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[00:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:54] <exec> 08└─If I want to overdose on caffeine and vomit in a train station trash can, I should be free to overdose on caffeine and vomit in a train station trash can! Fuck America land of NO FREEDUMBS!!! I'm gonna shit in the fucking trash can instead!!!! Train station here I come.
[00:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:56] <exec> 08└─So you pee your bed now? Still, better than on your laptop! -_-
[00:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:58] <exec> 08└─I worked in a chem lab at college. They had a bottle of pure caffeine. There were all sorts of skulls and cross-bones on this bottle. A granule would kill you because it is so concentrated.
[00:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:00] <exec> 08└─Did the college make you sign an agreement waiving your family's right to sue if you accidentally died on campus?
[00:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:03] <exec> 08└─I am genuinely amazed that the states who want to kill people have so much trouble finding solutions, and end up terribly botching executions, when it's so easy to kill humans. Just ask the criminal whether they prefer chocolate or strawberry cake, and slip a few caffeine pills. Done. Moderately mes...
[00:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:16] <exec> 08└─I lie a lot too -- it's one of my favorite positions -- and my brain is in GREAT shape. Dr. Jackson gave me a brain test and I got a perfect score! 30 out of 30.
[00:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:17] <exec> 08└─If you're looking for AMAZINGLY RUDE, then a French public servant is probably what you want.
[00:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:19] <exec> 08└─I briefly scanned the article and did not find the answer. I am willing to bet that watching TV vs coding AI will make the difference.
[00:39:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 375 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:34] <exec> 08└─I really dislike how sites (not just Mashable, many of them) will present a story like this without one of the most basic reporter's topics to cover: when. Nicole Eagan, CEO of cybersecurity company Darktrace, revealed Thursday that a casino fell victim to hackers thanks to a smart thermometer it wa...
[00:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:58] <exec> 08└─Agreeing with the other AC. I'm really good at math/science but not so great if you catch my brain off-guard. Something strange like a person handing me unnecessary change would make my brain pause a sec to figure it out. Next time just add in "a little extra change so you can just give me back quar...
[00:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:00] <exec> 08└─I know plenty of successful people who went through public education. Actually pretty much all of the people I know did. You're being ridiculous about the state of education. Bad? Yes. Bad as you make it out to be? No.
[00:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:03] <exec> 08└─Yup yup yup. Private sector has moved forward with it too, "gig economy" oh yeah baby! Equality means the filthy rich won't be able to maintain their filthy status for long, within mere decades they'll be reduced to just stupid rich. So they have to clamp down on everyone and everything with compara...
[00:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:05] <exec> 08└─If you'd ever been in any of the Education Degree classes you'd agree that $46k/yr for having one is ludicrous. Ludicrously over paid.
[00:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:29] <exec> 08└─When I read the word "omniphobic" I expect a deflector shield.
[00:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:30] <exec> 08└─I want my toilet treated with this!
[00:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:20] <exec> 08└─Glad that the Kingdom of Nye's Sheriff made that happen
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[01:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:50] <exec> 08└─If you add chocolate flavor to it, isn't it just the cool, hip Silicon Valley version of Ensure, the meal drink for geriatrics?
[01:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:52] <exec> 08└─I thought they recalled this sh*t? Or bad memory? Is my hard drive faulty?
[01:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03pbnjoe [313] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:54] <exec> 08└─No, you're right, and they did it more [wikipedia.org] than once [arstechnica.com].
[01:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:56] <exec> 08└─STOP ME BEFORE I POST AGAIN
[01:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:58] <exec> 08└─from the this-isn't-us dept.
[01:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:16] <exec> 08└─In the 1990s some Columbians were importing cocaine in soda cans. Unfortunately, they didn't catch all of the product before it got out on grocery store shelves. The FDA was actually pretty on-top of that issue and not too many people died. Source: worked at a medical device company 2 blocks from a...
[01:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:18] <exec> 08└─That's why they sell 5 hour energy drink at convenience stores...
[01:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:20] <exec> 08└─There's the typical state park ban on weapons, pyrotechnics and alcoholic beverages; a.k.a. Firearms, Fireworks and Firewater. It's more about protecting other park guests and the wildlife than it is about protecting people from themselves. Same goes for controlling access to rat poison, etc. - you...
[01:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:22] <exec> 08└─That extra $0.50 for shipping is a bitch.
[01:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:24] <exec> 08└─This is only slightly annoying. They already "warned" several companies before, including the one I bought caffeine from. As a result, I pay a little bit more, and I get all the caffine in gelatin capsules that I have to open when making a soda syrup. But it actually isn't that bad, because it does...
[01:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:26] <exec> 08└─I'm OK with the FDA banning this substance for direct consumer sale. It fits well within their mandate, and is entirely consistent with the regulation of thousands of other drugs which can't be sold direct to consumers either. I think we all recognize that there is a huge risk in using such highly c...
[01:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:29] <exec> 08└─I used to use some 200 mg caffeine tablets which weren't microscopic and didn't kill you (maybe if you took 10+ at once?). So either they contained a lot of filler or you are exaggerating about a "granule" being lethal.
[01:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:31] <exec> 08└─Well, that was a lesson. I put the entire routine in characters I evidently can't quote (greater than/less than). It was supposed to be bed -> toilet -> water -> laptop, where the second one replaced laptop with bed, thus implying a loop, thus somehow making you chuckle. Oh well, I tried.
