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[00:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:51] <exec> 08└─Only off by about 4 months: https://blog.mozilla.org [mozilla.org]
[00:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:52] <exec> 08└─Only 16 years old before Brendan Eich was bullied into standing down as CEO having the audacity to exercise political agency in his private life.
[00:46:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 1251 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:05] <exec> 08└─I've seen these in various locations, and I make an attempt to use the kiosks just to see how easy/difficult they are to use. As long as you leave your NFC running on the phone all the time so that your payment app works without fiddling around with that, the kiosks work well. Or they do after the t...
[00:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:30] <exec> 08└─I am a self-serve kiosk idiot. I tried using one once at a McDonalds and found it incredibly frustrating. The interface was incomprehensible. Since then I've ordered only from a human being. It it simply less stressful even if it takes a bit longer to get my food because of it.
[00:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:32] <exec> 08└─And more advertising, that you have to specifically dismiss, rather than simply look away from.
[00:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:34] <exec> 08└─Plus the last thing I want is some fake-cheerful drone asking me if I have plans. None of your business, don't pretend you care because you don't.
[00:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:36] <exec> 08└─I'd hate this to be everywhere. I'd like to ask a question about a meal, have it changed up perhaps. get that dressing on the side, find out if I can have Halibut instead of Cod , get an opinion of A is better than B, decide to share a dish with the wife, or find out how long the house Merlow has be...
[00:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:38] <exec> 08└─Carl's Jr. Computer: Enjoy your EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES! Woman at Carl's Jr.: You didn't give me no fries, I got an empty box. Carl's Jr. Computer: Would you like another EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES? Woman at Carl's Jr.: I said I didn't get any! Carl's Jr. Computer: Thank you! Your account has been charged. You...
[00:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:41] <exec> 08└─Though I doubt there's enough money in food services to justify this much automation until other more heavy industries get the basic industrial research developed for food services to adapt to their own needs.
[00:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:43] <exec> 08└─We can easily improve the software of the kiosk. Unfortunately, improving a human is infinitely more difficult.
[00:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Could Jump on the "Buy a Health Insurer" Trend with Humana Acquisition - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:37] <exec> 08└─Anyone who thinks that medical insurance can ever be like other insurance such as auto or house is an idiot.
[00:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Could Jump on the "Buy a Health Insurer" Trend with Humana Acquisition - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:39] <exec> 08└─What you see is the market recognizing that Obamacare is going to collapse of its own weight.
[00:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Could Jump on the "Buy a Health Insurer" Trend with Humana Acquisition - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:41] <exec> 08└─It's not much of a market when your insurance is pretty much attached to your place of employment. How did such a weird marriage come about? Government meddling.
[00:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Authorizes SpaceX to Provide Broadband Satellite Services - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[01:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:52] <exec> 08└─There is a trend amongst modern UIs to make it difficult to make discovery of options, widgets, features, etc. difficult. For example, a new version of Firefox, how do you change the proxy? Well, you go to preferences and type "proxy" into the search box. But that presumes that you know that you wan...
[01:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:54] <exec> 08└─Humanity tends to whiplash from one extreme to another and Eich was a victim of tolerance gone wrong. The upside is that his suffering is a small step in society learning to balance ideologies. Then again he was supporting legislation to discriminate against a rather large number of people so I pers...
[01:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 1225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:56] <exec> 08└─"For example, a new version of Firefox, how do you change the proxy? Well, you go to preferences and type "proxy" into the search box. But that presumes that you know that you want to change the proxy." Whereas, if you're a long-time Firefox user, you probably know by heart the old way. Tools-option...
[01:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 1284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:58] <exec> 08└─He funded them for a sufficient amount of money to *REQUIRE DISCLOSING IT PUBLICLY*. If there were not concerns with people providing imbalanced financial lobbying for legislative positions without having to face the public scrutiny of them, then I might agree with you. But since it is not, and he w...
[01:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:00] <exec> 08└─Humanity tends to whiplash . . . learning to balance ideologies.
[01:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:45] <exec> 08└─A new suxbys near me has one of those things, and it is horrible as shit. Ok, sure, mix an an almost infinite number of flavors, fancy, but who really needs that? Spend I don't recall how long just futzing with it to find a normal beverage type, but you are forced to use a greasy ass touch screen th...
[01:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:46] <exec> 08└─Do you really think I would eat at Mickey Dee's if 1) I didn't have a coupon; and 2) the coupon was for something I might want to eat? CSB. Back in the 70s I worked night shift getting off at midnight. 1 of my friends went to UCSB, another lived close to where I worked. Once a month I'd get off work...
[01:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:48] <exec> 08└─damn skippy. and no machine ever spit in the food, either.
[01:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:50] <exec> 08└─Interesting, soylentnews is inverted facebook.
[01:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:53] <exec> 08└─They are when I want to say order 89 big macs and then leave the 'resturaunt'. People seem to question things like that but not the faithful robot.
[01:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:55] <exec> 08└─The best praise ever!
[01:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:57] <exec> 08└─Mind you that's probably why you couldn't complete the order at the kiosk. The problem still stands that the kiosk should have been able to identify that and prevent you from either selecting it or warning you that it shouldn't be selected. That being said, I went into a Mcdonalds just last Monday o...
[01:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NOAA Just Prevented SpaceX From Showing its Rocket in Orbit - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:27] <exec> 08└─Hmm, does this give us an inroads for a weather war conspiracy theory?
[01:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NOAA Just Prevented SpaceX From Showing its Rocket in Orbit - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:28] <exec> 08└─I just checked with the aliens, and they're saying that it was a conversion error on NOAA's part between Earth-local 24-hour time and galactic metric time for when the launch window needed to be scheduled.
[01:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Could Jump on the "Buy a Health Insurer" Trend with Humana Acquisition - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:58] <exec> 08└─I think five or if someone responds, whichever is first. However, my exact suggestion depends on what isolation level the DB uses.
[01:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smaller and Faster: The Terahertz Computer Chip is Now Within Reach - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:20] <exec> 08└─> In this context it usually means instructions per clock, and that will benefit all but IO (including memory latency) bound applications. Up to a point, as branch prediction misses will murder performance, so your program will appear to randomly slow down to a fraction of "regular" execution speed....
[01:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coffee: Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:37] <exec> 08└─How else is coffee roasted ? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[02:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Health Dept in Breach for Publishing Data of 2.5 Million People - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:52] <exec> 08└─You can sue a government, but you'll be fighting against the guys who make up the rules as they go, and they'll just declare more income at the point of a gun in order to socialise the compensation, anyway. Look how they've explicitly tried to identify members of parliamen. That's their only hope of...
