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[00:36:44] <exec> 08└─My guess this was the abstraction layer that ported rar file format to something VB could use, and thus making it available to Office macros. Makes sense to me. Put a bunch of filenames in a worksheet in Excel, press a button and out spits a rar file containing all the files listed in the workshe...
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[00:36:45] <exec> 08└─I concur. It is absolutely possible that the person with the about-to-be-hurting foot kicked a person onto a table, which then catapulted a anvil into the air which then converted the about-to-be-hurting foot into a hurting foot. This again makes me wonder what the kicked-onto-the-table person said...
[00:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:37] <exec> 08└─That depends on the frequency of the laser. Aluminum is good against some frequencies, but not so good against others. E.g., I don't think it works very well against infrared.
[00:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:39] <exec> 08└─They have, and plonking an impractical but impressive laser on an aircraft carrier where it just interferes with operations would actually be just the kind of stupidity they're prone to so I would hardly rule it out. However, keep in mind, their strategy is clearly built around the idea that this na...
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[00:37:41] <exec> 08└─Even on ships I'd bet the lasers are defensive rather than aggressive. For defense they may have the advantage in that they don't need to lead the target, so aiming is easier. OTOH, they'll probably be a bit slower to get into action. I'm always dubious about anti-missile-missiles, but a laser might...
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[01:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Greener And Cheaper Technique For Biofuel Production - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:25] <exec> 08└─This is real progress. > ...further engineer it to enhance biobutanol ratio and yield using molecular genetic tools. Let's hope these guys are not greedy and try to CRISP in some way to degrade the reproductive process to make people depend on fresh supply from them. Original FULL article. http://ad...
[01:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Greener And Cheaper Technique For Biofuel Production - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:26] <exec> 08└─I see what's the problem. > ...convert micro-crystalline cellulose to butanol: (i) generating butanol up to 1.93 g/liter 1.) *micro-crystalline* cellulose need a lot of energy to produce. 2.) 1.93 g/liter means you need about 500 litre micro-crystalline cellulose to produce 1 litre butanol. Well, th...
[01:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Interesting) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:39] <exec> 08└─The aboriginal people of New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Australia, and other near-by places have the huge brow ridges. I wonder how they do in fights. I wonder if they get useful protection from sun damage to the eyes.
[01:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:41] <exec> 08└─They also protect the skull and contents from fists, elbows, sticks, rocks, and other impact devices.
[01:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:43] <exec> 08└─humans today unconsciously raise their eyebrows briefly when they see someone at a distance to show we are not a threat
[01:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:47] <exec> 08└─Found the Italian :)
[01:36:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 1805 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:44] <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...
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[01:37:00] <exec> 08└─Mr. Goldberg, [google.com] it's a shame that, early in your career, you didn't cross paths with William of Ockham. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:01] <exec> 08└─I can't agree. I think C++ has a large place in userland, the problem is programmers who don't know how to use it safely. C++ has plenty of high level constructs, yet you see people doing stuff like writing their own buggy strncpy() and using that, instead of a string class. C++ is a dangerous langu...
[01:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:00] <exec> 08└─"The lasers will have better range" Not against surface targets of any kind. A lasers range, in a naval context, is limited by the curvature of the earth to around 12 miles, give or take a little depending on exactly how far each of the ships rises above the waves. The same limit applies to targets...
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[02:35:24] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 275 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:24] <exec> 08└─One of the first things I do on installing a distro is make sure the pcspkr module is loaded so i have an audible terminal bell even if I don't have a sound card. Then I install beep if it isn't already so I can have the box notify me of something even should it be headless.
[02:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:26] <exec> 08└─Yep, beep is still useful. I don't use it for terminal bells though, I don't like that. I see a good use for other forms of notifications on e.g. servers, however. Here's a script I found somewhere many years ago, plays taps. Linky link [universe2.us]
[02:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:28] <exec> 08└─And every mother board I've handled in the last decade still had a beeper, not a speaker, just a tiny beeper. Even blade server boards have these. Maybe Mr Tony Hoyle should look inside his machine some day.
[02:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Greener and Cheaper Technique for Biofuel Production - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:38] <exec> 08└─Ultimately, its not about food or non-food feedstocks. Its all about acres. How many acres does it take to to produce the feed-stock and how much NET fuel per acre. But more than that its about WHICH acres you have to use. Something like switch grass [wikipedia.org] can crow on very marginal land, h...
[02:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:54] <exec> 08└─Indeed. from the thank-you-Spock dept.
[02:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:56] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough, that's one of the few nationalities I can't trace my ancestry back to. I just appropriated their culture.
[02:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Blood Test Useful to Detect People at Risk of Developing Alzheimer's Disease - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:10] <exec> 08└─I have to admit that this is one of the diseases that really scare me, not that I sit around thinking very much about but it would just be a horrible way to die. There are probably a plenty of other diseases that would kill me in various horrific and painful ways -- but they would just flat out kill...
[02:36:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:34] <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 …
[02:36:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 651 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:35] <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...
[02:36:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 181 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:42] <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'.
[02:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:14] <exec> 08└─No, it's all a false flag by GNU, organized by Richard Stallman himself, to try to convince the public to ban RAR in favor of tar.bz2. Fnord.
[02:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:16] <exec> 08└─Read 5.25 360K floppies? Yup. Surprisingly, I still can do that. Still have several dozen disks as well. All old DOS stuff.
[02:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:18] <exec> 08└─All this time, I thought old Phil Katz, originator of PKZIP, had by far the most elegant solution to file compression. And thought this "DriveSpace" brought into DOS6.22 was pure unadulterated crap. Sure would have liked to have seen DOS 6.22 had "ZipFolders" instead. So the filesystem would see a...
[02:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 1969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:20] <exec> 08└─I have to agree with this plus add a spin. IMHO, the arcane convolutions in C are a clear problem for maintaining code. Even trying to debug your own code six months later is a PITA. C++ did some nice language things but, again IMHO, borked the whole field with Object-Oriented Programming. I hated O...
[02:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 1405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:23] <exec> 08└─C++, like a power saw, can be used to make really fine work, rapidly. It can also make a helluva mess, rapidly. C++ has enormous power, as it was designed in an age where it was to be a "one size fits all". If you wanted to "expand" C++, you did not even think of using another compiler... nah - you...
[02:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:39] <exec> 08└─The story starts with illegal aliens pouring over the border from Bangladesh, where the impoverished and uneducated muslims breed like mad.
[02:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:20] <exec> 08└─- chrome to mirror quality all the surfaces of the targets of interests - why not the entire speed boat? Say, another $2000 to be generous?
[02:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:22] <exec> 08└─Corner reflectors.
[02:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:31] <exec> 08└─That should have the reverse effect. Typically the harsher a place is to live in, the more intellect it demands. Think of it this way. Take two rooms filled with babies. Room A has a food dispenser that gives food at the press of the button. Room B has a food dispenser that requires a the user to an...
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[02:44:10] <exec> 08└─Thanks!
[02:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:12] <exec> 08└─Southern California... near a really rich area ( Irvine ). Well, in small towns, you have to be nice... your neighbor may well determine whether you live or die. In a big crowded area, you have everything outsourced to a support service, paid for in advance. You don't need anyone. And it shows. Al...
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[03:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:33] <exec> 08└─I hate to say metoo, but metoo man, metoo. Beep is one of the most useful packages in the distro. I didn't read the article yet but just based on the last line of the summary here this Böck has clearly risen to his level of utter incompetence, just as Peter predicted.
[03:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:34] <exec> 08└─I guess it's been awhile since I've been on the hardware side of things, but is the beep a system makes during post separate from the PC speaker? I was going to say it's very useful on a headless system to hear the system post if you restart it. Just about every system I touch still makes a beep on...
[03:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:36] <exec> 08└─That's the speaker beep uses, yes. Being able to tell it to beep in a certain way if certain things happen is something many folks find useful still.
[03:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Greener and Cheaper Technique for Biofuel Production - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:48] <exec> 08└─s/a legislative solution/regulatory capture/ Remember, regulations don't kill businesses, (corrupt) people do.
[03:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:07] <exec> 08└─The aboriginal people of New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Australia, and other near-by places have the huge brow ridges
[03:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:08] <exec> 08└─Australian Aboriginals might have colonised the place 50,000 years ago. ...I suspect you've never met any of those people.
[03:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:11] <exec> 08└─I just appropriated their...
[03:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:13] <exec> 08└─Someone lately showed that that the brow ridges are still there, just disguised by our flattened faces. Slope the forehead back like an animal, and the brow ridges reappear. In short, they're just a topological artifact. Also, they seem to have failed to note that a lot of other mammals have eyebrow...
[03:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06New Blood Test Useful to Detect People at Risk of Developing Alzheimer's Disease - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:28] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=24128&cid=639156 [soylentnews.org] Take a look at the info here, esp. the second post
[03:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blood Test Useful to Detect People at Risk of Developing Alzheimer's Disease - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:29] <exec> 08└─Thank you!