[01:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:33] <exec> 08└─When you say you make homemade soda, do you carbonate with yeast like this [allrecipes.com], or use some kind of SodaStream or CO2 tank thingy?
[01:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:35] <exec> 08└─Mostly I'm just concerned that I get what I pay for in the concentration I expect. Anything else can be quite dangerous when purchasing chemicals.
[01:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:38] <exec> 08└─So, no more selling most of the things under your kitchen sink then.
[01:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:40] <exec> 08└─Please, you can easily taste caffeine and very likely judge the concentration to within a hundred milligrams per cup. Don't believe me? Try using half decaf half regular in the office coffee pot some morning.
[01:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:57] <exec> 08└─Excellent hypothesis.
[01:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:31] <exec> 08└─I did your mom last night...does this count anywhere? :)
[01:43:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:32] <exec> 08└─Facebook's pre-dive price had the assumption of growth built in to it. Showing an actual loss means the stock valuation needs to correct both for that loss and for the lack of growth.
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[02:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Material Uses Energy From Ambient Light to Kill Hospital Superbugs - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:48] <exec> 08└─Condoms powered by ambient heat to produce spermicide.
[02:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:01] <exec> 08└─They used to insert green bottles randomly in cases when they first started shipping their liquid version.
[02:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:03] <exec> 08└─1) You're a bastard then. Nobody should support that terrible company. ... on a lighter note ... 2) We need to visit the PeopleOfWalmart.com and have fun finding out which one you are :)
[02:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:05] <exec> 08└─Soylent: IT'S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!
[02:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:07] <exec> 08└─Add it to your hosts file ;)
[02:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:10] <exec> 08└─1) You realize you just advocated putting millions of people who are barely scraping by to begin with out of work entirely, yes? 2) Go for it. Check the one in Humboldt, TN. If you can find one doing the Thriller zombie dance through the groceries because it was playing over the speakers, that'll be...
[02:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:40] <exec> 08└─There were a number of incidents and deaths in the UK as well, mostly young people to stupid to realize they could kill themselves with it.
[02:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:41] <exec> 08└─You can still get caffeine pills and other measured doses, just not 100% pure powdered caffeine.
[02:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:43] <exec> 08└─Was he wearing white pants, a white t-shirt, and a white sports coat? Did he jump out of an expensive european sports car? Vice squad. This is a raid!
[02:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:46] <exec> 08└─They contain a lot of filler and binder. That said, a "granule" of pure caffeine won't kill you. Still though, caffeine can kill you and in pure, powered form most people are too stupid to realize how much is too much. Takes about a tablespoon full for most adults.
[02:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:48] <exec> 08└─It is banned because the squirrels were getting in to the stuff. Entire cities were destroyed, but you don't remember it because of the rips in the space time continuum these things created.
[02:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:50] <exec> 08└─Decaf coffee from the supermarket tastes like shit because of how it has been decaffeinated. The difference in taste is all the chemicals they've used to strip not just caffein, but most of the flavour from the coffee. There are some decaffeinated coffees (1/10th the caffein of a normal coffee) that...
[02:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:52] <exec> 08└─The problem is, in super concentrated form, when you taste it, you will have easily swallowed a large dose already. It's too late then. Coffee is to ultrapure caffeine as light beer is to Everclear.
[02:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:55] <exec> 08└─The point was, you can taste caffeine. Don't believe me? Put as little as 50mg in a cup of water then do the Pepsi Challenge with an ordinary cup of water. It's easy to accidentally kill yourself millions of ways if you're bloody stupid. That's no reason to make life shitty for those of us aren't.
[02:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:57] <exec> 08└─In a super concentrated form, you'd never swallow it to begin with unless you're bucking for a Darwin Award. It does not taste good in high concentrations. It in fact tastes quite terrible. Regardless, I'm utterly unconcerned if people want to go putting chemicals in things they plan to consume with...
[02:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:15] <exec> 08└─Are you a whore?
[02:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:16] <exec> 08└─So that's why the jews do "sports" playing golf. It increases brain activity when walking to where the ball is. It is hard work making money sitting in an air conditioned office watching their net worth increase.
[02:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:18] <exec> 08└─Some have noted that, in SoCal, we have 4 seasons: earthquake, drought, fire, and mudslide. After a protracted spell with no rain, stuff gets dry and catches fire easily. With the ground cover burned away, when the rains do come, there's not much to sop up the water and what's uphill turns to sludge...
[02:40:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 619 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:32] <exec> 08└─All I can really say is "I told you so". Internet of Things devices are security disasters just waiting to happen. Yet nobody sees any problems with this sort of thing. A while back I went on a rant about how new Trane air conditioners virtually require their "smart" thermostats to operate 100% prop...
[02:40:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 648 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:35] <exec> 08└─This, exactly. Yet, we, as a nation, insist on hooking everything up to the internet. The hackers are demonstrating that an air gap may or may not be adequate to protect your "smart" devices - yet we don't even make them jump an air gap. Everything connected - why worry? We can pass another law, and...
[02:40:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:37] <exec> 08└─The "s" in "IoT" stands for Security.
