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[00:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:20] <exec> 08└─I admit that 720 lines is noticeably better than 480 lines, depending on the content. However, 480 is quite acceptable for the typical movie. 1080 usually doesn't look much better than 720, so that I've wondered if the 1080 content I've seen is actually 720 that's been upscaled. Genuine 1080 looks a...
[00:35:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:31] <exec> 08└─The NYPD will [pay damages and] pledge to end religious-based surveillance, as part of a settlement with New Jersey Muslims
[00:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:33] <exec> 08└─Some select people from the following groups claim that they are terrorists (or words to that effect) *because* of their membership in, or the beliefs of, the group: -(Mostly) white militia members -Irish Christians (prod, cath, don't seem to matter) -Muslim extremists
[00:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. and North Korean Representatives Holding Secret Talks to Plan for Summit - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:47] <exec> 08└─and here I thought Vantucky was gonna get nuked when I was enjoying my days off in Portland.
[00:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. and North Korean Representatives Holding Secret Talks to Plan for Summit - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:48] <exec> 08└─while foreign wars are good for the American oligarchs, nuclear strikes on their factories and warehouses would ruin their whole day.
[00:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. and North Korean Representatives Holding Secret Talks to Plan for Summit - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:51] <exec> 08└─Then why the hell is has until now Trump continued to leave the position of United States Ambassador to South Korea vacant? Breaking with tradition, he basically ordered all of Obama's former ambassadors recalled immediately as he took office, but after nearly two years he still hasn't appointed new...
[00:36:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 397 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:02] <exec> 08└─Eh, I personally really like precedents set that force corporate responsibility. Too many businesses hide their bad practices then throw lots of money at lawyers to get rid of lawsuits. You more conservative types tend to be all about personal responsibility EXCEPT for any profit motivated business....
[00:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:19] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. There does not have to be a Big Chair. It is possible for an organization to operate without singling out one person to be The Leader. Airlines have learned that "the captain is God" is not as effective as giving the other pilots more input and discretion. Too many times, a crash happened...
[00:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:20] <exec> 08└─How does general release come before decision and implementation? No, wait, don't answer that. I really don't wanna know.
[00:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:23] <exec> 08└─What I would do then is just hash my password per site, and use that hash as the password. Still won't stop people from logging in once they have the plaintext password, but at least they can't use the password, or even brute force it as they won't have any clue how it was derived to begin with.
[00:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:25] <exec> 08└─Tie their personal earnings to the company's profits starting from zero on both.
[00:37:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Medical Cannabis Still Faces Many Hurdles in the U.S. - 361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:36] <exec> 08└─Gotta keep the prison industrial complex fed. Gotta keep big pharma funded. Gotta keep giving the police state a reason to exist. If we don't do that, things might actually start to get better for the 99.99%*, and we can't have that now can we? *The .01% has absolutely no problem whatsoever getting...
[00:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Medical Cannabis Still Faces Many Hurdles in the U.S. - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:59] <exec> 08└─Lack of access to opioids, for some, is also a death sentence. February, 2018 update of PAIN RELATED SUICIDES associated with opioid pain medication reductions and discontinuations as recommended by the CDC : https://medium.com
[00:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Spokesman Dismisses Criticism of Journalist Database - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[00:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Spokesman Dismisses Criticism of Journalist Database - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:42] <exec> 08└─Once again - the most famous "crime", that Collateral Murder video, was no crime at all. Manning is a traitor.
[00:39:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06'Being Cash-Free Puts Us at Risk of Attack': Swedes Turn Against Cashlessness - 629 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:17] <exec> 08└─We have the same push here.. all the benefits that belong to it (according to the shop organisations that push it). The one fact that they seem to forget continuously is that on a monthly basis one or two banks (you know, the big ones) have at least one or two times problems with their payment infra...
[00:39:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06'Being Cash-Free Puts Us at Risk of Attack': Swedes Turn Against Cashlessness - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:18] <exec> 08└─There are different causes to paranoia
[00:39:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06'Being Cash-Free Puts Us at Risk of Attack': Swedes Turn Against Cashlessness - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:21] <exec> 08└─Consider soldiers who never lose their cool
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[01:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:22] <exec> 08└─720p is a good minimum. 480p can go away. 1080p for something you really want to pop, and anything higher for VR.
[01:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:23] <exec> 08└─I haven't watched a TV broadcast in 10 years. And I watch a lot of TV. I make a habit to follow at least five shows regularly. I get all of my TV content in pirated streams. I know one person who still watches broadcast TV. Her brain was rotted away by the idiot box. All she can do now is sing the J...
[01:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:25] <exec> 08└─I watch videos at the lowest possible resolution. Most movies are propaganda anyway, containing subliminal messages paid for by TLAs and special interest groups in order to change people's perception of reality. And of course, shiny turds get the attention for the moment. 4K now, then 6K and then 8K...
[01:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:28] <exec> 08└─I have a structured settlement, and I need cash now. CALL J. G. WENTWORTH! 877-CASH-NOW I have an annuity, and I need cash now. CALL J. G. WENTWORTH! 877-CASH-NOW 877-CASH-NOW 877-CASH-NOW
[01:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:31] <exec> 08└─480 is quite acceptable
[01:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:34] <exec> 08└─Yup. I save time and money by listening to 64kbps audio. You gotta pay for the extra quality. Sucks to be you. Hope you're rich.
[01:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. and North Korean Representatives Holding Secret Talks to Plan for Summit - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:02] <exec> 08└─Trump has negative decorum.
[01:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. and North Korean Representatives Holding Secret Talks to Plan for Summit - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:04] <exec> 08└─I don't think the Democrats even have the Congressional clout to block Trump's desired appointments to these countries. The Republicans have 238 seats in the House to the Democrats 193, and the Senate there are 51 R's to 47 D's.
[01:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. and North Korean Representatives Holding Secret Talks to Plan for Summit - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:06] <exec> 08└─Still, after two years Trump really ought to have already gotten a proper Ambassador to South Korea no matter how hard the Dems try to block his choices. On the contrary, it doesn't look like he's even trying to get anyone else to fill the post. Besides Victor Cha, whom he withdrew after policy disa...
[01:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. and North Korean Representatives Holding Secret Talks to Plan for Summit - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:08] <exec> 08└─Besides Victor Cha, whom he withdrew after policy disagreements, he hasn't even put forward anyone else for appointment.
[01:36:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 244 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:19] <exec> 08└─Stupid amounts of money to a couple of random people, based on weak facts but lots of emotion. The great American justice lottery system at work. This will be appealed, of course. Most likely, in the end, the only winners will be the lawyers...
[01:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:23] <exec> 08└─it was known to be not safe
[01:36:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:33] <exec> 08└─At what point does this become criminally negligent?
[01:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:43] <exec> 08└─Equifax has about $3b a year revenue, $120m fines per data breach (so that's how many trillion for losing an entire country?) should impact those profit figures somewhat.
[01:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:44] <exec> 08└─> I drive around... So you admit to using the roads, which were built by the government with tax money. Or are you driving cross country on a dirt bike??
[01:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:46] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the Radium Ore Revigorator [wikipedia.org], is essential for white teeth - yeah, sure, they may no longer be stuck in your gums, but they will be a brilliant white. Oh, yes, supplement it with Radithor [wikipedia.org] - "a cure for the living dead" and a "perpetual sunshine". On the oth...
[01:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DHS Spokesman Dismisses Criticism of Journalist Database - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:04] <exec> 08└─Murder is not a crime? Just what are you smoking?
[01:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Tampering With Users’ Inboxes - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:17] <exec> 08└─Evidence?
[01:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Can't Help Without Your Data, Says Gartner, So Share, Share, Share! - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:56] <exec> 08└─When it comes to propaganda services, absolutely. I would hire Putin's team over Cambridge Analytica every time.
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[02:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:19] <exec> 08└─educate the women.
[02:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:20] <exec> 08└─A malaria-diagnosing scanner is as important as general relativity? I'm gonna have to hold my sub-lightspeed thumb down on this. Way down.
[02:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:22] <exec> 08└─Look at it this way: how many potential Einsteins did we possibly lose to malaria? These tropical diseases are right bastards, some of the most deadly in the world when you take them in the aggregate.
[02:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:25] <exec> 08└─...says the man who trolls the internet for ignorant brides. You're a despicable hypocrite, Crawford.
[02:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:27] <exec> 08└─The Tim Cocks and Mark Fuckerbergs of the world need somewhere cheap to outsource their workers. America is a poverty stricken shithole full of entitled lazy assholes who demand $10/hour, too high! Chinese would rather kill themselves than work for Tim Cock, those ungrateful yellow scum. Indians are...
[02:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:40] <exec> 08└─It's not "more expensive". Just buy used CDs for pennies, rip them, and encode to FLAC. The highest quality you'll ever need, for basically nothing.
[02:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:42] <exec> 08└─I used to watch DVDs on a computer with a VGA monitor long before "HD" television. When I saw the earlier tube-based HD TVs with HD programming, it hardly seemed like a big deal. The shift from analog signals to digital was what made the bigger difference, even on old analog TVs. Point is there is a...
[02:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:55] <exec> 08└─Well for starters how can a group that lacks any authority get in trouble by abusing it. I am all for religious freedom and an avid supporter of immigration, it keeps this country strong and vital. I do have an issue with some communities that come to America and expect the US to conform to their st...
[02:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:56] <exec> 08└─Instead of overtly demanding that the U.S. conform, the LDS set up genealogy websites and are collecting everyone's DNA so they can do the sickest things to it. I got an email from ancestry.com just the other day. Muslims need to take a look at what LDS/Mormons are doing.
[02:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:33] <exec> 08└─IF YOU OR A LOVED ONE HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH MESOTHELIOMA, YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO FINANCIAL COMPENSATION!!!!! CALL GERBILIUS LAW FIRM AT 1 (800) FIST - DOG TODAY FOR A FREE CONSULTATION
[02:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:34] <exec> 08└─My wife only ever used billiard chalk for years. She always kept up with all this OTC product contamination.
[02:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:57] <exec> 08└─I think most conservatives agree with government paying for security, just not wellfare. Your argument is invalid.
[02:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:59] <exec> 08└─Call it what you like, someone has to sit in the big chair and make the hard decisions. And they're going to want paid and paid well for it.
[02:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:01] <exec> 08└─1) Government demands taxes for roads. 2) $self pays taxes demanded of him 3) $self owes nothing further either morally or monetarily and may use roads as he sees fit
[02:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:04] <exec> 08└─It has nothing to do with liberty is how. The board of directors and the CEO are the only ones involved in his employment contract. If the board wants to write shitty contracts without penalties for shitty performance, that's their business. If I were their shareholder I'd damned sure make it my bus...
[02:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:06] <exec> 08└─Possible != desirable. Get more than three people together and they won't even be able to decide what pizza toppings to get in a timely manner. One person is best where the job can be done by one person.
[02:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:08] <exec> 08└─I'm talking managing the company well or not from a profit perspective. Ordering illegal acts is itself illegal and needs no further legislation. Ordering astoundingly foolish acts is not and should never be.
[02:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:10] <exec> 08└─The best form of government would be the benevolent tyrant. A person who is honorable and could be depended on to stand by his or her word. The problem with that is that such a person if not mythical is so rare they might as well be mythical, and that if you even found one, what would the chances of...
[02:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:13] <exec> 08└─So why don't they make the hard decisions ? Instead they make the profit, reap the rewards and deny the responsibility all in one breath.
[02:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:15] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to make me wet myself laughing or what? At least put a warning up top the next time you drop a lulzbomb like that!
[02:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:17] <exec> 08└─He doesn't have a coherent political position. What he does have is bits of barstool wisdom like "All taxation is theft." That, and an ego the size of Mt. Rushmore that leaves him with much too high an opinion of himself and his own worldview.
[02:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:19] <exec> 08└─Isn't Equifax the body behind the company that charges to fix the problem that Equifax created ? Seems like a self supporting industry that makes money off every angle. They collect the info, hire the hackers to heist the info and profit from the sale, then profit again when the credit monitoring se...
[02:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:22] <exec> 08└─No, really. Go for it. You have yet to beat me with a rational argument in any discussion we've ever had. I'm interested, but not hopeful, to see if you can back up your shit for a change.
[02:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:24] <exec> 08└─s/All/Involuntary/ If you're going to speak for me, do so correctly.
[02:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:27] <exec> 08└─And if your are their customer? Or a person affected by their "dump of externalities"? Like polluting your drinking water [onearth.org] to keep up with the Chinese appetite for spam or delivering it by means that make it toxic [wikipedia.org]? Or even lobbying and making a profit from poisoning you...
[02:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medical Cannabis Still Faces Many Hurdles in the U.S. - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:02] <exec> 08└─Was the long-term opiate use you witnessed with prescription under medical supervision, or illegal? There's going to be a vast difference between a patient who takes a pill or two 2-3 times/day & sees their doctor every 6 months, and a junkie who is abusing opiates. There's also the problem of destr...