[03:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:37] <exec> 08└─C++ is a real mess, however. * Syntax is inconsistent - e.g. calling constructor with no arguments has different syntax to constructor with arguments * Syntax is awful - ever tried doing anything complicated with templates? Ever done it *quickly*? * How much implicit darkness does C++ do behind your...
[03:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:56] <exec> 08└─The genocide is the Rohingya deciding to attack the native villages, which are of course Buddhist and are being attacked for that reason. In other words, the natives of the country are "the wrong ethnicity and religion" in their own country. At best, you could say that Rohingya getting killed is a s...
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[03:38:39] <exec> 08└─> You need a generator The engine of a tank/battleship/jet plane is quite capable of generating a lot of power. Generator is not an issue in this context.
[03:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:49] <exec> 08└─Okay, so you are at minimum as well-endowed in IQ as I am...but, so what? What does IQ alone get us? Nothing. And why, for all your brainpower, have you remained so antisocial? There is a reason INT, WIS, and CHA are separate dice rolls...
[03:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra HD Forum Releases Phase B Guidelines for 4K Broadcasting - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:30] <exec> 08└─We'll be forced to watch greasy fat people in UHD.
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[04:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:35] <exec> 08└─My desktop has a "speaker", but my two mini-ITX systems don't . I don't recall there being a speaker in the box with the motherboards of the mini-ITX systems.
[04:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 2069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:36] <exec> 08└─The unrelated fault is in patch. diff can include ed commands, FreeBSD and others fixed it time ago. But not everyone, so instead of only letting ed commands that make sense as POSIX says, the patch command allows shells or anything that ed can do. THIS ONE IS SERIOUS and part of the website "joke"....
[04:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Greener and Cheaper Technique for Biofuel Production - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:47] <exec> 08└─Ultimately, its not about food or non-food feedstocks. Its all about acres.
[04:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:11] <exec> 08└─Minirant: I'm getting quite tired of these research pronouncements that some very minor study has found THE REASON for some mystery trait
[04:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:35] <exec> 08└─I'm sure someone somewhere must still have a drive that can read 5.25" 360k disks.
[04:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:37] <exec> 08└─That doesn't sound like FOSS. That's proprietary with access to source code. So people, beginning with Microsoft, lay all the blame for Microsoft's screw-up on FOSS, when the code wasn't even FOSS to begin with? Typical.
[04:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:56] <exec> 08└─the Rohingya deciding to attack the native villages
[04:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:40] <exec> 08└─Actually you're wrong. A tank? Powering a megawatt laser? Are you just silly or what? That's nowhere near enough power. Ships powered by nuclear reactors, there are a few of those, and yes they have the generator capacity, but not a tank, no way. Not unless you're talking about Hammer's Slammers. It...
[04:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:41] <exec> 08└─If you know the direction where the beam will be coming from and you can afford the space, by all means.
[04:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:44] <exec> 08└─The corner reflector has a pretty broad angle of use, about 90 degrees, good enough to tile the vehicle passively with.
[04:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:26] <exec> 08└─If you write a scientific paper now and publish in a decent open access journal and/or on a pre-print server like arXiv, it's going to be available to every scientist for the foreseeable future, which is indistinguishable from eternity. That's not true for closed journals where you may lose access....
[04:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:56] <exec> 08└─Intellectual isolation, boredom, and the chance to get told what to do at your job by someone as intellectually far beneath you as they are above retarded folks. On the up side we can do our own taxes if we feel like it. Antisocial? Moi? I almost gave up fishing after I got my boat because there was...
[04:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:58] <exec> 08└─The reduced brain drain could also be because the smartest Chinese left as soon as they could. Now the flow is reduced to a trickle, because fewer Chinese visiting academics are exceptional, and they don't get job offers abroad. Not saying this is true, but it's possible.
[04:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:00] <exec> 08└─They probably killed their local Einstein in the genocide, just like Germans would have killed the real one if they had got their hands on him.
[04:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Einstein Forum Held in Rwanda - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:02] <exec> 08└─The reduced brain drain could also be because the smartest Chinese left as soon as they could.
[04:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Johnson & Johnson Loses New Jersey Talc Cancer Case - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:07] <exec> 08└─Run out of reasoning? Maybe you ought to load up on some more before continuing this discussion? Let's look at a key statement you made a couple posts back. You mean other than baby powder containing a known carcinogen.
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[05:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe that's because you are still looking for that speaker, instead of a little black 1 cm component with a hole in the middle? My it's has one.
[05:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:44] <exec> 08└─My desktop has one of those tiny components. It's possible that my mini-ITX systems have something, but I could not hear any sound after installing and running "beep".
[05:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:46] <exec> 08└─So NO, YOU BUNCH OF DEBIAN RETARDS, beep/alarm bell still has uses, because you don't use it doesn't mean everyone has to lose it.
[05:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03crb3 [5919] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:49] <exec> 08└─Don't want no 3v!L3H@x0Rz sending lewd and lascivious Morse code messages from my server speakers.
[05:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:08] <exec> 08└─Funny how you sweep 1400 years of violent expansionism and genocide under the rug. The attackers invading Myanmar do have a past. Bangladesh used to be Buddhist as was Afghanistan. Myanmar knows the deal and is fighting back. Their only mistake was not establishing a strong social media presence fir...
[05:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:09] <exec> 08└─Funny how you sweep 1400 years of violent expansionism and genocide under the rug.
[05:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:57] <exec> 08└─A tank with a bunch of capacitors, generating powering from its turbine to dump a megawatt over 30 seconds? Yeah, that's just silly. Seriously, you think you need a nuclear reactor for that? How about a gas turbine that fits into a minivan producing a continuous megawatt? We have those, but with cap...
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[06:35:47] <exec> 08└─Did you check your mixer? Is the volume up, is it unmuted? For now it might be a good idea to not have this useful package installed.
[06:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:48] <exec> 08└─We have millions of rather beefy machines sitting idle, should we instead use those cycles to make our tools more secure? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:50] <exec> 08└─Did you check your mixer? Is the volume up, is it unmuted?
[06:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:52] <exec> 08└─Also, not installed suid on my systems, so not vulnerable.
[06:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:26] <exec> 08└─But where would I take them? To the Billabong teeming with Bandicoots? Or to where the Green Ants Dream? Your comment puzzles me, c0lo. Waltzing Matilda, indeed!
[06:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:28] <exec> 08└─We could have had an aristarchus submission!! (One eyebrow raised, this time in accusation!!)
[06:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:17] <exec> 08└─Your medication only helps when you take it.
[06:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook-Owned Instagram Removes Opioid-Related Posts - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:49] <exec> 08└─Whew! Never been so glad for a "redundant" mod! But, hey, wait a minute. . . !!!
[06:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook-Owned Instagram Removes Opioid-Related Posts - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:50] <exec> 08└─You intrigue me, FatPhil! Who do you think it is that you can thus identify?
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[07:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:29] <exec> 08└─If the man in the street had a nuclear missile, he would probably use it too. Does not make it a good idea. We have a legal system for a reason. (But the need for ombudsmen demonstrate it is completely unfit for purpose).
[07:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:31] <exec> 08└─Of course he wants, because wanting costs nothing for him. So typical.
[07:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:35] <exec> 08└─But where would I take them?
[07:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:36] <exec> 08└─Are you Glaswegian, by any chance?
[07:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:03] <exec> 08└─Now, that's exactly what I would have done when I didn't know what a term means - I would have looked it up and silently moved on. I would have thought everyone knew what "knock-on effect" meant, and today I learnt that not everybody did. That in itself is interesting. So now; not only did the perso...
[07:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:04] <exec> 08└─Those are excellent points. To me, the C++ is more like the English language... it has a few quite illogical exceptions, but I can use it to communicate to others. Its the most effective communications thing I have. Gotta admit I would hate to lay out a web page in C++. I do mostly embedded, so C...
[07:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:56] <exec> 08└─And by anything, I mean anything, like this classic [stanford.edu].
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[08:35:37] <exec> 08└─Monitoring social media is also easier and safer than patrolling the streets.
[08:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:38] <exec> 08└─> safer than patrolling the streets I don't think Devon and Cornwall are exactly a hotbed of gun crime. Though I understand the gangs in Taunton can be pretty fierce (joke).
[08:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:44] <exec> 08└─Publish-or-perish metric + journalistic exaggeration
[08:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:46] <exec> 08└─Sudden access of pedantry OTOH this leads to predictable slow and inefficient progress overall due to a very low signal-to-noise ratio; but the progress does exist, is only denied by the truely ignorant
[08:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:14] <exec> 08└─NT had a pretty good security model, in theory. The ACL model is a lot more flexible than the unix owner-group-other model. Unfortunately, this also makes it a lot harder to understand, with the result that any permission problem is solved by running everything as Administrator. On top of that, NT w...
[08:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:16] <exec> 08└─Nope. Create a an unsigned integer x in any language of your choice. Then do a while(x >= 0). Your program will hang. In fact, take any language with more than one variable type, and change a variable to a different type without understanding the consequences. You will run into problems. A Javascrip...