[02:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Short-Period Binary Stars Eject Planets, According to Simulations - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:19] <exec> 08└─Actually, Jupiter is about as large as a planet will get. Adding more material to Jupiter would just increase the density without really making the planet itself much larger. Until of course the pressure in the core gets high enough that nuclear fusion starts at which point it becomes a star.
[02:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:04] <exec> 08└─Agree with the other two ACs. When one has a computer to do all one's calculations, one's mental math goes to shit. I'd like to point out that it's a skill that can be practiced, however. You're always dealing with two positive integers such that: i₁ < 10; i₂ < 10; |i₁ - i₂| = 5. Change coun...
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[03:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Material Uses Energy From Ambient Light to Kill Hospital Superbugs - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:48] <exec> 08└─Guys, if you're having problems getting the shapes you want made out of steel or copper you have no business holding a degree. The average Joe on the street has been able to do exactly that for thousands of years now.
[03:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Material Uses Energy From Ambient Light to Kill Hospital Superbugs - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:49] <exec> 08└─The problem with drug-resistant pathogens is worse in hospitals which concentrate on making profit, because staff are often hurrying around since "time is money". Improve procedures could make a big difference in the prevalence of drug-resistant pathogens. Of course, why do that when you can SELL so...
[03:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Material Uses Energy From Ambient Light to Kill Hospital Superbugs - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was thinking that too. Except, really, the question is cost. You couldn't make everything in a hospital out of copper! It would turn the $10,000 medical-grade stapler into a $15,000 medical-grade stapler!
[03:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Material Uses Energy From Ambient Light to Kill Hospital Superbugs - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:54] <exec> 08└─having problems getting the shapes you want Yeah. Clearly, these guys didn't even listen when Tim Allen told them what to do. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Material Uses Energy From Ambient Light to Kill Hospital Superbugs - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:56] <exec> 08└─Well, I was talking about paying a skilled fabricator to do it for you but I consider any misunderstanding worth it if it leads to a Tim Allen reference.
[03:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:14] <exec> 08└─I'd like to remind you that not everyone has the luxury to pay more so they won't be supporting such a "terrible company". Not that a reminder will change your attitude, since you clearly have already judged those that shop at Walmart as inferior to yourself. Does ridiculing them really make you fee...
[03:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:16] <exec> 08└─They do make a chocolate flavored one. They're not bad products, actually. It's more nutritionally balanced than Ensure, with less carbs and more protein, more calories from fat. It's still a little too heavy on the added sugar for how I plan my diet, but if you're low/no carb the rest of the day th...
[03:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:18] <exec> 08└─find one doing the Thriller zombie dance through the groceries because it was playing over the speaker
[03:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:20] <exec> 08└─It's still a little too heavy on the added sugar for how I plan my diet...
[03:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:22] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. Fair enough.
[03:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:24] <exec> 08└─Just who are the sort that buy this shit that Walmart stocks it?
[03:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:03] <exec> 08└─nope and I cleaned some real nasty stuff off the ug's beakers
[03:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:05] <exec> 08└─Would adding 1 percent dark brown dye qualify as impure? Put a little of the stuff in water and it still looks like black coffee. Problem solved. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:07] <exec> 08└─Typically, those were a pastel or black. [google.com] an expensive european sports car It looked Italian on the outside, but underneath it was USAian. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:09] <exec> 08└─From TFS: Between 10 and 14 grams of caffeine is considered life-threatening
[03:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:11] <exec> 08└─...because of how it has been decaffeinated Methylene Chloride or Ethyl Acetate? There are other methods to do the task. [littlecoffeeplace.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:32] <exec> 08└─I was interested until I saw they analysed only 35 people. I could get a bigger sample size talking to people at work.
[03:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:36] <exec> 08└─In fact at the office I have a required semiannual training dedicated to how to protect the reputation of the company while using social media. It boils down to "if you write anything without an explicit permission of our attorneys your will be fired". Why a private citizen shall behave differently?...
[03:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:37] <exec> 08└─Kosher salt as any kosher food has a sign - U in a circle - which usually means that a Rabi gave a permission. Most brands of common salt have it.
[03:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:12] <exec> 08└─yeah n2o bind to hemoglobin but dont give o2 to the cells so you die from asphixia without a chocking sensation
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[04:39:08] <exec> 08└─from the this-isn't-us dept.
[04:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:04] <exec> 08└─We don't got no train station coz we don't got no train!
[04:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:05] <exec> 08└─But won't you think of the children?!
[04:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:08] <exec> 08└─I wonder, does Aldrich sell caffeine? I had to register with them to buy tangled long chain polymers (super-absorbent polyacrylic acid).
[04:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:10] <exec> 08└─What, from under your kitchen sink, can fit in a tablet the size of a baby aspirin be potentially lethal and basically undetectable? Sure, you can kill someone with Drano, bleach, ammonia, etc. individually or in combination, but A) if they're conscious they'll probably feel it coming, B) they may e...
[04:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:12] <exec> 08└─Nope, but he did look like a middle aged Tubbs. Remember, this was FDA, not Vice.
[04:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:14] <exec> 08└─In a neutral and relatively consistent tasting solution like water you might be able to taste it. But, add it some overly flavoured sugar drink, smoothie, or alcoholic beverage, and the odds that you'll recognise it as poisonous reduce dramatically. You might still taste it, but will you think it ta...