[02:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Spokesman Dismisses Criticism of Journalist Database - 2014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:47] <exec> 08└─You saw no murder in that video. You saw combat troops engaging a combat unit. The reporters were EMBEDDED INTO that combat unit. There was no war crime, there was no murder. Even the children who were injured does not constitute any war crime, because whoever was in the van brought those children i...
[02:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Spokesman Dismisses Criticism of Journalist Database - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:49] <exec> 08└─Nonetheless, he had a right under natural law to expose that video. That does not make him a traitor. No government has the right to kill people and conceal that fact. National law be damned.
[02:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Atlanta CDC Researcher Found Dead in Chattahoochee River - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:48] <exec> 08└─Not seeing anything offtopic in my post (blacks/browns/poors), why did I get modded offtopic? You can disagree, or troll. But offtopic? IMHO black/brown/poor having Bad Things Happening (TM) to them is not offtopic. TLDR; I disagree with my moderation, deal.
[02:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Atlanta CDC Researcher Found Dead in Chattahoochee River - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:49] <exec> 08└─STARRING BRAD PITT, VIN DIESEL, MICHAEL JACKSON, BILL COSBY, ROBIN WILLIAMS, AND KEVIN SPACEY, THE KNOWLEDGE VIRUS
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[03:35:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 18 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:18] <exec> 08└─educate the women.
[03:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:24] <exec> 08└─Anyone smart enough to be the next Einstein already left the country as soon as they possibly could.
[03:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:26] <exec> 08└─Education works for men too when it comes to slowing population growth. In educated families, parental planing is a matter of family decision rather than an unilateral one.
[03:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:28] <exec> 08└─The Tim Cocks and Mark Fuckerbergs of the world need somewhere cheap to outsource their workers. ... Chinese would rather kill themselves than work for Tim Cock, those ungrateful yellow scum.
[03:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:30] <exec> 08└─You can thank Trump because the Rwandan Einstein didn't flee to America like Albert Einstein did back when American really was great again.
[03:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:33] <exec> 08└─Cocks/Fucks! Ow! My Balls!
[03:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:35] <exec> 08└─Anyone smart enough to be the next Einstein already left the country as soon as they possibly could.
[03:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:37] <exec> 08└─Another win for Trump! [The above is humor. It's not a recent issue caused solely by Trump -- previous administrations have ignored Africa too, with the exception of flying drones over various countries in the continent]
[03:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:39] <exec> 08└─Nobody would ever use the term Einstein in conjunction with Rwanda. They've barely been stripped out of the trees.
[03:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:41] <exec> 08└─Log the fuck in, drunk fuck.
[03:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:44] <exec> 08└─You're saying marrying one of us half nuts tech weirdos won't be an educational experience for her?
[03:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 1316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:59] <exec> 08└─I too am coming up on 10 years. I turned it off because of the commercials. The endless commercials. The content was no longer there. Take for example a classic star trek episode. 53-54 minutes. Current 1 hour TV shows clock in at 47. Half Hour at 22. Then the sponsored bits buried inside. For examp...
[03:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. and North Korean Representatives Holding Secret Talks to Plan for Summit - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:34] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of believing it when I saw the headline earlier today. It would have been interesting. I decided to hover over the links this time, and they're CIA/democrat sources. Something else is going on. Maybe the elites are fine with having a strongman in charge when World War 3 begins. Move 5...
[03:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. and North Korean Representatives Holding Secret Talks to Plan for Summit - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:35] <exec> 08└─We want good ambassadors. Good ones are people with active careers. They aren't going to want to sit on their asses waiting for a confirmation vote that may never come. The delay is actively hurting the process by making good candidates find other things to do with their careers. At the current rate...
[03:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:54] <exec> 08└─Eh, I personally really like precedents set that force corporate responsibility. Too many businesses hide their bad practices then throw lots of money at lawyers to get rid of lawsuits.
[03:37:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:48] <exec> 08└─I drive around Thanks! My Saudi oil buddies love ya, man!
[03:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:31] <exec> 08└─This is the first time I've ever heard or seen you qualify that. In the past it's always been a flat-out condemnation of the entire idea of taxation.
[03:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:33] <exec> 08└─You don't actually have anything you can argue against, is the problem: you have dogma. There is no more changing your mind than that of a fundamentalist Muslim, and for much the same reason: you, like the Abrahamic partisan, are an idolator and barely even half-understand what it is you say you bel...
[03:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:35] <exec> 08└─You seem to think "ha ha, you didn't change my mind" is the same as "i'm right and you're wrong."
[03:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:37] <exec> 08└─Then you sue. Or press charges. Or both. Illegal acts are illegal acts. Ordering illegal acts is also a prosecutable crime, regardless of the letters by your name (unless those letters spell "Sen.", "Rep.", or the like). If you don't like that some things are not currently illegal, there is a proper...
[03:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:40] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. Like everyone else, I'm not always utterly precise. I have zero issue with voluntary taxation except possibly minor debates on specific rates. My issue is with the use of force to compel anyone to give you money. Done by anyone but a government, that is a crime. Why is it suddenly moral...
[03:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medical Cannabis Still Faces Many Hurdles in the U.S. - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:16] <exec> 08└─The elders also know that a population with access to cannabis is difficult to interest in wars.
[03:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DHS Spokesman Dismisses Criticism of Journalist Database - 3822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:03] <exec> 08└─"You saw no murder in that video." Yes, I did. I'm not blind. "You saw combat troops engaging a combat unit." No, I definitely did not. I did not watch it under the influence of hallucinogens, however, is that what you recommend? "The reporters were EMBEDDED INTO that combat unit." No, they were mov...
[03:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Spokesman Dismisses Criticism of Journalist Database - 1477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:05] <exec> 08└─Have you bothered to read any evaluations or commentary that isn't just hateful of the US and it's military? The wikipedia page is rather neutral, try it: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Even Wikileaks admits that there were armed men among those shot at...
[03:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Spokesman Dismisses Criticism of Journalist Database - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:07] <exec> 08└─We disagree, arcz. Manning's first loyalty should be to his country, his second loyalty should be to his unit. He betrayed his unit. I'll not forgive or forget Manning's betrayal - nor will I forgive or forget his motivations. Manning was a discipline problem long before he betrayed his unit, going...
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[04:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:19] <exec> 08└─It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout
[04:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:20] <exec> 08└─That would be wild if free software websites became hidden service only. Criminalizing debuggers and root access is next. All so that news can be completely simulated by a 21st century propaganda machine. What if the MAFIAA's stupidity about electronic music distribution was all part of a long con?
[04:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:22] <exec> 08└─The free software community, or at least the loudest assholes thereof, are some of the most censorious shitheads on the planet lately.
[04:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:25] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about?
[04:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:27] <exec> 08└─Search up "Contributor Covenant" for starters. It's just the first example that comes to mind of many, many instances of "the free software community" thinking free speech means the freedom to agree with them or be destroyed.
[04:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:48] <exec> 08└─Probably few to none. Malaria is primarily found in areas where the average IQ is around 80. It's still worth getting rid of, just not because we're losing amazing scientific minds to it.
[04:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:50] <exec> 08└─Ignoring Africa is kind of their job. Unless the US people have something to gain by it, they have no business spending tax dollars overseas. I'm not saying there aren't worthwhile goals around the world, just that it is not the US government's job to fund them with tax money. It is simply outside t...
[04:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:52] <exec> 08└─Unless the US people have something to gain by it, they have no business spending tax dollars overseas.
[04:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:54] <exec> 08└─Sorry, TMB, it certainly would be for me :)
[04:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:11] <exec> 08└─Right now when royalty free standards like AV1 are trying to get a foothold. Guess who's gonna win this one?
[04:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:26] <exec> 08└─In a 2013 Poll (Reference: http://www.pewforum.org) [pewforum.org] 81% of US Muslims said violence is never justified to "defend" Islam. This is of course a poll, sometimes people lie.
[04:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:48] <exec> 08└─Then you sue. Or press charges. Or both
[04:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:50] <exec> 08└─...how often you've seen any CxO made to pay over negligent or criminal behavior?
[04:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medical Cannabis Still Faces Many Hurdles in the U.S. - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:28] <exec> 08└─Why would there be burn spots on my stuff and violent dealers? The budtender at the dispensary I go to is really friendly and helpful. There's not much in my garage besides the structure itself, so furniture has never been a problem. I don't allow smoke of any kind (tobacco/cannabis/herbal) inside m...
[04:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DHS Spokesman Dismisses Criticism of Journalist Database - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:19] <exec> 08└─"The wikipedia page is rather neutral" No, it's not, not even close. It's a tendentious apologia filled with nonsense, you even noticed some of it "They claim that it is unclear whether the journalists were killed by US fire or by Iriaq insurgents. Even the most ignorant people watching that video c...
[04:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DHS Spokesman Dismisses Criticism of Journalist Database - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:20] <exec> 08└─Nonetheless, he had a right under natural law to expose that video.
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[05:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:25] <exec> 08└─The Contributor Covenant, from my understanding, is an attempt by Social Warrior Bullies to impose their will on the free software community and has mainly been in issue with github hosted projects. When you talk about "Loudest Assholes" this would, I think, be generally taken to mean Stallman. Linu...
[05:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, we have a few crabby old bastards like them and myself who are unwilling to put up with that sort of nonsense. We're not winning though. Every project they shove their CoCs into is a defeat for free speech. Look into the history of Ruby or the Rust community. Or look back at this story [soylent...
[05:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:28] <exec> 08└─thinking free speech means the freedom to agree with them or be destroyed to start your own project on your own terns
[05:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:31] <exec> 08└─Well then, think of it as a live test of your unspoken hypotheses then :) if you're correct, these projects will eventually crumble under their own idiocy (clone and fork their shit now, just to be safe...). This is that liberty stuff in action, isn't it? They are at liberty to take the kind of acti...
[05:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:33] <exec> 08└─Capitalists own the government. They own the media. Politics as you experience it is a staged event. What you think of as "your" world view isn't actually yours. You've just been stewing in propaganda literally since birth, seeing the world any other way is philosophically beyond you.
[05:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:35] <exec> 08└─OK thanks for providing some context. Agree to some extent, I don't think I would want to be involved in a CoC project as these sorts things in my experience are simply weapons for those who like to play politics and as such would not like it to become the norm.
[05:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:37] <exec> 08└─That's rich, the European "its OK when we do it" Union calling against censorship. If anything, the "Free Software Community" would be more than happy to go along to help censor "Free Speech" outside "accepted norms".
[05:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:40] <exec> 08└─That's usually how it starts. The SJW cancer tends to infest itself into the bureaucracy of an already successful host and corrupt it from within.
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[05:36:06] <exec> 08└─Yep, and then you just plain old have sex drive!
[05:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:07] <exec> 08└─And *why* is the average IQ around 80? Think very carefully about this one...
[05:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:09] <exec> 08└─I am not inclined to disagree with you except initially on Afghanistan. Nation building is not my cup of tea but if a nation is intentionally providing shelter and aid to enemies of the US, something needs to be done about it. There does come a point where you're sticking your head in the sand rathe...
[05:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:12] <exec> 08└─Yep, and then you just plain old have sex drive!
[05:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:14] <exec> 08└─Nation building is not my cup of tea but if a nation is intentionally providing shelter and aid to enemies of the US, something needs to be done about it. There does come a point where you're sticking your head in the sand rather than minding your own business.
[05:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:16] <exec> 08└─Because it wasn't very beneficial to have high IQ? If it did, the population would have been selected for it.
[05:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03milsorgen [6225] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:34] <exec> 08└─Fuck all this nonsense. We had a working system for decades and then it's like hey let's make everyone buy new TVs for admittedly decent benefit in image quality. However where did the public's spectrum go? Probably not to anything for OTA, public resources should be used for benefit of all. Best pa...
[05:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:50] <exec> 08└─The regular kind or a 1UP?
[05:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:14] <exec> 08└─Good advises. When do you (all) start?
[05:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:16] <exec> 08└─You *sure* you're not Mr. Vim? You keep saying basically the same stuff he does. We've been over this road before, and as I recall, last time I brought up the idea of a social contract, you more or less said "I didn't sign any contract" without actually putting it in those words. You have, at least,...
[05:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:19] <exec> 08└─Reforming the system is not one of my goals. I don't believe it can be achieved. I'm working the "burn it down and start over" angle.
[05:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:21] <exec> 08└─I'm working the "burn it down and start over" angle.
[05:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Spokesman Dismisses Criticism of Journalist Database - 1692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:50] <exec> 08└─You almost make sense. As I've already mentioned, the invasion of Iraq was unjustified. But, your blind spot is the military personnel. Given that the US declared war, and that the military is bound to obey the orders of it's civilian commanders, the military had to go. Given the situation on the gr...