[08:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:36] <exec> 08└─Are you talking about firmware? Because then it's no different than the microcode in your CPU, or any other hardware for that matter. The thing is, the firmware only depends on the hardware, where as the driver works with a specific OS-version. A company no longer making new firmware for a product o...
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[09:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:25] <exec> 08└─So TFT announces "Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows" and then the entire FS is a thoroughly mixed mayo made of 'listening customers' with 'modularity' with a pinch of 'different vision's and concludes with 'we don't know and it's likely will not get to know soon'. So, mate... this is...
[09:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:27] <exec> 08└─If that was the case we'd have magsafe back! Seriously, they ditched the single best feature of their laptops.
[09:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:29] <exec> 08└─hey. at least they said workflow and not cloudflow. stop complaining.
[09:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:46] <exec> 08└─If a company was handing out "free" food that caused food poisoning, they'd be shut down. Same principle for facebook and all (((american))) corporations.
[09:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:15] <exec> 08└─Depends on the mixer app. Some do include an additional control slider that lets you mute and set the volume of the internal speaker as well as any dedicated audio hardware, and it's not at all uncommon for them to mute the PC speaker by default, or to hook calls to the system beep to the audio hard...
[09:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 1556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:16] <exec> 08└─I actually use pidgin's integrated console beep support all the time, so I will have a noticable way to tell if someone is IMing me even if I disconnected my speakers to use on another system (You try having either 5 sets of speakers, or a chain of minijack cables strung between every system in your...
[09:36:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Reziac [2489] 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 684 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:50] <exec> 08└─Someone lately showed that that the brow ridges are still there, just disguised by our flattened faces. Slope the forehead back like an animal, and the brow ridges reappear. In short, they're just a topological artifact. Also, they seem to have failed to note that a lot of other mammals have eyebrow...
[09:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:29] <exec> 08└─It's a nice analogy...
[09:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:23] <exec> 08└─doesn't fix anything
[09:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:24] <exec> 08└─something better such as epub
[09:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:26] <exec> 08└─Forgive the self-reply: HTML should be used as an in addition to format, rather than to replace PDF. I can see the value in PDF/EPUB to preserve exact on-paper formatting.
[09:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:29] <exec> 08└─That means most academic work does not in fact advance the field as a whole
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[10:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:31] <exec> 08└─Either Apple are going to make the Mac Pro completely different, or they aren't They may also be making it "modular" in the sense of "plug in an external card" or plug in *lots* of cards, OR the author can't interpret internal Apple design terms, and just put them all into a word salad. So.. did the...
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[10:35:38] <exec> 08└─someone is reading from the wrong script! Isn't *everything* SpaceX does wrong, bad, expensive, bad for shareholders, etc etc? How can something *not* be SpaceX's fault?!
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[10:40:27] <exec> 08└─> You really think that's without any value? I guess the work I do is specific to the bespoke instrumentation I use. There is little use, beyond the general algorithms (which are described in a paper somewhere), to anyone to take that code elsewhere.
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[11:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:23] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg is providing a service in which people participate willingly. Bureaucrats are putting guns to people's heads and saying "Do what I say, or I'll have you thrown into a cage." I know which is the lesser evil.
[11:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:24] <exec> 08└─Nobody believes this. The time for regulation has arrived. All monopolies must be smashed to bits.
[11:35:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 545 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:36] <exec> 08└─So TFT announces "Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows" and then the entire FS is a thoroughly mixed mayo made of 'listening customers' with 'modularity' with a pinch of 'different vision's and concludes with 'we don't know and it's likely will not get to know soon'. So, mate... this is...
[11:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:41] <exec> 08└─I read some other articles about the 2019 Mac Pro last week, but did not submit any. I think the gist was that they will probably continue to use Intel chips, no switch to ARM just yet. And that they were announcing it now so everybody knows it's not coming in 2018.
[11:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Northrop Grumman's Faulty Payload Adapter Reportedly Responsible for "Zuma" Failure - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:50] <exec> 08└─People assume that Northrop-Grumman should regret such a failure. But consider: now they have to replace the satellite. Another nice little cost-plus contract for a few $billion coming right up. The James Webb telescope is no different - another cost-plus contract [nasa.gov] - so the longer the proj...
[11:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Northrop Grumman's Faulty Payload Adapter Reportedly Responsible for "Zuma" Failure - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe you're thinking of Tesla, a publicly-traded company accumulating a mountain of debt. The script on the Zuma incident was flipped pretty early. IIRC, the mission was even delayed due to issues with Grumman's payload adapter.
[11:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Northrop Grumman's Faulty Payload Adapter Reportedly Responsible for "Zuma" Failure - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:54] <exec> 08└─They would probably get away with JWST. It's just more delays on a long road of delays. But losing the $3.5 billion Zuma was a big blow. At the very least, SpaceX ought to be allowed to handle the payload and use their own adapter(s) for classified launches. This should also be considered against No...
[11:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:06] <exec> 08└─If a company was handing out "free" food that caused food poisoning, they'd be shut down. Same principle for facebook and all (((american))) corporations.
[11:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:07] <exec> 08└─You can eliminate one but not the other (and maybe not even then). Would you rather get rid of Tor/I2P/etc. and cryptocurrencies, or force traffickers to go low tech? Because if the next Backpage doesn't operate on the surface web, it will just go dark.
[11:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:49] <exec> 08└─The Halloween Documents exposed Microsoft's FUD tactics back in '98. That's long before XP. Long before Windows ME. That's even before Windows 98 SE was a thing. http://catb.org [catb.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[11:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:48] <exec> 08└─There's value in providing real working code, both in terms of quality-assurance for the publication (more eyeballs), and in terms of providing direct value to others. Your point is that in your case, the direct value is diminished as the code is tied to one platform, but the first advantage remains...
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[12:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:21] <exec> 08└─He is cause of this problem by turning of privacy settings over the years and forcing all to opt out only. Right now 1) set all privacy setting show be set on period. Proves that Facebook heard 2) minimum standard of all data is tightest if all countries. This way programmers cannot claim “oh that...
[12:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:22] <exec> 08└─Adherence to the GDPR would have made Facebook less popular with users, and FAR less valuable to the data vampires investors and paying clients. Both would have inhibited growth and kept Facebook from achieving the top of market position it enjoyed.
[12:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:25] <exec> 08└─What is there not to believe? Your response is entirely emotional.
[12:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:27] <exec> 08└─Both would have inhibited growth and kept Facebook from achieving the top of market position it enjoyed.
[12:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:29] <exec> 08└─Indeed, a government is the worst kind of monopoly: It is one that grew not from providing a voluntary service, but rather from violent imposition.
[12:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:31] <exec> 08└─I know which is the lesser evil.
[12:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:34] <exec> 08└─Bureaucrats are putting guns to people's heads...
[12:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:36] <exec> 08└─Might doesn't make right. Your lack of principles is showing.
[12:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:38] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg can commit all he likes to compliance with GDPR - the CLOUD act (if it stands) looks like it prevents him from actually doing it. Specifically, article 48 of the GDPR says that all third country requests for disclosure _must_ go via an international agreement such as a MLAT - which is exa...
[12:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:40] <exec> 08└─Your lack of principles is showing.
[12:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:42] <exec> 08└─I'm happy as long as Facebook keeps fucking US citizens who richly deserve it.
[12:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:59] <exec> 08└─I think the gist was that they will probably continue to use Intel chips, no switch to ARM just yet. And that they were announcing it now so everybody knows it's not coming in 2018.
[12:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:01] <exec> 08└─Did anyone get what exactly is with that Mac shaping workflow? Or why this unordered heap of words worth to be considered a story?
[12:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:03] <exec> 08└─It's a 3years architecture (PC rather than x86) project headed by a mechanical engineer that's initially (last year) focused on assessing customers' needs in the graphics design market and exploring how existing eGPUs fit, or didn't/won't fit, in. That is, hardware-wise they're building everything a...
[12:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:05] <exec> 08└─Does anyone choose Apple anymore for a particular strength other than it is not Windows?
[12:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:07] <exec> 08└─Software wise they're designing UIs around industrial workflow (reducing clicks and the likes).
[12:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:30] <exec> 08└─And that Greengrass fellow in Aidensfield can be tricky....
[12:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:32] <exec> 08└─The guy who is in charge of upholding the law in the areas with the worst record in slavery and human trafficking is blaming the internet for all their troubles. Sounds about right... after all, making hyperbolic statements that take attention away from the crappy job you are doing is par for the co...
[12:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:34] <exec> 08└─Sounds about right... after all, making hyperbolic statements that take attention away from the crappy job you are doing is par for the course these days since the dawn of mankind.
[12:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:16] <exec> 08└─You are just jealous: unlike your haiku, mine brings tears to the eye
[12:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:16] <exec> 08└─Okay, great. Scientific paper is dead. Woo. Long live the... No, wait, seriously - What is the alternative to communicate scientifically with my colleagues? Blog with attached python notebooks, and accompanying webcam lectures? The scientific paper serves a number of points. 1 - It is documentation...