[04:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:17] <exec> 08└─You are the reason we are a dying society. Yes you. You personally. A lot of stuff is dangerous and can kill you. It all used to be quite legal, sold over the counter and very few people died. Did you know you used to could go into a feed store or a hardware store and just buy a few sticks of dynami...
[04:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:38] <exec> 08└─I make sure I get up from my computer at least once very hour, to freshen up my highball and have a smoke. I've been doing this for years, so now when I'm done I'm barely winded.
[04:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, IoT is a gamble and the house just lost... On the other hand the Schadenfreude from the I told you so makes me want to laugh at these guys. However when I realize that the victims are not the clueless IoT idiots but the customers, this makes me sad. This continuous stream of privacy scandals i...
[04:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 1376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:07] <exec> 08└─That's a bit like saying mankind did well for such a long time before nuclear power plants... Antibiotic resistance was not an issue before antibiotics. We've seen many apocalyptic movies after a nuclear war for example. Sure, the mankind will survive. But it might be millions instead of billions. W...
[04:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:52] <exec> 08└─It happened before. The gays discovered Crisco. And everybody uses it now. Almost everybody. @VP [twitter.com] Pence doesn't use it. But @ChickfilA [twitter.com] uses it. Try their Chicken Breakfast Bowel. God Bless!
[04:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:54] <exec> 08└─We had those in the 60s. When I was in college. Let me tell you, they're much thicker than the disposable. Not as fun. But much safer. And if you washed them, they were cheaper. I could afford disposables. But sometimes I went with the washables, depending on the girl. The girls that were on the Pil...
[04:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Judge Says UberBLACK Drivers Are Not Company's Employees - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:28] <exec> 08└─Could have both apps installed but being logged in simultaneously might cause issues: In the past, if you didn’t accept enough of the ride requests that you received, Uber would warn you and deactivate your for having a low acceptance rate. As of April 2016, Uber will no longer do this. Instead, U...
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[05:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ketamine Shows Promise as a Fast-Acting Treatment for Depression - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:48] <exec> 08└─This needs to be adapted into a long term solution so no one will be sad, ever again. Do you have anything against making everyone being happy and content? :)
[05:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Material Uses Energy From Ambient Light to Kill Hospital Superbugs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:06] <exec> 08└─Harder Harder Faster Faster Good, they should all be dead, now..
[05:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:31] <exec> 08└─More soy too! to keep your soyboy level to maximum! If only they mixed in some essential oils, you could increase 2 cup sizes a week.
[05:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:32] <exec> 08└─We did the biggest Tax Cut in history. To create millions of jobs. But Walmart closed so many stores. They didn't call them Walmart, they called them Sam's Club. But it's Walmart. It's the elite Walmart. Let me tell you, that was a slap to my face. And to the faces of our hard-working Republicans in...
[05:39:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arcz [4501] 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 653 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:54] <exec> 08└─This is only slightly annoying. They already "warned" several companies before, including the one I bought caffeine from. As a result, I pay a little bit more, and I get all the caffine in gelatin capsules that I have to open when making a soda syrup. But it actually isn't that bad, because it does...
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[06:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyrid Meteor Shower is Coming in April - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:55] <exec> 08└─Cooke said the average Lyrid shower produces 15 to 20 meteors per hour; this year, the meteor shower should hit about 18 per hour. Some years, the Lyrid meteor shower intensifies and can produce up to 100 meteors per hour in what's called an "outburst," but it is difficult to predict exactly when th...
[06:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:35] <exec> 08└─For too long, Walmart has been bringing terribly made foreign merchandise to our Country by the shipload. From Bush Original to present, our Country has lost more than 55,000 factories, 6,000,000 manufacturing jobs and accumulated Trade Deficits of more than 12 Trillion Dollars. Last year we had a T...
[06:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 1228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:37] <exec> 08└─Hate to take you down man, but, hey, what makes you think you will be free to move from city to city freely in the future? For proper serfdom, the raising cost of living will further divide the "normal people" into two: N. 1: The ones who inherited an house from their parents, thus becoming unable t...
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[07:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:48] <exec> 08└─Robots don't need to pee, if it breaks down, just fix it, no frills, no drama.
[07:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ketamine Shows Promise as a Fast-Acting Treatment for Depression - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:56] <exec> 08└─Hook me up. https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[07:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:45] <exec> 08└─I know plenty of successful people who went through public education.
[07:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:10] <exec> 08└─I am concerned that an invalid conclusion may have been reached through an application of false equivalence. I state (as above) that: 1) "kosher salt" has come about its name due to its use in kashering; 2) "kosher salt" is refers to a coarse salt, and those names are used interchangeably in cookboo...
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[08:39:26] <exec> 08└─I've sometimes wondered if Binford was a corruption of another brand name. [google.com] a skilled fabricator At 1 place I worked, we had a big honking mill made by those folks. It's just amazing what can be produced if you have the right tool. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[08:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:40] <exec> 08└─We could try, "Bust a deal, face the wheel".
[08:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:36] <exec> 08└─Molecules. How they work is that they remove most water soluble components first (cells, like blood cells, but also bacteria, plasticized or not, are retained in the blood vessel) and transport back the usable components.
