with the Turbo button disengaged. The slowest 386 was 16MHz. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:23:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bootsy [3440] 02 - 06Fungi Can Help Concrete Heal Its Own Cracks - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:23] <exec> 08└─I for one welcome our new Mycotal Jovian overlords
[03:24:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:42] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the Balkans of the Internet! Formerly known as the U.S. of A.
[03:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:05] <exec> 08└─In practice, what would "lawful content" mean other than "transmissions that do not violate copyright or obscenity law and are not otherwise enjoined by a court order"?
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[04:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:01] <exec> 08└─Yay, the common denominator!
[04:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:02] <exec> 08└─Special, non-SI units sometimes appear in various professions. For example, artillerists and snipers may divide the full circle by 1000 because the resulting units are more convenient to use on the battlefield. Radiation is measured by a couple dozen units. Why should anyone care that within a small...
[04:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:04] <exec> 08└─Yay, the common denominator!
[04:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but is a kflick 1000 flicks or 1024?
[04:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:09] <exec> 08└─But Facebook... if we want to win, we gotta be like facebook. Quick, rewrite all your user stories and include how many flicks we can capture a user's attention Bah... they can go flick off!
[04:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:11] <exec> 08└─Techcrunch is a bunch of morons. Read the github readme and it directly contradicts them. The NTSC formats do NOT evenly divide, Facebook explicitly said "fuck that legacy crap" and ignored the biggest source of existing content. Which is probably the best and only thing to do at this point, we real...
[04:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:24] <exec> 08└─Story says headphones but I don't see anything on the link article except earbuds.
[04:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:25] <exec> 08└─Why is it not just a string of digital information to be interpreted by the receiver's dac/amp as if it were an optical stream? Obviously light is different than sound, but I mean the 0s and 1s. Why are BT's 0s and 1s so inferior? Is it a transmission power thing where it has to be compressed pre-br...
[04:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:27] <exec> 08└─BT is crap tech. None worked well for me - headphone, keyboard/mouse, car stereo, all infested with random dropped connection.
[04:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:54] <exec> 08└─Should probably have government inspected sensors on fridges and other home food storage areas to read barcoads (or better yet some sort of fancy spectroscope) that makes sure you didn't bring home any illegal food supplies. We surely have to protect the public from themselves. Plus the sensor could...
[04:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:56] <exec> 08└─Jack in the Box, Pizza Hut, McDonalds, and Burger King all accept EBT in california.
[04:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:58] <exec> 08└─Basketball courts? Right righter local gang hang out something by the government. Because even grandpa on baby girls can run up and down the court. Unless they get stabbed. But hey HiThere got his favorite pass time funded. Social services are government social workers intruding into everyone's dail...
[04:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:00] <exec> 08└─Wait, weren't you lobbying for getting government out of the recreational drug business just a few weeks ago?
[04:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:02] <exec> 08└─And yet, you went off and did it anyway...
[04:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:04] <exec> 08└─Promise?
[04:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:07] <exec> 08└─Provided they hire good guards (or pay off the local crimelord), buy a nice high walled compound and pay for good kidnap insurance (just in case). It's strange how an oligarchy becomes the trap that ensnares the oligarch, and for ever decreasing returns.
[04:19:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 260 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:06] <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.
[04:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Software Sales to Russian Firms Curbed by Sanctions - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:49] <exec> 08└─Thats it we need to get this bastard out of the white house and into federal prison. Look at how he goes out of his way to hurt american business and help russia. MRSA
[04:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:30] <exec> 08└─You fork the forkers, that's how.
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[05:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:11] <exec> 08└─I have to admit, I don't like facebook at all and normally don't care at all what they do, but despite their involvement this is actually a great idea. Fractional math is very cool and very useful. But they'll have an uphill battle getting people to see that, after several decades of being told that...
[05:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:27] <exec> 08└─Sorry you had so much trouble. I've used three different BT headsets in the last ten years (Plantronics, something the company gave me, and Turtle Beach), and I've had flawless connections with three different phones and two different PCs. Didn't listen to much music, but worked perfectly for confer...
[05:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:28] <exec> 08└─Bluetooth has a limited data rate, which means that in general audio is compressed (sometimes poorly) before it's transmitted across the link. So it's 0's and 1's are indeed inferior. A2DP and aptX are technologies that attempt to resolve this, one by improving bandwidth and one by greatly improving...
[05:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:03] <exec> 08└─Normal, sane, strong people do not need any drugs. Those who want drugs should be able to use them in a manner that is safe for others, as it should be perfectly legal to kill themselves in whatever way they want. I guess not many will support the war on drugs that was thoroughly lost decades ago an...
[05:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:04] <exec> 08└─And to remind some birds of carrion, disagreement is not a valid reason for down-mods. Instead, you should offer a valid rational argument in response to a parody of your position, which, by the way, is pretty funny, if I do say so myself.
[05:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:07] <exec> 08└─when there's all these generous giveaways to older generations like health care and public pensions? It's easy. Hey, Costa Rica does it. Of course, they gave up their aggressor forces. ...decades ago. Costa Rica Has Healthcare, Education, & Pensions For All Because They Scrapped Their Army In 1948 [...
[05:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:09] <exec> 08└─Try again.
[05:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:11] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting we have a world army to enforce sovereignty of all so that we don't need to keep wasting money posturing at each other?
[05:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:48] <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?
[05:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:49] <exec> 08└─Swimming pants on fire? The last thing I want, fer sure.
[05:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:51] <exec> 08└─Basically, swimwear is standardized: Guys get either speedos or shorts, gals get either 1-piece or bikinis. There aren't that many variations, they're all pretty similar materials, and the result is that you can buy based on price and a color you like.
[05:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:54] <exec> 08└─That is reserved for liar, liars.
[05:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:46] <exec> 08└─Anything that google invest money into (mozilla etc) inevitably turns to shit. You must not like devuan very much.
[05:20:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 250 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:10] <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..."
[05:20:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 1950 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:21] <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...
[05:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:43] <exec> 08└─Ah...but Enlightenment is not for the grasshoppers. https://www.linuxinsider.com [linuxinsider.com]
[05:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:44] <exec> 08└─Look at T-Mobile.
[05:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:46] <exec> 08└─https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans?cmpid=ADV_PB_ONETI440_43700027788423606&mx_ch=ADV_PB&_vsrefdom=650-692-6502&mchxkw=c:973760317,k:t%20mobile,m:e,p:1t1,d:c,ai:47214082214,ad:241557786437,s:g [t-mobile.com]
[05:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:25] <exec> 08└─That's the usual state of affairs before the Industrial Age
[05:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:26] <exec> 08└─big stuff like smart phones, GMO food, self-driving cars, or germ-line genetic modification of humans?
[05:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:28] <exec> 08└─True, also there is much more to building any type of building than laying bricks or concrete blocks. In the first example (link in summary) notice that once the bricks are laid A real mason comes along and tools the joints. Note also that the bricks are laid as a fascia covering conventional wood f...
[05:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World's Most Powerful Acoustic Tractor Beam Could Pave the Way for Levitating Humans - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:55] <exec> 08└─Ok, Ok... let me correct it. "If they aren't deaf when they step into the beam, they'll be shortly after and stay so for the very short rest of their life." You pleased now? (grin)
[05:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:54] <exec> 08└─lex/yacc are lexer/parser generators. What the hell are you doing with it in scripting?
[05:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:16] <exec> 08└─So we can then burn the fucking thing....
[05:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, No. Nothing in Willard vs. Filburn says that the state cannot also impose regulations. Until the FCC promulgates a rule saying that ISPs must violate net neutrality there is no conflict with federal rules.
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[06:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:13] <exec> 08└─The NTSC formats do NOT evenly divide, Facebook explicitly said "fuck that legacy crap" and ignored the biggest source of existing content. Which is probably the best and only thing to do at this point, we really DO need to ditch that hack and start resetting everything to 60 or 120 frames per secon...
[06:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:15] <exec> 08└─It's not memory, nor in any way related to memory, so 1000. The reason memory is measured in powers of two is because of the way memory is addressed. And disk sizes were measured in powers of two because ultimately that disk files were written from memory, and you'd expect to be able to store 1kB of...
[06:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:17] <exec> 08└─Ahem... link broken sire!
[06:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:19] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't notice a difference of less than one nanosecond anyway. Nor will any playback hardware likely be that exact. Which is also why that unit is pointless: Using nanoseconds would work just as well.
[06:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:21] <exec> 08└─CP/M & MS-DOS word processor I used to use, Mince/Scribble (later FinalWord II), set up the page in "micas" -- another very small unit (of length). From my bad memory it might have been 1/1000 of a printer's "point"? Or perhaps some fraction of a printer's "pica"? All page layout math was integer, p...
[06:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:24] <exec> 08└─How on Earth did TechCrunch get the NTSC frame rate so exactly wrong? It would be like saying the Declaration of Independence was primarily focused on minor technical matters of daily life and explicitly omits any talk about high concepts like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And really,...
[06:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:19] <exec> 08└─"Want a Healthier Population? Make your rich companies actually pay their proper taxes and spend it on Social Services"
[06:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:20] <exec> 08└─Not through your mouth/fingers on the keyboard, no. If it does happen to you, seek medical help.
[06:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:22] <exec> 08└─Poor khallow. Shall we start a kickstarter for his medical bills?
[06:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:25] <exec> 08└─We canadians don't have a freedom of speech clause or amendment in our constitution. If we talk shit about anything political, we can be denied health care. It's a strong incentive to go abroad and use aliases when we're having an election. Since our elections aren't on fixed dates like in USA, it's...
[06:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:27] <exec> 08└─How can you be fair to the younger generation when there's all these generous giveaways to older generations like health care and public pensions?
[06:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:29] <exec> 08└─Does it seem so preposterous? Why?
[06:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:31] <exec> 08└─No, just that if any country were to give up theirs, they could put the money to much better uses! And how that applies to the one country that spends in excess of ten times what any other country does, and complains about how it cannot afford health care, and (coming soon, courtesy of Paul Ryan) ol...
[06:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:34] <exec> 08└─Hosehead!
[06:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:14] <exec> 08└─Have you seen the Microsoft's swimwear? No? Available on Microsoft's Australian store [microsoft.com], exquisitely expensive, not everyone has it. (grin)
[06:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:05] <exec> 08└─Great job by our cyber industry, Meltdown & Specter fixed very quickly. SAFE new cyber coming soon!
[06:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:47] <exec> 08└─And you think that Industrial Age 1.0 settled down to the optimal state of affairs with those who control the wealth telling those who have none what to do, how to do it, and how much liberty they are allowed?
[06:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:48] <exec> 08└─Those are all in the mix, but, relatively speaking, there are far more inventors and designers employed and working on smaller market products like fashion, quirky gadgets, toys, and niche household products than there are "doing the big stuff" like cell-phones, GMO for the handful of corporations t...