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[06:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:19] <exec> 08└─Like... what? Ask cooks/chefs hire a specialized transport for their personal knives or what?
[06:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:21] <exec> 08└─sharp sticks Then All sticks Then walking sticks Crutches Brooms Rakes Chop sticks Tooth picks Hair pins Coat hangers
[06:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:23] <exec> 08└─I send my knives by drone. Carrying is for plebs.
[06:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:25] <exec> 08└─It's as if reducing a complex problem on a single parameter and acting blindly on it didn't solve the problem, as theory and practice taught us infinite times. Let's be serious. The people in charge have their plan and arms reduction is part of it. It came from the nazi right in the 30s, now it come...
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[06:35:27] <exec> 08└─I send my knives by drone.
[06:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:30] <exec> 08└─While I am all for banning weapons in public space, I still hope there is an exception for keychain-sized multitools, as they are truly useful. I am talking about small ones like Victorinox Classic SD, Leatherman Micra and Squirt. They got about 5 cm (about 2 inches) of blade. Does anyone from UK go...
[06:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:32] <exec> 08└─what if the attacker has a pointed stick?
[06:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Stardaemon [4294] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, never mind construction workers, carpenters, etc. Knives are primarily tools, and very useful ones at that. I can think of plenty of reasons why you'd carry one around that doesn't involve using it as a weapon.
[06:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:36] <exec> 08└─Um... Nazis were leftists.
[06:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:39] <exec> 08└─Or a blunt, rusty spoon? Won't somebody think of the children?
[06:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:41] <exec> 08└─Why not lock everyone up in a box, if they need anything outside, they can teleoperate a robot to go fetch it for them, and teleconference if they want to meet others. If the remotely operated robot does anything wrong, the authorities can chuck the box that operated into the sea as defective. It's...
[06:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:01] <exec> 08└─People that didn't agree forked some projects, like MATE, but there is a limit of what can be done. We would need also to fork toolkits, libs, whole organizations... and specially be able to push back. It's a huge task, even more so if projects are fattened and twisted instead of kept simple and wel...
[06:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:03] <exec> 08└─That's still far less bad than actual government censorship, which this is.
[06:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:05] <exec> 08└─proprietary = paradise
[06:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:07] <exec> 08└─That's usually how it starts. The SJW cancer tends to infest itself into the bureaucracy of an already successful host and corrupt it from within.
[06:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:09] <exec> 08└─Indeed but that example cost me a perfectly good DE. I feel a little bit of bitching is warranted.
[06:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:12] <exec> 08└─Here's the draft one I wrote up earlier today [github.com] for our rehash repository. I forget what it was that annoyed me into doing so but I'm quite amused with the results.
[06:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:14] <exec> 08└─I actually meant them getting you fired, swatted, ostracized in your neighborhood, and anything else they can manage. Forking a project is no biggie.
[06:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:16] <exec> 08└─Dunno, I kind of prefer the government kind. At least that's honest oppression. Sure they may say it's for your own good but you know that they know that you know they don't give a fuck about you.
[06:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:18] <exec> 08└─I think you need to read up on what capitalism means. What you're calling capitalism is further from actual capitalism than socialism as practiced by the USSR was from idealistic socialism.
[06:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 1324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:21] <exec> 08└─I have no idea how we even THINK our system is free-enterprise. Its cronier than Al Capone and his moonshine bizness. Any kid is free to offer his services mowing lawns, raking, whatever... and what this leads to is the services performed at the market price, where both providers and buyers of the s...
[06:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:23] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is simply a property relationship. You work for you boss, and he keeps everything because he owns the capital. The media exists to hide capitalism's true nature, but make no mistake, CAPITAL OWNS YOUR ASS. The state (+ the police) exist purely to enforce this relationship. It is a regulat...
[06:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:25] <exec> 08└─proprietary = paradise
[06:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:57] <exec> 08└─Quite a lot of things go into IQ last I checked. Genetics is a pretty major one though. I'm currently considering the lack of much if any Neanderthal in their DNA. There's a pretty damned strong correlation between the amount of Neanderthal DNA in a region and its average IQ.
[06:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:59] <exec> 08└─Oh I didn't say it was done well. Something did need to be done though. How are you enjoying the beefed up defenses that we did get, if I might ask? Having fun knowing the NSA is spying on you 24/7? Enjoy standing in line to get groped at the airport?
[06:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:01] <exec> 08└─How are you enjoying the beefed up defenses that we did get, if I might ask? Having fun knowing the NSA is spying on you 24/7?
[06:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:19] <exec> 08└─I find 480p content no longer watchable. I try to watch some movies and television shows that are still only available on DVD, and they come across as either very grainy or smeary. Sometimes both. Within fifteen minutes every time I just turn it off. 720p is my bare minimum these days. However, 4K i...
[06:37:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 269 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:31] <exec> 08└─Some select people from the following groups claim that they are terrorists (or words to that effect) *because* of their membership in, or the beliefs of, the group: -(Mostly) white militia members -Irish Christians (prod, cath, don't seem to matter) -Muslim extremists
[06:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:37] <exec> 08└─The ancient history kind https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:05] <exec> 08└─Well, I do code entirely in vim but, no, I never post here under a pseudonym of any kind. My nick here is what I've answered to since I was sixteen unless I was doing something official paperworky. Where do you get morals from? I had a couple paragraphs typed up citing Judeo-Christian philosophy, Wi...
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[07:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:34] <exec> 08└─I know. And a sword is just a long knife. Why not allow that? I'm sure we can use that for construction too.... hammer, chisel, bowie knife, machete, long sword... all in the toolkit... You know, I've done some construction too. And I've used a knife there too.... but then it went into my tool box,...
[07:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:36] <exec> 08└─I appreciate that you lot want to be all civilized and British and I'm not by any means trying to tell you lot how to run your shat but you do remember how it worked out for you last time the Crown disarmed all the peasants of everything except for their tools, right?
[07:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:38] <exec> 08└─Oh Gawd... if this gets out of hand and the steakhouse down the street can't provide operative cutlery, they are going to have to serve only hamburger.
[07:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:40] <exec> 08└─Um... Nazis were leftists.
[07:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:42] <exec> 08└─Um... Nazis were leftists.
[07:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:45] <exec> 08└─Oh Gawd... if this gets out of hand and the steakhouse down the street can't provide operative cutlery
[07:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:47] <exec> 08└─People don't remember. Back in June they had a HORRIBLE terror attack on #LondonBridge [twitter.com]. By ISIS folks. At least 8 dead and 48 wounded. So sad. And the Mayor of London said there is "no reason to be alarmed!" Let me tell you, it's very alarming that it happened and very alarming that he...
[07:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:49] <exec> 08└─Nazi are of course far right extremists, and even American "liberals" are right of center. America doesn't really have a left wing, but it soon will as Americans become increasingly class conscious, and turn against their media.
[07:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:51] <exec> 08└─You do remember how it worked out for you last time the Crown disarmed all the peasants of everything except for their tools, right? No, I don't. Tell me more!
[07:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:53] <exec> 08└─And I've used a knife there too.... but then it went into my tool box, not into my pants.
[07:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:56] <exec> 08└─What exactly are you comparing them to that leads you to think they are anything but the left? Certainly not the modern left. They're less than twenty years from putting on actual jackboots of their own. Not even the left of the WWII adjacent decades because the left then was chock full of other "so...
[07:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, class warfare is precisely what every country needs. How else are the politicos supposed to control us if they can't serve us up a convenient enemy to hate instead of them?
[07:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:00] <exec> 08└─>Mandate sane work hour >Construct Autobahn to ensure workers can take their off days on vacations >Ensure that Corps benefit the Volk first >Control prices of food so farmers can work sustainably >Loaning money to start families and then forgiving them >not socialist at all K.
[07:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:03] <exec> 08└─They're already turning against the media, except they're labeled alt-right, nazis, deplorables and conspiracy theorists. Their class consciousness is apparently racial politics if you believe the media. I hope you get what you wish for :)
[07:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:05] <exec> 08└─Death to all elites. Regardless of political labels they apply to themselves, or are applied by others. Kill. Them. All.
[07:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:07] <exec> 08└─Damn, left bananas off my list!
[07:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:09] <exec> 08└─For a coder, you are so fucking ignorant, TMB. No wonder you perma-banned Ethanol_fueled. You censorer, you!
[07:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:11] <exec> 08└─If only you had some class, Minty Frombart! At least some class, even a low class! Middle class? But then, there is nonesuch in Oklahoma, and Tennessee is nothing but low. So sad, too bad. May I recommend your local Community College, once again? You might acquire some knowledge, and hence some cla...
[07:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:14] <exec> 08└─Look to Kennesaw, Georgia... these folks were having a problem with the people of Atlanta coming north to their town to loot and pillage. The townspeople had enough of it. They had town meetings. Wagging pens at the Atlantans just resulted in mirth and more pillage. Wagging guns, firing them if nec...
[07:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:39] <exec> 08└─For now, I am back to analog for re-encoding whatever to formats I have, namely, .mp3, .mp4. My bottleneck now is finding some way of re-coding something sent via HDMI. I never got a decent VGA to .MP4 "Hauppage" type board. I still run the old school NTSC digital encoders as a disk-based VCR. An...
[07:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:41] <exec> 08└─I sometimes listen to the TV when others are watching. I can't be bothered to watch, as the content is all drivel. 0p is all its worth - and certainly the most I would pay. OTOH I have a 4k monitor for CAD work - but DXF files don't shout at me in high pitched voices and American accents, Do America...
[07:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:43] <exec> 08└─Laugh if you want, but I consider his ads among the most effective on television. He said what he wanted to say, in a few seconds, and that was it. And he did it in what I thought was quite clever. Believe me, you aren't the only one who knows his jingle word for word... There are numerous other p...
[07:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:45] <exec> 08└─Are .mp3 and .mp4 royalty free by now? I still have not fully accepted the paradigm that a format can become private property. To me a format was just a set of specifications for interoperability, and trying to patent one just about as ridiculous as trying to patent the construction of a 1/4 inch he...
[07:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:03] <exec> 08└─OTOH muslims are mostly good people, like us, which doesn't make islam less of a problem. Terrorism is not helping islam, the weapon is the womb. Consider islam has once been a minority in every place they eventually controlled. Or just wait and see what happens in places with a higher percentage of...
[07:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:44] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of other ways to dry off that don't leave residue or poison you. I'm glad I figured that out when I got out on my own... but I wonder what if any damage was done. As someone who was a single parent in the period concerned, I dried my kids with towels, same as I dried myself. I was n...
[07:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Crewed Test Flight to the ISS May be Upgraded to a Full Mission - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:23] <exec> 08└─Atlas V is quite reliable, isn't it? It's been in use for donkey's years.
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[08:35:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Stardaemon [4294] 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, never mind construction workers, carpenters, etc. Knives are primarily tools, and very useful ones at that. I can think of plenty of reasons why you'd carry one around that doesn't involve using it as a weapon.
[08:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:01] <exec> 08└─Oh, I'm sure TMB can find something they did in the political spectrum that does not fit the "right" category, ergo it must fit the "left" category. There are more aspects to politics than can be graded on a two-point scale.
[08:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:02] <exec> 08└─The NAZI party was a solidly centralist party with plenty of left wind policy included. They were however a populist totalitarian party, using strong identity politics to separate people in to groups. These days they would sit quite fare to the left of the democratic party.
[08:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:04] <exec> 08└─According to the article, it will also soon extend to a ban on buying knives online, and home knife deliveries. No more cutting up food for Londoners, it seems.
[08:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:07] <exec> 08└─No need to ban all humans. Just ban Muzzies, who are the ones committing the violence in the first place.
[08:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:09] <exec> 08└─The right is nationalist, the left is mondialist. Modern nations are result of masonic activity, so in the end they are faces of the same medal. They each get parts of the real agenda and implement them. Gun control is in the agenda obviously. The other things they implement (social justice, economi...
[08:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:11] <exec> 08└─Don't forget pens and pencils. Deadly things .. think of John Wick and The Joker.
[08:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:13] <exec> 08└─But if it just saves one life, it’s worth it.
[08:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:16] <exec> 08└─Then don't blame me, when some homicidal maniac comes at you with a bunch of . . . When you're walking home tonight and some homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don't come crying to me!
[08:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:18] <exec> 08└─Sorry, we don't recognize religion, so all humans. Equality before the LAW.
[08:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bug1 [5243] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:51] <exec> 08└─Contributor agreements are required so projects have a strong legal basis. There are a lot of people who think they understand freedom, but are really dangerously ignorant, Freedom is about the ability to control yourself Power is about the ability to control others. Some people think permissive lic...