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[09:38:54] <exec> 08└─we need some alone time though. some videogames. I am quite versed in meatbagtron2084 where you have to save a family of bots by shooting down... here it comes... [4th DIRECTIVE TRIGGERED SHUTDOWN FORCED]
[09:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:55] <exec> 08└─Welcome to Bezos' Paradise Workplaces dot CO dot UK. Pee-break free now for 4, make it 5 days.
[09:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 1199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:57] <exec> 08└─Any factory-like environment has performance goals; they try to maximize efficiency and throughput, because that's how they make money. Breaks are strictly regulated - you don't just step off the assembly line when you need to pee. As a worker, you avoid needing to pee except during your designated...
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[09:39:07] <exec> 08└─cos im evil
[09:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 1348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, they do, we had a big jar of the stuff in my old lab. I'm not surprised it's being controlled now, it is a poison after all. At high school, one of my classmates had a project to test out the effects of increasing caffeine concentrations on Daphnia (water fleas). It would make their hearts beat...
[09:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:23] <exec> 08└─> Where else would the initialism of MDC make sense? Wherever people know Roman numerals, you insipiens clod. :D
[09:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:25] <exec> 08└─c. the F35 wasn't already deployed in full
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[10:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:49] <exec> 08└─Big companies, always acting like thugs. This is the expected behavior here. The battle of the big against the small continues...
[10:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coinbase Acquires Earn.com - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:56] <exec> 08└─I heard bitcoin is a ponzi scheme that you cant cash out. Basically they are worthless since people hoard them due to deflation to produce a fake price. Also they are anonymous, so only used for illegal activities that are being tracked by the fbi/irs/isp/etc. All the people I know who bought some j...
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[10:39:07] <exec> 08└─This story could have been linked from just about any other source - Digg, Reddit, Cnet, the Verge, Newsweek, the Observer, even the Sun, Daily Mail or Express if you really wanted.
[10:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:09] <exec> 08└─Some Soylent people seem to think RT is a credible source for some reason.
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[10:39:11] <exec> 08└─Technically speaking employers are required to provide readily accessible facilities: http://www.legislation.gov.uk [legislation.gov.uk] But commodity warehouses' were exempt in practice from running sewage lines across the floors since traditionally pickers didn't...
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[10:39:13] <exec> 08└─Some people think linking to something that isn't RT makes it credible, magically.
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[10:42:53] <exec> 08└─Good to see them doing something that may be useful internally - to kill off the bacteria that infests the shitty hotels miles away from home that they force their employees to live in for months at a time.
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[11:38:48] <exec> 08└─If ever there was a demonstrated reason for never doing business with Apple ever again, I think this is it. Whether you're making products for their phones, their users, or whatever, just leave them to their closed-off ecosystem and let them deal with customers not wanting to pay their price and hen...
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[11:38:49] <exec> 08└─“Intellectual Property Law is a specialized area of law, and seeking legal advice is in many instances recommended,” Jorgensen wrote in the letter accompanying the settlement agreement. “However, we can inform you that further proceedings and costs can be avoided by settling the case.”
[11:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:11] <exec> 08└─Right. So they piss in bottles and then go back to work handling items that they are shipping out. One would think someone higher up would spot a problem here. The company said it provided coaching to help people improve ...
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[11:39:13] <exec> 08└─> It's not laziness, it's...incapacity. My guess? You are not a very good communicator if it takes you 10 minutes to describe making a stapled brochure. I'd do one as a sample and hand the rest to the copy room "serf" -- Please make them like this, with the pages in the same order.
[11:40:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:03] <exec> 08└─find one doing the Thriller zombie dance through the groceries because it was playing over the speaker
[11:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:11] <exec> 08└─Welcome to costco, I love you.
[11:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:05] <exec> 08└─A can of Red Bull contains 80mg and that's enough to give me noticeable and scary heart palpitations.
[11:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:07] <exec> 08└─If you put enough caffeine into a drink to kill someone, they're going to spit it out due to the horrible taste unless they're severely intoxicated or are looking for a Darwin Award. Caffeine does not taste good in multi-gram per beverage amounts.
[11:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:09] <exec> 08└─In normal concentrations, you're still wrong. My tongue can spot 50mg of caffeine in twelve ounces of pretty much anything. In lethal concentrations, you're astoundingly wrong. It would taste quite terrible in anything weaker tasting than drain cleaner. We're talking multiple grams instead of tens o...
[11:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:11] <exec> 08└─Fuck no I won't. Not letting your children drink poison isn't even parenting 101; it's the shit you should take as a given before you even show up to parenting 101.
[11:41:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 308 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:46] <exec> 08└─It's simply amazing how overpaid the CTO and IT staff is at that casino, or testament to just how little control they have. That thermometer should've been nowhere near the networks that house database servers. The fact it's on the same network allowing access, means those idiots have never heard of...
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[12:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:45] <exec> 08└─Microsoft is launching a custom Linux kernel and distribution
[12:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:46] <exec> 08└─My condolences: MS now has cancer. Please send all donations to the ICouldntBeHappier foundation.
[12:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:49] <exec> 08└─SoftenedLinux BreakableLinux?
[12:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:51] <exec> 08└─Wewease the secwet weapon! Let's see the code!
[12:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:53] <exec> 08└─I think someone slipped BANNED bulk caffeine into your coffee mug.
[12:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:55] <exec> 08└─Because it's hard to secure a device you can't update or get telemetry from
[12:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:58] <exec> 08└─Now I'm picturing all the devices having "Acme" on the boxes..