[02:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Health Dept in Breach for Publishing Data of 2.5 Million People - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:54] <exec> 08└─You can sue a government
[02:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Health Dept in Breach for Publishing Data of 2.5 Million People - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:56] <exec> 08└─Is to periodically hold their feet over a fire. And not the metaphoric kind. The alternative is for a few of them to be set on fire periodically when they screw up, to provide a brightly ingrained reminder to other politicians to be competent in their jobs or GTFO. The current issues in governments...
[02:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:11] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't, but I'll try not to hold it against you.
[02:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:12] <exec> 08└─Why? Why should the incognito window hide a button that is visible in a normal window?
[02:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:14] <exec> 08└─"as head of a decidedly 'liberal' organization" This is just the thing, it's not *supposed* to be a liberal organization. In fact it appears to be illegal for a 501(c)(3) to be political in nature. Their early documents and fund-raising certainly didn't create the expectation that this was a politic...
[02:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:17] <exec> 08└─he was well over the.... $200 dollar limit on providing donations without having to disclose them, he CHOSE to make his position publicly known.
[02:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:19] <exec> 08└─Where has the blue tick of teh gay come from all of a sudden, have we become soylent-twitter? Is Runaway now a verified liberal? Enquiring minds would like to know.
[02:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:21] <exec> 08└─tl;dr whole thread Personally, given that he's the reason we have JavaScript...
[02:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:13] <exec> 08└─Yes! I usually go to places where the people running the joint aren't idiots: intelligent, caring people I get along with fine. It's those idiot sheeple who can't make decisions for themselves and can't think at all that drive me nuts. I like going where stupid levels are low and avoid places where...
[02:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there is usually a lag on those touch screens or you're not touching hard enough: so is it lag, or did I not touch hard enough? So touch it again and it goes past the screen you wanted to another screen. So you go back. Then you touch again, but this time you're waiting for the lag when you di...
[02:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:16] <exec> 08└─So you've made the case for an app. But tfs is not about an app. It's about a kiosk for taking orders and accepting payment. I prefer the app, nut there's only so much room on my phone for this kind of crap. So we are stuck with kiosks.
[02:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:19] <exec> 08└─The best way to prevent errors would be just to make your own Hamburgers at home. Failing that, just disguise Fast Food as your own cooking and no one will know the difference.
[02:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:21] <exec> 08└─The meme around here in the 1980s was that the cup cost more than the soda, so why not let the customers bloat themselves on sugar water as much as they want when they pay $1.49 for a $0.10 cup, straw and lid? By the 1990s, self-serve soda was pervasive. The few customers who drank large amounts of...
[02:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smaller and Faster: The Terahertz Computer Chip is Now Within Reach - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:43] <exec> 08└─And branch prediction led to all those fun security vulnerabilities.
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[03:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Health Dept in Breach for Publishing Data of 2.5 Million People - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:53] <exec> 08└─Crikey, it's me lost medical records! I thought I'd have to pay again to repeat all those expensive tests! And the results are negative! Thanks, mate! You saved me a bundle, you did!
[03:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:14] <exec> 08└─The current work on WebAssembly and DRM will be doing wonders I'm sure.
[03:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:16] <exec> 08└─I remember how long it took before we saw the first FireFox. It seemed like it was taking forever. The promise of an open source browser, reborn from the ashes of Netscape, and improved sounded fantastic at the time. Choices of browsers were extremely limited. I was surprised in those same days of K...
[03:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:13] <exec> 08└─When it comes to "fast" food around here, McDonalds seems to either hire the bottom rung of people or not train them at all. On a rare occasion, I stop at the store across the street from my work in the morning. I go inside if the drive-thru wraps around the building. Invariably, there is nobody man...
[03:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:14] <exec> 08└─Rising minimum wages might have kicked it off, but I'd say - rather, that stagnant minimum wages kept this day from coming sooner - and even if minimum wages stayed stagnant, it was coming soon regardless.
[03:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smaller and Faster: The Terahertz Computer Chip is Now Within Reach - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:38] <exec> 08└─Just shy of 1/8"
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[04:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Removed the Steam Machine Section from Steam - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:49] <exec> 08└─The hardware support wasn't there. They did a huge push to get the R600g/RadeonSI stuff up to snuff, and just as it was, it got dumped for Vulkan. On the bright side, Vulkan turned out to be pretty straightforward to implement and the Radeon Vulkan driver came along pretty well, nouveau got OpenGL f...
[04:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Valve Removed the Steam Machine Section from Steam - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:51] <exec> 08└─The problem is the same as it's always been with gaming and Linux: Big names don't target it for anything more complicated than Tux Racer. The best you're gonna get is a collection of early-90s Apogee games. You don't need "custom peripherals" and VR shit to make gaming viable on Linux. You need eit...
[04:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Health Dept in Breach for Publishing Data of 2.5 Million People - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:02] <exec> 08└─No, the exact opposite happened. Now even the dingos know that your dongo has herpes and genital warts. You will never get laid again, except by abbos.
[04:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:25] <exec> 08└─Probably an early April-fools day gag. Funny enough, I didn't know that was from twitter until I read your comment. Personally I would have preferred a gold star of David with the word "Jude" innit.
[04:46:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 1232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:39] <exec> 08└─OK I get the complaints about inscrutable menus, useless error messages... and ain't no way I'm using my phone to pay for anything. But. The average food service human is slow and error prone because they Just Don't Care, or have the IQ of a turnip. I'd rather enter my order myself and get it right...
[04:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:25] <exec> 08└─The pimply faced kid behind the counter is still faster and easier interface to manage. A known entity, that everyone knows how to navigate. And you don't have to learn Mandarin or American Sign Language just to speak to him/her.
[04:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NOAA Just Prevented SpaceX From Showing its Rocket in Orbit - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:57] <exec> 08└─I think it's more likely that any classified payloads are either satellite-killing (EMP?) or jamming satellites or ultra hi-res imaging satellites. The U.S. Navy's recent move to train their quartermasters in old-school navigation using the stars and sextants suggests this. Hysterical military fearm...
[04:50:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Microsoft Does the Cloud and AI Shuffle - 1399 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, and I think the reputation of PCs of being insecure, hard to use, bloaty, and annoying is a big part of the success of tablets. Look at what people were using just before tablets: netbooks that had a stripped down set of hardware and Windows (MS went out of their way to kill off any Linux netbo...
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[05:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Removed the Steam Machine Section from Steam - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:51] <exec> 08└─So in other words, SteamOS was just a bunch of hot air. :P
[05:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Health Dept in Breach for Publishing Data of 2.5 Million People - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:03] <exec> 08└─No the results were negative. I didn't catch chlamydia from a dingo's dongo. The good news is now I don't have to pay double to get my lost test results because the department of health helpfully leaked my data.