[06:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:00] <exec> 08└─Going to have to agree, whether a person pulled over shows the cop a card or says "im a friend of jim" it is the same thing. The problem is that the officers think it is okay to not punish wrongdoers (if you consider traffic violations to be that) and that they think this is a thing they have the "r...
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[07:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 1383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:03] <exec> 08└─I won't use Android for the same reason I won't purchase the current model of MacBook Pro. That MacBook Pro has two USB Type C sockets. One of the sockets will have a power plug in it most of the time. Apple's brilliant plan is to force all its users to buy lots of dongles just so that today's MacBo...
[07:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:05] <exec> 08└─So what do you do for fun?
[07:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:12] <exec> 08└─No? Well that's a good thing. Immigration from the wrong group of people could make terrorist attacks a common occurrence like they are in London & France now. Before immigration from certain countries, it was unheard of there as well. Of course it's not politically correct to go into specifics.
[07:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:15] <exec> 08└─Tonight I clicked one recovery link too many. So far I've set the same ... uh... "strong" password to two different sites: Safari File Edit
[07:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:17] <exec> 08└─Interesting thing...what nationality were the 9/11 hijackers? Mostly Saudis. What country is the focal point of Wahabbism? It ain't Djibouti. And what country is conspicuously missing off this list? Welly well well...
[07:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:19] <exec> 08└─So it always was! Letting in the Irish was a really bad mistake! Too much experience in bomb-making and blowing up Brits! On the other hand, that is where the Yanks got their start. And letting in the Gumbas, the Dagos, the Wops, the Eye-talions! Big mistake! Look at how much crime and bad movies wi...
[07:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:21] <exec> 08└─It's utterly idiotic to call this directive a Muslim ban when it effectively applies to less than 10% of the global Muslim population.
[07:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:42] <exec> 08└─Except GPU decoders that have their firmware crash from minute FPS inaccuracies.
[07:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:00] <exec> 08└─That's what I thought. That's what many people thought. But there are TWO links. So confusing!
[07:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:47] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm sure it'll get better. Because the older generations are looking out for the younger ones, right? Further, you might have missed the part where I mentioned the entire developed world. The US isn't the only culprit here.
[07:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:49] <exec> 08└─What happens when "proper taxes" is a lot less than they're currently paying? I notice there's this vague, handwavy talk about what businesses should pay. My view is that there should be no business taxes at all, at least at the federal level. Everything in there has to come out as profit eventually...
[07:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:51] <exec> 08└─Further, you might have missed the part where I mentioned the entire developed world. The US isn't the only culprit here.
[07:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:53] <exec> 08└─He hasn't got one. On the other thread a ways back, he was reduced multiple times to rocking back and forth and screeching like an autist that taxes are theft because shut up you fucking commie moron cunt. I'm pretty sure the entire site has his number now.
[07:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:55] <exec> 08└─Ok, so let me get this straight, 1) you say everybody should live drug Free. 2) you say everybody should be able to do any drugs they want 3) you say everybody gets free drugs, as much as they want 4) you don't say who will pay for all these drugs, and the hospital an medical costs caused by all thi...
[07:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:37] <exec> 08└─Actually there's a project that's basically Wine-For-OSX called Darling. Sadly it's no emulating Quartz (graphical stuff) yet, but it's apparently able to run most command line tools.
[07:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:39] <exec> 08└─It happens that my current client is a fabless semiconductor firm. They always test their new designs by making FLGAs. Intel in Hillsboro is constantly seeking engineers to do verification of their new chip designs. I do not yet know how to do it but I've always that verification would be quite cool...
[07:23:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:13] <exec> 08└─The key thing is that the First Amendment is the dominant law here. It's a US organization engaged in speech.
[07:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:25] <exec> 08└─Right, so what you're saying is exactly what the court said, which is exactly what you previously claimed they DIDN'T say -- that money is speech.
[07:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:05] <exec> 08└─YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS
[07:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:38] <exec> 08└─Taking that as an example, just how would valid copyright status be determined or proven? And would it be default on or default off? Same goes for obscenity, even assuming there is a usable definition. Now what happens when there are malicious actors involved that want to derail or control part of t...
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[08:17:12] <exec> 08└─That's cool. You do you.
[08:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:13] <exec> 08└─It is commonly claimed that albums containing hit songs have "filler" for the rest of the trucks
[08:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:15] <exec> 08└─It's on Burnside about three blocks west of Powells City Of Books.
[08:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 1328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:17] <exec> 08└─Secure Digital eXtended Capacity [wikipedia.org] (SDXC) raised the maximum capacity limit to 2048 GB, when using the exFAT file system. That was in version 3.01 of the Secure Digital specification in 2009. The latest, Version 5.0 (2016), didn't raise the maximum capacity limit, even though it was fo...
[08:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:30] <exec> 08└─The Social Security Office has an x-ray and... I also had to take off my shoes so they could be x-rayed.
[08:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:32] <exec> 08└─It is a black powerless surrounded-by-majority-of-mulism ban, to be exact.
[08:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:55] <exec> 08└─I only care about Barns and not a flick about some flick. ;) https://en.wikipedia.org(unit) [wikipedia.org]
[08:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:57] <exec> 08└─So you think we should introduce a new unit of time just because there exist horribly broken GPU decoders?
[08:18:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 853 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:14] <exec> 08└─Bluetooth has a limited data rate, which means that in general audio is compressed (sometimes poorly) before it's transmitted across the link. So it's 0's and 1's are indeed inferior. A2DP and aptX are technologies that attempt to resolve this, one by improving bandwidth and one by greatly improving...
[08:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:17] <exec> 08└─Yes really: "party". It's not enough to offer good quality bluetooth speakers, the subwoofer has to light up in the color of your choice. The only thing I dislike is the blue LED that blinks when the speakers aren't paired. I fixed that by putting a large bottle of cinnamon up against it.
[08:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:19] <exec> 08└─I challenge you to do the same with Sony earphones.
[08:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 2314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:12] <exec> 08└─I am absolutely serious. I have a "Housing First" apartment whose rent is paid by the Federal Housing and Urban Development administration. When I was homeless, or from time to time staying in my Mom's guest room I was always getting picked up by the cops who would take me to a mental hospital - whi...
[08:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:13] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the entire site has his number now.
[08:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:15] <exec> 08└─I grew weary of microwave burritos. I bought them frozen so EBT would cover them, then heating them in the microwave ovens most convenience stores have.
[08:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:18] <exec> 08└─Are you off your meds? Again? I mean, after all that socialised heath care contributed to their cost, you toss them aside, you tosser?
[08:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:20] <exec> 08└─How about tax the hell out the providers of junk food. Perhaps you may even get to fill that black hole you call deficit. What, raising taxes on negative externalities is such a heretical idea? It makes the free-market fairy collapse with seizures?
[08:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:22] <exec> 08└─I'll contribute only for the first half. I mean the 'kick' one.
[08:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:58] <exec> 08└─That's probably within the 30-90 day return policies offered by most retailers. Well, I can't tell you what the warranty is for my Chromebook because I didn't look. But I do know that Chromebooks don't contain one of the biggest points of failure: spinning disks. AFAIK they don't have spinning fans...
[08:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:54] <exec> 08└─How inconvenient. In Virginia, we used to have rear-window stickers that came from the state police association. You got it when you joined and/or renewed your membership. I can't find a source, but I seem to recall some authority actually decided that it was corrupt and put an end to it. I just loo...
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[09:17:03] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchukuo [wikipedia.org]
[09:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:17] <exec> 08└─In short, it's time to ditch exFAT and raise the 2 TB limit to a petabyte or an exabyte or something The maximum size of an exFAT volume is 128 PB.
[09:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:18] <exec> 08└─Right you are. Let's see them raise it to that and see the NAND manufacturers try to increase NAND density by ~16,000x.
[09:17:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 217 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:28] <exec> 08└─Interesting thing...what nationality were the 9/11 hijackers? Mostly Saudis. What country is the focal point of Wahabbism? It ain't Djibouti. And what country is conspicuously missing off this list? Welly well well...
[09:18:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:34] <exec> 08└─Have you seen the Oscar-nominated documentary on your dream society [wikipedia.org]?
[09:18:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:48] <exec> 08└─And yet, you went off and did it anyway...
[09:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:16] <exec> 08└─Then obviously they're not paying "proper" tax now are they. They may be "legal", but that doesn't mean it's proper or appropriate. What people seem to forget is that taxes for business only applies to actual PROFIT. And it's only a percentage of that profit. All the reinvestment, all the advertisin...
[09:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:17] <exec> 08└─Profit is normally what is taxed. Though there are some people talking about taxing money transfers between companies, to avoid multinationals moving their profit to whichever country has no taxes.
[09:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:19] <exec> 08└─Normal, sane, strong people do not need any drugs. Whose definition of normal is the correct one? Or, for that matter, drug And, come to that, normal (however defined) sane, strong people do have accidents and diseases, so it's a pretty good proposition that normal, sane, strong people will, at some...
[09:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 1587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:56] <exec> 08└─systemd is excellent at solving certain problems found with other inits. The problem is, it doesn't play nicely if you want to mix and match modules/functions with other approaches, and it is a bit big for people with embedded and/or small systems. As it has assumed more and more capabilities, it ha...
[09:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:56] <exec> 08└─The solution is to make a disk image of whatever the seller installed there originally. Then wipe the shit off and make it usable for you. If shit hits the fan then you make image of your current setup and restore the original image before invoking warranty. These are the hoops the assholes make us...
[09:21:57] <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
[09:21:57] <exec> 08└─Why Educational Institutions Should Use and Teach Free Software [gnu.org]
[09:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:11] <exec> 08└─☐ Sane web development practices
[09:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:12] <exec> 08└─https://fishshell.com/ [fishshell.com]
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[10:17:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 770 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:33] <exec> 08└─So it always was! Letting in the Irish was a really bad mistake! Too much experience in bomb-making and blowing up Brits! On the other hand, that is where the Yanks got their start. And letting in the Gumbas, the Dagos, the Wops, the Eye-talions! Big mistake! Look at how much crime and bad movies wi...
[10:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:39] <exec> 08└─It's the PR term that dumbass-in-chief uses to pander to his base. However, if you post a sign in your store saying "No blacks from Detroit", it's still a ban against African-Americans and you're still gonna get your ass busted.
[10:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:04] <exec> 08└─Ahh, good old oxfordford dictionary.. Scroll down a bit and you'll find give someone the flick (or get the flick) - Reject someone (or be rejected) in a casual or offhand way. [oxforddictionaries.com] Also it is a non-rare boulderisation of "flip" (as in "flipping someone off"/"flipping someone the...
[10:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:06] <exec> 08└─It's right there in TFS. And why is that useful? As a hint, here's a list of numbers into which 1/706,600,000 divides evenly: 8, 16, 22.05, 24, 25, 30, 32, 44.1, 48, 50, 60, 90, 100, 120. Notice a pattern? Even if you don't work in media production, some of those numbers probably look familiar. That...