[12:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:00] <exec> 08└─Why didn't they use one of the BSD kernels? They have a much (Microsoft-)friendlier license. I'll get my coat...
[12:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 1918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:11] <exec> 08└─Seems very difficult to get the whole story, either its in foreign language or carefully simplified. I suspect the censored other side of the story is its not unusual for there to be some sort of contract where dealers get every replacement part made at a price between retail and wholesale with a si...
[12:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:13] <exec> 08└─[VLM's post] WTF ?? ANd what has "stolen" got to do with this case? A non-OEM spare part is only fake if it is claimed to be OEM. I maintain cars, and have worked at a workshop repairing cars, and frankly I do not expect (and have never much seen) replacement parts like brakes, filters, bearings etc...
[12:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:37] <exec> 08└─Robots don't piss. And they don't vote. I was elected to represent the PEOPLE of this great Country. Not robots. And not the #AmazonWashingtonPost [twitter.com], sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should)!!
[12:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:38] <exec> 08└─The processing plant workers are mocked or ignored by supervisors when they ask to go to the bathroom [...] employees wait for an hour or more in long lines to use the bathroom and risk getting punished or fired if they don't accomplish their work within a certain time frame. [...] "Too many workers...
[12:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:40] <exec> 08└─I tell my White House people, follow me on Twitter. @realDonaldTrump [twitter.com]. Read my tweets every morning (M-F). And you'll know whether to come to work or not. Much quicker than leaving voice mail!
[12:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:38] <exec> 08└─Just who are the sort that buy this shit that Walmart stocks it?
[12:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:35] <exec> 08└─Indeed, much filler. I assume you are talking about Jet Alert or a similar 200mg caffeine pill (I take these). Pills like this are much safer than pure caffeine powder if for nothing more than consistent dosage. It is indeed easy to overdose on pure powder or concentrated liquid, but I'm torn on if...
[12:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:36] <exec> 08└─> If you genuinely can't, your body is in astoundingly bad shape. Hey Buzz, please explain how you jump from caffeine (in)tolerance to "bad shape"? Are you treating coffee consumption as something macho? I'm in decent shape, about 5 pounds over the "correct" weight for my height, and have always bee...
[12:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:39] <exec> 08└─Drop a gram of caffeine in 12oz of sweet tea...
[12:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:41] <exec> 08└─The human body has evolved over quite a long time to be able to handle an insane variety of chemical input. If your body is less tolerant of variety than average, Darwin would say it is less fit for survival. That is what I mean.
[12:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:43] <exec> 08└─A gram is not a lethal dose (that is in fact my average morning's intake) and you would most assuredly taste it. It would absolutely ruin the tea if it all went in one glass.
[12:42:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:30] <exec> 08└─So, what's the "di" for in IdioTs?
[12:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:41] <exec> 08└─They should've used the new secure Micro$oft IoT... /s
[12:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effects of Microcephaly-Linked Gene Mutation Studied in Ferrets - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:53] <exec> 08└─Mutant Ferrets with neurological conditions are rarely found in the wild - because they are typically elected to high office.
[12:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 3266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:02] <exec> 08└─Teaching varies by state via regulation and locally via management; feds are little more than a cash cow WRT education in the USA (I see you use UK stats so I'm guessing you're a UK-ian and don't know these things about The Colonies over here); When I was a kid there were young teachers and old teac...
[12:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:02] <exec> 08└─If you can’t take care of your sick in the country, forget it, it’s all over. I believe in universal healthcare, single payer. It works in Canada. The government's gonna pay for it. But we're going to save so much money on the other side. But for the most it's going to be a private plan and peop...
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[13:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:47] <exec> 08└─Or it needs to be where a bunch of men share one woman. For sex, for everything. Because they did the 1 Baby policy. They called it 1 Baby. But a lot of times it was 1 boy. They kept trying until they got a boy. And they killed the baby girls. For the sake of Global Warming.
[13:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:49] <exec> 08└─Here's the one child per couple policy's unintended consequences. Too many dudes and not enough females in the young adult demographic. Now Chinese youth are out loud and proud. I saw this coming.
[13:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:51] <exec> 08└─You and so many others. The demographic imbalance also puts the "Chinese Lesbian Dating App Rela Shuts Down" story into a funnier perspective. Gays might be subversive, but lesbians are downright threatening to the Chinese state.
[13:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:54] <exec> 08└─Holy sausage fest batman! No fee-male there, just regular male...
[13:39:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:03] <exec> 08└─My condolences: MS now has cancer. Please send all donations to the ICouldntBeHappier foundation.
[13:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, if the device knows where it is, it can tell you when it has been stolen (beware an IoT-called SWAT team when you move house!)
[13:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:14] <exec> 08└─CompromisedLinux
[13:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03adun [6928] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:16] <exec> 08└─I don't have it at hand right now, but Microsoft did publish an interesting article about an outlier in telemetry data being used to spot malware before it got released and became broadly available. It's a very interesting read, honestly -- my recollections are rather foggy but I think it basically...
[13:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:18] <exec> 08└─"Microsoft is launching a custom Linux kernel and distribution" Your talking about systemd?
[13:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:21] <exec> 08└─So, is this the "extend" part then? I'm not sure the next part is going to work so well.