[12:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:17] <exec> 08└─If nobody knows about it, nobody will do anything with it, nobody will teach it, and it will end up effectively in the dustbin.
[12:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:20] <exec> 08└─The "International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology", which has been described for obvious reasons as an outlet that will publish just about anything for a fee.
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[13:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Breed Bacteria That Make Tiny High-Energy Carbon Rings - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:24] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicyclobutane [wikipedia.org] What it do?
[13:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Breed Bacteria That Make Tiny High-Energy Carbon Rings - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:26] <exec> 08└─A few carbon atoms? That's not terribly impressive. Call me when they can build a `69 GTO and I'll have a use for them.
[13:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Breed Bacteria That Make Tiny High-Energy Carbon Rings - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:28] <exec> 08└─I do hope the strain they engineered is incapable to live outside a strict set of conditions, because it it escapes in the wild we are very likely to literally see an epidemic of cancer. Most methylating agents [wikipedia.org] (molecules that can't wait to get rid of a methyl group - i.e. the bindin...
[13:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Breed Bacteria That Make Tiny High-Energy Carbon Rings - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:30] <exec> 08└─Oh boy, bacteria that produce unstable rocket fuel. I'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong when these things inevitably escape into the wild...
[13:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:50] <exec> 08└─Just like all major companies caught with their pants down, the plan is: 1. Do a public relations dance for a while, until the noise dies down and the masses are focused on something else. 2. Continue with business as usual. They have every incentive to do this, so that's what they'll do.
[13:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:51] <exec> 08└─Gee, you say that as though it were a bad thing.
[13:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:54] <exec> 08└─I don't know what you mean by "replace my life with a set of principles".
[13:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:16] <exec> 08└─Beat me if I know. I'm a Linux guy, using Windows daily because the company that pays me uses it. Mac? Nope.
[13:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Northrop Grumman's Faulty Payload Adapter Reportedly Responsible for "Zuma" Failure - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:27] <exec> 08└─Free market instead of nepotistic entitlement? Surly you speak madness.
[13:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:45] <exec> 08└─Different AC here. I think for once I agree with you. It was a terrible analogy. The best way to prevent malservices like Failbook, TwitFace, and whatever else from harming one is to simply don't use them. Sure there are shadow profiles, but those are outside of your control. Perhaps have friends wh...
[13:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mechanism Vital to Keeping Blood Stem Cells Functional Uncovered - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:51] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudouridine [wikipedia.org]
[13:37:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] 02 - 06Greener and Cheaper Technique for Biofuel Production - 342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:24] <exec> 08└─I see what's the problem. > ...convert micro-crystalline cellulose to butanol: (i) generating butanol up to 1.93 g/liter 1.) *micro-crystalline* cellulose need a lot of energy to produce. 2.) 1.93 g/liter means you need about 500 litre micro-crystalline cellulose to produce 1 litre butanol. Well, th...
[13:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:30] <exec> 08└─too much matter always collapses on itself
[13:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 2050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:31] <exec> 08└─First, I think we live in different worlds. You are thinking close to the hardware. I'm thinking in terms of higher and higher level abstractions away from the hardware. Your argument seems to be that Java is limited in capability. And that if people work hard enough they can learn to use C++ safely...
[13:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:34] <exec> 08└─It's been a phrase I've known forever, I'm surprised to hear that it's not international English. Another similar one that shocked me is "one-off", as in "the festival's a one-off event". It's bizarre saying things that seem to be so obvious in meaning, and having (US) Americans look at you as if yo...
[13:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:44] <exec> 08└─1 Megawatt is only 1341 horsepower - I'd venture a guess that most tank engines output a lot more power than that.
[13:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:45] <exec> 08└─> and going to a laser just doesn't fundamentally change that I think it might. As far as I can tell, there's really only three issues with trying to hit an aircraft with direct-fire weapons: 1) Lining up the shot - tricky with a fast moving object, but well within the ability of a high-end automate...
[13:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 2023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, epub is primarily html files in a zip file. > preserve exact on-paper formatting. That's the problem. Exact formatting should not matter. The information is what's important. This desire for exact formatting is basically fear that the formatting might contain valuable information that will be l...
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[14:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:23] <exec> 08└─I don't remember very specifically what the file manager was like - but I do remember that it was primitive. There are dozens of file managers today, with or without extra bells and whistles, that do so much more. First thing you'd have to do with any Windows POS would be code in support for real fi...
[14:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:24] <exec> 08└─The first time a Linux user tried to access something for which he has no permissions, is the program going to crash?
[14:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Breed Bacteria That Make Tiny High-Energy Carbon Rings - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:36] <exec> 08└─Doesn't your liver create methyl groups from sugars? (and alcohol, alas. And yes, I know some experts have called sugar "poison" (at least the fructose part)
[14:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Breed Bacteria That Make Tiny High-Energy Carbon Rings - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:37] <exec> 08└─I'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong when these things inevitably escape into the wild...
[14:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:01] <exec> 08└─You'll have time to learn, no worries. Anything the human intelligence is able to hold are representations/models of the reality, an approximation of it, reductionist by their very nature. As such, each of them will have limited range of applicability - step out of these bounds and any decision you...
[14:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:03] <exec> 08└─This is the guy who wrote: People just submitted it. I don't know why. They "trust me". Dumb fucks. [wikiquote.org] He's a classic sociopath. He may pretend otherwise, because he has to, but one should not forget what he really is.
[14:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:05] <exec> 08└─Good day, sir.
[14:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:07] <exec> 08└─The problem is not that Zuckerberg is a sociopath. The problem is that most people are "Dumb fucks".
[14:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 1212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:10] <exec> 08└─Trying to take down a sociopath here and a sociopath there seems like a losing strategy. Well, it seems inevitable that sociopaths will rise to positions of power. It seems like an evolutionary advantage, one I wish I had. As a practical matter, that means that non-sociopaths simply need to learn ho...
[14:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:34] <exec> 08└─Does anyone choose Apple anymore for a particular strength other than it is not Windows?
[14:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 1308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:35] <exec> 08└─Just one popular example. Shortening mouse travel and contrasting UI elements are classics too. My impression from the conservative undertone is that they won't go for a whole new UI concept and will only go as far as gradually adding time-tested features like they did copy-paste history and workspa...
[14:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Northrop Grumman's Faulty Payload Adapter Reportedly Responsible for "Zuma" Failure - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:48] <exec> 08└─My paranoid streak still makes me wonder. Did Zuma actually make it to orbit? The unknown TLA who owns Zuma wanted to create the idea that Zuma failed. Blame SpaceX. But SpaceX is unwilling to take the blame. So blame Northrop Grumman, because they can be pressured to take the blame because of how d...
[14:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Northrop Grumman's Faulty Payload Adapter Reportedly Responsible for "Zuma" Failure - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:49] <exec> 08└─It's pretty difficult to hide satellites in orbit.
[14:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frost [3313] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:39] <exec> 08└─They've already discarded beep, as it has been superceded by systemd-beep.
[14:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Greener and Cheaper Technique for Biofuel Production - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:51] <exec> 08└─> switchgrass can crow on very marginal land I wasn't aware that science had crossed male gallus domesticus with grasses.
[14:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:57] <exec> 08└─Nobody who cares about free software gives two shits about Unrar's license being "too permissive". Unrar is proprietary and Windows Defender is proprietary and both are bad. TFA (quoting Google's Tavis Ormandy) calls unrar "open source" which is simply wrong.
[14:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:59] <exec> 08└─I can see how you may read 5 of those old disk. But how do you read a quarter disk? :-)
[14:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:23] <exec> 08└─>Because the present people aren't responsible for that past so you support neo nazi attempts at building a new and better society, I guess. godwin in one
[14:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:24] <exec> 08└─Don't use Facebook. Use Nethack! You have found a scroll of genocide! What class of monsters do you want to genocide? Social Media Wiped out all Social Media.
[14:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:26] <exec> 08└─> Rohingya insurgents armed with knives and home-made bombs attacked more than 30 police posts in northern Rakhine BTFO them all out of the country is the appropriate response, unless you have solid proof of a false flag. Is it fair to the innocent rohingya? nope. Guess what, war ain't fair. And, wa...
[14:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:28] <exec> 08└─It is right time to refresh a recent memory [wikipedia.org].
[14:42:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems - 2279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:20] <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...
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[15:35:24] <exec> 08└─heh - some of us try some crazy things!
[15:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:25] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't be so sure, in the past I've successfully run Total Commander - a Windows-only file manager - under Wine.
[15:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:27] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to remember back to the bad old days. I remember that Windows 3.x was a horrible kludge and more a curiosity than anything else. Then we got Trumpet Winsock and Mosiac and eventually Netscape, and that was pretty much all I started Windows for. Did Windows 3.x really have no filesystem ab...