[10:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:28] <exec> 08└─Except that you can't compare Bose's psychoacoustic, "adapted to the expectations of the listener" sound to Grado's much more analytical and flat frequency response. In short, Bose sucks, but then again, obviously you don't own headphones in the $500+ range.
[10:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:13] <exec> 08└─Sigh. Hardware isn't like software. You are right. Cutting-edge hardware is not like cutting edge-software. However... Spinning up a current generation ASIC is expensive, as you rightly point out. Go back a few generations, though, and costs drop. Or use FPGAs, as many already do. There is a cpu upg...
[10:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:06] <exec> 08└─I am not from USA and I read the whole article summary and still can't tell if this is some sort of parody Of course here in africa, all citizens are supplied with government issue get out of jail (not so) free cards or rather notes. It all depends though if you have enough of them in your wallet fo...
[10:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:26] <exec> 08└─The first ones were rated at 12 MHz.
[10:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:27] <exec> 08└─2GBs my word. My 7MHz XT had 21 megs I had reams of games and business applications and three different OS / shell variants and I don't think my hdd utilisation ever reached 25%
[10:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:29] <exec> 08└─Also, none of that sounds so bad. Windows 3.1 is a helluva lot better than windows 95 and you gave me perl and an internet connection so I can make that machine do anything that is worth doing. Although on those specs i'd probably just stick with DOS.
[10:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should the UK Build a Bridge to France? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, bit it would be worth it just to see that tosser stuck half-way down the zipline between the pylons.
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[11:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:06] <exec> 08└─how much of this usage is driven by wage slaves being "contactable" at all hours, vs people streaming the latest must-watch show?
[11:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:07] <exec> 08└─I do that much every day.
[11:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:09] <exec> 08└─The article claims "the internet became mainstream less than 20 years ago" but Netscape and Yahoo were founded in 1994.
[11:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:12] <exec> 08└─You only can get 17 hours per day of internet use from home if you are at home at least 17 hours per day. Most people aren't.
[11:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda to Build Electric SUV with Chinese Partner - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:21] <exec> 08└─Does 50:50 also apply to the profit split (assuming it it makes money)?
[11:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:36] <exec> 08└─They are going to need a faster interface first. Even using the fastest speed from TFA and your low-ball figure of 64TB it would take over a week to copy everything off a full disk. Four months for your 1PB disk.
[11:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 1486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:53] <exec> 08└─It is quite common for homeless people to wear the same pair of socks all the time. I learned the hard way why that's a bad idea. The Portland Rescue Mission had a good supply of clean socks, as does Transition Project. Really I did not need to use dirty socks for months on end. Both my feet started...
[11:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:54] <exec> 08└─Social Security and TSA spread disease!
[11:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:56] <exec> 08└─...is the fact that these challenges can be made at all. It is apparently within the powers of the executive to control immigration law. These challenges are only based on supposed "religiuos discrimination" against muslims. This is pretty clearly nonsense, as there are plenty of muslim-majority cou...
[11:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:58] <exec> 08└─Social Security and TSA spread disease!
[11:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:47] <exec> 08└─An additional factor is the DAC that is used, companies won't provide a similar quality of the listening experience for a similar price-point and go wireless, while using the likes of properly implemented Sabre, Wolfson, et al. chips. So count in an additional 50-250 Bucks extra for the DAC circuit.
[11:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:49] <exec> 08└─Or, if the idea of giving up the army altogether is a step too far for some people, how about just... you know... spending a bit less on it? I mean the US could probably cut its military budget in half and still have a world-class military. Hell, if they just spent that remaining half better rather...
[11:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:51] <exec> 08└─Correction: $290000000000. Fat fingers.
[11:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:37] <exec> 08└─Remember when Apple went from PPC to Intel? They built a wholly transparent PPC emulation right into the OS, and thereby leveraged the current users from Processor A to Processor B, because all those PPC apps "just worked."
[11:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:31] <exec> 08└─Given the general state of things here I probably shouldn't be so shocked these things really exist.
[11:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:32] <exec> 08└─I think you'd run afoul of copyright and trademark law, and possibly fraud. I imagine it's the same as if you photocopy a promotional voucher and use it to get free stuff from a retailer under false pretenses.
[11:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:34] <exec> 08└─I think you'd run afoul of copyright and trademark law, and possibly fraud. I imagine it's the same as if you photocopy a promotional voucher and use it to get free stuff from a retailer under false pretenses.
[11:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah right. And those stickers and cards have nothing to do with whether you get a warning or a ticket. They are probably good enough to make up for being black.
[11:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:59] <exec> 08└─I thought you were going to say C++ there for a minute.
[11:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:57] <exec> 08└─Switzerland is a confederation, no?
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[12:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:05] <exec> 08└─On average, they found that teens who spent more time in front of screen devices -- playing computer games, using social media, texting and video chatting -- were less happy than those who invested more time in non-screen activities like sports, reading newspapers and magazines, and face-to-face soc...
[12:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:07] <exec> 08└─They should spend 17 hours a day using their devices, like me. They won't have time to feel unhappy because of the increased frequency of the dopamine hits.
[12:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:09] <exec> 08└─The bottom line is probably that kids that don't have many real friends are less happy than those that do. They are not spending more time in front of the screen as much as they are not spending that time with real people. And the real reason is probably they probably don't have that many options an...
[12:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:19] <exec> 08└─I turned my phone off for 4 days in May. When I went to the Middle East and Israel. Believe me, it wasn't easy, those 4 days felt like FOREVER!
[12:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:21] <exec> 08└─Telework and universal basement income is the future.
[12:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:46] <exec> 08└─The speed is going to scale up. The more parallel nature of 3D NAND could help that. It's not going to remain the same, and it won't be as bad as hard disk speed scaling. SanDisk advertises a card [sandisk.com] with up to 275MB/s read, 100MB/s write. The maximum transfer speed in the standard is hig...
[12:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:47] <exec> 08└─Then why are you ripping to MP3s? Phone MMPs can play other types of music files than MP3s.
[12:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:49] <exec> 08└─That's not the only reason to ditch exfat.
[12:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:09] <exec> 08└─Many a soldier throughout the years has known precisely whereof you speak.
[12:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:11] <exec> 08└─It's the PR term that dumbass-in-chief uses to pander to his base.
[12:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:13] <exec> 08└─Debate his choices of countries, sure. Personally, I think it is past time for Saudia Arabia to be shunned by the West. But claiming religious discrimination? That's just to attract attention? They can't actually be serious, surely?
[12:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:15] <exec> 08└─Just bathe at least once a week. That's it. I didn't believe him. I believe in the historical Jesus. That is, I believe that there was a very wise man who was giving sermons on mounts, but that man was not a diety. It wasn't Jesus who cured leprosy, but John The Baptist preventing it. I mentioned my...
[12:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:17] <exec> 08└─> a common occurrence like they are in London & France now. Nice troll. London belongs to the set of and France belongs to the set of . Grouping them shows a disdain for type safety. Are you a script kiddie?
[12:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:19] <exec> 08└─I know you meant it differently but currently they both look like belonging to same set calle 'of' :p
[12:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:22] <exec> 08└─While likely a bacterial infection,
[12:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:14] <exec> 08└─After age 25, everyone is in decline.
[12:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:15] <exec> 08└─Violent crime between people who don't know each other is not a public health problem.
[12:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:56] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu is based on Debian Testing anyway, so having a version called "Ubuntu Stable" in the first place is slightly misleading.
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[13:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beats Wall Street Expectations on Subscriber Growth, Reaches $100 Billion Market Cap - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:00] <exec> 08└─I would predict price increases incoming, wall street is gonna want a return on $1000 per subscriber and $7.99/month isn't going to cut it. My guess is they're betting the company on some kind of national wireless free bandwidth and then transfer all those juicy $150/mo cable bills to merely $100/mo...
[13:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:49] <exec> 08└─Probably because iPhones do not support much else.
[13:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:42] <exec> 08└─Why would memory be addressed in powers of two? Memory is addressed linearly. Addresses can represented in any adicness you like. The address space up to know has always been bounded by a number that is a power of 2. Apart from that, powers of 2 are just in the brain of the developer.
[13:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:43] <exec> 08└─Ahem... link broken sire!
[13:23:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:14] <exec> 08└─Most people aren't very innovative or brilliant
[13:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:38] <exec> 08└─of course, the cell phone market is just as big and significant as the fake nipple market?
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[14:17:12] <exec> 08└─They should have corrected for good judgment. Teens legendarily lacking in that. Kid who reads "bikini hot rod magazine" or browses pr0n has good judgment and ends up happy, kid with bad judgment tries hard drugs or even worse scrolls facebook and ends up screwed up and depressed. What I'm getting a...
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[14:17:14] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure they have cause and effect reversed. People who don't have any friends or have controlling parents who won't allow them to leave the house will of course end up spending all their time online. Taking away their only escape from their miserable lives is not going to improve anything....
[14:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:27] <exec> 08└─Overall internet penetration has increased from 67 to 92 percent
[14:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:28] <exec> 08└─In the years since the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future published its first Digital Future Report in 2000, the internet has evolved from a secondary medium to an essential component of daily life.
[14:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:30] <exec> 08└─http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm [internetworldstats.com] Global Internet users: December 1998 - 147 million - 3.6% June 2017 - 3,885 million - 51.7% http://www.pewinternet.org [pewinternet.org] U.S. Internet use: 2000: 52% of U.S. adults 2016: 88% of U...
[14:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:33] <exec> 08└─When working I'm always referring to online resources. I'm often streaming music. When learning something new I spend hours on google. While things compile I'm constantly refreshing a few websites. That said, I don't have a facebook, instagram, twitter, nor any other social media.
[14:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:27] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_terrorist_incidents_by_country [wikipedia.org] 2016 numbers: UK, including London: 104 "incidents", 9 deaths, 20 injured US: 61 "incidents", 68 deaths, 139 injured France: 26 "incidents", 95 deaths, 470 injured. Terrorist attacks in the USA are already as comm...
[14:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:28] <exec> 08└─Of course they can make the challenge... but the Supreme Court can also decide there's nothing to be done about it (by them, at least). I'm not happy about the ban but I don't think this is the best way to fight it, personally.
[14:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:25] <exec> 08└─What people seem to forget is that taxes for business only applies to actual PROFIT.
[14:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:26] <exec> 08└─Giving children something to do besides get in trouble is good, full stop. It doesn't have to be basketball courts, but a well lit slab of concrete with hoops is a common good.
[14:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:29] <exec> 08└─They're the same thing. Almost. Because many people have a very limited view as what they define as "health" spending, and many people either don't know or don't believe in the concept of Social Determinants of Health. Here's how it was explained to me in class: https://www.youtube.com
[14:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 2590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:31] <exec> 08└─> The problem is that corporations refuse to hand over any of the actual profits Actually the problem is that "actual profits" are a purely fictitious accounting construct and can easily be made to be any number you want, and can be shifted between tax jurisdictions at will using using transfer pric...