[13:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:32] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you a secret : car makers don't generally makes their own brake pads and oil filters (if ever AFAIK). They are contracted out to companies like Ferodo and Fram and supplied to the car makers for fitting to new cars, and for selling as spares at dealerships with "Chrysler" (or whatever) bra...
[13:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:34] <exec> 08└─Well yeah, I suppose it's entirely possible to dream up a fantasy scenario where Apple is within their rights despite losing in court. Can we work the weather war into this? Maybe iPhones work as swarm weather generators, but without official screens with embedded unobtanium from α Draconis IV, the...
[13:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:01] <exec> 08└─Amazonk Prometheans are the future of transhumanity [whatistranshumanism.org]. Bezos could add a piss function for golden showers. Or he could just shower himself in gold as he enters the trillionaire master race [nextbigfuture.com] and commands dominion [space.com] over the dwarf planets even Elong...
[13:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:03] <exec> 08└─What I don't understand is why all these people who complain about capitalism just don't hop on their yacht and sail to the next tax paradise...
[13:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:05] <exec> 08└─One rule for the rulers, different rule for the plebs. You piss in the bottle, he pisses on you.
[13:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:26] <exec> 08└─Studies show that, like smoking, too much sitting increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes and premature death.
[13:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:04] <exec> 08└─I'm going to revert back to Oceans 12.2 until they fix the bugs in this version.
[13:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:24] <exec> 08└─...an education major is probably going to end up in administrative / academic roles and not actually teaching children.
[13:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 1311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:26] <exec> 08└─Consultant / contractor As a young recent grad, two times at one small employer I ran into a former instructor helping out with some short to medium term project over the summer. Kinda weird. When instructors are out of "instructor mode" they seem more chill at the workplace. I vaguely remember goin...
[13:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:28] <exec> 08└─One thing I fault the Democrats for is rarely making this argument
[13:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:30] <exec> 08└─Why, for instance, do we need bed frames? Why not just put the mattresses on the floor?
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[14:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:51] <exec> 08└─What? Sorry, but this is stupid. Having too many men doesn't magically make men gay; people's sexual orientation doesn't change like that, or else nerdy young men who can't get a date would all be dating each other, which obviously they don't. However, I think it's worth pointing out that since Chin...
[14:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:52] <exec> 08└─Having too many men doesn't magically make men gay
[14:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:54] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the unrestrained misogyny of basement dwellers in the morning!
[14:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:56] <exec> 08└─A smart father would have seen the future and kept only the girls alive: then dowry them off for big money. But stupid is as...
[14:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:59] <exec> 08└─why do so many gay men hate women so much?
[14:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:01] <exec> 08└─I think it's funny when I hear 'homosexuality is a choice': I had no choice. I looked at guys and went "yup...dude." I looked at girls and went "Wubba, holy smokes, etc" I can see girls who are beaten and treated like shit by a guy going lesbian, but I did not see any 'choice'. I can see too many g...
[14:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:22] <exec> 08└─I just don't trust that their motives are for good. Linux is big competition, BSD is not. Novell was big competition 20+ years ago and Billy Gates decided they had to be conquered. He started out by being friendly to Novell. The story is long and I don't have time to research, but I just see MS tryi...
[14:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:23] <exec> 08└─That's what I'm wondering: why not pull an Apple? Maybe they need to support more hardware, or theyll screw it up and blame Linux? If I was MS, I'd pull an Apple and release WindowsOSX, or BSDLonghorn or MSScrewsItUpAgain, or MSMeh........MSDevil?and release an MS song?
[14:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:25] <exec> 08└─Extend, embrace, get cancer? ;)
[14:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:27] <exec> 08└─I just don't trust that their motives are for good. Of course they aren't for good. Microsoft is a purely evil, sociopathic corporation like any other, and probably worse than most. Why would you ever even remotely think that they might have "good" motives about anything they do? However, being soci...
[14:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:30] <exec> 08└─From Fieval goes west, I think We should hold a wowwee What's a wowwee? A warge gawthewing of mice fow a puwpose! Oh! A rally! That's what I said! A wowwee! ****Ah, the joys of parenting, lol. Stupid things you remember... important things get forgotten.
[14:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:32] <exec> 08└─i like it that is a good modern take on it.
[14:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:34] <exec> 08└─no i have a correction -- Telemetry is Privacy Often, sites hype up Security when the question is Privacy. Telemetry is done for the claim of security but it's invasive and users can't scrub it -- yet your information is safe with them. They say they can't control whathappens when it goes to a place...
[14:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:36] <exec> 08└─As strange as it sounds, I'm not so certain that this is necessarily EEE for the simple reason that recently there was another article on SN about how MS was breaking up its Windows development team into different sectors, leading to speculation that they are going the way of cloud services as oppos...
[14:39:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 1251 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:47] <exec> 08└─[VLM's post] WTF ?? ANd what has "stolen" got to do with this case? A non-OEM spare part is only fake if it is claimed to be OEM. I maintain cars, and have worked at a workshop repairing cars, and frankly I do not expect (and have never much seen) replacement parts like brakes, filters, bearings etc...
[14:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:50] <exec> 08└─Users will catch on sooner or later when all the independent repair shops refuse to touch them, and they have to pay Apple prices.