[15:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:30] <exec> 08└─Finally, a decent alternative to Gnome 3's file manager 'Files'. Minimal design, no real features or user preferences to speak of...it's a perfect fit!
[15:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:32] <exec> 08└─That is all abstracted by the virtual filesystem layer.
[15:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:34] <exec> 08└─To include it in Gnome 3, you'd first have to reduce the features. Yes, I'm sure they'll find some to remove.
[15:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:36] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't want to use a Stone Age Toilet. Same goes for Windows 3.x File Manager. It's like necroing an ancient thread that no one cares about. Don't Do It.
[15:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Breed Bacteria That Make Tiny High-Energy Carbon Rings - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:49] <exec> 08└─The ionizing radiation (photons with high enough energy - UV and over) are carcinogens. If a microbe can produce high-energy molecules inside your body, I believe you cam guess what effect those molecules will have.
[15:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:18] <exec> 08└─Your response is entirely emotional.
[15:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:19] <exec> 08└─Modded up for visibility. It's like the old story about con artists. If you weren't greedy, the con man never would have fooled you.
[15:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:22] <exec> 08└─I used to be flabbergasted by how many seemingly stupid people there are in the world. Then, at one point, I realized that, BY DEFINITION, half of all people are of below average intelligence, and it seemed to make sense to me. It now occurs to me that the problem is not that half are below average,...
[15:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:24] <exec> 08└─Idiots are the worst kind of trolls. They think they are correct and force their views upon people through incessant spamming.
[15:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:26] <exec> 08└─I sense a stubborn horse. Oh well it is his thirst to deal with.
[15:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:52] <exec> 08└─...and workspaces.
[15:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Northrop Grumman's Faulty Payload Adapter Reportedly Responsible for "Zuma" Failure - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:06] <exec> 08└─Assuming it wasn't launched to LEO, it could be pretty hard to detect. The farther out it's launched the bigger the surface area you have to scan to find that random satellite. You'd also have to know what you're looking for and / or have a large enough telescope to see what it is. Otherwise, it's j...
[15:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:25] <exec> 08└─“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” -- Benjamin Franklin. Perhaps taken out of context, but the sentence is well written and definitely applies when considering our freedoms.
[15:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:58] <exec> 08└─But not everyone, so instead of only letting ed commands that make sense as POSIX says, the patch command allows shells or anything that ed can do. THIS ONE IS SERIOUS and part of the website "joke".
[15:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 1869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:19] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but part of the problem really is that C's signed/unsigned handling is badly designed. For example, if you compare a signed value with an unsigned value, then first the signed value is implicitly converted to unsigned, which can make it massively larger, and then that unsigned value is compar...
[15:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:21] <exec> 08└─Do not link to Google searches. Ever.
[15:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:23] <exec> 08└─Didn't Ballmer call the terms of the GPL 'a cancer'? Doesn't this impose certain obligations on MS? A quick glance at the GPL shows me (IANAL) several possible violations.
[15:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:25] <exec> 08└─That's nothing. Brits get pissed when they get beer, while Americans get pissed when they don't get beer. ;-)
[15:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:52] <exec> 08└─Because the present people aren't responsible for that past.
[15:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:53] <exec> 08└─BTFO them all out of the country is the appropriate response, unless you have solid proof of a false flag.
[15:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:55] <exec> 08└─so you support neo nazi attempts at building a new and better society, I guess.
[15:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:57] <exec> 08└─They aren't responsible for the past, but they are repeating it today.
[15:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 3152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:47] <exec> 08└─"1) Lining up the shot - tricky with a fast moving object, but well within the ability of a high-end automated turret" I don't want to beat this into the ground but I do think you and other posters drastically misunderstand just how tricky this is. Even a large plane at something like 12 miles is ba...
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[16:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Timelapse Imagines NYC Without Light Pollution - 1823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:27] <exec> 08└─Operson always had trouble understanding others. His failure to recognize what others' body language signified and his inability to grasp the hidden meaning behind their words caused significant stress for him. This was likely due to his autism. Perhaps this was why he couldn't find an answer to the...
[16:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:43] <exec> 08└─I remember those days well. Fileman was always junk. So it got ripped out and replaced with xtree. Then windows got commented out because even with a good file manager it was still a total waste of resources. You know how they finally forced windows down our throats? By bullying all the third party...
[16:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:45] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem is it is unlikely to understand long file names. May only work with the old 8.3 names. I'd guess the file system is less of a problem, and even such an old version of File Explorer may function at a level of abstraction that it will work on NTFS or ext4 or whatever else you have...
[16:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:47] <exec> 08└─Yes we do. :)
[16:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:49] <exec> 08└─It would probably be pretty straightforward to compile the code with WineLib, if anyone really cared.
[16:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:51] <exec> 08└─> It's like necroing an ancient thread that no one cares about. So what you're saying is, there will be thousands, if not tens of thousands of people using the Windows 3.x File Manager on a daily basis?
[16:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:54] <exec> 08└─The version online supports long file names, along with several other useful features not in the original version (like include subdirs in directory file search). It looks to me like this is some Microsoft guy who's been maintaining File Manager all these years for his own personal use, and, now, du...
[16:36:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 289 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:26] <exec> 08└─Just like all major companies caught with their pants down, the plan is: 1. Do a public relations dance for a while, until the noise dies down and the masses are focused on something else. 2. Continue with business as usual. They have every incentive to do this, so that's what they'll do.
[16:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:40] <exec> 08└─Your lack of agreement does not make it spam. If anything, your particular brand of non-reply is spam.
[16:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:41] <exec> 08└─Drink at your own peril.
[16:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:43] <exec> 08└─So, you'll have to explain yourself.
[16:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:42] <exec> 08└─he argued, they would start using their resources to spot abuse.
[16:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:44] <exec> 08└─lol
[16:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:46] <exec> 08└─I commented before finishing reading and completely agree with the rest of the original comment. Even file extension blocking is useful in making attacks involve more steps where the user can realize something is fucky.
[16:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:20] <exec> 08└─The only reason that any of these issues are a problem is that people are installing beep setuid root. A sane install grants /dev/dsp (or whatever the relevant device is) permissions to anyone any needs to be able to make sound and then beep can simply use this permission. With SELinux (or the FreeB...
[16:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:45] <exec> 08└─Did you intentionally make sure that didn't turn into a link? lol
[16:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:46] <exec> 08└─Nope. Create a an unsigned integer x in any language of your choice. Then do a while(x >= 0). Your program will hang.
[16:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:49] <exec> 08└─For example, if you compare a signed value with an unsigned value, then first the signed value is implicitly converted to unsigned, which can make it massively larger, and then that unsigned value is compared with the other unsigned value.
[16:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:51] <exec> 08└─* Syntax is inconsistent - e.g. calling constructor with no arguments has different syntax to constructor with arguments
[16:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:54] <exec> 08└─Nice try, but Bzip2 is BSD-licensed. Obviously RMS would advocate the use of gzip, which is GPL...and, y'know, part of that whole GNU project that is sort of his life's work. Hand in your nerd card on the way out.
[16:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:25] <exec> 08└─what excuse? your political organization called islam tries a coup in your country. you btfo them. there is no need for excuses.
[16:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:09] <exec> 08└─You're equating zero citations with zero awareness. They're not identical. When research findings are published, that's what 'advancing the field' means. The difference might not be all that important - this might seem purely academic. (I'll show myself out.) It seems to me though that there is a di...
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[17:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Timelapse Imagines NYC Without Light Pollution - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:32] <exec> 08└─However, I've been in very dark locales, and the sky just ain't that great to the naked eye. Only our bionic overlords will be able to enjoy a sky like that.
[17:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Timelapse Imagines NYC Without Light Pollution - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:34] <exec> 08└─It doesn't illustrate what NYC would look like without light pollution, it illustrates what NYC would look like without light pollution to a long-exposure viewing, not a human. Maybe parts of the video do in fact show what a human would see, but the lack of differentiation of the definately-only-vis...
[17:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Timelapse Imagines NYC Without Light Pollution - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:36] <exec> 08└─The weird colors come from the long exposures but the amount of stars is about right. If you get far enough away from urban settings, especially high up where the air is thin, there are so many stars it is hard to sort them out and find even prominent constellations. Even down at sea level there is...
[17:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Timelapse Imagines NYC Without Light Pollution - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:38] <exec> 08└─The video shows all of the same city lights that exist today, but magically the night sky is visible.
[17:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timelapse Imagines NYC Without Light Pollution - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:41] <exec> 08└─As an east coast resident, I've never truly seen the night sky until I camped out 12k ft on a mountain far from any lights or pollution. Seeing the Milky Way left me awestruck. I still can't describe it well.
[17:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:02] <exec> 08└─The first thing that occurred to me when I got to use Windows 3.0 and then 3.1 was that the Apple Mac had done the whole GUI thing better years before, and why couldn't a mighty company such as Microsoft make such a thing? They're still trying. Very trying.