[14:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:17] <exec> 08└─then you've really got something!
[14:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:58] <exec> 08└─After all, I don't even agree that those who control wealth have that sort of power.
[14:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:59] <exec> 08└─Large corporations don't belong on that list.
[14:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:01] <exec> 08└─there's a lot of work left. We haven't brought everyone up to developed world status, we don't live as long as we would like, and I'm still looking for space colonization. I'm pretty sure, I could come up with a ton of other stuff that we would need or like, both on the large and small scales. So wh...
[14:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:04] <exec> 08└─Proof by movie. Very professional.
[14:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:06] <exec> 08└─What an enormous moving of the goalposts there! Of course, it's vacation. Of course, I'm not paid. And nobody gave me a unicorn either, the cheapskates!
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[15:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Beats Wall Street Expectations on Subscriber Growth, Reaches $100 Billion Market Cap - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:09] <exec> 08└─For some vaguely related numbers: https://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com] https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com]
[15:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:21] <exec> 08└─When reading "screen addicted", my first thought was TV. My second thought then was traditional computers. It didn't occur to me that it might refer to the phone before reading the summary.
[15:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:38] <exec> 08└─Why don't anyone go outside and play?
[15:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 1431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:39] <exec> 08└─The elites want us to be unable to access anything except Facebook and Twitter. There is a reason the lamestream propaganda outlets have been acting like Facebook and Twitter are the only games on the internet, as though there is nothing else to the internet. They are conditioning the masses to acce...
[15:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:37] <exec> 08└─The US has a lower rate of "incidents" per million than either France or UK, roughly 0.2 "incidents" per million people as opposed to almost 0.4 per for France and 1.6 per for the UK. I'll have to retire to the fainting couch at the thought of just how violent the UK must be.
[15:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:38] <exec> 08└─My apologies, they indeed call it a "travel ban". In the beginning of his campaign, Trump was calling for a "Muslim ban", which even a moron could see is obviously unconstitutional. So they changed the name to "travel ban", but kept the contents the same. You know, as when you rob a bank, but say yo...
[15:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:08] <exec> 08└─My special snowflake unit is atto parsecs per micro fortnight. In a weird cosmic coincidence it is very close to 1 inch per second. Google says 1 attoparsec per microfortnight = 1.00433 inch per second. That's less than half a percent difference. Or 1 inch per second = 0.995692 attoparsec per microf...
[15:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:09] <exec> 08└─but is a kflick 1000 flicks or 1024?
[15:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 1540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:11] <exec> 08└─Because the amount of addressable memory increases in power of two with the number of address lines available. 8 address lines? You can only address 256 memory locations. 32 address lines let you address 4,294,967,296 locations. Similarly, all the internal logic of the memory controller is governed...
[15:19:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 391 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:22] <exec> 08└─You need to get Monster bluetooth for your speakers! It has much thicker air between the receiver and the speaker, or between the tranmitter and the receiver (speakers). And besides, it has ion neutralized pathways, prayed over by and Audiophilic Druid, for nearly realistic sound. Yes, it costs $20...
[15:19:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 483 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:49] <exec> 08└─if taking profits from good, honest, companies isn't enough, this paper argues for wealth redistribution? "My comatose 96yo grandfather *deserves* $10,000 a day medical care, godammit!" https://www.axios.com [axios.com] http://knowled...
[15:20:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 2314 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:27] <exec> 08└─I am absolutely serious. I have a "Housing First" apartment whose rent is paid by the Federal Housing and Urban Development administration. When I was homeless, or from time to time staying in my Mom's guest room I was always getting picked up by the cops who would take me to a mental hospital - whi...
[15:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:44] <exec> 08└─If by wealth you mean the stuff you buy with money, well no. But if you mean US currency, then you really are mistaken; you may hold it, but you never own it. The government owns it; it lends it to the public, using banks as an intermediary, and then asks for it back, in the form of taxation. Taxati...
[15:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:46] <exec> 08└─Actually, that false. Consider the flu; the chance a person gets the flu is statistically dependent on times they are exposed to the flu (this is usually even true if they have been vaccinated). The spread of a virus can achieve a critical threshold such that it can't be stopped from spreading to th...
[15:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:48] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for an anonymous coward to argue that this would ultimately lead to a reduction or elimination of homelessness. It could even lead to universal basic income. And god forbid that poor people might get health care! What would our society come to without poverty, homelessness and hopelessne...
[15:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 2204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:50] <exec> 08└─They are kind of the same thing but are typically not treated in the same way either in budgetary location or in control of outcome (what the money is spent on). E.g. in the UK: Most health spending is national via the NHS, and controlled - you cannot get the money for your prescription and go spend...
[15:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:52] <exec> 08└─> What would our society come to without poverty, homelessness and hopelessness What would you hope for if you had everything?
[15:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 2453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:40] <exec> 08└─I could use the same argument to say just write all your apps in any of the languages that compile to the JVM. (Java Virtual Machine) You don't have to use Java source code or compiler, there are other language compilers that generate JVM bytecode. Then your JVM bytecode is compiled on the fly (and...
[15:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:41] <exec> 08└─You just need to make your OS compatible with the Android App store.
[15:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:44] <exec> 08└─Open != Gratis
[15:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:46] <exec> 08└─So, basically people who run servers and a relative few outliers. Desktop shares: Windows: ~84.5% OS X: ~11.3% Linux: ~1.8%
[15:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:48] <exec> 08└─For a reasonable price your troubles can be relocated closer to you with higher bandwidth and lower latency in how they affect your life.
[15:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:45] <exec> 08└─The T-Mobile plan on the page you linked is $70 per month for one line, with discounts for each additional line. I'm currently with T-Mobile on a lower plan that costs less than that per year and would thus fall in what my previous comment calls "you could be out of data for the month." The price di...
[15:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:35] <exec> 08└─Doesn't strike me as a thing that someone who is productive by choice would say.
[15:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:37] <exec> 08└─If work isn't worth paying what people are willing to work for, then it doesn't get done. If the wealthy don't value a task enough to pay people enough to survive while doing it, then it doesn't get done. I'm fine with that.
[15:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:39] <exec> 08└─The cell-phone market is "big and significant" just like Buy-N-Large created a big and significant market for breakfast in cup, everybody drinks it, and "blue is the new red," a virtual product that sweeps the population.
[15:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:41] <exec> 08└─A very small number are actually involved in the inventive part, especially if you take satellite work out of the mix.
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[16:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is the Mobile Data Capital of the World - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:00] <exec> 08└─Google says Finland has about 5.5 million people, and that they are all basically the same person.
[16:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Drones Take Off in Agriculture Industry - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:07] <exec> 08└─Do drones make more sense than static cameras with CCTV?
[16:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drones Take Off in Agriculture Industry - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:10] <exec> 08└─As soon as you talk about the costs of weatherproof static CCTV cameras and their power source, and wired or wireless network, it suddenly sounds like drones might be a whole lot cheaper. Possibly even more versatile. You can get camera footage from more vantage points than static cameras. But what...
[16:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drones Take Off in Agriculture Industry - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:12] <exec> 08└─Haven't you activated the Kamikaze mode on your drones?
[16:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drones Take Off in Agriculture Industry - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:14] <exec> 08└─That's when you run after them shouting "GED ORF MOI LAAAND!!!"
[16:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drones Take Off in Agriculture Industry - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:16] <exec> 08└─But what about in areas where the yokels want to have "drone hunting season" and shoot down your drones?
[16:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:37] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it does! sensation is a cardinal point on the wheel of the human psyche. its what gives a ground, a base, to our reality/experience as volumetric beings. so, if you were trying to be snarky with the comment.. do more! your snark's utterly correct again! for everyone else, consider the defini...
[16:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:38] <exec> 08└─'it' can only be a failure if your measurements aspire to be absolute and objective according to scales and values you had not hand in creating! be very careful about maintaining the subjective local impressions and understandings of whats possible and desirable. for ex, i can simultaneously think m...
[16:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:40] <exec> 08└─confidence in relating to others is nothing but an expression of the confidence you have in relating to your self so if you were trained to look outside your self all your life, then you can have no confidence in others.. and with that incompetence multiplied by seemingly just 2 generations, you get...
[16:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:43] <exec> 08└─The bottom line is that the social 'sciences' are as nonsensical as usual. They still can't objectively measure subjective emotions such as someone's level of happiness, so they just assume that whatever is reported is true. That is deeply unscientific, and no amount of 'But we don't currently have...
[16:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:30] <exec> 08└─At 624 MB/s it will still take 28 hours to read a 64TB disk. 18 days for 1PB. I think they are going to need to do some sort of multiple serial buses in parallel thing, which is going to mean a whole new standard. Maybe something like a miniturised old fashioned parallel port, but with each pin act...
[16:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 1309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:01] <exec> 08└─There are 2 ways to prove religious discrimination by the government in court: You can either prove that the effect of a policy is discriminatory, or you can prove that the intent of the policy is discriminatory. For instance, if you have a policy that says "Police should investigate all religious g...
[16:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:02] <exec> 08└─Attacks have been common in Europe for thousands of years. Shit like that happens when mortal enemies live right next door to each other. If they had a great big moat around them like in the states, things would be a bit different. We don't have to attack nations. We have to attack criminals, includ...
[16:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:05] <exec> 08└─common occurrence like they are in London & France now
[16:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:07] <exec> 08└─I don't think this is the best way to fight it, personally
[16:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 1313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:39] <exec> 08└─Summary does not say why it is useful. It seems to be something facebook will use because existing metrics are not convincing enough advertisers to spend even more money endlessly. So they made up a new metric they can slice up however they want as a unit of measuring product engagement with the ads...
[16:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:40] <exec> 08└─Do you give a flick?
[16:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:42] <exec> 08└─Summary does not say why it is useful.
[16:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Grado, the Most Traditionalist of Headphone Companies, is Developing a Wireless Model - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:06] <exec> 08└─No way I'm getting a dog just because someone on the Internet challenge me to.
[16:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:21] <exec> 08└─Taking a lesson from observing the lives of people who are on the opposite end of poverty, people are never satisfied. Always wanting more. There is no amount that is enough. These might be people who you could say "have everything". Yet they are unhappy. They may be "medicated" by lots of toys and...
[16:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:23] <exec> 08└─What right have you to profit at the expense of your fellow man based on decidedly unnatural social constructs such as private property, designed specifically to be self-catalyzing engines of wealth concentration?
[16:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:25] <exec> 08└─With that attitude, I assume you never consume coffee, chocolate, aspirin, or any other mind-altering drugs, right?