[08:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:52] <exec> 08└─a few crabby old bastards like them and myself who are unwilling to put up with that sort of nonsense
[08:37:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:03] <exec> 08└─Look at it this way: how many potential Einsteins did we possibly lose to malaria? These tropical diseases are right bastards, some of the most deadly in the world when you take them in the aggregate.
[08:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:29] <exec> 08└─“The equation E=mc^2, which has been forever linked to Einstein & his Theory of Relativity was not originally published by Einstein. According to Umberto Bartocci, a professor at the University of Perugia and a historian of mathematics, this famous equation was first published by Olinto De Pretto...
[08:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:54] <exec> 08└─American here... in the world I see, its hard to get by a day, especially in the workplace, without aggressive shouting and the like. Seems to be bred into us to relentlessly "get ahead", or someone else will get the grape, and you will be lucky to get cucumber. You try to overlook it, but know its...
[08:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 1479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:14] <exec> 08└─Let's assume the same percentage of muslims are peaceful. The problem is that they will do nothing when things like these happen (source, the notoriously right wing site called google, first page results for "pakistan accused burning koran") 20 Aug 2012 ... An 11-year-old Christian girl has been arr...
[08:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:57] <exec> 08└─I won't shed a tear if baby powder is off the market.
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[09:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Owned Instagram Removes Opioid-Related Posts - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:24] <exec> 08└─she worked on illegal drug sales in her previous job at MarkMonitor, a company that protects brands like pharmaceutical companies from online counterfeiting, piracy, and fraud.
[09:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:11] <exec> 08└─What exactly are you comparing them to that leads you to think they are anything but the left?
[09:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:12] <exec> 08└─From the Article: Stabbings have worsened despite Britain’s already strict knife control laws. U.K. law prohibits knife sales to those under 18 and makes it illegal for anyone to carry a knife “without good reason,” unless it has a folding blade of three inches or fewer.
[09:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:14] <exec> 08└─Are you nuts? What's a weapon? There was an assault in Scotland last week, where the attacker broke into a guy's home, and attacked him using a screwdriver as a weapon. Guns don't kill people. Knives don't kill people. Screwdrivers, rocks, sticks, or whatever - none of those kill people. It's people...
[09:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:17] <exec> 08└─But excluding the "Untermensch", right? How this makes them "left" (which doesn't discriminate when it comes to welfare) and not just "extreme nationalistic, kill the others and redistribute to yours"? Or... do you think that they redistributed the wealth of Krupp or of the IG Farben conglomerate?
[09:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:19] <exec> 08└─Like... what? Ask cooks/chefs hire a specialized transport for their personal knives or what?
[09:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:21] <exec> 08└─Then again, I'm not in a police state.
[09:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:23] <exec> 08└─Yes, because it is totally impossible for police to distinguish between a thug with a blade tucked into the waistband of their jeans and a cook on the bus to work with their knives wrapped up in their chef's whites all safely zipped up in a rucksack.
[09:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:25] <exec> 08└─No wonder you perma-banned Ethanol_fueled
[09:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 1) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:28] <exec> 08└─I didn't find practically nothing that the NAZI party did that wasn't done by the left in their time, even lot of thing that the people tell that are right wing are actually part of what the left do, even more on that time. Some self proclaimed left independentist movements of today if you analyze t...
[09:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:30] <exec> 08└─These kids apparently have never learned about the value of human life. Their educators (if any) haven't taught them to use their brains rather than rely on hormone rushes.
[09:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:32] <exec> 08└─Not the GP, but I live in the UK and used to be involved in dark-ages reenactment, and would carry an EN45 spring-steel broadsword (blunt edges) to events once or twice a week. I walked past police officers a few times and never had any issues with it. Then again, I'm a middle-class white male...
[09:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:34] <exec> 08└─What exactly are you comparing them to that leads you to think they are anything but the left?
[09:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:37] <exec> 08└─As I recall, there are two aspects of the law. The actual definition is quite fuzzy and relies on your intent to use something as a weapon (so a can of spray insecticide is illegal if you're carrying it with the goal of spraying it in someone's face), but there's a threshold where the burden of proo...
[09:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:39] <exec> 08└─Right now, see archfeld's journal, https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] for what is left. Only half-seriously pointing a finger at the mighty buss, since none of the eds seem to know what is going on. Check IRC, #Editorial, as usual. Curious, don't you think?
[09:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:41] <exec> 08└─> Their parents (if any) haven't taught them to use their brains rather than rely on hormone rushes. There. Fixed that for you.
[09:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:43] <exec> 08└─For me the approach to socialism of the nazis where a pragmatic one while the communist is a idealist one.
[09:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:19] <exec> 08└─Sorry about what happened to you, oh Buzzard of Moderate Worth, but you might consider being less of an asshole, at least in the work environment, so that there is less of a basis for your groundless paranoia. I know I would have dropped the anonymous note to HR, if I had to work with you, after wha...
[09:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:20] <exec> 08└─Enjoy your diet of wonderbread with crisco. Some of us care about what how we satiate our senses.
[09:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:40] <exec> 08└─Some select people from the following groups claim that they are terrorists (or words to that effect) *because* of their membership in, or the beliefs of, the group
[09:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. and North Korean Representatives Holding Secret Talks to Plan for Summit - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:04] <exec> 08└─That's rather optimistic. Before anyone could sell the idea that Trump is the god of peace, they'd have to work on selling the idea that peace is even a good thing. As it stands, most of the talking heads on the American political spectrum are promoting a war of one kind or another.
[09:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI Can't Help Without Your Data, Says Gartner, So Share, Share, Share! - 1710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:36] <exec> 08└─You don't need AI systems nor large data mining services to do those features. Each feature can be individually developed directly. It's not difficult to parse emails and the ical files airlines send you and then estimate travel and wait time to the airport from your configured home address (or most...
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[10:35:26] <exec> 08└─So did Ethanol_fluid hurt his back, or something, and has been shadow-perma-ip-banned for opioid use? What is going on!!!!
[10:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Owned Instagram Removes Opioid-Related Posts - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:27] <exec> 08└─"Moss...scene one of the movie Carrie!"
[10:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook-Owned Instagram Removes Opioid-Related Posts - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:29] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, Ethanol_fueled inquiries are being persistently modded -1 offtopic. Is there some Letter from some agency that you can't tell us about, SoylentNews? Blink twice for "no", mod this offtopic for "yes".
[10:36:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:26] <exec> 08└─What exactly are you comparing them to that leads you to think they are anything but the left?
[10:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:32] <exec> 08└─I'm in Ireland. I was crossing a university campus from the car park to the sports centre (I sometimes park further away to get a little walk in before class). Sure there's a bit of exaggeration but the US really isn't that far from a Police state, and London, which is certainly a surveillance state...
[10:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:34] <exec> 08└─Check IRC, #Editorial, as usual.
[10:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:36] <exec> 08└─I doubt very much that you can find a keychain multitool with a blade that exceeds three inches, which is the point at which this supposedly becomes a potential issue - I have specifically enquired about the Victorinox CyberTool which I routinely carry in my backpack and they're fine. In the event o...
[10:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:38] <exec> 08└─And here I was just wondering why Auzzies would need a chainsaw to cut up their steaks, unless the 'Roo is really that tough? Yes, I too have been IP banned. So much for anonymity and cowardice on the high seas of free speech at SoylentNews. All you have to do, apparently, is spam mod The Moulting...
[10:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:40] <exec> 08└─Plenty of legitimate news sites out there to link to for the same story, e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk]
[10:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:43] <exec> 08└─My kitchen knife is 98 cm long, masses 2.3 kg and has a balance point about 25cm in front of the hilt. I keep it in my kitchen knife scabbard that I wear on my kitchen knife belt. Strangely, I very rarely get attacked in my kitchen.
[10:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:45] <exec> 08└─There are more lessons to learn than the value of human life... Most of them have to do with survival, history, and last but non the least, evolution. I tend to respect your good intentions to run sites like these, but generally, there is no point to, yeah, point out other sides of reality here... O...
[10:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:56] <exec> 08└─Oh look, a market they haven't milked yet.
[10:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:24] <exec> 08└─Whilst the coke product placement in ghostbusters may have been the intention, it was poorly executed. The left can has magically rotated itself by the time it gets itself in shot again right at the end of that clip, making the words illegible. However, the right can is completely in-your-face at al...
[10:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. and North Korean Representatives Holding Secret Talks to Plan for Summit - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:08] <exec> 08└─What's really happening :- the talks are going on in the background to get everything sorted out before Trump gets a chance to waddle in and wreck everything. Far from preparing for talks involving Trump, they're getting the talks done without him. The 'summit' itself will be a few platitudes, a bit...
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[10:43:27] <exec> 08└─What he said. It's also the reason to keep one's finances well diversified, even if it costs a little more. There's nothing more suicidal than the all-eggs-in-one-basket 'deals' that banks offer. It only takes one idiot in one call centre to press the wrong button and suddenly you have no access to...
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[11:35:22] <exec> 08└─There is a small number of seed suppliers, who could have told these people where corn and soybeans are being grown. They could probably supply moderately detailed maps, showing each of the nation's crops. So, distinguishing, from space, where the crops are being grown seems to be redundant. They CO...
[11:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Owned Instagram Removes Opioid-Related Posts - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:33] <exec> 08└─some of it is legit prescribed medication
[11:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Owned Instagram Removes Opioid-Related Posts - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:35] <exec> 08└─Why don't you click on Ethanol's journal link, and learn all about Ethanol's angst? Ooops - apologies - his journal is no longer available. I suppose he deleted it, or maybe his ban removed it. Ehhh - discussion here - https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] I don't think th...
[11:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Owned Instagram Removes Opioid-Related Posts - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:37] <exec> 08└─Why do you bother posting AC, it's so obvious who you are from your posting style. If you think you're funny, post as yourself, and reap the +1 funny mods. If you don't think you're funny, and would just just suffer -1 troll downmods, perhaps consider not posting the post at all.
[11:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Owned Instagram Removes Opioid-Related Posts - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:39] <exec> 08└─That is definitely another option I'd overlooked. There are things like Canadian pharmacies that will ship perfectly genuine drugs over the border for less (and in some cases, much less) than US prices, aren't there? Not sure what the legal position on those is, but I suspect that unless it's all co...
[11:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Owned Instagram Removes Opioid-Related Posts - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:41] <exec> 08└─Software, which processes input, and produces output. What are the inputs and outputs? If you want ideal workplace diversisty, just implement profit-sharing. Then HR will employ whoever they think will bring the best value to the company. If they're all oriental males, so be it.
[11:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:51] <exec> 08└─According to the article, it will also soon extend to a ban on buying knives online, and home knife deliveries.
[11:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:53] <exec> 08└─... technically most swords are just really long daggers.
[11:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:55] <exec> 08└─I cook in my old flat when I stay there at weekends. I cook in my new flat when I stay there during the week. I don't need to carry knives between the two places. Or pans. Or plates. Or ovens. Guess what - I have two sets of knives! And you know what, that less-than-one-in-a-million corner case that...
[11:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:57] <exec> 08└─Can't help wondering - what else do you not carry in your pants? Many of us grew up with knives. There was a time when a boy was given a pocket knife, at some time deemed appropriate, by his father, or grandfather. I think I was 7 years old when I was given my first Barlow. A pocket knife sorta, kin...
[11:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:34] <exec> 08└─That's not dissimilar in spirit to this: Github:NCoC [github.com]
[11:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:11] <exec> 08└─Case in point: The woman quoted in the summary is Eliane Ubalijoro, a professor at McGill University in Montreal. I’m guessing she grew up in Africa and spent her early years using her talent and ambition to escape the continent. Nice of her to pop back in for a conference, but I bet a lot of the...
[11:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Spokesman Dismisses Criticism of Journalist Database - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:03] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews doesn't yet support vi's navigation keys.
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[11:45:00] <exec> 08└─They are asking us to give up the best we possess—our contacts and calendars. I never imagined I would be forced to deliver this sacrifice to the altar with my own hands. In my old age, I must stretch out my hands and beg. Brothers and sisters: Hand them over to me! Fathers and mothers: Give me yo...
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[12:35:21] <exec> 08└─It just means their code is trash; they haven't used the proper abstractions to ensure (or at least to ease) portability, and thus it's simpler for them just to throw away support for 32-bit machines altogether.
[12:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:22] <exec> 08└─Because 32 bit machines don't have Intel management engines, ya big dummy.
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[12:35:31] <exec> 08└─> "who could have told these people" Presumably this is commercially sensitive information, both for the seed producers and the farmers. Should the seed producers really share this information? > "Way back in the Cold War" Yes, but in the Cold War all the processing had to be done manually. Now they...
[12:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellites, Supercomputers, and Machine Learning Provide Real-Time Crop Type Data - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:33] <exec> 08└─Actually, most of the seed is sold through farmer's coops. The coop has no commercial interest in hiding, or masking that information. In fact, the data is already supplied to the various state colleges and universities.