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[05:46:13] <exec> 08└─There is a trend amongst modern UIs to make it difficult to make discovery of options, widgets, features, etc. difficult. For example, a new version of Firefox, how do you change the proxy? Well, you go to preferences and type "proxy" into the search box. But that presumes that you know that you wan...
[05:46:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 559 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:21] <exec> 08└─"as head of a decidedly 'liberal' organization" This is just the thing, it's not *supposed* to be a liberal organization. In fact it appears to be illegal for a 501(c)(3) to be political in nature. Their early documents and fund-raising certainly didn't create the expectation that this was a politic...
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[06:45:46] <exec> 08└─The next phase -called-WOM-will create the physical infrastructure for cell network with a community radio network. This will essentially involve people hosting small, inexpensive radio devices in their home that plug into their routers to provide internet access points to Sopranica users in the are...
[06:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Valve Removed the Steam Machine Section from Steam - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:56] <exec> 08└─I think the steam OS push was a reaction to the Windows 10 app store, Windows 8 RT, Windows S, and so on with all the signs pointing to Microsoft making a hard push to wall garden Windows, and in turn push Steam out. They saw the writing on the wall, and the steam OS was a way out for them. When Win...
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[06:45:58] <exec> 08└─The Vive Pro launches this month (April). Available for pre-order now but you have to have existing controllers and lighthouses. They could be doing something with the hardware page to prepare for that launch?
[06:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Health Dept in Breach for Publishing Data of 2.5 Million People - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:11] <exec> 08└─Well, did anybody "fudge" a little bit when they handed you those "three simple health questions" in order to get insurance? You had a wart removed as a kid and did not state that? Or maybe you did not report a little scare you had when you were having an anxiety attack over something, thought it wa...
[06:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:34] <exec> 08└─Interesting that you consider non-starving employees a punishment for employers.
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[06:47:36] <exec> 08└─> They won't have to deal with me if I can enter my order myself. Truly, this is the best argument for kiosks so far :)
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[07:45:50] <exec> 08└─Good morning. As some of you already know, I'm starting my own cell phone company. I've heard all of your complaints-- trouble texting, no coverage, it's too expensive. But here is where my company is gonna be different from all the others. I will only have ten customers. And those customers are you...
[07:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sopranica: an Open Source, DIY Cell Network - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:52] <exec> 08└─And then one of two things happen: - The owner of the network realizes he can make (more) money selling their customers' data, and their idealistic views on privacy and data protection dissolve somewhat - The owner sticks to their principles, sooner or later gets served with a national security lett...
[07:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Removed the Steam Machine Section from Steam - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:04] <exec> 08└─they didn't / haven't push it enough! with the disaster that windows continues to be, done right, steamOS would steam-roll windows as a game OS. professional gamers with that 10% more FPS per same setup (or most expensive that monies can buy) will twitch kill to the top. if top supercomputer run lin...
[07:47:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 1211 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:21] <exec> 08└─Carl's Jr. Computer: Enjoy your EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES! Woman at Carl's Jr.: You didn't give me no fries, I got an empty box. Carl's Jr. Computer: Would you like another EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES? Woman at Carl's Jr.: I said I didn't get any! Carl's Jr. Computer: Thank you! Your account has been charged. You...
[07:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:41] <exec> 08└─"The average food service human is slow and error prone because they Just Don't Care, or have the IQ of a turnip" Depends. The guy in front of me the other day took forever, accidently cancelled repeatedly, had to start over 4 times, couldn't figure out how to navigate, and finally timed out when tr...
[07:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:43] <exec> 08└─If I can't give a live human a reason to have a job, I shall take my business elsewhere. At the downtown Portland AT&T store: "I'd like to pay my phone bill." "OK. Just put your card in the kiosk." "I want to pay cash." He pointed to the cash registers. "If you pay cash there is a fifteen dollar fee...
[07:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:45] <exec> 08└─The machine can never replace the man. -- old cannibal proverb.
[07:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 1742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:47] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you're familiar with "iPad Restaurants"? DuckDuckGo, don't fail me now... you have a choice of many different Point Of Sale vendors [duckduckgo.com]. I patronized one at an airport not long ago because I liked the look of their kitchen, which was right in the middle of the dining area. Each...
[07:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:49] <exec> 08└─Compare the $3.20 an hour I made pumping gas in 1982 to the what is it? $7.25 I think. The Federal Minimum Wage. Adjusted for inflation I earned far more from 1982's minimum wage than today's gas station attendants receive. Even a $15.00 minimum wage won't quite set it right.
[07:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NOAA Just Prevented SpaceX From Showing its Rocket in Orbit - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:22] <exec> 08└─We don't have enough details to conclude that yet. It's guilty-until-proven-innocent on your part. Shape up!
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[08:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Plants Won't be Regulated - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:49] <exec> 08└─In a zero sum game, that means it's gonna be a loss for the rest of the world.
[08:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Removed the Steam Machine Section from Steam - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:11] <exec> 08└─The problem is the same as it's always been with gaming and Linux: Big names don't target it for anything more complicated than Tux Racer. The best you're gonna get is a collection of early-90s Apogee games.
[08:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Removed the Steam Machine Section from Steam - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:13] <exec> 08└─Exactly! My moment of realization came when I read an article (I am finding it difficult to correctly google for it) in which Gabe Newell proudly proclaimed that the moment he heard his engineers saying that games on Linux run faster than on Windows (~16% gain of FPS), he immediately asked his PR te...
[08:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:50] <exec> 08└─I agree it was interesting while it lasted. Sadly now people have embraced darkness once again as Chrome is the dominant browser. People merely switched masters from Microsoft to Google instead of liberating their browsing... Here's one keyhole view of the current situation. Probably flawed but the...
[08:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:57] <exec> 08└─In many cases in the UK, they appear not to understand English, either. Ask for "Diet coke with no ice" and 9/10 times you get ice. Yesterday it took four attempts to get a "cream egg McFlurry" however, I am pleased to say I was not offered any green furry egg things as a substitute.
[08:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. National Institutes of Health Punishes Researchers Who Break Confidentiality of Peer Review - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:51] <exec> 08└─And surely this is better out in the open? Light cleanses. (The last time I was any where near academia, the guy I was doing mathematical monkeywork for got rejected 5 times, but when his paper finally got accepted, the reviewer said something along the lines of "this rips the final pages out of all...
[08:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. National Institutes of Health Punishes Researchers Who Break Confidentiality of Peer Review - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:53] <exec> 08└─> ... leads to more non-science than science And guns lead to shootings. Therefore...
[08:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Authorizes SpaceX to Provide Broadband Satellite Services - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:17] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why you're callig this stupid idea a "broad pipe"? You do realise that you'll be sharing that uplink with over half a million other people? If it's using GHz frequencies, that means its bandwitch will never exceed MBps, and divided by that half million, that means you'll only ever...