[16:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:27] <exec> 08└─Taking a lesson from observing the lives of people who are on the opposite end of poverty, people are never satisfied. Always wanting more. There is no amount that is enough.
[16:21:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:39] <exec> 08└─The problem when it comes to actually making some chips to test, that costs $$$.
[16:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:20] <exec> 08└─I remember when Oracle became available on linux. A reporter found the guy who did the work and asked him if he had any problems with porting the software to that OS. He said: "What port? All I did was run make."
[16:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:21] <exec> 08└─Try getting Civilization II to run on your new hotness and tell me how that goes. Please do share as that's the best Civ. of them all and I would really like it to run on my Win10 machine. Windows is highly compatible with older stuff, but they aren't 100% compatible. I would love it, if Microsoft w...
[16:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:23] <exec> 08└─The only way to get something started is by doing it. Sure, there may be a huge uphill battle, but open hardware could be worth the effort.
[16:22:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:54] <exec> 08└─It is a shame they did not pick Devuan instead of Debian. Same flavour but without systemd.
[16:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:19] <exec> 08└─Google hasn't had much incentive to make Mozilla better ever since they started making their own web browser.
[16:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Software Sales to Russian Firms Curbed by Sanctions - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:36] <exec> 08└─I may not agree with a lot of things in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but this quote rings so true. "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." -- Douglas Adams
[16:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:25] <exec> 08└─The solution is to make a disk image of whatever the seller installed there originally. Then wipe the shit off and make it usable for you. If shit hits the fan then you make image of your current setup and restore the original image before invoking warranty.
[16:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:19] <exec> 08└─if communication doesn't matter to you,
[16:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:21] <exec> 08└─What an enormous moving of the goalposts there! Of course, it's vacation. Of course, I'm not paid. And nobody gave me a unicorn either, the cheapskates!
[16:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:23] <exec> 08└─If you value an activity and aren't willing to do it yourself, then you can always pay someone else to do it. And if the activity isn't important enough that you'll put skin in the game, then it's definitely not important enough for me to care about.
[16:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:25] <exec> 08└─Not saying it doesn't matter. I am saying that the "free market drivers" of people's time, ingenuity, knowledge and skills, push more people into the development of the next way to make breasts more distracting than pushing people into your "important" endeavors like communication, space development...
[16:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:27] <exec> 08└─Let's review what you wrote:
[16:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:29] <exec> 08└─Control is relative. Merely paying someone doesn't give business ultimate command of them.
[16:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:32] <exec> 08└─then you can always pay someone else to do it.
[16:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:34] <exec> 08└─Foxconn is employing something like a million people, most of whom make iPhones. I don't buy that argument.
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[17:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is the Mobile Data Capital of the World - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:59] <exec> 08└─You're so sadly neglected, and often ignored. A poor second to Belgium when going abroad. However, it is the country where I want to be. Pony trekking or camping, or just watching TV.
[17:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Finland is the Mobile Data Capital of the World - 1918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:00] <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...
[17:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drones Take Off in Agriculture Industry - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:12] <exec> 08└─Yes. Farms are big.
[17:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drones Take Off in Agriculture Industry - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:13] <exec> 08└─Oy saw a snike! Eat head beeg blow oys and a huge tile.
[17:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drones Take Off in Agriculture Industry - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:16] <exec> 08└─They'll yell "DERYL!! If you shoot my drone again, I won't let you borrow my hay baler next summer!"
[17:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drones Take Off in Agriculture Industry - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:18] <exec> 08└─IT is as cost limiting as you make out. Fixed point but rotational cameras still make sense. One great thing is getting mesh or AP across the area. Allows for better position control and backbone to carry drones' video home. Most likely rent land or tower space to cell companies for second income t...
[17:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beats Wall Street Expectations on Subscriber Growth, Reaches $100 Billion Market Cap - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:28] <exec> 08└─Sounds good to me. If subscribers don't like it, they're free to unsubscribe. But I wouldn't be too surprised to see tons of people remain subscribers even after prices inflate that much, and just whine about it.
[17:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:44] <exec> 08└─Add "watching TV" to your list of historic scapegoats. And cheesy comic books. The Next Generation: going to Hell ever since Adam and Eve had kids.
[17:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:06] <exec> 08└─There has been just 1 terrorist attack in Japan since World War II. The country has about 1000 muslims, all monitored by the government. The country has admitted 3 refugees, 2 of which have raped. Muslims are not eligible to obtain citizenship. China has gotten the message. Recent changes in the law...
[17:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:07] <exec> 08└─funny. white terrorists are killing our schoolchildren. why arent white people being banned.
[17:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:09] <exec> 08└─Cleanliness is next to Godliness. Must have missed that huh.
[17:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:11] <exec> 08└─There has been just 1 terrorist attack in Japan since World War II. The country has about 1000 muslims, all monitored by the government. The country has admitted 3 refugees, 2 of which have raped. Muslims are not eligible to obtain citizenship. China has gotten the message. Recent changes in the law...
[17:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:14] <exec> 08└─I wanted to read the decision of the lower court to get an idea of the specific legal argument the Supreme Court would be evaluating. I didn't expect the article to link directly to it, since the URL was a news site and not a legal blog, but I expected it would at least name the plaintiff or in some...
[17:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:16] <exec> 08└─Are you a script kiddie?
[17:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:51] <exec> 08└─Like when Leonardo DiCaprio starred in "Catch Me If You Can".
[17:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:52] <exec> 08└─Facebook invented a new time unit called the ‘flick’ and it’s truly amazing
[17:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 1819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:36] <exec> 08└─> But one goal could be to try to reduce the wealth divide. Which wealth divide? The one where the richest 5% of the world complain about the richest 0.00001% having too much, or the one where the richest 5% use a quarter of the resources and 80% of the world lives on less than $10 per day? Reducing...
[17:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:32] <exec> 08└─The folks who are likely to take this are low level device manufacturers who think that they can do stuff better/cheaper/lower risk if they are not reliant on one of the big chip manufacturers. I presume these outfits have something equivalent to a table of risks; and every dependency is a risk. So...
[17:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:36] <exec> 08└─I do think that those who control the wealth have inappropriately disproportionate control of the earth, and people's lives thereon.
[17:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:37] <exec> 08└─Have you worked for a large corporation, lately?
[17:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:39] <exec> 08└─But, when the primary focus of the wealthy is on creating more wealth for themselves, how is that addressing the goals of people?
[17:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:42] <exec> 08└─concentrating more than 99% of the wealth into 99% of the human wealth
[17:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:44] <exec> 08└─just an example that there are other people, people with significant resources, who also think that untended waste is more than just unsightly.
[17:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:46] <exec> 08└─You were neither employed when you started, nor employed when the month finished
[17:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:48] <exec> 08└─No single business controls a person's life, but the collection of potential employers do
[17:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:51] <exec> 08└─And here you go making excuses. What percentage of the population can afford to pay other people to do anything?
[17:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:53] <exec> 08└─greater than 99% of the wealth into less than 1% of the people...
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[18:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:03] <exec> 08└─I think regardless of price some people will do solar for solar's sake...
[18:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:05] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to the solar financing model where you get the panels for free or cheap and get utility savings sucked away for X years?
[18:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:07] <exec> 08└─Still in place and still getting a Federal and State kickback. Thank-you very kindly. My power bill went to down to an average $38 a month. The break even point is not a short term thing but the timing worked out very well for me. I'm in a new house with leased owner maintained solar cells on the ro...
[18:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:09] <exec> 08└─These are more preparations for World War 3 in addition to the internet being locked down. That this will be good for the American working class has yet to be seen. Trickle-down theory was classic gaslighting. Without question, it will be good for the international elites in Davos this week.
[18:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drones Take Off in Agriculture Industry - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:33] <exec> 08└─A farm / ranch / etc that uses these probably has plenty of room between the neighbors to not need to worry about disturbing the neighbors. You say Yokel, I say pissed of dude with a gun, who doesn't like idiots flying a spy machine over their land.
[18:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drones Take Off in Agriculture Industry - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:35] <exec> 08└─A drone is what $500 - $1,500? One decent camera is say $200. Now, how many fixed point cameras do you need to cover 50 acres? We'll assume he can dig the trench with his tractor / ditch witch and not even factor that into the equation. He still needs to pay for the cable and the cable won't lay its...
[18:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beats Wall Street Expectations on Subscriber Growth, Reaches $100 Billion Market Cap - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:45] <exec> 08└─I don't subscribe to Cable / Satellite partly due to the insane pricing for content I don't want. Netflix doing the same thing will just mean I find something different. For the vast majority of my life we've not had a TV / Entertainment purchase package. Only in recent years have I had Satellite TV...
[18:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:50] <exec> 08└─Android supports removable Flash media which is great. Unfortunately, you can't *truly* put apps on the SD card. Sure, there is an option to do so, but it usually only moves a small percentage of the actual data onto the card. So I have a 16GB internal memory on my S5, and I have a 1GB app, with 100...
[18:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:32] <exec> 08└─So he changed his position. When somebody says they want to rob a bank and then later literally takes out the bank's laundry, you don't call that a bank robbery, do you?
[18:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:33] <exec> 08└─Immigration from the wrong group of people could make terrorist attacks a common occurrence like they are in London & France now. Hang on, I fear for my life in the US - not a day goes by without some new atrocity. Hell the latest school to get shot up barely got a mention on the news. In the UK my...
[18:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:11] <exec> 08└─https://www.flickr.com/photos/ghs1922/7039039583 [flickr.com] (That the image is on flickr is mere serendipity.)
[18:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:55] <exec> 08└─1) you say everybody should live drug Free.
[18:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:57] <exec> 08└─If those things significantly altered my mindset, I would avoid them. But they don't. They have an effect on many people, sure, but not to the extent of other drugs like marijuana. I see no problem with saying you think recreational drug use should be legal while also saying that you prefer that peo...
[18:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:59] <exec> 08└─Whataboutism, the last resort of the clueless.
[18:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:01] <exec> 08└─I think the last few large discussions have melted your brain.
[18:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:03] <exec> 08└─problem is we don't tax actual cash or cashflow or turnover
[18:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:11] <exec> 08└─unwarranted assumption that the inequality matters.
[18:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:13] <exec> 08└─Have you worked for a large corporation, lately?
[18:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:15] <exec> 08└─People who get together with common goals and desires should be able to get together and pursue them, without requiring approval from a trust fund baby.
[18:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:17] <exec> 08└─And having significant resources makes you an expert on things that you don't know much about?
[18:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:19] <exec> 08└─A collection is not an entity capable of control.
[18:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:21] <exec> 08└─pooling their resources via government
[18:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:24] <exec> 08└─Switching focus global vs domestic will certainly confuse the issues.
[18:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:26] <exec> 08└─No, you're currently on vacation.
[18:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:28] <exec> 08└─In my industry, first, it's a rare (less than 5%) startup that succeeds, as in staying solvent, more than 5 years.