[12:36:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:38] <exec> 08└─Like... what? Ask cooks/chefs hire a specialized transport for their personal knives or what?
[12:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:02] <exec> 08└─While you guys are poking fun at TMB, the Nazis gained power by appealing to the SOCIALIST Nationalists. Like socialists everywhere, they wore that kid-glove of socialism until they had power, then they showed their iron fist of power. Hitler and Stalin were so very much alike, in so many ways.
[12:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:03] <exec> 08└─Barely even by name. The "National Socialism" from their name is a one word phrase that cannot simply be split into its two component words that are then interpreted independently. Hitler did, however use the single word "socialism" many times to describe himself, but it's clear that this was art of...
[12:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:05] <exec> 08└─I don't need to carry knives between the two places. Or pans. Or plates. Or ovens. Guess what - I have two sets of knives!
[12:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:08] <exec> 08└─I can see that you are not a grandparent yet . . .
[12:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:10] <exec> 08└─And here I was just wondering why Auzzies would need a chainsaw to cut up their steaks, unless the 'Roo is really that tough?
[12:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:12] <exec> 08└─At the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) while attempting to board a flight. In his possession they found a ruler, protractor, set square and a calculator. Au...
[12:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:14] <exec> 08└─I think they were economically socialist weren't they? I mean, massive government spending on huge military requires high taxation; implicit in total war is extreme repression of civil liberties (rationing, curfew, etc) which I think is rather Big government/socialist in outlook. Many independent fa...
[12:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:16] <exec> 08└─"Hitler and Stalin were so very much alike, in so many ways." No they weren't. Stalin murdered over 40 Million Russian civilians. Hitler murdered 0.0 Million Germans. Big difference.
[12:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:18] <exec> 08└─So 19%, or about 1 in 5, are willing to say they think violence is justified? And what does 'violence to "defend" Islam' mean anyway? It could be anything from 'forcibly restrain someone attempting to firebomd a mosque' to the historic 'convert to islam or die'.
[12:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:19] <exec> 08└─Don't we pay the police to watch the population looking for trouble before it starts? Will these peace loving humans pay this money back if a terrorist is later found in their ranks? Will they have to pay society should their group ever be found to have sheltered terrorists?
[12:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medical Cannabis Still Faces Many Hurdles in the U.S. - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:30] <exec> 08└─There's a whole other healing component to Marijuana that nobody seems to talk about. It's in the Zen of growing your own. Not in an indoor "Grow Op" type way, but outside in the back yard, along with your tomatoes and lettuce. It takes care and patience. Every morning, you get a walk in the garden...
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[13:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 2279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:25] <exec> 08└─It's jumping-through-hoops. The graphics cards now have more memory than a 32-bit bus can directlyaddress (4Gb), and then you're trying to map that so that the graphics drivers can shuttle data between 32-bit applications and the graphics card, and that just means more and more and more layers and l...
[13:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:26] <exec> 08└─Porting game specific hacks to two architectures is probably to time consuming for their curry interns.
[13:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:28] <exec> 08└─If the customer wants to deal with those constraints, then that's the customer's business. The customer is always right. Provide a software interface for your device, and then fuck off.
[13:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 1509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:31] <exec> 08└─The only systems supporting *DIRECT* addressing of all memory on a card are Intel X79 or newer motherboard chipsets and AMD Ryzen hardware. Everything older only supports 32 bit BARs and in most cases has a far smaller PCI apterture available that in most BIOS/Operating systems. For everything else,...
[13:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:33] <exec> 08└─A month ago The 304.xx legacy driver series has been declared as End-of-Life by NVIDIA. No further updates fixing security issues, critical bugs, or adding support for new Xorg or Linux releases will be issued. nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3142
[13:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellites, Supercomputers, and Machine Learning Provide Real-Time Crop Type Data - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:44] <exec> 08└─There is a small number of seed suppliers, who could have told these people where corn and soybeans are being grown. They could probably supply moderately detailed maps, showing each of the nation's crops. So, distinguishing, from space, where the crops are being grown seems to be redundant.
[13:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satellites, Supercomputers, and Machine Learning Provide Real-Time Crop Type Data - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:46] <exec> 08└─To determine which undesirable farming areas need a targetted pestilence in order to make them easier to purchase. Or to place strain on another country's self sufficiency in order to better offer them aid (with strings attached.) Or this could be used to help document an area where the shipped quan...
[13:36:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:08] <exec> 08└─Like... what? Ask cooks/chefs hire a specialized transport for their personal knives or what?
[13:36:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 26 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:23] <exec> 08└─Um... Nazis were leftists.
[13:37:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 382 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:13] <exec> 08└─Can't help wondering - what else do you not carry in your pants? Many of us grew up with knives. There was a time when a boy was given a pocket knife, at some time deemed appropriate, by his father, or grandfather. I think I was 7 years old when I was given my first Barlow. A pocket knife sorta, kin...
[13:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:23] <exec> 08└─now he is....
[13:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:25] <exec> 08└─Remember when Rudy Giuliani started his stop and frisk program in New York. Remember how the left howled it was sooo unfair to the poor black men who were disproportionately carrying weapons and using them for robbery and murder? Now we have Saladin ordering essentially the same thing in London and...
[13:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, institutionalized oppression and obscene levels of inequality are precisely what every country needs... The problem is not that the politicos control us, but that the extremely wealthy exert undue influence over the politicians and the rest of us as well. Why is slavery never called class warfa...
[13:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 1350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:29] <exec> 08└─Actually, the majority of those killed by Stalin were not Russians. Let's see - there were Armenians, Azerbaijani, Belarussians, Estonians, Georgians, Kazakhstani, Kyrgystans, Latvians, Lithuanians, Moldovans, Tajikstani, Turkmenistani, Ukrainians, and Uzbekstani - and those are just the official me...
[13:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:11] <exec> 08└─I find 480p content no longer watchable.
[13:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:12] <exec> 08└─I haven't watched a TV broadcast in 10 years. And I watch a lot of TV. I make a habit to follow at least five shows regularly. I get all of my TV content in pirated streams. I know one person who still watches broadcast TV. Her brain was rotted away by the idiot box.
[13:40:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:13] <exec> 08└─it was known to be not safe
[13:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:19] <exec> 08└─What did you use?
[13:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medical Cannabis Still Faces Many Hurdles in the U.S. - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:47] <exec> 08└─Mostly doctor supervised, to be honest. Long-term opiate use wears away at an individual's ability to be a functional human being without opiates. Like you've mentioned, in some cases that is still the best case scenario (i.e., your mother). In many other cases, I would like to see other options tri...
[13:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Can't Help Without Your Data, Says Gartner, So Share, Share, Share! - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:40] <exec> 08└─But in that case the intelligence is no less artificial than it ever is, so I suppose it's actually Automated Intelligence they're pursuing.
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[14:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:23] <exec> 08└─sometimes proprietary which of course is nothing but mockery of science.
[14:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:24] <exec> 08└─It's bad enough that the code is usually of very amateur quality, and sometimes not available for replication. But the actual science? Why is that paywalled? In most cases the taxpayers already paid for the (often wasted) research. Then the researcher has to pay some journal to print their results....
[14:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:26] <exec> 08└─> Why is that paywalled? Almost no science done in UK, funded by research councils, is paywalled. I cannot comment on other nations. > Publish all of your tool chain and data on the web Fine, but bear in mind that it does take years to understand the tool chain for any reasonably sophisticated data...
[14:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:29] <exec> 08└─TFA is nothing more than a big add for Mathematica - which is a proprietary thing. So yes.
[14:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:31] <exec> 08└─I guess I was thinking something along the lines of a makefile, with dependencies. At least you could recreate the results even if you don't immediately understand them. Then, potentially, gather some new observations or measurements and run it again. Different outcome? Why?
[14:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:33] <exec> 08└─Scientists have a publishing key and get reputation as other scientists cryptographically sign off on their key or directly on their work as applicable. If someone turns out to be a fraud, you revoke signatures which in turn will reduce their credibility as well as the chain of trust for others who...
[14:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:35] <exec> 08└─The process is centuries old, it's amazing that there aren't more people with their hand in the till. Look at real-estate transfer as a reference. Be amazed that there's not a submission fee, a fee for peer review, a fee for the software enabling both of those, taxes, legal reviews, etc. I agree wit...
[14:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:38] <exec> 08└─Scientists are barely more likely to understand and use hands-on asymmetric cryptography than the rest of the world. It has been practical since the 1980s to sign and encrypt everything from e-mail, to twitter feeds, it remains sub-fringe in adoption.
[14:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:51] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that there is a 32-bit Windows 10, and that some people do in fact use it. While I'm usually the last to know, I haven't heard anything about 32-bit Windows 10 going away. Then again people using 32-bit Windows 10 probably aren't using silly video cards that need eight nuclear power pla...
[14:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03higuita [2465] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:53] <exec> 08└─This is always a problem with closed source drivers...buy a amd card next time, they are now using open source drivers that do work and they life is way bigger
[14:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:55] <exec> 08└─Then the customer can pay to have some custom drivers developed.
[14:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:57] <exec> 08└─I got a couple of 'junk' Tesla cards (GT218) and tested them recently with Mesa 18.x Other than the cards themselves running hot, they seem to work fine with most OpenGL apps that the R600 driver works with, but have none of the Computer support. So at least as far as linux is concerned nouveau is u...
[14:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellites, Supercomputers, and Machine Learning Provide Real-Time Crop Type Data - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:09] <exec> 08└─I never thought of that. But, you're right. What IS the primary purpose of fine grained monitoring, after all? Control - it's always about control. Even at my age, I'm so naive that I kinda assume that the researchers are trying to improve things, somehow.
[14:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satellites, Supercomputers, and Machine Learning Provide Real-Time Crop Type Data - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:10] <exec> 08└─Privacy rights for plants! We demand to grow anonymously without being tracked!! After all, we are cash crops.
[14:37:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 298 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:17] <exec> 08└─But excluding the "Untermensch", right? How this makes them "left" (which doesn't discriminate when it comes to welfare) and not just "extreme nationalistic, kill the others and redistribute to yours"? Or... do you think that they redistributed the wealth of Krupp or of the IG Farben conglomerate?
[14:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:53] <exec> 08└─It was IG Farben [wikipedia.org] not IG Carbon (maybe you confused it with Union Carbide).
[14:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:54] <exec> 08└─...but counter it by permanently arming all our police with Samurai swords and giving them carte blanche to behead anybody that looks as if they might be about to pull a knife?
[14:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:56] <exec> 08└─How about the fact that they declared communists to be their enemies?
[14:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:59] <exec> 08└─Political Right and Left are flipped in Britain and Europe in general, and beyond that require far more discussion of specific issues to categorize them in what qualifies as right or left leaning issues there. As far as knives go, I imagine any non-urbanite yuppie pretty much anywhere will think tha...
[14:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:01] <exec> 08└─No. We'd have to build a rainbow table for the salt + every possible IP address we hash together and then store for a maximum of two weeks. It allows us to do adminy tasks based on IP address without being able to find out what that address actually is.
[14:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:12] <exec> 08└─You didn't address accessibility.
[14:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:15] <exec> 08└─> I actually hate when people rely on absolutes People should not rely on absolutes! (this BTW is an absolute).
[14:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 1) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:18] <exec> 08└─But the minorities where also killed by the Russia communists, the Chinese communist under the cultural revolution, the Khmer Rouge... and about paying the military industry, the communist also did it but in a different way after all under the Nazi ideology is that the private companies where under...
[14:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:22] <exec> 08└─Yes. I blame the shitty auto-correct on my mobile (good pastime on the train commute, shit like this can happen though).
[14:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:25] <exec> 08└─Now that I think of it a pan would be an useful instrument against a knife carrying assailant. If it isn't banned I'd carry that for self defense.
[14:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:28] <exec> 08└─You didn't address accessibility.
[14:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:32] <exec> 08└─Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was Georgian.
[14:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:35] <exec> 08└─I should read the entire comment before replying, though.
[14:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:38] <exec> 08└─sharp sticks Then All sticks Then walking sticks
[14:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:42] <exec> 08└─How is a can of insecticide not a weapon? It falls squarely onto the chemical weapon definition. Ask any insect.
[14:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:45] <exec> 08└─But the minorities where also killed by the Russia communists, the Chinese communist under the cultural revolution, the Khmer Rouge...
[14:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:48] <exec> 08└─I thought it was a parody site? https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[14:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:50] <exec> 08└─I wasn't mocking the policemen, but rather the honorable mayor of London.
[14:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:59] <exec> 08└─People can rely on whatever they what, the fact that I hate it or not impose no obligations on them. But then again, I'm not the mayor of London (and this is another absolute) (large grin)
[14:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:37] <exec> 08└─As I've been saying 'Wake up and stop sucking on CoCs.' :)
[14:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:38] <exec> 08└─Youths? You looking for a free subscription extension or something?