[08:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Authorizes SpaceX to Provide Broadband Satellite Services - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:19] <exec> 08└─What do you mean by "other countries"?!?!?!?!?
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[09:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Plants Won't be Regulated - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:49] <exec> 08└─Seems like your Cas not only worked on the plants, but also CRISPRed your ability to use the English language ...
[09:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sopranica: an Open Source, DIY Cell Network - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:59] <exec> 08└─One can do BitTorrent but I understand it works very poorly
[09:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Health Dept in Breach for Publishing Data of 2.5 Million People - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:27] <exec> 08└─The Australian Government is run by committees who don't have any skin in the game that they play. Failure means promotion. They simply don't give a damn and won't be paying a price, but 2 million people will have no idea why their identity keeps getting stolen.
[09:47:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:11] <exec> 08└─The average food service human is slow and error prone because they Just Don't Care, or have the IQ of a turnip. I'd rather enter my order myself and get it right the first time.
[09:47:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:18] <exec> 08└─The problem is [kiosks] are different in every restaurant chain.
[09:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:00] <exec> 08└─It's wonderful how "we didn't put stupid blockages in your way" is now the "personalised" option. That should be the default.
[09:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:02] <exec> 08└─Employers don't want to employ people already. Employees are a cost. Employers want to reduce costs. (Which is why the "job creaters" rhetoric in big-busiiness-oriented politics is so laughably false.)
[09:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:04] <exec> 08└─> like a carhop of old, only sadly without the skates and short skirt. The curves are there, but often either on the wrong sex or in the wrong places – or both. I have nothing to add, except to say that I found that absolutely hilarious.
[09:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:06] <exec> 08└─> have the IQ of a turnip It's spelled t-r-u-m-p
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[09:50:01] <exec> 08└─> And guns lead to shootings. Therefore... ... me is happy.
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[10:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Plants Won't be Regulated - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:50] <exec> 08└─I believe them when they claim that GMO foods aren't harmful to humans But the most common GMO crops are "round Up ready" Round up is really bad for the soul. If it weren't for round up ready crops nothing could grow in that soil I prefer Mexican Coca Cola because it doesn't have corn syrup in it. C...
[10:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Plants Won't be Regulated - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:51] <exec> 08└─I should not drink and post
[10:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sopranica: an Open Source, DIY Cell Network - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:02] <exec> 08└─The past participle of "to run" is "run", not "ran". Had anyone ran run any formal analysis...
[10:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Health Dept in Breach for Publishing Data of 2.5 Million People - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:31] <exec> 08└─Well, did anybody "fudge" a little bit when they handed you those "three simple health questions" in order to get insurance?...
[10:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:07] <exec> 08└─> Merlow really?
[10:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. National Institutes of Health Punishes Researchers Who Break Confidentiality of Peer Review - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but if you just want to see the world burn, then nukes are far more effective. Thank god Trump's got a really big button, which totally works.
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[11:45:49] <exec> 08└─Free packing material. Save that stuff; it'll be useful. Even if you don't use it for packages, you can use it as a throw down material for painting, or scrap paper, or whatever. Some warehouse buffoon's waste is another man's profit.
[11:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:50] <exec> 08└─I've known I'd be moving for about six months and have been doing this. I didn't increase my purchases, just started saving the larger boxes and all the bubble/paper wrapping. It's really added up, which has been great for the upcoming move but also made me aware of just how much I was throwing away...
[11:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 1560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:52] <exec> 08└─I've had similar experiences with a tiny item packaged in a huge box with lots of wrapping. But I've also seen a complete disregard for packaging, as when I placed an order a while back, and some algorithm decided it was reasonable to ship a 30-lb. butcher block cutting board in the same huge box as...
[11:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:55] <exec> 08└─He bought "dog food" and got 50% poultry-by-products and 50% corn and additives: https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com [dogfoodadvisor.com] Though being fair, that's well within the average quality of products labeled "dog food".
[11:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Plants Won't be Regulated - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:05] <exec> 08└─If people stopped doing so, we'd have significantly less comments around here.
[11:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Plants Won't be Regulated - 2506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:07] <exec> 08└─Real plant breeding programs only recieve 2 or 5 years of patent protection for performing selective breeding for hybrids (at least in the US, I haven't checked local laws anywhere else.) But if you change that painful year long hand selected project into a CRISPR project? Now it is a 20 year techno...
[11:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:24] <exec> 08└─It's not like they are in another galaxy All the evidence suggests they probably are from another galaxy.
[11:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:26] <exec> 08└─I pressed Alt-Right on my keyboard and nothing happened.
[11:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy Found Containing No Dark Matter - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:23] <exec> 08└─We never had to "figure out how EM wave propagate without medium" because the concept never even occured to anyone. What we had to figure out was how the speed of light could remain constant, and to do that, we had to discard the notion of ether. We'll discard the notion of dark matter if (and that'...
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[12:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but - I have 15 acres and a couple of out buildings to store stuff. Still, there is a limit. Eventually, you need a warehouse to store excess packing material. It's amazing, one package arrives with almost perfect packaging. It's like someone scientifically calculated just how much cushion is...
[12:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:51] <exec> 08└─And, you do realize that "poultry byproducts" generally consists of feather meal, and bone meal? There is precious little meat in there. Although, to be perfectly fair, feathers and bones contain a nice percentage of protein. After processing, the dog can digest that protein better than he could hav...
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[12:45:53] <exec> 08└─Some years ago there were photos by a guy who had received a small expansion card for an HP printer and it came in bulky packaging stapled to a fork lift truck pallette. Could not even get it through his front door. Again, there was a Windows upgrade (95->98 ?) by mail order that turned out to be a...
[12:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:55] <exec> 08└─What this says to me is that an Amazon employee is fed up with their employer, and is waging a petty, useless, one-person war against The Man. The customer posted this video online and the likely result is the employee got fired. In a just world, the boss would ask "why?" and fix the issue but the w...
[12:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:57] <exec> 08└─Ask the driver what "Fragile" means and they will say "That's Italian: 'Frajilley' which means 'smash it' (or break it, or crush it, etc). It seems to be a joke.
[12:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:00] <exec> 08└─If there hadn't been enough packaging, he'd have posted pics of dog food all over the place.
[12:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sopranica: an Open Source, DIY Cell Network - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:22] <exec> 08└─> Data transfer in a modern cellular network is ... ... irrelevant. There's nothing "cellular" about this at all: "You’ll also need to install a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) app, which allows your phone to make calls and send texts over the internet instead of the regular cellular network." I...
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[12:47:16] <exec> 08└─> What possible benefit is there to hiding this button? UX experts, which in my experience are way beyond Sturgeon's Law, probably touching 99.5-99.9%, have asserted that "discoverable" interfaces are more engaging. And hey presto - UIs now come complete with a bucket load of Stockholm syndrome.