[18:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:30] <exec> 08└─No, but since you seem content to labor at the will of those with vast multiples of your wealth, it would seem to be a token of worth to you.
[18:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:32] <exec> 08└─When 99% of the population pools their resources via government, and the other 1% out-resources the remaining 99 and mostly takes over government as well, where does that take us?
[18:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:35] <exec> 08└─Note the first statement: "producer (or group of producers)"
[18:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:54] <exec> 08└─Someone with standing has to sue. You can't sue just because it's illegal, you have to be harmed in some way.
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[19:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:04] <exec> 08└─This was a voluntary agreement; the government should butt out.
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[19:17:13] <exec> 08└─Still in place and still getting a Federal and State kickback. Thank-you very kindly. My power bill went to down to an average $38 a month. The break even point is not a short term thing but the timing worked out very well for me. I'm in a new house with leased owner maintained solar cells on the ro...
[19:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:17] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen that in my area. But the local power company is trying something similar. You "rent" a solar panel that they install in their solar farm. They charge you for the initial install and a monthly maintenance fee and you get a credit for the solar panel output. https://lge-ku.com
[19:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:20] <exec> 08└─I actually thought I put "some" in there when I did the submission. I probably just thought I went back and corrected that
[19:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:22] <exec> 08└─Some of these were state programs. And who knows the status of the federal tax write off after the last tax reform bill. Is that still available? The country does have stake in increasing solar, so these tax breaks for consumer installations are not totally out of line. Having the benefit thereof fl...
[19:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 1935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:24] <exec> 08└─You can put a small 12 VDC solar system in place quite inexpensively; small enough that the 30% isn't a huge hit. You need one (or more, but one is actually a fun start) solar panels. You need a charge controller. You need cables. You need a decent 12 VDC battery - a car battery will do. The charge...
[19:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:26] <exec> 08└─whether anyone agrees with what the trump admin wants to do is one thing but it's interesting to see a president who is actually interested and trying to do the things he said he was going to do. the last time someone tried that bush senior had him shot in the head.
[19:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:29] <exec> 08└─I don't recall the speech or tweet where he promised to raise people's taxes.
[19:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:31] <exec> 08└─You remember what happened in years past when these tariffs were imposed on imported automobiles? Yup, that's right. Toyota, Honda, et al moved their manufacturing to US plants. Not just for assembly. (And those domestically made "foreign" models are still eating Detroit's lunch.) And the workers th...
[19:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:33] <exec> 08└─Yet he is going to give a speech tomorrow at Davos arguing that his policies are not protectionist and that he is all for free trade! He flip-flops so many times I can't remember what he said he was going to do. He said (among many many things) that middle class taxes would see the biggest cuts, tha...
[19:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:26] <exec> 08└─Additionally, exercise has been shown to reduce depression and anxiety. [mayoclinic.org]
[19:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:28] <exec> 08└─"Although this study can't show causation, "
[19:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:30] <exec> 08└─This is one of the results of the glorification of school sports programs. I don't deny there are benefits to encouraging physical fitness in our increasingly sedentary society, but come on, the oldest "might makes right" tendencies of our history should be considered to be on the same level as peel...
[19:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:48] <exec> 08└─My internet use has skyrocketed since we cut the cord. We're just using it to watch TV, though, so from my perspective nothing has actually changed.
[19:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:50] <exec> 08└─There is a reason the lamestream propaganda outlets have been acting like Facebook and Twitter are the only games on the internet, as though there is nothing else to the internet. They are conditioning the masses to accept an internet that is only Facebook and Twitter. So the "lamestream media" is t...
[19:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:52] <exec> 08└─And Google didn't start until 1998. Can you even imagine an Internet without Google? They had one, but it was radically different what we have now.
[19:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:54] <exec> 08└─And how much of that is fibre to the premises? Not much. Real Internet isn't mainstream even now. Look at the colossal cockup the NBN turned into, for instance.
[19:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:24] <exec> 08└─Android now supports mounting the SD cards as removable media or mount as system. Meaning format the card to ext3/4 and mount it where programs are stored. Expanding internal memory.
[19:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:26] <exec> 08└─You can encode to ALA (Apple Lossless Audio) in iTunes if you think you can hear the compression on a 160-320 VBR MP3 coming out of a good modern encoder like iTunes (or an even better one if you know where to look). Unfortunately that won't fix the dynamic range compression the studio did to the ma...
[19:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:28] <exec> 08└─It is commonly claimed that albums containing hit songs have "filler" for the rest of the trucks. In my experience that is not the case.
[19:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:30] <exec> 08└─What's your alternative to exFAT?
[19:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:13] <exec> 08└─Do you fear a bomb when you go to a coffee shop? I don't fear lightning strikes, either, and they're more common that terrorist attacks. And it's not due to an unconstitutional immigration ban based on religion.
[19:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:15] <exec> 08└─Yep, terrorism never happened in London until the Muslims started moving in! (and it totally wasn't funded in large part by the US, either) [bbc.co.uk]
[19:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:17] <exec> 08└─Is it? Has the President or his staff ever referred to it as a "muslim ban"? On Dec. 7, 2015, at a campaign rally in South Carolina, Trump read a statement, “calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is...
[19:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:19] <exec> 08└─...or you can prove that the intent of the policy is discriminatory. And when the president specifically says he wants to ban Muslims intent is pretty easy to prove.
[19:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:21] <exec> 08└─It was an immersion foot syndrome. And could have been bacterial, but was far more likely to have been fungal, or most likely both.
[19:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:59] <exec> 08└─You have touch the tao of Brogrammning. Now, embrace it and become a Bro!
[19:22:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 257 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:15] <exec> 08└─He hasn't got one. On the other thread a ways back, he was reduced multiple times to rocking back and forth and screeching like an autist that taxes are theft because shut up you fucking commie moron cunt. I'm pretty sure the entire site has his number now.
[19:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:49] <exec> 08└─Why?
[19:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:51] <exec> 08└─We (or those before us) already decided that your "comatose 96yo grandfather" deserves the best medical care available regardless of cost. This article isn't about that. It's about how you can make the cost of that care cheaper, which is actually far more important than talking about who's paying th...
[19:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:53] <exec> 08└─Hell, if they just spent that remaining half better rather than on massive high-tech corporate-welfare bullshit boondoggle fighter plane projects and such, and maybe cut down on the number of pointless foreign invasions they carry out, they probably wouldn't even have to face any reduction in milita...
[19:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:11] <exec> 08└─Switching focus global vs domestic will certainly confuse the issues.
[19:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:13] <exec> 08└─In this environment, without $10M investment, smaller players can't hope to pass the regulatory hurdles.
[19:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:16] <exec> 08└─You think these assholes pay significant amounts of income tax?
[19:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:18] <exec> 08└─I simply don't care how much wealth they have because that is irrelevant to me.
[19:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:20] <exec> 08└─what did I do wrong? The first step was in giving your government a marketable amount of power with which to distribute wealth to the "1%".
[19:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:22] <exec> 08└─Only when a group colludes to be anti-competitive (like OPEC) does it fall afoul of monopoly definitions. I think we had the idiot trucker discussion where that particular group can't help but race itself to the bottom, creating a stream of bankruptcies because there's always another idiot willing t...
[19:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:25] <exec> 08└─treating people with high debt as if they were just as poor as someone who is too poor to borrow any money at all.
[19:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:27] <exec> 08└─Oh, look! collusion exposed for once: https://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com]
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[20:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:06] <exec> 08└─Paying Apple not to use competitors' chips is morally equivalent to contract killing. Got it. The EU is about the only group of assholes that make me want to defend a shit company like Qualcomm.
[20:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:07] <exec> 08└─In the case of contract killing, there is a third party whose resources (e.g., the third party's life) are being appropriated without that third party's consent; it's not applicable; it's not an example of a voluntary agreement; it's not an example of capitalism; it's not an example of anything wort...
[20:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:10] <exec> 08└─Don't bother, he was never being intellectually honest to begin with and won't start now.
[20:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:12] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the simple minded folks chime in again. Do you disagree with anti-monopoly legislation? What about insider trading? As for the example of contract killing, Qualcomm is affecting the lives of many more people with this anti-competitive practice. The are proactively limiting their competitor's...
[20:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:14] <exec> 08└─How much nuance is required for responding to an idiot comparing contract killing to anti-competitive business practices? Want to punish Qualcomm? Get rid of their intellectual property rights regarding 4G networking. That would be effective at creating a more competitive chipset environment while b...
[20:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:17] <exec> 08└─And the difference between this and Microsoft paying PC manufacturers to only bundle DOS/Windows? Exactly the same, they got fined the same by the EU (US conveniently ignored it) and it damaged the market for alternatives for decades while putting technically-superior systems out of consumer reach....
[20:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:19] <exec> 08└─The only thing which matters is that society is as free as possible; the only thing which matters is that agreements are voluntary, where "voluntary" is defined by contracts; the enforcement of a contract is just another service in the world, and should therefore be implemented in the market along w...
[20:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:21] <exec> 08└─the eu is a socialist utopia designed by gernams for gernams
[20:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:23] <exec> 08└─How is it any different from Amazon not selling Chromecasts? How is it any different from Big Green Egg only distributing sellers who don't sell other Kamado style grills? How is it any different from my insurance company only letting me see certain doctors? There is no difference, Microsoft shouldn...
[20:17:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 1935 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:37] <exec> 08└─You can put a small 12 VDC solar system in place quite inexpensively; small enough that the 30% isn't a huge hit. You need one (or more, but one is actually a fun start) solar panels. You need a charge controller. You need cables. You need a decent 12 VDC battery - a car battery will do. The charge...
[20:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:46] <exec> 08└─If you are going with lead-acid batteries, stay away from the car batteries - they are optimized for power density (heaps of amps for short time to start that damn'd SVU tractor) and don't take deep discharges very well. Search for "marine battery" or "deep cycle battery" - will maybe add you some $...
[20:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:48] <exec> 08└─The fact that solar leases are popular and result in a net lower electric bill speaks to the fact that they are/were cost effective. If there was room for SolarCity et al to take a margin and still provide savings before the tax, there is probably still room for people with the capital to have a net...
[20:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:50] <exec> 08└─You remember what happened in years past when these tariffs were imposed on imported automobiles? No, I don't. Probably since it never happened. [wikipedia.org]
[20:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:52] <exec> 08└─Search for "marine battery" or "deep cycle battery" - will maybe add you some $100 in cost over a car battery but you won't mourn the death of it after 6 months of use.
[20:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:55] <exec> 08└─Actually it's about at the ridiculously easy level right now. LEGO-easy. And there's plenty of help online. The rest... varies with your location and what you're trying to do.
[20:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:57] <exec> 08└─Those aren't the taxes people meant by "taxes." Public discourse exists only within the reality of the moon matrix. We're going to cut taxes, by which we mean a simulacrum for some idea $x which is non-real. We're going to bring back jobs, by which we mean a simulacrum for some idea $y which is non-...