[17:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:04] <exec> 08└─I'll go ahead and ask here - a while back someone mentioned that around 1989 or so, Microsoft made a pre-release version of Program Manager and File Manager for Windows 2 available on the Microsoft BBS. I don't know if this is true or not, but does anyone know anything more about that? I have never...
[17:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 1910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:06] <exec> 08└─Indeed, WinFile was very primitive. Apple Macintosh users had been using the Macintosh Finder file manager for ages, GEM 1.x in 1985 also had a Mac-like file manager, and there were all ready piles of superior DOS file manager. Part of WinFile's shortcoming was that it was intentionally intended to...
[17:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:08] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that Xerox Star/Globalview did it even before the Mac. Really, all the way from the 1983 Comdex demo to ~1988 Windows 2.x, Windows hardly got much development attention. It was more of a "me too" product. Just something Microsoft could paste up to show that they had a GUI environment....
[17:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:22] <exec> 08└─"Hey, you've gonna communicate our very, very, award-winning pro-ness with total positive excitement". Not. The levels of their communications have gone from "merely annoying" to "completely ridiculing themselves". You know what was pro? Snow Leopard was, almost. It just would've needed a few edges...
[17:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:59] <exec> 08└─I'm given to understand that women were trafficked across that bridge. It must be demolished.
[17:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:34] <exec> 08└─"The only reason that any of these issues are a problem is that people are installing beep setuid root." Seriously? :facedesk:
[17:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, compilers started to spit out warnings for this specific problem exactly because it is a problem (I have no idea if all of them do). Actually, many compiler warnings are actually pointing out design flaws of the language. If the language were properly designed, you'd not need the warning.
[17:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:04] <exec> 08└─Unrar is not released under the GPL or any other copyleft free license. It is proprietary software released under a proprietary license. Microsoft is likely within the permissions granted by the unrar license but this whole thing has nothing to do with any free or open source software.
[17:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 2536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:26] <exec> 08└─I think you're underestimating what we have the technology to do - accurate gear reductions of millions, even trillions-to-one are trivial to produce (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYmUJVE6Vo0), the only limiting factor is the play in your gears, which we also no how to virtually eliminate. Use th...
[17:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:29] <exec> 08└─Only until it starts to melt...
[17:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:31] <exec> 08└─I wonder how effective you could make a basic corner-reflector paint, such as used for street signs and road lines.
[17:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:33] <exec> 08└─Ballistics are easy to compensate for - "drunken walk" interceptor-resistant flight paths are not. The highest muzzle velocity out there, an experimental military railgun, is only 1.5 miles/second. From even a quarter mile away that means you have to fire at where the aggressively dodging target wil...
[17:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Scientific Paper is Obsolete - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:29] <exec> 08└─You're equating zero citations with zero awareness. They're not identical.
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[18:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:27] <exec> 08└─That pipe will be built. The Federal government has already approved it and stated that it is in the national interest to build it. The hippies in BC are protesting and have caused no end in delays. The federal government called an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss options. What we have here is a...
[18:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:29] <exec> 08└─Do I correctly remember that it's just doubling an existing pipeline? Unless Canada decides to give up on Tar Sands revenue (oil market collapse), it will indeed eventually happen. Like the one in the US, it just requires the right election cycle. The existing pipeline will need "improvements" and "...
[18:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:31] <exec> 08└─When they say it is "trans mountain", that means it is only pretending to be a mountain. Adding some bulges sticking up does not really make a pipeline into a mountain.
[18:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:33] <exec> 08└─What, you're telling me a federal government that legislates pronouns doesn't have enough oomph to push through a pipeline that one province is stonewalling on? Or is Dear Leader just so gutless he's trying to find a way to do it without pissing off the greener of his voters?
[18:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:35] <exec> 08└─For the recent pipeline in the USA, George Soros funded all sorts of "environmental" and "tribal" opposition because he had huge investments that would be favored by having the fuel travel by rail. The fact that trains crash (and then leak) decently often is of no importance when there is money to b...
[18:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:38] <exec> 08└─Came to the valley down from the hills. Said that it was no longer pristine and natural. Tried to lay more pipe below the existing one. Rule 34.
[18:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timelapse Imagines NYC Without Light Pollution - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:50] <exec> 08└─You didn't get your retinas upgraded to hypergain-HDR with triple-band noise filter? What kind of ass-backwards planet did I just land on? I'll leave you an EMP blast on the way out. Enjoy your nights!
[18:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Timelapse Imagines NYC Without Light Pollution - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:52] <exec> 08└─You're right. It's #fakenews. This is probably about the best for good vision human eyes: https://petapixel.com [petapixel.com] And unless everyone goes about with night vision+AR goggles this is probably ab...
[18:36:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 742 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:08] <exec> 08└─I remember those days well. Fileman was always junk. So it got ripped out and replaced with xtree. Then windows got commented out because even with a good file manager it was still a total waste of resources. You know how they finally forced windows down our throats? By bullying all the third party...
[18:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:19] <exec> 08└─"why couldn't a mighty company such as Microsoft make such a thing?" Because there's a VERY big difference between being innovative and reinventing. Guess which Microsoft specializes in? (Simply because they seem to lack the ability to do the other in any meaningful context.)
[18:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:20] <exec> 08└─If I observed anything from Microsoft is that they sell solutions to the problems they create. Whenever they make something good, it is almost a given that a new version will be forced down that ruins it, so they may fix it again. Case in point, whenever I have to use the file managers in the late...
[18:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:22] <exec> 08└─And link it to systemd libraries.
[18:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Breed Bacteria That Make Tiny High-Energy Carbon Rings - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:36] <exec> 08└─It's not just a high chance, it's a near certainty. The engineered strain will not be able to compete in the wild. Making those rings is an energetically expensive process. The only exception I could think of would be if the bacteria used the rings for energy storage, analogous to ATP. If so they mi...
[18:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:13] <exec> 08└─Why should anyone explain anything to you at this point? You bury your head in the sand and just spew "violently imposed monopoly!" over and over. You are a blight upon all discussions.
[18:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:16] <exec> 08└─I just imagine a 15 year old "gifted" student bored with school work and who thinks they've solved the world's problems with some very basic principles. "Why has no one else thought of this?" thinks the teen. Stuck in a small world view and lacking education this teen marches on a crusade to bring l...
[18:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:18] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg was the original source of the problem, but now it's systematic in the company. I really doubt that Zuckerberg has any intention of trying to fix it, but even if he did at this point in time he'd be fighting against the design and tradition of the company. So even if he were to honestly r...
[18:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:21] <exec> 08└─You laugh, but I had to deal with a company that implemented that. All .doc and .pdf email attachments are stripped out. But the company requires you to send them forms in those formats. Hmmm... what to do? Company policy is to send DOC or PDF files named with a different extension. Now THAT is iron...
[18:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:23] <exec> 08└─Is the word "prostitution" not scary enough? They had to bring back "white slavery"? Oops, let's pass that thru the PC filter: "modern slavery".
[18:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:59] <exec> 08└─coffee meet nose during trip to keyboard ...
[18:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Beep Bug Joke Backfires As Branded Fix Falls Short - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:01] <exec> 08└─FWIW, beep is still in the repository, but I don't have it installed, so I can't tell whether it's installed SUID.
[18:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Myanmar Activists Say Facebook Aids Genocide - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:02] <exec> 08└─Why again are only they being held accountable for some imaginary conflict?
[18:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optical-Fiber Lasers Make Laser Weapon Systems Practical - 1703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:58] <exec> 08└─"The limiting factor is really the focal range and precision of the laser optics." There are more problems with trying to use optics with such high magnification at less than astronomical distances as well. You really have to have zero movement of the platform. When you're peering at something 10 or...
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[19:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Successor to the LHC Could be a "Higgs Boson Factory" - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:26] <exec> 08└─Why has your face collapsed, sow? Because you tempted men. Because you sneered at men. Because of men's rights. Because of justice! The man deemed that silence was too good for the sow. As such, he made her sing for weeks before finally allowing her to embrace the absence of motion.
[19:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Successor to the LHC Could be a "Higgs Boson Factory" - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:27] <exec> 08└─3. Will Bruce Willis kill the bad guy? 2. Will the Titanic really sink? 1. Will China get to build the next giant scientific machine?
[19:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Successor to the LHC Could be a "Higgs Boson Factory" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:29] <exec> 08└─3. Will Bruce Willis kill the bad guy?
[19:35:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:39] <exec> 08└─When they say it is "trans mountain", that means it is only pretending to be a mountain. Adding some bulges sticking up does not really make a pipeline into a mountain.
[19:35:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:43] <exec> 08└─Came to the valley down from the hills. Said that it was no longer pristine and natural. Tried to lay more pipe below the existing one. Rule 34.
[19:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:45] <exec> 08└─I look at it as "the people are starting to be heard above the road of corporate lobbying money". Corporations are starting to get screwed a bit like the people they've been screwing: do THEY like it? I was raised Conservative, voted Conservative in the past, but corporations now have too much power...
[19:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:48] <exec> 08└─Dear leader is as gutless as his father: the reason we now have to print EVERYTHING in English AND French....waste of money and paper.