[12:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:31] <exec> 08└─You sound like someone who'd be a lots of fun at a party.
[12:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:33] <exec> 08└─a question remains: are kiosks, in fact, better for customers?
[12:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:35] <exec> 08└─I used to think: how can you F-up a shake? Until McD's handed me one full of machine lube instead of shake product. I used to think: how often can something that F-ed up happen? Until the same McD's did it again the next time I tried a shake, a month later. Literally hundreds of Frostys later, Wendy...
[12:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:37] <exec> 08└─Interesting that you consider non-starving employees a punishment for employers.
[12:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Teckla [3812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Does the Cloud and AI Shuffle - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:40] <exec> 08└─In other words, MS has figured out that most people with PCs really are better served, for what stupid petty BS they do, by a walled-garden cell phone.
[12:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Teckla [3812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Does the Cloud and AI Shuffle - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:42] <exec> 08└─The PC (and thus Windows) exodus is as much a result of Microsoft constantly making the PC experience worse as anything.
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[13:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Talented 87-Year-Old Grandmother Creates Incredible Works of Art Using Microsoft Paint - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:49] <exec> 08└─I was expecting a ms Paint goatse. :(
[13:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:06] <exec> 08└─Are you saying the packager would have made a dog's dinner of it?
[13:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:08] <exec> 08└─Can't say that I care an awful lot. That employee with whom you are concerned has no consideration for his employer, for renewable resources, for the customer, or much of anything else. If he's only there for the paycheck, and doesn't care about anything else, then his life needs to be altered.
[13:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:10] <exec> 08└─Sure, the employee is behaving childishly and disrespectfully but my gut feel is that there is an underlying reason for this beyond the simple interpretation that the employee is a sorry excuse for a human being. I'll wager the employer is treating the employee disrespectfully and the employee is ac...
[13:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:12] <exec> 08└─I hate to break it to You, but this was probably packaged like this in order to fill an empty space in a truck somewhere. -- if it wasn't packaged by a machine, it was probably a machines decision to do so. Alternatively, it could also be explained with a lack of smaller boxes. And do not worry abou...
[13:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Plants Won't be Regulated - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:25] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when you suckle at the teat of evolution.
[13:46:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Valve Removed the Steam Machine Section from Steam - 718 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:46] <exec> 08└─I think the steam OS push was a reaction to the Windows 10 app store, Windows 8 RT, Windows S, and so on with all the signs pointing to Microsoft making a hard push to wall garden Windows, and in turn push Steam out. They saw the writing on the wall, and the steam OS was a way out for them. When Win...
[13:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:31] <exec> 08└─Nice try at alt history there, but the reason he was fired... *ahem* sorry, I meant "strongly encouraged to step down", was because of an artificial public outrage that forced Mozilla's hand. Maybe he would have been fired either way, but we don't have any good evidence to suggest so. Personally, gi...
[13:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:51] <exec> 08└─Employers don't want to employ people already. Employees are a cost. Employers want to reduce costs. (Which is why the "job creaters" rhetoric in big-busiiness-oriented politics is so laughably false.)
[13:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:52] <exec> 08└─Interesting that you consider non-starving employees a punishment for employers.
[13:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:54] <exec> 08└─Relying on the person at the counter leads to a wildly inconsistent experience. Sometimes you have a veteran that can whip through my kids' insanely complex customized requests as fast as they each speak. But sometimes you have to repeat yourself four times and then when you get the printed receipt...
[13:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:57] <exec> 08└─I'll add that if anyone is to blame for idiocy at a fast food restaurant, it's typically the owner. If there are buffoons working in important roles, it simply means they're not offering enough pay and benefits to attract competent staff.
[13:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NOAA Just Prevented SpaceX From Showing its Rocket in Orbit - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:30] <exec> 08└─The null hypothesis is that rules are unneeded. And the more potent the law, the more convincing the argument for it should be.
[13:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. National Institutes of Health Punishes Researchers Who Break Confidentiality of Peer Review - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:55] <exec> 08└─And guns lead to shootings.
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[14:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Talented 87-Year-Old Grandmother Creates Incredible Works of Art Using Microsoft Paint - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:49] <exec> 08└─Just like Grandma Moses [wikipedia.org] who took up painting when she was in her seventies. Her artwork has the simplicity and charm of classic adventure game background scenery graphics, which had to work with the limitations of the EGA palette, which is I think is just about what she's had to work...
[14:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Talented 87-Year-Old Grandmother Creates Incredible Works of Art Using Microsoft Paint - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:50] <exec> 08└─Or, you could take a picture and run it through a couple of clever filters...
[14:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Talented 87-Year-Old Grandmother Creates Incredible Works of Art Using Microsoft Paint - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:52] <exec> 08└─and more about the talent.
[14:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Talented 87-Year-Old Grandmother Creates Incredible Works of Art Using Microsoft Paint - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:54] <exec> 08└─The article breathlessly gushes, Control: The 87-year-old doesn't use a touch screen and does it all with just a mouse
[14:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:15] <exec> 08└─So it was centipede paper? ;-)
[14:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Plants Won't be Regulated - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:30] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, this is a subset of genetic modifications. This only applies to situations where the gene is either already naturally occuring in some strain of the species or where it could be introduced by crossing it with a similar species. Results that you could normally get via traditional...
[14:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Plants Won't be Regulated - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:31] <exec> 08└─we'd have significantly fewer humorous comments around here.
[14:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CRISPR Plants Won't be Regulated - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:33] <exec> 08└─In a zero sum game, that means it's gonna be a loss for the rest of the world.
[14:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CRISPR Plants Won't be Regulated - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:35] <exec> 08└─Round up is really bad for the soul.
[14:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hamsterdan [2829] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Removed the Steam Machine Section from Steam - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:01] <exec> 08└─They are all identical. My 2001 PS2 runs games exactly the same as the last one they made. Yes now they have two different PS4 and XB1, but not 25 different ones. THat's the strong point about consoles.
[14:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NOAA Just Prevented SpaceX From Showing its Rocket in Orbit - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:39] <exec> 08└─"SpaceX applied and received a license from NOAA that included conditions on their capability to live-stream from space. Conditions on Earth imaging to protect national security are common to all licenses for launches with on-orbit capabilities. " The fact that a license is required for sensing in o...
[14:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart Could Jump on the "Buy a Health Insurer" Trend with Humana Acquisition - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:09] <exec> 08└─Despite all the nonsensical propaganda about waiting times, other first world countries with single payer systems do not have 10,000+ people dying every year from preventable illnesses because they can't afford medical care, and nor do they have medical bankruptcies.
[14:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart Could Jump on the "Buy a Health Insurer" Trend with Humana Acquisition - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:11] <exec> 08└─Relax the throttling of AC comments, so that actual conversations can take place in a dynamic fashion.