[20:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:59] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure that 12 volts is covered by code. Is it? I thought you could pretty much do what you wanted with low voltage wiring.
[20:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:01] <exec> 08└─Maybe he's thinking of that time the US slapped a 100% tariff on Japanese-made VCRs. But that didn't cause them to move their factories here, it just caused everyone to spend double on VCRs because none were made in America.
[20:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:04] <exec> 08└─So Trump wants us to buy shitty Mexican-made Whirlpool washers now? There's only one company in America that makes washers, and that's Whirlpool/Maytag/Frigidaire/whoever-else-they've-merged-with, and I'm pretty sure most of their production is in Mexico now. The good washers are all made in Korea o...
[20:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:06] <exec> 08└─And who would that have been?
[20:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drones Take Off in Agriculture Industry - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:32] <exec> 08└─Great. I assume the drone is weatherproof (including heavy rain and/or wind))? No? Well, no use at all then. There are no noise of flight restrictions in the area? As this is a commercial use the drone operator needs licensing and quite probably must file a flight plan for each use? Animals are not...
[20:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:25] <exec> 08└─Ah, sorry. I'm still working on the presentation of this conspiracy theory (which will unfortunately not include the weather war). I meant to include the "lamestream media" along with Facebook and Twitter. Perhaps I could list it as "Facebook/Twitter/Google News/MSN/etc." I'd like to set up a dichot...
[20:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:01] <exec> 08└─I don't care. I'm sure they can either use exFAT without the artificial 2 TB limit or find another file system that works fine.
[20:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:02] <exec> 08└─Again, 624 MB/s is the *current maximum* in the standard. It is likely to increase in future iterations of the standard, although the speeds will lag behind high performance SSDs.
[20:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:51] <exec> 08└─Are you feeling ok? Seems like your fever might be spiking.
[20:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:53] <exec> 08└─Even more interesting is how this point is repeatedly brought up yet the proponents of the ban never care to address it. Then next time it comes up we get to repeat the same points! If there is one thing Trump has succeeded with it must be the massive generation of wealth (imaginary internet points...
[20:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:55] <exec> 08└─Hey now, that was candidate Trump and obviously President Trump is a very different person. You can't expect campaign promises to have anything to do with his actual term in office can you??
[20:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:57] <exec> 08└─I'm feeling just fine Aristachus.
[20:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:59] <exec> 08└─Currently, the Muslims in the USA almost never chuck LGBT off of buildings. We prohibit that behavior. As they gain political power, the situation changes. The more liberal muslims are cowed into submission, keeping their mouths shut so that they don't get attacked. The desires of the most fanatical...
[20:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:39] <exec> 08└─their own unique special snowflake units
[20:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:41] <exec> 08└─powers of 2 are just in the brain of the developer physical constructs inherent in the very existence of modern digital computer memory dating back to its inception.
[20:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:43] <exec> 08└─The only reasonable solution to this problem is to eliminate fixed framerates on our playback systems altogether.
[20:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:45] <exec> 08└─the Declaration of Independence was primarily focused on minor technical matters of daily life and explicitly omits any talk about high concepts like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
[20:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:47] <exec> 08└─Facebook invented a new time unit called the ‘flick’ and it’s truly amazing
[20:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:50] <exec> 08└─It doesn't count until you can express it in truly fundamental units [scientificamerican.com].
[20:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:42] <exec> 08└─And you don't understand that the GP was not suggesting ANYTHING that would prevent these health issues. Simply providing recreational drugs free of charge in any quantity in the (implied) hopes that the drug abuser will overdose and die early. Government provided free drugs to help speed your way t...
[20:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:43] <exec> 08└─Nice job of hair splitting. Of course he was talking about recreational and addictive drugs. Provided FREE by the government, with your tax dollars, in some kind of hitleresq genetic cleansing exercise. But hey, carry on with your nit picking while avoiding the actual implications of such a governme...
[20:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:45] <exec> 08└─So is there a country that has substantially reduced the incidence of flu? And anyway, it sounds like you are advocating more health care spending (free flu shots), not less.
[20:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:47] <exec> 08└─You know, life is not black and white :-) Drug-free is only a worthy goal.
[20:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:44] <exec> 08└─BSOD - bather screen of death
[20:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:45] <exec> 08└─mass consumer adoption is not a requirement for this to be a worthwhile initiative. most people don't use gnu/linux either. yet i somehow use it every day. if we could get open hardware to where people had the option, that would be good enough for me.
[20:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:47] <exec> 08└─Not that it matters, but at my kids' elementary school and high school they have iPads and Windows laptops and classes on Microsoft Office.
[20:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:49] <exec> 08└─like the chariots of the gods, may the open source steeds thunder across the world while flaming arrows boil the scum from the proprietary hags riding the backs of sea dragons.
[20:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah. It turns out they thought Linux Mint Cinnamon edition was way better.
[20:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Challenge Education-Oriented Chromebooks With Windows 10 Laptops Priced From $189 - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:53] <exec> 08└─That's a really good deal for a phone. I have what I think is a pretty good deal on a phone with a different no-contract carrier. Costs me ~$10 a month and has roll over for talk, text and data. Also have a T-mobile 4G hotspot that I can reload when I need it. Cost $10 for 1GB for one week or 3GB fo...
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[21:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Motion and Context - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:04] <exec> 08└─Motion and Context
[21:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Motion and Context - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:05] <exec> 08└─you should shut up and thank martyb for his blog posting most people have to pay to read the incoherent ramblings of a mad man
[21:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Motion and Context - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:07] <exec> 08└─wonder if the applications with which I've had the most difficulty might be guilty of failing to properly handle these transitions.
[21:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Motion and Context - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:10] <exec> 08└─> verb, noun (e.g. Open, File...) What I see here (Firefox, Open Office) is: File (top level menu), Open (or Open_File). > and in other cases it is Noun, Verb (e.g. Select text, Italicize) I'd argue that selecting text is an action (verb). More to the point, is it sensible to relate "parts of speech...
[21:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:27] <exec> 08└─Moron troll chimes in again! So abusing top market share to undercut competitors and drive them out of business (war chest) and forming corrupt deals where CEOs are bribed to collude, THAT is what you imagine is best? As people have repeatedly pointed out, history is replete with examples of your pr...
[21:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:29] <exec> 08└─Which mobile chipset competitor did Qualcomm force out of business? Intel? Qualcomm owns the mobile industry because they have patents on 4G antenna technology that mobile device manufacturers have to license REGARDLESS of whether they even use Qualcomm chips. Fine them however much you want, you're...
[21:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:31] <exec> 08└─The quality of trolling around here is pretty awful these days.
[21:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:04] <exec> 08└─And keeping it up to code for insurance purposes as well as safety is important too.
[21:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:05] <exec> 08└─I have one system that is all ultracaps - that's eventually going to be the way to go, because they simply don't wear out in any practical sense but the space required at the present time is pretty horrible compared to a battery.
[21:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:07] <exec> 08└─https://www.westmarine.com/marine-batteries [westmarine.com]
[21:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:09] <exec> 08└─Depends on where you live - 'tis why I didn't provide a link. I know I'm not gonna pay S&H for a ton of lead with "fragile/dangerous goods" classification from US to Australia, I suspect won't make sense for European soylenters too. --- ** that acid, even if as a gel? certainly dangerous it the encl...
[21:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 1237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:12] <exec> 08└─The link is nice, but lets save him the trouble of searching out the part he is looking for. American industry and labor prospered after World War II, but hard times set in after 1970. For the first time there was stiff competition from low-cost producers around the globe. Many rust belt industries...
[21:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:14] <exec> 08└─Offtopic: Your list of NSA words should include Biological, Chemical and Weapons.
[21:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:16] <exec> 08└─I thought you could pretty much do what you wanted with low voltage wiring.
[21:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:13] <exec> 08└─but come on, the oldest "might makes right" tendencies of our history should be considered
[21:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:15] <exec> 08└─Actually the statement was "teens who spent more time in front of screen devices". I'm not sure they called out social media specifically. Still, the study didn't seem to break it out by what type of activity was happening on the device either. Talking ON the phone, or video chatting is at least act...
[21:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:17] <exec> 08└─That is not a definition of psychopathy. You're thinking of psychosis. Very different things.
[21:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:19] <exec> 08└─I don't know about mythical couples' imaginary offspring, but any survey of cultural anthropology shows that every civilization goes through a life-cycle, with the right slope of the curve partially influenced by successively less motivated and productive generations. We probably hit "peak civilizat...
[21:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:21] <exec> 08└─Sadly, depression and anxiety can be a major obstacle to getting exercise.
[21:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:45] <exec> 08└─What if you have a robot that uses the internet for you while you are out? That's the future, if not the present.
[21:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:46] <exec> 08└─One might have had to search for ftp sites on bulletin boards (the cork kind), if not bathroom stalls. There was also usenet, with topics sorted by genre. At some point, there was Alta Vista, but how good was that site, really? There's no way to tell...
[21:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03magnesium [6854] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:24] <exec> 08└─do you have a url with details?
[21:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:18] <exec> 08└─We only want to admit those into our country who will support our country and love deeply our people. That's what the ban is for. As President, I made Saudi Arabia my first and biggest priority in the Middle East. My first trip out of the USA, as President, was to Saudi Arabia. And made a terrific d...
[21:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:19] <exec> 08└─Japan's policies about immigration and citizenship have their own problems. Isn't Japan basically known as an incredibly racist society?* It's impossible to become a Japanese citizen unless you're already Japanese, basically.
[21:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:22] <exec> 08└─Go back and reread my post--I didn't say there was anything wrong with it. If you're a fan of "no, fuck off, you can't come live here" then they're doing everything right. It's their country, it's their culture, it's their people. It's their rules. Why do you assume they must
[21:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:24] <exec> 08└─The old "in order to preserve our way of life we must give it up" argument.
[21:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:09] <exec> 08└─OK, but what is that in Swatch Internet Time intervals? That's Beats, right? Why can't they just use that... or like, I don't know, nanoseconds.
[21:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:10] <exec> 08└─...or the least common multiple [wikipedia.org], perhaps?
[21:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:08] <exec> 08└─As for the continuing to seek making more money, what you say is for people not insane with greed. Some people never have enough and are compulsively driven to acquire more wealth -- and probably not by "earning" it but by figuring out how to game systems, exploit others, etc. Those people will cont...
[21:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:42] <exec> 08└─If you ever get done ranting on the internet and try your hand at curing cancer, good luck getting your solution marketed without approval from very deep pockets. At that point you might start caring about the wealthy, their control of the world, and their pervasive lack of caring about much besides...
[21:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:44] <exec> 08└─Only when a group colludes to be anti-competitive (like OPEC) does it fall afoul of monopoly definitions.
[21:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:46] <exec> 08└─But not a monopoly. Words have meaning.