[19:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:50] <exec> 08└─Alberta premier Notley says she "will do whatever it takes" to get the pipeline pushed through. Those are the words of a fanatic/lunatic/fascist. What if it takes a tanker spill or two? What if the effects of extracting the dirtiest oil in the world become apparent? I guess "whatever" means whatever...
[19:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:52] <exec> 08└─Unless Canada decides to give up on Tar Sands revenue
[19:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Timelapse Imagines NYC Without Light Pollution - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:07] <exec> 08└─I'll have to find time to get out to where I can see that for myself, it looks beautiful.
[19:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Timelapse Imagines NYC Without Light Pollution - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:08] <exec> 08└─Story is, when the Northridge earthquake hit California, people called emergency services asking if the strange light in the sky was the cause of the earthquake. With the power out, and all the light pollution gone, they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time, and did not know what it was. Tr...
[19:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timelapse Imagines NYC Without Light Pollution - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:10] <exec> 08└─That would be a more interesting implementation of this idea: an AR app that superimposes stars on top of the night sky, while leaving buildings in place. It should be pretty easy to code since planetarium apps have been around for years and use a smartphone's accelerometers/gyroscopes/magnetometers...
[19:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timelapse Imagines NYC Without Light Pollution - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:12] <exec> 08└─Specifically, during major power outages, like the 2003 Northeast Blackout. But yes, the difference between the night sky in rural areas and major cities is very noticeable. Heck, I'm a bit annoyed because even about 60 miles out from my city center, I still can't really see the Milky Way, whereas i...
[19:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:42] <exec> 08└─Like other Windows stuff.
[19:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Breed Bacteria That Make Tiny High-Energy Carbon Rings - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:57] <exec> 08└─If it's siphoning off energy into making rocket fuel, it can't use that energy for normal metabolic purposes. It could be otherwise as well adapted as it like, but it's still got to consume more energy / metabolic process. Unless it can use the "rocket fuel" itself as a useful tool, it can't possibl...
[19:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:37] <exec> 08└─You are correct, my agreement or lack thereof has no bearing upon your posts. The repetition and off-topic nature of your posts definitely is salient to my previous point. Your lack of vision seems directly tied to the amount of sand piled up around your eyeballs.
[19:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:05] <exec> 08└─The story is: Apple is working on a new Mac Pro, and it's coming in 2019. Save up your money and don't buy anything else for now, or you'll be sorry!
[19:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Evolutionary Advantage of Having Eyebrows - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:02] <exec> 08└─Our finger lengths are carefully calibrated to meet two metrics: 1) our fingers can be brought, simultaneously, to meet the thumb 2) they can form a fist with, essentially, no air pocket That is, our hands were designed for holding things, and punching. Also, apparently, after developing an upright...
[19:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:52] <exec> 08└─I heard there are Lisp style languages that are so consistent till they can be used to prove math theorems.
[19:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:53] <exec> 08└─Microsoft and other AV vendors keep providing examples of why real-time AV on production and other important systems is a bad idea. The AV problem is actually very similar to the Halting Problem except that with the Halting Problem you get the full code and the inputs but with the AV problem you don...
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[20:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:23] <exec> 08└─The ambulance raced to the scene. The vehicle stopped once the driver spotted a woman lying on the side of the road. There had apparently been a hit-and-run, and this woman was the injured party. Several men lept out of the back of the ambulance and ran up to the woman to check her status. Several b...
[20:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Successor to the LHC Could be a "Higgs Boson Factory" - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:33] <exec> 08└─Also, depends on who the bad guy is: https://en.wikipedia.org(1997_film) [wikipedia.org]
[20:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Successor to the LHC Could be a "Higgs Boson Factory" - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:36] <exec> 08└─This is not really news. The International Linear Collider (ILC) project has been kicking around for 20+ years. It was planned for Fermilab near Chicago but was canned because US couldn't afford it. Japan has been mooted as a venue for the past 5-10 years but the Japanese government has not agreed t...
[20:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Successor to the LHC Could be a "Higgs Boson Factory" - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:38] <exec> 08└─A different type of particle smasher, called an electron-positron collider, should produce only a Higgs and another particle called a Z boson.
[20:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:54] <exec> 08└─I look at it as "the people are starting to be heard above the road of corporate lobbying money".
[20:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:56] <exec> 08└─"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada
[20:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:58] <exec> 08└─"Miz Premier, we will only vote for this project if you eat this live kitten on national TV." "...Dammit."
[20:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:00] <exec> 08└─There is more oil in the oil sands than can ever be extracted without completely fucking up the planet. Canada has been investing money in oil sand oil extraction since the 70's. This is a mature, proven technology now. The problem is that because Alberta is landlocked, we are pretty much stuck with...
[20:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:03] <exec> 08└─Don't forget Ojibwe. We must not discriminate against the First Nations.
[20:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Timelapse Imagines NYC Without Light Pollution - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:21] <exec> 08└─I've seen the Milky Way in the night sky once on a camping trip in High School. I agree it was amazing, to the point I didn't know what I was seeing until I finally realized what it was. I haven't seen it since due to where I've lived and the amount of light at night. I've got to make a point to see...
[20:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:52] <exec> 08└─I'd mod you funny, but that's a nightmarish idea. I laughed, but sort of cried too. That's what a friend calls a "Haha CHRIST" moment.
[20:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Breed Bacteria That Make Tiny High-Energy Carbon Rings - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:08] <exec> 08└─Imagine what happens if these get into, say, a local Taco Bell...
[20:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:48] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for a valid argument. So much for your so-called "discussion". I guess "a blight upon" means "an independent thinker in".
[20:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:50] <exec> 08└─Someone says "smash all monopolies." Someone else replies "The government is a monopoly; shall we smash it?" That seems horrifically on topic.
[20:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:52] <exec> 08└─It doesn't look like one.
[20:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:54] <exec> 08└─You poor tortured soul
[20:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:23] <exec> 08└─...is that the new Mac Pro's gonna resemble a pink throw-pillow.
[20:38:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Northrop Grumman's Faulty Payload Adapter Reportedly Responsible for "Zuma" Failure - 648 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:31] <exec> 08└─People assume that Northrop-Grumman should regret such a failure. But consider: now they have to replace the satellite. Another nice little cost-plus contract for a few $billion coming right up. The James Webb telescope is no different - another cost-plus contract [nasa.gov] - so the longer the proj...
[20:38:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 316 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:52] <exec> 08└─The guy who is in charge of upholding the law in the areas with the worst record in slavery and human trafficking is blaming the internet for all their troubles. Sounds about right... after all, making hyperbolic statements that take attention away from the crappy job you are doing is par for the co...
[20:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:12] <exec> 08└─Feel free to feed the search string into the search engine of your choice. (Most folks will get the point by just hovering over the link.) ...and the S/N comments engine strips out things like %22 from links. Google's Verbatim Search end-runs that for phrases. Nobody else has that. When some other j...
[20:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:13] <exec> 08└─Well, what does consistency really mean? I argue that it means doing what it does with the smallest possible number of syntactical exceptions/keywords/junk to remember (shannon entropy anyone?). C++ has absolutely tonnes of magic keywords and weird exceptions. I highlighted a few in GP. I found a li...
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[21:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:25] <exec> 08└─Having worked, as a scientist, with some pretty hot peppers in the past, I wonder if these effects aren't the toxic effects of the capsaicin itself instead of the "hotness" (the binding to the pain receptors).
[21:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:27] <exec> 08└─Time to get a drip of Aspirin for the constriction, and a drip of milk for the tongue. > Pepper X, created by the breeder of the Carolina Reaper, Ed Currie. Them joke write themselves.
[21:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:29] <exec> 08└─I guess he's just been trying to currie flavour.
[21:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:04] <exec> 08└─Since you made the mistake twice: France has Provence, Canada has provinces.
[21:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:05] <exec> 08└─Thanks!
[21:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:07] <exec> 08└─Why do I need to chase Morgan Bank?
[21:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:57] <exec> 08└─The other week, while we were discussing a release of WINE with a bunch of newly-added APIs, an AC mentioned how he would like to see support for XP's Windows Explorer. [soylentnews.org] This appears to be a baby step in that direction by M$. Let's see. Windoze 3.0 hit EoL 2001/12/31. So, how long w...
[21:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:59] <exec> 08└─What killed me about Windoze was the way they allowed not-DOS-compatible characters in filenames--but when you tried to do a file search that included one of those, the damned thing would bomb. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:01] <exec> 08└─The story of WordPerfect for Windoze 95 is a vexing one. It includes a lawsuit (which was decided, years later, in favor of the bad guys). M$ (wanting to protect its position in the market for WinWord) gave the WordPerfect folks early versions of the Lose95 APIs and said "This is what we'll be using...
[21:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:03] <exec> 08└─Another case of Micro$oft being case insensitive. If you cannot grok the glyph, you should not grep the tree.
[21:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:06] <exec> 08└─At LEAST it is not an aristarchus submission!