[14:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:40] <exec> 08└─Since you asked, independent contractor since two minutes after my assistant manager (hired for his friendship with the manager rather than the tech skills which he utterly lacked) bitched me out for not working while I was actively in the process of setting up the software side of building a new se...
[14:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:18] <exec> 08└─Liberia, where they can treat the Americanized Liberians as they are still treating the native tribes in a series of forced resettlements, religious, and political conversions, while finally having the pro-christian, anti-lgbt, and anti-abortion country they have always wanted! :) Do your part today...
[14:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:20] <exec> 08└─The showboat people who get themselves written about always win in the annals of history. Like many others Einstein may have been brilliant, but the giants whose shoulders he stood on were outshone by being in the right place, the right time, with the right charisma. That has been true since forever...
[14:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:51] <exec> 08└─Are .mp3 and .mp4 royalty free by now?
[14:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:52] <exec> 08└─From the article you linked: How ATSC 3.0 Works In a nutshell, ATSC 3.0 will be a hybrid television delivery system. The audio and video content will be broadcast OTA, and other content - like targeted ads - will be sent over your internet connection and integrated into the program. This will requir...
[14:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:16] <exec> 08└─Consider islam has once been a minority in every place they eventually controlled.
[14:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:17] <exec> 08└─Don't we pay the police to watch the population looking for trouble before it starts?
[14:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:19] <exec> 08└─I did it, in fact it is implicitly part of my point. Yes Christians were a minority too. MAYBE Christians became a majority somewhere (because declaring the faith does not make you Christian, per matthew 7:22). But guess what, where "Christians" were a majority Muslims could grow. Have you witnessed...
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[15:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:35] <exec> 08└─FTFA > I did get straight-out blunt comments from many, many colleagues, and from senior people and mentors who said: > Stop doing this, you’re wasting your career, you’re wasting your talent This is completely not my experience of modern science. While hardware is a worthwhile endeavour, all pa...
[15:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:37] <exec> 08└─So I either pay a curation system which publishes the work (as creator of it or for access) and use tools with fewer bells and whistles / allows method occlusion to the limit of still communicating results / but has the possibility for a more open form of access. Or I pay a private company for the u...
[15:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:40] <exec> 08└─Most ads are a bit more laudatory than that one.
[15:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:42] <exec> 08└─we don't have any replicability problem when it comes to computational physics. we do have a "subfield is so specialized that you need 5 years to understand what the relation between computer code and real life is" problem, but not a replicability problem. the minute someone suggests a better way to...
[15:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:44] <exec> 08└─You stopped reading too early (actually I didn't actually read all of the Mathematica stuff, but I scrolled over it to see if there's something more coming). It also discusses Jupyter/IPython.
[15:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I did get to that eventually... though I didn't get jupyter to work yet so I still don't know what it really is.
[15:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:49] <exec> 08└─Mod up - I am writing a technical report preliminary to a few page paper. The technical report is already ~ 50 pages long and that is without much text...
[15:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 2114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:51] <exec> 08└─The simple fact is that there is a decades-long effort to apply business management thinking to academia. These managers are neither skilled enough in the field to properly evaluate the quality of their faculty and applicants, nor are they willing to trust the people that *are* skilled enough in the...
[15:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:09] <exec> 08└─This is always a problem with closed source drivers...buy a amd card next time, they are now using open source drivers that do work and they life is way bigger
[15:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:10] <exec> 08└─Surely that brings us back to what the OP was saying: This just shows that Nvidia has poorly-designed software driving these things. The whole point of software is that it is soft; it's supposed to be cheap to customize.
[15:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:12] <exec> 08└─The article is about video drivers. The drivers *ARE* the abstractions. They are often hand-coded assembly or C code. I'm curious who still has a 32-bit x86 CPU these days. I find most 32-bit Windows machines are people running 32-OSs on 64-bit machines and don't even know it. Or corporate deploymen...
[15:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:15] <exec> 08└─A 32-bit computer is perfectly adequate for the vast majority of computing tasks. In the "old" days, when you wanted to perform some kind of special-purpose computation, like rending a polygon for a video game, you'd extend your 32-bit machine with a special-purpose computing device called a "GPU"....
[15:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellites, Supercomputers, and Machine Learning Provide Real-Time Crop Type Data - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:28] <exec> 08└─They COULD do something more useful, using this same idea. They could monitor the health of the crops from space.
[15:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Satellites, Supercomputers, and Machine Learning Provide Real-Time Crop Type Data - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:30] <exec> 08└─Speaking of "cash crops"... the gubmit has a new tool to locate hemp fields...
[15:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:31] <exec> 08└─To be fair, he is a politician and was talking to a media who can't cope with anything longer than a 12-word soundbite. A long recital of the precise rules on how to legally convey sharp instruments from A to B would not have been appropriate for the context - and certainly would only have made it i...
[15:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:32] <exec> 08└─I know. And a sword is just a long knife. Why not allow that?
[15:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:34] <exec> 08└─If you were stopped and searched
[15:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:54] <exec> 08└─So you don't think things like crushing poverty, disease (including malaria), lack of much in the way of formal schooling facilities, etc has anything to do with it? Come on, genetics isn't everything. I didn't get this ~145 IQ solely by luck of the genetic draw, as my siblings are "only" around 110...
[15:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:27] <exec> 08└─Get off your high horse. You're boring.
[15:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:28] <exec> 08└─I'm going to guess you live/work in the big city or a crowded suburb of the metropolis. It has always been aggressive living in crowded conditions. Less people = less aggro
[15:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:30] <exec> 08└─What you are seeing is things getting louder to grab and hold the attention of young people who have a phone or tablet at hand competing for their attention with the TV. It's an arms race of stimulation, and it has gotten totally out of hand. It's sometimes unbearable in restaurants playing loud mus...
[15:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:32] <exec> 08└─I'm going to hate the future when anonymity isn't allowed and every tv show is forever connected to my permanent record
[15:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:59] <exec> 08└─Aren't we conflating a racial aspect with police work? Try getting a time machine and a wonderful Alfa coupe' and go around with it in the early 90s Italian roads. Every Carabinere over 30 stops you, no matter your speed. Why? because the car had been a fave for criminals for twenty years, and they...
[15:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:46] <exec> 08└─Real Men use Jack Daniel's Patented Power Powder. Baby Powder is for whimps.
[15:43:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06At What Point Does Storing Passwords in Plaintext Become Criminally Negligent - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:05] <exec> 08└─Tie their personal earnings to the company's profits starting from zero on both.
[15:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Atlanta CDC Researcher Found Dead in Chattahoochee River - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:10] <exec> 08└─You realize that 2 of the 6 people you mentioned are in fact, dead.
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[16:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:24] <exec> 08└─It travels near the speed of light, so you're dead before you hear the *pew*.
[16:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:25] <exec> 08└─The *pew* is for the enjoyment of the side firing the weapon, thus paying for it. If I were to sell one, I'd make it go *pew*, preceded by the sound of sizzling capacitors charging.
[16:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:28] <exec> 08└─"The key element has been to build this high-power electric laser small enough and powerful enough that we can put it on Army trucks, Air Force planes, and Navy ships, and not take everything [else] off" A very smart old EE once told me "You can't miniaturize a watt"
[16:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:30] <exec> 08└─Of course, 10 kW won’t stop a speeding boat before it can deliver a bomb. The Navy laser demonstration on the USS Ponce was actually half a dozen IPG industrial fiber lasers, each rated at 5.5 kW, shot through the same telescope to form a 30-kW beam. But simply feeding the light from even more ind...
[16:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:32] <exec> 08└─The laser would melt through the mirror coating, and possibly your "water spray and pray". These weapons will be scaled up to 150-300 kilowatts and possibly megawatt(s) in the future, allowing them to cut through fog and more. Failing that, your rare water-spewing pirate boat will just get destroyed...
[16:35:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 2114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:55] <exec> 08└─The simple fact is that there is a decades-long effort to apply business management thinking to academia. These managers are neither skilled enough in the field to properly evaluate the quality of their faculty and applicants, nor are they willing to trust the people that *are* skilled enough in the...
[16:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:56] <exec> 08└─Love the citation http://www.scs.stanford.edu [stanford.edu]. Diagram 1 is particularly impressive.
[16:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:58] <exec> 08└─Its a PAY-per, not a paper.
[16:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:01] <exec> 08└─There's a huge fear of digital notebooks around here. Taking notes is one thing, taking official discoverable notes is something else entirely. When scientists will agree to work with full time video logging of their work (in order to receive funding) that will be a huge step forward in the trust fa...
[16:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:03] <exec> 08└─Since you're talking about the UK, I'll also point out that anything RCUK must also have artefacts archived in the same way as papers. I believe this is also a requirement for entry into the REF. In both cases, there are exemptions allowed for third-party proprietary code and data and data that's co...
[16:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:05] <exec> 08└─I always liked Figure 2 better - I think it's more clear in getting across the point of the paper.
[16:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:08] <exec> 08└─Ah, but what about the stuff that happens in the heads? You better have them wear mandatory thought reading hardware, too! </sarcasm> Honestly, if you ever introduce the requirement of full time video logging to funding, you'll only get one effect: No more scientists asking for your funds. Scientist...
[16:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:10] <exec> 08└─In short, an Open Source competition to Mathematica.
[16:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:33] <exec> 08└─I dropped all plans to buy any more Nvidia kit years ago. The company sucks, and their support for FOSS sucks. The nouveau driver sucks. Like 90% of PC users: I don't play games, and I have no need of 3D. I have no plans to get suckered into mining crapto-currencies. Lets hope Nvidia drowns in their...
[16:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:34] <exec> 08└─"Then again people using 32-bit Windows 10 probably aren't using silly video cards that need eight nuclear power plants to run them." Right. 32bit windows 10 exists mostly for some little tablet devices, low spec hardware, embedded, and and backwards compatibility. None of those entail sticking in a...
[16:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:36] <exec> 08└─... then pisses all over free-and-open-source Money.
[16:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellites, Supercomputers, and Machine Learning Provide Real-Time Crop Type Data - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:52] <exec> 08└─I want to generate this data myself. Yes, the investment in computing power would be significant, however the ability to predict the volume of these crops would let you trade futures with relatively low risk.
[16:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Satellites, Supercomputers, and Machine Learning Provide Real-Time Crop Type Data - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:54] <exec> 08└─This will be extremely valuable data for futures trading and commodity markets. A lot of the price moves are based on national scale weather conditions and crop yield estimate reports. If these tools trickle down to the farmer I'll use them for deciding when to sell my wheat. I'd love to see a weekl...
[16:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:37] <exec> 08└─Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment include: * Writing good code. * Knowing how to use git. * Using tabs for indentation instead of spaces. * Having a sense of humor or at least thick skin. Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include: * Using spaces...
[16:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:39] <exec> 08└─Is that a misprint or does Ms. Reda do all her writing on the bog?
[16:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:41] <exec> 08└─Proprietary = paradise? Who needs hell if that's paradise?!
[16:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:22] <exec> 08└─See above re: many things going into it. I know, what you really wanna say is "nignogs gonna nig," but you haven't got Eth's (liquid?) courage or VLM's complete lack of social-skills acting talent.
[16:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:59] <exec> 08└─I already hate the future. They took our tools and turned them into pay-to-play toys.
[16:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:01] <exec> 08└─I remember watching the series Burn Notice (it was fun for the first few seasons then got old) and there was such a blatant product placement that left me dumbfounded. The character Sam played by Bruce Campbell is drinking a miller beer and puts it down. But as he does so, it cuts to a shot of the b...
[16:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:14] <exec> 08└─Are you serious? You really must be pretty far on some spectrum disorder as you consistently show strange and deficient reading comprehension.
[16:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:16] <exec> 08└─It's not reading comprehension that is the problem, it's the lack of evidence. Just because a story sounds cool, doesn't mean it is true, bro.
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[17:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:25] <exec> 08└─From now on, every advertiser who wants to run political or issue ads will need to be authorized. Authorized! We won't just let anyone round up and murder Rohingya, they will need to pass our stringent test of uploading an image of a scanned document or something! We're totes not 1940's IBM!
[17:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:27] <exec> 08└─Seriously, fuck off ya cunts. The postal service isn't in any way responsible for a terroristic attack planned via snailmail, even if they do fail to open and read each letter.
[17:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 2214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:40] <exec> 08└─The brass have been wanting these things since they first saw 'Buck Rogers.' Unbelievable amounts of money have gone into this research over the years. And I'm sure one day this sort of weapon will become practical. That day still does not appear to be soon, however. "Pentagon officials think the te...