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[22:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:07] <exec> 08└─For a stock to up ten percent in just one day is regarded as a Heaven-sent miracle. Cryptos go up and down that much all the time. I had the idea that I could use the volatility to provide for a comfortable retirement. But I have only one success, I bought NAGA for $1 at its ICO then sold it for $3....
[22:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:09] <exec> 08└─You're like a small boy who just learned how to rape. You learned a valuable skill, but you're not adept enough at it for it to be impressive. You are not Mario Antonio Scubafitz, and you never will be! Vanish!
[22:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Motion and Context - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:20] <exec> 08└─Like Gimp?
[22:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Motion and Context - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:21] <exec> 08└─More to the point, is it sensible to relate "parts of speech" to "UI menu choices".
[22:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Motion and Context - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:23] <exec> 08└─The reversing camera in my car turns off when you drive over a certain speed. I am not sure what speed, as I have not been looking at the screen or the camera when it has happened - it was reported by my passenger. I can imagine someone who was using the camera would be quite likely to be shocked, a...
[22:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Motion and Context - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:25] <exec> 08└─When the full-screen Windows 8 start screen was released, I couldn't believe it. You click "Start" and suddenly ALL of the context of what you were doing before that pre-command is hidden. Digging through the Start screen to find what you want, it's easy to forget why you opened it and what you were...
[22:17:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 1014 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:39] <exec> 08└─And the difference between this and Microsoft paying PC manufacturers to only bundle DOS/Windows? Exactly the same, they got fined the same by the EU (US conveniently ignored it) and it damaged the market for alternatives for decades while putting technically-superior systems out of consumer reach....
[22:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:46] <exec> 08└─The only thing which matters is that society is as free as possible; the only thing which matters is that agreements are voluntary, where "voluntary" is defined by contracts; the enforcement of a contract is just another service in the world, and should therefore be implemented in the market along w...
[22:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:48] <exec> 08└─Which mobile chipset competitor did Qualcomm force out of business?
[22:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:50] <exec> 08└─So, two companies that still exist? I noticed I've posted about Qualcomm's 4G patents nearly half a dozen times in this comment thread and nobody seems to want to address it. I don't like Qualcomm; I think there's a better way to deal with them.
[22:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:52] <exec> 08└─The only spam that matters is what this fool posts! The only way forward is a SEPARATION OF POSTS from their mods! We must listen to this tired fool because with a little blind faith we can fix all of humanity's problems!! We need more competition between good posts and shitty ones! Oh wait, hold on...
[22:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:55] <exec> 08└─Patents, in their current form, are not working. That you provide further evidence of this broken-ness doesn't help your other arguments.
[22:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:35] <exec> 08└─This idea was expressed rather more succinctly during the reign of Chimpy McBushface as "reality-based community" versus "actor-based community."
[22:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe that's how he'll get the Mexicans to pay for the wall. I give you business, you fund - to some extent, the wall building... given his background, there must have been lots of backroom business deals happening. Whirlpool, in the meantime creates some local jobs (maybe not manufacturing, but sal...
[22:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is the Mobile Data Capital of the World - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:47] <exec> 08└─Finns tend to be quiet and frugal people - very boring.
[22:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:43] <exec> 08└─Since marshmallow. Ever hear of google?
[22:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:44] <exec> 08└─Apple's brilliant plan is to force all its users to buy lots of dongles
[22:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:46] <exec> 08└─No other filesystem is supported by everything in the non-free world. And unless somebody with muscle (Google, Red Hat, Canonical) picks a FOSS winner and pushes it hard, nothing ever will be.
[22:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:44] <exec> 08└─Also this is about concentrated areas of Islamic immigrants. If you move one in, it's not a problem--If you move a ton in and they make a "no go" zone, do some acid thrown in face attacks, some gang rape activity, then build a mosque--You get the mayor of London saying terrorist attacks are "part an...
[22:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:45] <exec> 08└─We aren't giving up our way of life. Even if we were, that particular way of life is horrible. Be stubbornly extremist about completely arbitrary freedom of religion, and soon enough you'll have no freedom of religion.
[22:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:47] <exec> 08└─The people who bother to reproduce will produce kids who bother to reproduce. Evolution will quickly resolve the problems of birth control and distraction. Japan will remain Japanese. The same can not be said of Germany, France, Sweden, Britain, etc. Those cultures will be wiped from the Earth.
[22:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:49] <exec> 08└─People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!
[22:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:52] <exec> 08└─Be stubbornly extremist about completely arbitrary freedom of religion
[22:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:39] <exec> 08└─Sure, why not? Is this any different than supporting new device drivers, or updating libraries to allow support of additional device types? This sounds like a good way to deal with a panoply of sample/frame rates across a large population of existing devices and existing content. But of course I don...
[22:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:40] <exec> 08└─Part three will shock you!
[22:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:39] <exec> 08└─Well, you're one of the ones who had it before that. Basically, in the Davos topic, he's been reduced to shrieking at the top of his carrion-smelling flow-through lungs that taxation is theft and that's the bottom line, and fuck everyone else, no one is getting one red cent out of him.
[22:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:40] <exec> 08└─Ah, sounds his "natural" reaction. He's so keen to defend the rights of those who 'uck him deep I start to believe he likes it.
[22:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:42] <exec> 08└─no, the government doesn't own it. the international banksters wrested that control away when the federal reserve was formed. now they loan it to the fed gov and the fed gov uses our slave labor as collateral on the loan. they even made the us dollar a copy of the greenback so people would still thi...
[22:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:44] <exec> 08└─Because they're the smart ones who figured it out!! Obviously it is their natural superiority at work and thus natural they should be awarded more of humanity's resources. Cause fuck you, I'd rather watch you die. Unless you need a shirt, then apparently you can have TMB's.
[22:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:47] <exec> 08└─Do you have a special club for clueless people? Oh right, the Republican party! Sorry it was too easy, and we all know Democrats are the height of wisdom and purity!
[22:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Ditches Ubuntu for Debian - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:44] <exec> 08└─i would like it if most distros could agree on some kind of upstream source standard so any distro's package manager can automatically build any upstream project. distros could focus on security, user facing features, the packaging systems themselves, or whatever they cared about, instead of just ma...
[22:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Software Sales to Russian Firms Curbed by Sanctions - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:01] <exec> 08└─Hopefully this will spurn Russia on to using FOSS. It's embarrassing to me as an American that other countries have taken up MS and Apple slaveware. Maybe if FOSS grows in Russia, China and other "competitors" to the US, the US will pull it's cyber head out of it's cyber ass. I'm not going to hold m...
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[23:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:08] <exec> 08└─I think the ledger of precious metal transactions might be the right idea, if it isn't this, perhaps something else soon. Instead of a gold-backed cryptocurrency I'm thinking cryptocurrency-backed gold. As I recall, some of the early experiments in "web money" didn't work out well because there was...
[23:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:09] <exec> 08└─Trading between BTC and DOGE/Lumen I am up 25% in number of BTC since the beginning of the month. I think its more of a fun thing to do than a way to invest money though.
[23:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:12] <exec> 08└─"Quite likely I'll end up like that ancient lady who hangs out in the Pearl District in her wheelchair, begging for spare change. Quite likely she doesn't have a 401k." Why would you think that? For all you know she could buy and sell you like a lollypop.
[23:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:14] <exec> 08└─So starting their own cash system Next is crypto credit and debit cards. Crypto checks anyone. Really electronic exchange of gold but not as stocks or bonds. Block chains it is the best ;P
[23:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:16] <exec> 08└─How much are your minimum monthly living expenses?
[23:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 1400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:18] <exec> 08└─Let me flesh this out a bit so you all can tear it apart: 1. When a coin is deposited or withdrawn, the vault operator takes a close-up photo of the coin showing its serial number along with some visual indicator of whether the coin is being deposited or withdrawn. 2. At essentially the same time, t...
[23:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Motion and Context - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:33] <exec> 08└─UX testing shop Nielsen Norman Group did a study on their own so they could blog about how much they hated the whole UI update in Windows 8
[23:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Motion and Context - 1284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:34] <exec> 08└─The best menus seem to be object oriented. Pull down the menu and you will notice that it is designed for you to select a noun - an object - and then, secondarily, tpo select a verb - an action to apply to that object. I've tried to explain this to people but at the time that I present this concept...
[23:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:01] <exec> 08└─The point is that without their 4G patents (which make Apple pay them even if they DON'T use their chips), Qualcomm would lack the negotiating power to have done this. Nobody bitched about slapping Apple with an anti-trust when they went exclusive to AT&T, and within a couple years they were forced...
[23:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 1634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:02] <exec> 08└─I can't speak for the current US anti-corruption laws, but the EU has some very strict rules about a potential supplier using cash to sweeten a deal, and that seems to be the reasoning behind fining Qualcomm here. To illustrate the difference, consider the following scenarios: Scenario 1: Apple ask...
[23:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:04] <exec> 08└─Partially correct. All of this boils down to the ability to restrict other people from entering the market by saying you own an idea.
[23:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:47] <exec> 08└─Manufacturing can come back, but manufacturing jobs, a la 60s-70s, CANNOT. Any new/returning manufacturing will be heavily automated, employing far fewer people. It will likely spur domestic robotics industries, but they will have to compete with the industrial robotics industries of Germany, Japan,...
[23:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:49] <exec> 08└─Front loaders get clothes clean just fine. without tearing them apart the way agitators do. That's why they've been using them exclusively in Europe for decades; it's only stupid Americans who want top loaders with agitators.
[23:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drones Take Off in Agriculture Industry - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:17] <exec> 08└─A drone while not silent isn't anywhere near like flying a true airplane or military type drone over your house. The "drones" we're talking about are somewhat larger RC toys, just better build quality and definitely more expensive. I would be surprised, if you had to file flight plans for each use a...
[23:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:53] <exec> 08└─You nailed it. I've been "screen addicted" since 1958 when I learned to read. I always had my nose in a book, now some of the books I read are on a screen. I used to be a gamer since you had to put quarters in the games, and what Quake came out I started a site devoted to it, and it was insanely pop...
[23:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:55] <exec> 08└─“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.” -Socrates Geezers have indeed groused about "them damned kids" since forever. Hell, the first single cell organisms probably bitched about the kid...
[23:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:57] <exec> 08└─I absolutely HATE basketball, ever since I was on the team in 6th grade. Damned grownups ruined it. BTW, if you haven't grown up by age 60 you don't have to. Baseball and football? Still love both of them, because when we played them as kids there weren't any grownups around to ruin it for us, it wa...
[23:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:05] <exec> 08└─I gave up a beautiful life. I do miss my old life. I lived in a penthouse in New York, in Trump Tower. With FABULOUS views of Fifth Avenue, Madison Avenue and nearby Central Park. Now I live in a TOTAL DUMP. I put up gold curtains, it's still a dump. I like to work, so that's not a problem, but this...
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