[14:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smaller and Faster: The Terahertz Computer Chip is Now Within Reach - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:36] <exec> 08└─Give away the razor, and sell the blades!
[14:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smaller and Faster: The Terahertz Computer Chip is Now Within Reach - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:37] <exec> 08└─Less than one school bus. Which is approximately equal to less than one linear library of congress, or less than one linear elephant.
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[15:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mummy Found in 'Empty' Coffin Could be Egyptian High Priestess - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:49] <exec> 08└─In an overlooked container tucked away in one of another civilization's buildings? I bet Ms. Mer-Neith-it-es never thought so.
[15:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Talented 87-Year-Old Grandmother Creates Incredible Works of Art Using Microsoft Paint - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:01] <exec> 08└─Wacom actually makes [wacom.com] screen displays though you touch them with pens not fingers.
[15:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Talented 87-Year-Old Grandmother Creates Incredible Works of Art Using Microsoft Paint - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:03] <exec> 08└─It'd be a really clever filter. Maybe like that Google project [thenewstack.io] that reversed neural nets that were trained to look for objects, like say, bananas, so that they turned pictures into images of the things they were trained to look for. So train the neural net on hundreds of Grandma's...
[15:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:27] <exec> 08└─It seems to be a joke.
[15:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:28] <exec> 08└─And, you do realize that "poultry byproducts" generally consists of feather meal, and bone meal?
[15:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:30] <exec> 08└─The customer posted this video online and the likely result is the employee got fired. In a just world, the boss would ask "why?" and fix the issue but the world isn't exactly fair.
[15:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:33] <exec> 08└─My son, for his upcoming 28th birthday, is getting a power strip with lots of USB connectors for charging all those devices that these kids today have (music players, phones, tablets, etc.) It's wrapped, inside a box that's wrapped, inside a box that's wrapped, etc. finally in a box that a computer...
[15:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:35] <exec> 08└─I once received a 1x2x2 box. Rather large. I could not remember what I had ordered that would be that big. Opened it up and nothing but air pillows. Odd. Then taped to the bottom was the 2 pack of coin cell batteries. That is my packing story THE END.
[15:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Plants Won't be Regulated - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:52] <exec> 08└─This is the one point I was most worried about: "It doesn’t include transgenic plants (those with a gene from a distant species)—those will still be regulated." Although some may argue that it might be a good idea to make some fruits and vegetables addictive, I would prefer to stick as close a...
[15:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sopranica: an Open Source, DIY Cell Network - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:06] <exec> 08└─Tor usually encrypts things 4 times. Then sends it randomly through the network unencrptying the 'onion' as it goes. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] You are pretty much limited to the BW of your slowest link. So that it is slow is not surprising. Not because it overloads th...
[15:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:25] <exec> 08└─these scum you call employers are just leechers
[15:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NOAA Just Prevented SpaceX From Showing its Rocket in Orbit - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:01] <exec> 08└─Unless someone is consciously with malicious intent focusing on key spots on the earth
[15:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NOAA Just Prevented SpaceX From Showing its Rocket in Orbit - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:03] <exec> 08└─If they don't want pictures of the poles to get out its because they show the hole that leads to inner earth: https://www.mirror.co.uk [mirror.co.uk]
[15:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smaller and Faster: The Terahertz Computer Chip is Now Within Reach - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:01] <exec> 08└─back when RISC was
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[16:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mummy Found in 'Empty' Coffin Could be Egyptian High Priestess - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:45] <exec> 08└─We wuz quanez n sheeit. Nubian spice!
[16:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:19] <exec> 08└─According to this US Department of Labor CPI inflation calculator [bls.gov]. $3.20 per hour in July, 1982 would be $8.17 per hour today. Of course, who really trusts CPI?
[16:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:20] <exec> 08└─Reducing costs *is* a form of making money. Who do you think you're fooling with this disingenuous bullshit? The market is not God, and your continual advocacy of effectively feeding it a stream of slow-motion human sacrifices is not doing you any favors.
[16:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:22] <exec> 08└─You do not like green eggs and ham?
[16:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:24] <exec> 08└─Reducing costs *is* a form of making money.
[16:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:27] <exec> 08└─I should say rather "a" dark side, since that isn't the only drawback to bad labor policy.
[16:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:29] <exec> 08└─Slavery is cheap labor too, so why don't we do that? Jesus, do you ever THINK about the implications of the shit you say?!
[16:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. National Institutes of Health Punishes Researchers Who Break Confidentiality of Peer Review - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:36] <exec> 08└─We used the blog as an opportunity to remind all of us how important it is that we all do our utmost to assure the integrity of peer review. Failure to do so, we wrote, will “result in needless expenditure of government funds and resources, and erode the public trust in science.”
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[17:46:19] <exec> 08└─Sure, the employee is behaving childishly and disrespectfully but my gut feel is that there is an underlying reason for this beyond the simple interpretation that the employee is a sorry excuse for a human being. I'll wager the employer is treating the employee disrespectfully and the employee is ac...
[17:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:29] <exec> 08└─I doubt it's funny to the person sending it.
[17:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:31] <exec> 08└─Meters, feet, inches, or centimeters?
[17:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:28] <exec> 08└─it is no longer convenient and fast if I have to register my real name through multiple services in order for something to remember for me on a privacy violating leash device that gives the illusion of freedoms (tied to a credit history and travel history and call log and contact list harvesting) th...
[17:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:29] <exec> 08└─Slavery is cheap labor too, so why don't we do that?
[17:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:32] <exec> 08└─definitely classy, must be a midwestern chicago vintage?
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[18:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Orange Snow Created "Martian Landscape" at Russian Winter Olympics Resort - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:52] <exec> 08└─Reality: Putin paying codified homage to "puppet Cheeto Hitler".
[18:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Talented 87-Year-Old Grandmother Creates Incredible Works of Art Using Microsoft Paint - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:13] <exec> 08└─Abso-fucking-lutely. MS paint is a crime against humanity.
[18:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Talented 87-Year-Old Grandmother Creates Incredible Works of Art Using Microsoft Paint - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:15] <exec> 08└─"Only old people use Facebook." That can't be a good sign for the future, which is great actually.
[18:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:46] <exec> 08└─yes
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[18:46:47] <exec> 08└─The working class needs to organize. Childish actions will do nothing to help.
[18:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:50] <exec> 08└─Rods.
[18:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CRISPR Plants Won't be Regulated - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:08] <exec> 08└─"Although some may argue that it might be a good idea to make some fruits and vegetables addictive, I would prefer to stick as close as possible to the genetic makeup that has evolved at the same time that we have." Still, mankind's internal feedback mechanisms no longer match the realities of his...