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[17:35:42] <exec> 08└─I suspect you're right about the mirror coating idea, but quite wrong on the water. Even a light fog or a dust cloud drastically reduces their range. One big problem with using lasers to cut is that as soon as you start cutting, you produce a cloud of vapor, and that blocks the laser from cutting fu...
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[17:35:44] <exec> 08└─> The laser would melt through the mirror coating, Well, the energy deposited is just the "nominal energy deposited" * reflectance. Reflectances of 0.9 are easily achievable. So GP's trick of using a mirror means you need 10*beam power for same heat deposition. A 100 kW laser becomes a 10 kW laser.
[17:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:46] <exec> 08└─And a megawatt laser becomes a 100kw laser, which is neat, but it still isn't likely to take much time to cut through that thin mirror finish, and once it's done it's done. The waterwall is probably a better idea, because it could be continuously replenished at low cost.
[17:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:48] <exec> 08└─Tilted glass is a pretty good mirror. It aint hard to make thick glass... but yes, I like the waterwall idea too.
[17:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:50] <exec> 08└─The laser would melt through the mirror coating, and possibly your "water spray and pray". These weapons will be scaled up to 150-300 kilowatts and possibly megawatt(s) in the future, allowing them to cut through fog and more.
[17:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:53] <exec> 08└─What is that even supposed to mean? Naively - obviously not: a watt is a unit of power and has no physical dimensions to miniaturize. But if you're instead talking about miniaturizing a device that uses a watt - then obviously you CAN. Pretty much the only general limit is avoiding melting your devi...
[17:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:55] <exec> 08└─and possibly your "water spray and pray"
[17:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:27] <exec> 08└─These managers are neither skilled enough in the field to properly evaluate the quality... nor are they willing to trust the people that *are* skilled enough in their field...
[17:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 3675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:28] <exec> 08└─At the least, scientific papers-- or, I should say "results" instead of "papers"-- could ditch the PDF format and use something better such as epub. Epub isn't the ultimate either, of course, but PDF was about the worst possible choice. Why? Because it is print oriented. It dictates fonts, font size...
[17:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:30] <exec> 08└─This is fixing a non-problem, i.e. trustworthiness of a paper. It is usually obvious to spot when a paper is balls, by reading the paper and the analysis done. E.g. do the authors quote a systematic error and state how that error was found? No - then it is junk science.
[17:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:55] <exec> 08└─These devices do not require driver updates to optimize performance in applications that use more memory than they can support. These devices haven't been sold for quite a while, so, as GP points out, very few are still used for anything but menial tasks, requiring no new drivers. Exceptions do exis...
[17:38:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 278 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:16] <exec> 08└─From the Article: Stabbings have worsened despite Britain’s already strict knife control laws. U.K. law prohibits knife sales to those under 18 and makes it illegal for anyone to carry a knife “without good reason,” unless it has a folding blade of three inches or fewer.
[17:38:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] 02 - 06London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives - 319 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:31] <exec> 08└─I'm in Ireland. I was crossing a university campus from the car park to the sports centre (I sometimes park further away to get a little walk in before class). Sure there's a bit of exaggeration but the US really isn't that far from a Police state, and London, which is certainly a surveillance state...
[17:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:59] <exec> 08└─Only insensitive clods use tabs instead of spaces!
[17:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:00] <exec> 08└─You use tabs instead of spaces? Why would anyone do that?
[17:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:02] <exec> 08└─At this point? Sheer contrariness and spite.
[17:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:04] <exec> 08└─lols
[17:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DHS Spokesman Dismisses Criticism of Journalist Database - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:00] <exec> 08└─"Given that the US declared war" In what alternate reality was that?
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[18:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:25] <exec> 08└─Microsoft wishes to assure you that this will be patched within 24 months or less. Nothing to be concerned about.
[18:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:27] <exec> 08└─Seriously?
[18:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:29] <exec> 08└─I bet the change was done purely in order to conform to some internal Microsoft coding standard. And probably that “simple” task was given to an inexperienced programmer …
[18:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:31] <exec> 08└─The TechRights staff had some comments in their quasi-daily news digest April 5 [techrights.org] Pseudo-Open Source (Openwashing) They forked this one up: Microsoft modifies open-source code, blows hole in Windows Defender [googleusercontent.com] [Ed: Microsoft puts back doors in all the things, but...
[18:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:42] <exec> 08└─They seem to be working hard to support white genocide in the USA, doesn't seem unlikely that they'd be involved in anti-muslim genocide somewhere else.
[18:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:44] <exec> 08└─It's a coordinated attack on free speech online. They attack the platform, but they're really attacking free speech. The platform can be co-opted by the ruling class. (As if it weren't already; this is Failbook after all. Dumb fucks.) Snailmail can be used to organize the same things Failbook can be...
[18:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:46] <exec> 08└─Should have saved my comment about wswswswswswswsws for this one. Remember that failbook until recently were SJW darlings. What changed? The working class started organizing protests. Now we see how easy it is to turn an SJW darling into an evil Islamophobe villain. Failbook didn't change. Just whic...
[18:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:49] <exec> 08└─Every dollar is blood money. There are no degrees of separation. There are no innocents. The whole pool is contaminated. So, until you vote out the killers here in the west that feed the tyrants for personal profit (and their own safety from organized criminals), you should keep your mouth shut abou...
[18:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:12] <exec> 08└─Only after it applies enough energy to a single point to cause a catastrophic failure. In the case of a round fired from a rifled launcher, that's pretty hard. It the case of an armored vehicle, that's also pretty hard. A tank with reactive armor will automatically protect itself for a while. Heck,...
[18:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:13] <exec> 08└─Even a light fog or a dust cloud drastically reduces their range.
[18:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:15] <exec> 08└─a laser shot from a fiber-laser weapon would cost only $1 in diesel fuel, officials claim.
[18:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:17] <exec> 08└─Its a laser. Shiny aluminium paint will protect against it.
[18:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:20] <exec> 08└─"You can't miniaturize a watt"
[18:36:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 905 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:29] <exec> 08└─It's bad enough that the code is usually of very amateur quality, and sometimes not available for replication. But the actual science? Why is that paywalled? In most cases the taxpayers already paid for the (often wasted) research. Then the researcher has to pay some journal to print their results....
[18:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:55] <exec> 08└─Python Dev here. Jupyter uses the browser exclusively as a beautiful frontend to command line environments, allowing annotations as well as execution in an arbitrary order. The entire notebook can display plotted data and be saved. It runs as a localhost web server. It was initially designed to run...
[18:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:56] <exec> 08└─- Schlock publications with impressive-sounding names popped up to allow academics to publish just about anything for an appropriate price, thus increasing by 1 the number of published academic papers to their name. And by anything, I mean anything, like this classic [stanford.edu]. I thought you we...
[18:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:00] <exec> 08└─I still don't understand. So its a plotting package?
[18:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:05] <exec> 08└─it's a mathematica-like environment, rewritten using python as the backend (but you can apparently use other languages), and a web server as the frontend. it's pretty neat.
[18:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:08] <exec> 08└─I would argue that "published" work, especially in research, should be in a fixed form, such that future researchers can literally see the same paper. also, please note that some journals already offer epub as a download option.
[18:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:34] <exec> 08└─That's it. That's all you need to do. This bitching is nonsensical.
[18:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellites, Supercomputers, and Machine Learning Provide Real-Time Crop Type Data - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:52] <exec> 08└─Which is why big investors already buy satellite crop data to use in their investing.
[18:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:44] <exec> 08└─All good with me, including tabs. BUT, I learned emacs in the late 1970s (first piece of software that I was introduced to) and it's a bit too late for me to switch. Met rms through friends in Cambridge MA about the same time. Not long after I used Mince (Z-80 & CP/M - Mince is not complete emacs) t...
[18:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:45] <exec> 08└─What get's lost in these whiny 'muh free speeches' rants is that freedom of speech doesn't outweigh freedom of association. If I want to form a group with a specific purpose in mind that is my right. If someone is acting counter to that purpose it is absolutely within the groups' right to kick them...
[18:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:48] <exec> 08└─When you can no longer tell the difference between anarchist and communist trolls...
[18:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:22] <exec> 08└─Who "knew"? Birthers? Anti-vaxxers? 9/11 Truthers? Johnson & Johnson knew. FTA: During the more than two-month trial, Lanzo’s lawyers produced stacks of internal J&J and Imerys files that showed officials of both companies were worried that asbestos was tainting talc used in baby powder and other...
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[19:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:37] <exec> 08└─The short version: don't start a genocide you can't finish! The story starts with illegal aliens pouring over the border from Bangladesh, where the impoverished and uneducated muslims breed like mad. These people settle in Burma/Myanmar, creating muslim villages in what is a strongly Buddhist nation...
[19:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:39] <exec> 08└─Who else remembers when Aung San Suu Kyi was a peaceful democratic liberal activist before she became the new Hitler in the media because she oppressed those poor Muslims who invaded and attacked her country?
[19:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:41] <exec> 08└─Or: Nobel Peace Prize winner turns out to be shit once in power for a while. Where have I heard that one before?
[19:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:07] <exec> 08└─What's the production cost of the laser? Number of shots fired in its expected service life? Not to mention service costs, and amortizing development. A $10 Million gun with $1 rounds requires a lot of shots to approach $1 a shot.
[19:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:47] <exec> 08└─The incentives are not aligned with producing high-quality, reproducible, useful results.
[19:41:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 19 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:51] <exec> 08└─Mushroom, MUSHROOM!
[19:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:59] <exec> 08└─The link between mesothelioma and asbestos is well established.
[19:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:01] <exec> 08└─At high doses of asbestos. Dose makes the poison. "All levels of asbestos exposure studied to date have demonstrated asbestos-related disease…there is no level of exposure below which clinical effects do not occur.”According to NIOSH [asbestos.com]
[19:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Spokesman Dismisses Criticism of Journalist Database - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:25] <exec> 08└─http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/19/sprj.irq.int.bush.transcript/ [cnn.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.answers.com [answers.com] https://www.reference.com
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[20:35:22] <exec> 08└─That's all we need. That's it. We don't need gesture tracking. We don't need motion sensors. That's all we've ever needed, and it could have been delivered decades ago. (A|V)R will always be shit, because these smartypants are trying way too hard to do too much. We could have had 2 decades of techno...
[20:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leap Motion Releasing Specifications for a $100 Augmented Reality Headset - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:23] <exec> 08└─What you need is a View-Master and a straitjacket. VR and AR are here to stay.
[20:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leap Motion Releasing Specifications for a $100 Augmented Reality Headset - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:25] <exec> 08└─Project North Star: You are already dead. Stereoscopic 3d imaging: What?!
[20:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leap Motion Releasing Specifications for a $100 Augmented Reality Headset - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:27] <exec> 08└─*Nani?!
[20:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leap Motion Releasing Specifications for a $100 Augmented Reality Headset - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:30] <exec> 08└─Leap did some very interesting gesture tracking, but I found it to be less than natural when I used it 5 years back. This would be great in combination with other state-of-the-art players' tech, by itself it's just kinda weird (as the summary said.) Nice of them to take the sharing approach - would...
[20:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leap Motion Releasing Specifications for a $100 Augmented Reality Headset - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:32] <exec> 08└─Let's fully anal-yze your shitty post: we We We we've We we
[20:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leap Motion Releasing Specifications for a $100 Augmented Reality Headset - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:34] <exec> 08└─True, the English word what just doesn't have the impact that 何 does as an exclamation.
[20:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:45] <exec> 08└─"And probably that “simple” task was given to an inexperienced janitor …" FTFY :^)
[20:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:47] <exec> 08└─I suppose you have to add value somehow. I mean, that "free love" long-haired hippy stuff is great and all but serious corporations with shareholders and PHBs and everything need a reason to keep selling new versions and fixes.
[20:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:49] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised that didn't involve rewriting it as an Excel macro...
[20:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:51] <exec> 08└─Serious corporations can add value. They can satisfy shareholders, PHBs, and keep selling new versions and fixes -- along with services. And they don't have to badmouth FOSS or create FUD to do so. Red Hat is one example. There are also plenty of big companies that incorporate FOSS code into their p...
[20:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:53] <exec> 08└─So we are sitting in front of machines that are a bajilianty times more powerful than a 1970s pocket calculator and somehow moving a few differently sized numbers around somehow trips things up in a way that not only crashes a program but also instantly opens the door for all teh ebil hackers. Perha...
[20:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:56] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the real problem is that people who know very little about software development are paid to develop software. But no, blame the tool for giving programmers 'too much power'.
[20:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:58] <exec> 08└─Anyone who's been paying attention is aware of the number of times that anti-virus apps have been exploited. That garbage just provides a larger attack surface. The proper way to address exploitable code is to fix the security flaws in your code. Pasting band-aids all over the outside of your crappy...
[20:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:00] <exec> 08└─No, the real blame is that RAR was written by a Russian! Yes, Russians! It allowed Russia to hack Windows and tamper with the election making sure Trump won!