[21:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:06] <exec> 08└─Sure this time it was relatively on-topic except for the continuous fact that you have no viable solutions to replace government. Your propositions are lame and rely on humanity being perfectly sane and logical actors. Grow up kid.
[21:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:07] <exec> 08└─Should ALL monopolies be smashed to bits, or is government some magical exception?
[21:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:09] <exec> 08└─Yup. The U.S has proven that unchecked capitalism is greedy to no limit, it will never self-regulate. The 'free market' is a myth. Zuck will self-regulate facebook about the same time he will admit to stealing the idea for the company.
[21:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:39] <exec> 08└─More like shaped by buzzwords. That article said literally nothing.
[21:38:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Northrop Grumman's Faulty Payload Adapter Reportedly Responsible for "Zuma" Failure - 1272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:51] <exec> 08└─My paranoid streak still makes me wonder. Did Zuma actually make it to orbit? The unknown TLA who owns Zuma wanted to create the idea that Zuma failed. Blame SpaceX. But SpaceX is unwilling to take the blame. So blame Northrop Grumman, because they can be pressured to take the blame because of how d...
[21:39:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03istartedi [123] 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:16] <exec> 08└─I'm given to understand that women were trafficked across that bridge. It must be demolished.
[21:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:32] <exec> 08└─"Fewest keywords" seems like a somewhat odd hill to make your stand on, but okay I guess. Fewer keywords is what I'd call more simple, not more consistent, though I can kind of see where you're coming from. Python was explicitly designed (6 years later) to be elegant, and has things that it can't do...
[21:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:34] <exec> 08└─Can you think of a better estimator of "easiest syntax"?
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[22:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Opens Up VR180 to Developers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:25] <exec> 08└─2 weeks from now Google closes VR180
[22:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Opens Up VR180 to Developers - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:26] <exec> 08└─Their reputation for shutting down services doesn't apply here. This is just an extension of existing stuff on the software side, which will be used with hardware that isn't made by Google.
[22:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:38] <exec> 08└─The really sad thing about this spammer is that he's got me thinking about filtering out -1 posts. I want to see the trolls because sometimes I disagree that they are trolls. This is especially true in politics stories, where I end up modding up people on both sides whose argument must have been los...
[22:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:39] <exec> 08└─"I'll give you 5 cents if you eat that bug."
[22:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:41] <exec> 08└─This hottest pepper eating contest is the Cinnamon Challenge of the adult world. I can't muster a TON of sympathy. I think these guys breeding the ridiculous peppers are even worse.
[22:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:43] <exec> 08└─I think these guys breeding the ridiculous peppers are even worse.
[22:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:46] <exec> 08└─Just once. You don't want to do that. Capsaicin is a mixture of eight or so capsaicinoids. Some feel immediately hot, some take much longer to come on. I had chewed up and swallowed the whole thing before I felt any discomfort. I felt the hotness in the roots of my teeth and underneath my fingernail...
[22:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:48] <exec> 08└─Scotch bonnets are bright orange while habaneros are dark brown. What is often sold as Habanero sauce often has scotch bonnets and carrot puree.
[22:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:25] <exec> 08└─The Federal government has already approved it and stated that it is in the national interest to build it.
[22:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:26] <exec> 08└─Follow the money. That is where you will find the real story. My bet Bill Gates. He owns a good majority of the rail roads in canada. His buddy mr Buffet owns a good majority of the ones in the US. Guess how they want canada moving oil around. Big hint it is not by pipeline.
[22:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:22] <exec> 08└─> Part of WinFile's shortcoming was that it was intentionally intended to be a standalone, non-integrated file manager. That's a good thing, not a shortcoming. > That is, it did not load at startup, That's a good thing. If all I'm gonna do is do some web browsing, why would I need a file manager to...
[22:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Breed Bacteria That Make Tiny High-Energy Carbon Rings - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:39] <exec> 08└─Doesn't your liver create methyl groups from sugars?
[22:37:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:47] <exec> 08└─Nobody believes this. The time for regulation has arrived. All monopolies must be smashed to bits.
[22:37:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:52] <exec> 08└─Both would have inhibited growth and kept Facebook from achieving the top of market position it enjoyed.
[22:38:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 231 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:04] <exec> 08└─This is the guy who wrote: People just submitted it. I don't know why. They "trust me". Dumb fucks. [wikiquote.org] He's a classic sociopath. He may pretend otherwise, because he has to, but one should not forget what he really is.
[22:38:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:09] <exec> 08└─Modded up for visibility. It's like the old story about con artists. If you weren't greedy, the con man never would have fooled you.
[22:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:28] <exec> 08└─You fail basic reasoning yet again. There is no monopoly on government. Individual cities/counties/states create their own laws, and sometimes they go against the federal government. Don't like your government? Move to another city/state. Don't like the US federal government? Move to another country...
[22:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:29] <exec> 08└─Just idle speculation since any real effort outlining a good argument is just wasted on you.
[22:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:31] <exec> 08└─I'm not arguing, just answering your direct question. Not everything in life is about debating. There's no race to win, cool down. A good day to you too.
[22:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leap Motion Releasing Specifications for a $100 Augmented Reality Headset - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:29] <exec> 08└─啥?!
[22:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Modifies Open-Source Code, Blows Hole in Windows Defender - 2160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:57] <exec> 08└─We weren't talking about "easiest." The original term was "most consistent," which ironically we are very lacking in this conversation. I would generally agree that Java/Python are easier and more elegant to use. You want C++ for large, complex projects, that you want to be efficient and maintainabl...
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[23:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:43] <exec> 08└─Many other record hot peppers were not bred for any medical purpose, but specifically to make "the hottest pepper in the world." It's like any other attempt at winning a title and some fame.
[23:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:44] <exec> 08└─"My friend who gave it to me offered to call an ambulance but I shook my head and waved my hand in a way that managed to communicate that I wanted to ride the whole thing out." Admit it, you're a junky ;) People eat hot peppers for the endorphin rush, and what you're describing sounds like a near ov...
[23:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:46] <exec> 08└─Ideally, what we really need is just a setting which filters out all spam mods, and encourage the use of those for these cases. I don't this I have personally noticed any incorrect spam mods, and they are supposed to be individually reviewed, which makes a fine argument against this plan, cause you...
[23:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Hottest Pepper Sends Man to the ER - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:49] <exec> 08└─LOL I grow numerous varieties of peppers in part of my garden then slice them, very carefully deveining and deseeding them. I then roast them on the grill, outside mind you. When they have been roasted and dried I use an old coffee grinder and grind them into a rough powder that I use sparingly to f...
[23:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Successor to the LHC Could be a "Higgs Boson Factory" - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:01] <exec> 08└─Do you propose a time recyclotron?
[23:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:29] <exec> 08└─Tesoro and one other company quietly applied for a license to build a huge oil terminal at the Port Of Vancouver. It would be shipped in by rail then loaded on barges then shipped somewhere else that I don't recall, maybe the refineries in California. Just after their permit application a derailment...
[23:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:30] <exec> 08└─It's pronounced like "in" is pronounced. Kinder Eggs are hollow chocolate candies that contain a plastic capsule with a children's toy inside. Kinder Eggs aren't sold in the US because they present a choking hazard to small children. However Nestle sells a spherical hollow chocolate toy in the US th...
[23:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"This Is Huge" -- Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:33] <exec> 08└─Strange for a person who chose a nick of Snow to be so resigned to the burning of such costly hydrocarbons and the loss of snow and ice that will cause.
[23:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timelapse Imagines NYC Without Light Pollution - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:52] <exec> 08└─You just know its hype when TFS, and at least some of TFAs start using words like "endangered" and "the damage caused by ever increasing light pollution", without citing a single detrimental affect to humans or the environment. If you aren't in the field of astronomy or astrophysics you might miss a...
[23:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timelapse Imagines NYC Without Light Pollution - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:54] <exec> 08└─Actually they were seeing lights caused by the earthquake. Read NEW news. The old news if full of witchcraft and nonsense. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://news.nationalgeographic.com [...
[23:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timelapse Imagines NYC Without Light Pollution - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:56] <exec> 08└─Even in city wide blackouts you don't see the same sky as in rural or wilderness areas. Too much actual pollution as opposed to "light pollution".
[23:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumer Groups Urge Zuckerberg To Commit Facebook To Global GDPR - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:39] <exec> 08└─Note that the standard deviation of the IQ distribution is more or less the width of the distribution of IQ among the whole population. It's not the standard deviation of error in the test's measurement. That's much smaller. The psychologist who tested my IQ in eighth grade sadly informed me that tw...
[23:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's 2019 Mac Pro Will be Shaped by Workflows - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:10] <exec> 08└─AC, if I had mod points, I would give you them!
[23:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Chief Wants Citizens to Bring 'Net Oligarchs to Heel - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:50] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of white people being enslaved, it just depends on location and who is involved. The amount of race on race slavery in the world is a lot higher, also slavery is not always so clearly defined. If you can't leave your job because your children would starve but your boss is a total ba...
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