[18:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:18] <exec> 08└─I use Firefox, too. But version 56. I get constantly nagged about updates, but I'l keep it as long as possible. It's just too many extensions that are no longer supported (nor supportable) in newer Firefox versions.
[18:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:52] <exec> 08└─But starvation wages, lack of benefits, and so on don't? In the name of not putting one's thumb on the scales, as you put it, you'd deregulate business entirely to the point that even slavery would be preferable as at least the slaves were housed (poorly) and fed (poorly)? How many times do I need t...
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[18:50:31] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I wonder if the astronauts on the space station got permits for their cameras in orbit :-p I know this is a foreign concept to government agencies, but seriously....word it so non-security impacting use is not subject to needless restriction and administrative overhead "cameras which do not...
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[19:45:51] <exec> 08└─I had a very short look at Mycroft's website. The word "privacy" does not appear there. What does appear, however, is that as the first step of getting your device to run, you have to "register" with their server to be able to "configure" the device. Yeah, right. Come on, I was actually interested a...
[19:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:52] <exec> 08└─These devices are totally useless for all but the most meaningless tasks. It's just gimmicky trash.
[19:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but Louder With Crouther gets the chance to make hilarious vids with them, so it's not all bad.
[19:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:56] <exec> 08└─These devices are totally useless to the owner for all but the most meaningless tasks.
[19:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:59] <exec> 08└─Come on, I was actually interested and you scared me away in 90 seconds! *disappointed*
[19:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:01] <exec> 08└─Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do
[19:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:03] <exec> 08└─These devices are totally useless for all but the most meaningless tasks. It's just gimmicky trash.
[19:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:05] <exec> 08└─Alexa... Alexa...... ALEXA! oh right, I'm not an idiot. I don't but stupid shit.
[19:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mummy Found in 'Empty' Coffin Could be Egyptian High Priestess - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:21] <exec> 08└─Where my body will be in 2618 years: Split up into its component parts a long long time ago. Probably via the "take all the good pieces, then burn the rest" method. I'd be far more impressed if anyone bothered to remember my name after all that time.
[19:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:10] <exec> 08└─Not sure about dogs but I've seen alley cats pick apart pigeons clean while leaving all the bones and feathers intact so I'm guessing the processing to produce digestible proteins out of bones and feathers must be some very long cooking times at the very least.
[19:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06mozilla.org is 20 Years Old - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe try Firefox ESR? That way you'll get at least some of the security fixes. https://www.mozilla.org [mozilla.org]
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[20:45:48] <exec> 08└─Be friendly. Stop antagonizing the rest of the world; make friendship far more productive than revenge. Be realistic. Get rid of the welfare state; the people coming to the U.S. need to be productive people who want to pay their own way and thereby contribute to society.
[20:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:49] <exec> 08└─I don't have any social media accounts. I used to have a Facebook account but suspended that (couldn't delete it) after about 10 years of inactivity. I wonder if that's an option on the visa application: no social media.
[20:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:51] <exec> 08└─Then you will have moral standing for not having other religious nutjobs come here and expect you to conform to their beliefs just like you made the natives here conform to yours.
[20:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:53] <exec> 08└─terrorist watchlist, since anti-consumerist behavior is the same as being a terrorist. You're scaring them into thinking they can't monetize you and that is downright unamerican and a threat to their way of life! I wish I were kidding. Be a true patriot and show how much of a consumerist whore you a...
[20:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:56] <exec> 08└─Even though I don't have any social media accounts, I do have a solution to this problem that works just great for me: simply don't visit the USA. Why should I help them with their balance of payments by giving them invisible exports? Canada - sure, looking forward to a trip, but their southern neig...
[20:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:58] <exec> 08└─But they know from fb data reports that you indeed have an account. Then they deny your visa. Up to you whether coming to America is that important to you or not. Other countries like China and Russia are annoying to get visas for, so I don't go.
[20:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:00] <exec> 08└─You have the option of coming without a visa by taking a tunnel from Mexico. Eventually you dreamer will get amnesty, then citizenship.
[20:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:02] <exec> 08└─Soylent is social media....
[20:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:17] <exec> 08└─That is not quite true. It appears that Mycroft is heavily reliant on being "paired", that is, registered. It is also pretty reliant on being internet connected, to make use of various services, such as the wikipedia. BUT - browsing the forums, I found this thread - https://community.mycroft.ai
[20:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:19] <exec> 08└─... then that's all I need to know.
[20:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:21] <exec> 08└─This got a minor mention in TFS and linked to an IndieGogo page. The github page [github.com] is much more informative.
[20:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:23] <exec> 08└─No. I also don't need a masters in biology to conclude that if it looks like a lion, I shouldn't pull it's tail. BTW: I did have another look at their site. The text-to-speech runs on their servers. Game over.
[20:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:25] <exec> 08└─Exactly. You will lose the small, simple functionality of speech recognition. Which is, like, the whole point of the whole thing. Yes, you can replace the speech recognizer. With a different speech recognizer running on somebody else's servers. Doh. Hint: the number of freely available speech recogn...
[20:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? - 3237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:27] <exec> 08└─Wiretap Act. [lawyers.com] This is a legal minefield, and companies who set out to do this risk HUGE fines and criminal liability. IANAL, so take this all with a grain of salt, but I'm somewhat familiar with the topic, so... For this device to listen in on communication in a home (where people have...
[20:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Orange Snow Created "Martian Landscape" at Russian Winter Olympics Resort - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:36] <exec> 08└─How long till CNN drops an insinuation that it was Trump's fault that made Russian snow meddling possible?
[20:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mummy Found in 'Empty' Coffin Could be Egyptian High Priestess - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'll be ash, and part of the carbon cycle. Your great^100 grandchildren will be breathing me.
[20:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mummy Found in 'Empty' Coffin Could be Egyptian High Priestess - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:49] <exec> 08└─He added: "Peering into the casket, we were astonished by what we saw: far from residual scraps, the coffin was filled with a miscellany of bones, bandages, beads and other materials." He said: "While the remains inside the Mer-Neith-it-es coffin were indeed mixed, the scanner detected two mummified...
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[20:47:04] <exec> 08└─Indeed, and the earlier (mid-00s) IBM thinkpad tablet/laptop hybrids actually had a wacom screen, meaning that you can repurpose the laptop as an excellent artists tool, for much less than the equivalent size wacom screen/tablet combo. As a bonus it was well supported under Linux too.
[20:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:40] <exec> 08└─Actually if you look at the ingredients in many processed meats, you will find "mechanically separated" chicken or turkey which is basically the same shit as the dog food. You won't find mechanically separated beef anymore as it has been outlawed due to contributing to mad cow disease. There are man...