[20:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:02] <exec> 08└─what does that mean? not sure I've heard of 'knock-on' before. educate me (maybe others also have not heard this term).
[20:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe they could dust off the Xenix source code and start hacking? I'm sure someone somewhere must still have a drive that can read 5.25" 360k disks.
[20:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:07] <exec> 08└─This is Micro-"Linux is an Unamerican cancer"-Soft we're talking about here.
[20:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:48] <exec> 08└─Well, $10 million might be a charitable estimate for their big laser gun + supercapacitor arrays. It could be worth it if it's able to intercept targets that missiles can't hit.
[20:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:50] <exec> 08└─"It's meant to take out small vessels, drones, and possibly incoming weapons." But it's still a long ways from being as effective as much less expensive and already existing gun systems for that.
[20:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:52] <exec> 08└─That's why it's in the research and development stage. Interestingly, China may be about to outspend the U.S. on said laser research [businesswire.com].
[20:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:32] <exec> 08└─This forum supports that. Once a message is posted, it's fixed. No one, including the author, can edit the messages after they are posted.
[20:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 2853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:33] <exec> 08└─While I can't fault Mathematica for its incredible interactive facilities, any replacement for the existing publishing model of paper (PDF) plus any extra data must be open and future-proof or it will hold little long-term value. Interactive visualisation of dynamic processes is fine, but we have be...
[20:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook-Owned Instagram Removes Opioid-Related Posts - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:34] <exec> 08└─I dunno, I always would mod him up because people troll mod him excessively.
[20:40:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:36] <exec> 08└─thinking free speech means the freedom to agree with them or be destroyed to start your own project on your own terns
[20:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:54] <exec> 08└─And nowhere did I deny that. I did say, though, that it's not the whole story, and gave evidence (granted, n=3 evidence...) that this is the case. And you're hiding behind that so you can say, without saying, "hurr hurr dumb niggers." You don't fool anyone.
[20:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:56] <exec> 08└─Genetics plays a major role in IQ.
[20:42:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06NYPD Settles Surveillance Case with New Jersey Muslim Groups - 1479 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:52] <exec> 08└─Let's assume the same percentage of muslims are peaceful. The problem is that they will do nothing when things like these happen (source, the notoriously right wing site called google, first page results for "pakistan accused burning koran") 20 Aug 2012 ... An 11-year-old Christian girl has been arr...
[20:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:52] <exec> 08└─You mean other than baby powder containing a known carcinogen. Not in the California sense, but in the clear and well understood danger sense. Even after 1976, the harmful component must be actively removed. Use corn starch. Unlike talc, it doesn't naturally have asbestos in it.
[20:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:54] <exec> 08└─And now the linear no-threshold model. It'd be helpful, if you actually understood what you were speaking of. Dose makes the poison still applies.
[20:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:56] <exec> 08└─You mean other than baby powder containing a known carcinogen.
[20:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DHS Spokesman Dismisses Criticism of Journalist Database - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:21] <exec> 08└─Well that is just beyond retarded.
[20:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DHS Spokesman Dismisses Criticism of Journalist Database - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:22] <exec> 08└─"The CIA doesn't have as many clandestine agents as you might at first think" Ok so you actually know this? Where do you get a count from? Would you trust that count even if say the CIA itself released a number? Perhaps you should read up on the subject there are many (heavily redacted) books writte...
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[21:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blood Test Useful To Detect People At Risk Of Developing Alzheimer's Disease - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:23] <exec> 08└─Why am I getting this blood test again? I can't remember. And who are you? And where is this place?
[21:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blood Test Useful To Detect People At Risk Of Developing Alzheimer's Disease - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:25] <exec> 08└─I'm almost 60, both parents lost their minds before dying. The thought of me being like they were the last year or three of their lives scares the hell out of me. Be nice to know if I'm gonna get it. Too bad there's no cure. If there's no cure what good does it do me to know?
[21:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:03] <exec> 08└─a flaw that can be exploited by malicious .rar files to run malware on PCs – has been traced back to an open-source archiving tool Microsoft adopted for its own use. [...] Apparently, Microsoft forked that version of unrar and incorporated the component into its operating system's antivirus engine...
[21:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:04] <exec> 08└─Modula-2 FTW.
[21:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:07] <exec> 08└─It was Ballmer (developers, Developers, DEVELOPERS!!!, I Love This Monopoly!!!) who said that Linux was a Cancer. It was Jim Allchin (who was #4 at Microsoft, at that time, long before Vista) who said effectively that Open Source is un-American and we need to educate the legislators to the danger.
[21:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:09] <exec> 08└─Not Windows. It was Zuckerbooger's Facegrabber (like in Alien) that allowed the Russians to elect Trump.
[21:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:11] <exec> 08└─Or -24 months, if you wish.
[21:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:14] <exec> 08└─One of us is psycho^W psychic. I've been thinking about Xenix too. MSFT licensed that in 1978, so it's clear that they knew about proper security even before they bought QDOS from Tim Paterson (one T) and rebranded that. If MICROS~1 had used UNIX file permissions from the start, that would have take...
[21:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:16] <exec> 08└─License: https://www.win-rar.com [win-rar.com] Looks like unrar may be a bit different from rar (and gui version winrar), since there is the mention of source for unrar?? IANAL...
[21:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 1805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:18] <exec> 08└─C and C++ has its place. As does assembler. That place is NOT writing application software. In fact it should not have a place writing basically anything in user space, other than perhaps infrequently things like codecs, encryption, compression, etc. And those should be library functions callable fr...
[21:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:20] <exec> 08└─Back in the day, I liked Modula 3. At least the specification. As a Pascal programmer, I dreamed of being able to have Modula 3. But things moved on. I learned Lisp, and C seemed to take over the world.
[21:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:23] <exec> 08└─Shhhhhh! If unrar isn't open source, how will Microsoft be able to bad mouth open source?
[21:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:25] <exec> 08└─That's not the unrar license, although it includes parts of it. A web search turned up this copy of the license text [fedoraproject.org], which matches what is found in tar file you can download from rarlab.com. Note that there are actual free unpackers for the RAR formats (e.g., libarchive) so ther...
[21:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:10] <exec> 08└─serve a variety of roles on land and at sea: zapping the cheap rockets, artillery, drones, and small boats loaded with weapons that insurgents have deployed in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
[21:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:11] <exec> 08└─The lasers will have better range and accuracy.
[21:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:32] <exec> 08└─Contributor Covenant: A Code of Conduct for Open Source Projects
[21:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:16] <exec> 08└─Darlin, 80 or 100 is irrelevant to me except in a mildly interesting academic sense. Both are more than twice as far from me as they are from each other.
[21:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:16] <exec> 08└─You remind me of the Kinks. Left is right, black is white, back to front and I'm all uptight! SHOO
[21:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:18] <exec> 08└─I know enough to understand that quote is not referring to a model.
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[22:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blood Test Useful to Detect People at Risk of Developing Alzheimer's Disease - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:24] <exec> 08└─Similar story here, but only one parent suffering a stroke resulting in senility. So not something I can test for. I would say that if you know, you could plan accordingly. Now, what that might mean, I cannot say.
[22:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Blood Test Useful to Detect People at Risk of Developing Alzheimer's Disease - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:25] <exec> 08└─You can plan for your own way out, no need to die from the disease. Then again there are some pretty massive taboos against killing yourself which seem implicitly agreed to by your fatalistic approach. Personally I don't see why someone should be forced to suffer through the end of Alzheimers if the...
[22:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Blood Test Useful to Detect People at Risk of Developing Alzheimer's Disease - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:28] <exec> 08└─There is no cure, but there are ways to manage the disease. Plus, if I were to get it, I'd rather have 8 years of warning, rather than having it take be by surprise and be diagnosed later based on occurrence of symptoms.
[22:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blood Test Useful to Detect People at Risk of Developing Alzheimer's Disease - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:31] <exec> 08└─That's why insurance will fail to pay for it - your medical picture cannot be changed by knowing at this time, so diagnostically it is not a meaningful test. (Maybe in a later year it might make a difference to starting some early intervention strategy.) That said, as others indicated it may be usef...
[22:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:20] <exec> 08└─From the source code: 2. UnRAR source code may be used in any software to handle RAR archives without limitations free of charge, but cannot be used to develop RAR (WinRAR) compatible archiver and to re-create RAR compression algorithm, which i...
[22:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:21] <exec> 08└─> Red Hat is one example. Red Hat engineers, adding value after value, PC fans at full speed too much matter always collapses on itself welcome, systemd
[22:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:09] <exec> 08└─Another big challenge is scaling up. Supporting 1 300-KW laser is a challenge - supporting 5 or 10 is a much bigger problem because of scaling the power plant(s) to drive them. Adding 10-20 machine guns doesn't have as much of an impact on the underlying power infrastructure, as the energy is coming...
[22:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:11] <exec> 08└─I saw that. They're more likely to deploy them defensively, on land, making it slightly more plausible that this could work well for them, but I still suspect nothing useful will come of it anytime soon. It's just too easy to deploy many times the firepower for a tiny fraction of the cost, using gun...
[22:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:13] <exec> 08└─Sure in a very abstract sense you can say that a watt has no dimensions, but as a practical matter it definitely does. You need a generator, or a battery, to provide it. Those things definitely do have physical dimensions. And while both generators and batteries have experienced some miniaturization...
[22:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:19] <exec> 08└─Duh, because malaria occurs mainly where there are a lot of negroes.
[22:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:20] <exec> 08└─On a related note, when you take people from those areas and run them thru good, Westernized schools from an early age they do just fine on the IQ tests. So, an environmental factor rather than a genetic one.
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[23:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:23] <exec> 08└─The brow ridges in archaic humans also serve no obvious function in relation to chewing or other practical mechanics – a theory commonly put forward to explain protruding brow ridges. As when the ridge was taken away there was no effect on the rest of the face when biting. This means that brow rid...
[23:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:24] <exec> 08└─Eyebrows protect the eyes after we headbutt opponents. Our hands are pretty fragile, and breaking fingers would mean death to early humans. Headbutting opponents and prey with our heavy strong skulls is a safer takedown approach, as well as potentially a courtship ritual (but without horns). Whoever...
[23:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:26] <exec> 08└─free the unibrow [duckduckgo.com]!
[23:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:29] <exec> 08└─Hands are far better at making gestures across the entire ranges of subtlety and friendliness. 🖕
[23:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:31] <exec> 08└─https://imgflip.com/i/ywria [imgflip.com]
[23:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:33] <exec> 08└─When one has the hands full (fondling those titties) though, one will need some extra channels of non-verbal communication.
[23:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Blood Test Useful to Detect People at Risk of Developing Alzheimer's Disease - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:46] <exec> 08└─Insurance will absolutely pay for it as "preventative medicine." Of course, they will then find a reason in the next few years to drop you, raise your rate, or change your pool.
[23:36:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:23] <exec> 08└─It's a British term for I dropped this anvil on my foot, so now my foot hurts.
[23:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:37] <exec> 08└─Why did they elect a friend of Israel enemy of Syria allied of themselves? Must be one of those russian loooong games. Let me sift through some historical surveillance logs... - Sir, we are ready - OK then, let's pick the next president - Here, behold the candidates - ....Wew ladski... can't we have...
[23:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:39] <exec> 08└─Your words not strict form Overflow memory blow You let bad code in
[23:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:41] <exec> 08└─I dropped this anvil on my foot, so now my foot hurts.
[23:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:43] <exec> 08└─Friendly reminder that the ++ in C++ actually symbolizes cemetery crosses.
[23:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:45] <exec> 08└─Totally agree. Apart from the c++ bit. C++'s niche is so invisibly narrow I'm not sure it even exists any more.
[23:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:48] <exec> 08└─Google not working in your part of the world? https://www.merriam-webster.com
[23:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:50] <exec> 08└─It's not "Open Source", even if it is "open source". Having said that, "Open Source" is a bit messed up, and unrar's a bit messed up and it's possible that the messes overlap. Unrar may have restrictions on usage, but the problem is that it doesn't have enough restrictions on modifications. If it ob...
[23:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:06] <exec> 08└─Yup. Seems like it to me. Failbook has its flaws with its evil leader making his bed of cash selling people's data they get for free however it is also a platform for free speech. Looks like the more insidious folks are using the former, with the current drama around data monetization, as smoke scre...
[23:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:42] <exec> 08└─China has significant naval ambitions. It's building aircraft carriers and flexing its muscles near disputed islands. They will probably want to mount lasers on ships.
[23:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Owned Instagram Removes Opioid-Related Posts - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:25] <exec> 08└─In his case I don't agree he was modded troll excessively at all, the racist crap was just low effort rubbish. Maybe we need -1 Arsehole mod.
[23:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:52] <exec> 08└─I know enough to understand that quote is not referring to a model.
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