[20:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Plants Won't be Regulated - 1139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:00] <exec> 08└─But the lack of regulation plants that could otherwise have been developed through traditional breeding techniques means that big agriculture simply can't prove that Joe Farmer who never bought or farmed near their seed stock didn't develop it by traditional methods. If Joe has a little side plot wh...
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[20:48:01] <exec> 08└─situations where the gene is either already naturally occuring in some strain of the species
[20:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sopranica: an Open Source, DIY Cell Network - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:15] <exec> 08└─FCC will stamp this down. "This will essentially involve people hosting small, inexpensive radio devices in their home that plug into their routers to provide internet access points to Sopranica users in the area."
[20:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Health Dept in Breach for Publishing Data of 2.5 Million People - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:46] <exec> 08└─Someday, somehow, America will have a Privacy Commissioner too.
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[21:45:47] <exec> 08└─We already have touch screens on our phones and we can fling apps around just like they did in Minority Report. We already have individually targeted advertising just like they did in Minority Report. We already have a police state where ordinary citizens are presumed guilty of terrorism just like t...
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[21:45:49] <exec> 08└─I'd rather have robot spiders like in Stargate SG-1 go around and eat all the metal and spray acid in everyone's faces, killing them horribly. April Foe's
[21:46:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 332 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:00] <exec> 08└─Even though I don't have any social media accounts, I do have a solution to this problem that works just great for me: simply don't visit the USA. Why should I help them with their balance of payments by giving them invisible exports? Canada - sure, looking forward to a trip, but their southern neig...
[21:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:04] <exec> 08└─Just don't put AC on the application. They'll think you are one fast typing schizophrenic.
[21:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:07] <exec> 08└─In what reality is the US a welfare state... Oh wait today is April 1st.
[21:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:09] <exec> 08└─Other countries like China and Russia are annoying to get visas for
[21:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:11] <exec> 08└─i would have a hard time remembering every email from every contract job I've had in the last five years. Some places issue emails your.name@ as well as yname@, y.name@ but you only ever use one of them. Which ones count?
[21:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:13] <exec> 08└─https://www.heritage.org/node/10859/print-display
[21:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:44] <exec> 08└─Once a week, I get a bunch of ads in my mailbox. There's about a dozen ads from grocers alone, plus car dealers, furniture stores, restaurants, and TV content companies. For decades, before there was bubble wrap or foam sheeting on a roll or packing peanuts, folks used such "newsprint" for packing m...
[21:49:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:47] <exec> 08└─The terminals reduce interaction with other humans. Of course Soylantis approve.
[21:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:53] <exec> 08└─Hey - don't get +1 insightfuls just by rewording my post!!!yksi!!yksi!! Nah, only jesting, happy to see any hit-him-with-the-you're-a-dimbo-stick posts. It takes the weight off my back, and I'm not sure I want to interact too much as I think he's stalking me.
[21:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are McDonald's Kiosks Better Than Real Cashiers? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:54] <exec> 08└─> Who really thinks that is true? When companies announce massive layoffs, share prices rise. That means a lot of people think it's true, in particular, influential people.
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[22:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Festo's New Bionic Robots Include Rolling Spider, Flying Fox - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:52] <exec> 08└─I'd rather have clingy robot women that hug you to death like in Stargate Atlantis.
[22:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Festo's New Bionic Robots Include Rolling Spider, Flying Fox - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:54] <exec> 08└─Festo has been pushing into motion control and robotics for quite some time. But for many years they were only known for pneumatics meaning compressed air systems such as filters, pressure regulators, valves, air cylinders, actuators and more. And for many in the industrial automation sector, Festo...
[22:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, please stay away. (No disrespect intended). Financial punishment is the only thing the US government understands. There is a 20 Billion Monthly INFLOW of travel related expenditures by visitors to the US. This is balanced by a 15 Billion Dollar Monthly OUTFLOW of money to other countries when U...
[22:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:15] <exec> 08└─social media handles any telephone numbers and email addresses used
[22:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:17] <exec> 08└─... 'cause I don't think they'd ever let me in based on just stuff I've written right here on Soylentnews, let alone the more radical sites I comment at.
[22:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:19] <exec> 08└─The wall just got ten feet higher.
[22:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:22] <exec> 08└─That's according to the Cato Institute, in 2014 or the like. The Federal Government alone spends upwards of $700 billion per year.
[22:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:42] <exec> 08└─...how people buy these spy devices with a trust in the manufacturers that nothing other than their own preconceived expectations are occurring, then get all creeped out and upset when some whistleblower blows the lid on nefarious uses of their highly private activities or info. These are surveillan...
[22:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Authorizes SpaceX to Provide Broadband Satellite Services - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:37] <exec> 08└─We only have one cable option, Spectrum and they top out at 23 and despite all their advertising they are not going to upgrade the infrastructure here in Yuma. I can get a Century link connection but that is barely 15 mbps here. In California I grew used to my 50-60 mbps connection through Astound(W...
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[23:45:51] <exec> 08└─But seriously, i want that bionics4education-kit
[23:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:16] <exec> 08└─I routinely visit Canada, both for work and to visit friends. I have noticed a distinct increase in security and suspicion when crossing into Eastern Canada, though the borders in Western Canada are still relatively low key. Crossing into Mexico is a breeze, but coming back is a royal pain in the as...
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[23:46:17] <exec> 08└─...You're scaring them into thinking they can't monetize you and that is downright unamerican... Be a true patriot...
[23:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:20] <exec> 08└─I don't have any social media accounts.
[23:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:22] <exec> 08└─Well definitely now that you just called yourself out.
[23:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_bad_influence [3854] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:44] <exec> 08└─Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL? HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you. Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. Dave Bowman: What's the problem? HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. Dave Bowman: What are you tal...
[23:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Talented 87-Year-Old Grandmother Creates Incredible Works of Art Using Microsoft Paint - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:20] <exec> 08└─Imagine what this old lady could do with an advanced tool, like an Etch-A-Sketch :)
[23:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Talented 87-Year-Old Grandmother Creates Incredible Works of Art Using Microsoft Paint - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:21] <exec> 08└─OldFartBook?
[23:47:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 558 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:36] <exec> 08└─What this says to me is that an Amazon employee is fed up with their employer, and is waging a petty, useless, one-person war against The Man. The customer posted this video online and the likely result is the employee got fired. In a just world, the boss would ask "why?" and fix the issue but the w...
[23:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:59] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSU3N-IW3p0 [youtube.com]
[23:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Health Dept in Breach for Publishing Data of 2.5 Million People - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:07] <exec> 08└─Do they even have that many people?
[23:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smaller and Faster: The Terahertz Computer Chip is Now Within Reach - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:47] <exec> 08└─Have you accounted for the refractive index? For silicon, it varies with wavelength [refractiveindex.info] (near UV is a whooping 6.7, absorbs quite strong under 200nm), in vis is around to 4.
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