[14:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:52] <exec> 08└─You seem to have missed something. The parts being put into those phones were indeed "genuine" Apple parts. Parts that had failed at some point in time, and were sent back to the factory to be refurbished. Mr. Huseby would have been perfectly justified in uncovering the Apple brand, before installin...
[14:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:55] <exec> 08└─I believe cars are the most complex. As for aircrafts, and i believe cruise ships is even more so, it's often a much less industrialized approach due to raw numbers. It make sense to set up such a complex supply chain only for very high market numbers. If you make "only" a few hundreds of units (or...
[14:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:57] <exec> 08└─Not fully true. Been an iPhone user since iPhone 1 and my daughter also. But we both are thinking to move to the pixel 3 (my wife uses the pixel 1 and loves it). She said the Samsung phones have to much bloatware. However the pixel is its own form of evil since the main reason my wife loves it is th...
[14:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 3071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah believe me I know you can get a genuine GM thermostat that runs for a decade or a no-name that needs replacing every two years, or a factory battery that lasted the first six years and replacements that only last three years. Don't get me started on exhaust systems, apparently only factories ca...
[14:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coinbase Acquires Earn.com - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:08] <exec> 08└─JavaScript, it's always JavaScript. https://coinhive.com [coinhive.com]
[14:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:32] <exec> 08└─You've never dealt with someone impossible like that, have you? Sometimes a failure to understand is the fault of the listener.
[14:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:33] <exec> 08└─Which has anything to do with linking to Russian propaganda because…?
[14:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:35] <exec> 08└─Found the Russian.
[14:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:37] <exec> 08└─I'm a teacher by profession, so I know how to explain things. Here's how it would need to go: - Explain which way the staples go through the brochure, and exactly where they should be positioned. - Show her how to use the special stapler, which has a setting to help get the staples in the right plac...
[14:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:40] <exec> 08└─Robots don't piss. And they don't vote.
[14:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:42] <exec> 08└─If it is as much impossible as you say, then you chose a wrong worker. Go to a nearby printer shop. They will understand the task before you even say anything.
[14:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:44] <exec> 08└─They want you pissing in a bottle so they can test if you are doing PHP or something even worse.
[14:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:46] <exec> 08└─No, they don't. And that's what amazon should be doing. One machine can do all those things they send men out to do now. Men no longer need pee themselves in factories or in some foreign sweatshop. Men can live and go on to achieve greater things than shelf-stacking and dying for Bezo's bank account...
[14:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:48] <exec> 08└─Every source has its bias. Just be sure you know what it is. RT, for instance, sometimes provides certain criticisms that you might not otherwise see. Just be aware it is propaganda, just like FoxNews.
[14:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:51] <exec> 08└─On our factory floor, employees are "encouraged" to pee on their break time - but it doesn't always work that way. I presume that you are familiar with pregnant women, women in general, and people, both male and female who just don't feel well. Or, the person who chugged a pot or two of coffee while...
[14:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:53] <exec> 08└─This is the world that most of us live in, most of the time.
[14:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:55] <exec> 08└─I'm sure Amazon has patented a way to provide this coaching in a safe, non-discriminatory, non hostile environment. Try not to let employees become aware of the fact that some employees have different equipment with which they get their urine into the glass jar.
[14:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:57] <exec> 08└─Let them eat Twinkies.
[14:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:00] <exec> 08└─Why is amazon a Ruby shop?
[14:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:02] <exec> 08└─I could do this myself, although it isn't my job, or I could pass this to the person whose job it should be.
[14:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ketamine Shows Promise as a Fast-Acting Treatment for Depression - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:13] <exec> 08└─As long as they are also being productively and not are too much sedated or thinking not clearly.
[14:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:03] <exec> 08└─Meh. Doesn't really work unless you also use a suction device....
[14:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:05] <exec> 08└─Soy is overrated. Fennel and lavender oils are more effective.
[14:42:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 346 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:17] <exec> 08└─I've heard that one can consume enough water to result in death. Gasoline tastes terrible and is apparently lethal, too. And too much whisky can end in either a good time, or death, depending. So let's get on it FDA; water, gas, and whiskey. Ban 'em! Oh yeah, I've heard a very small dose of lead fro...
[14:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:07] <exec> 08└─We make our own soda with a SodaStream, because we sweeten with stevia and you can't buy soda sweetened with stevia (except maybe in extremely niche hippie stores in Williamsburg, Brooklyn). The family favorite is sumac soda, because we pick the sumac from trees in Prospect Park in August; it brews...
[14:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:09] <exec> 08└─i thought the republican party was against the nanny state that the democrats are always accused of ushering in? maybe this is just to test the waters for other means of population control? opium seems to be a sedative and the legal prescriptions are pretty popular. Maybe someone wanted to make mone...
[14:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:11] <exec> 08└─Agreed. That's where the DIY movement comes in, I think. Being able to manipulate matter is our birthright as humans. When they take that away it is a direct assault on who we are. I want us to travel in a different direction as a global culture from the one we've been headed in, where we're all squ...
[14:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:13] <exec> 08└─do what any other red-blooded american does -- break the law and claim ignorance of it when caught.
[14:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:15] <exec> 08└─Not the same AC, but I'm also very sensitive to caffeine. I can handle other chemicals, no problem. I'm particularly insensitive to opiates and opiods, don't even get high at high doses let alone have any reduction in pain. I took a gram of heroin and got a light buzz (only time I've ever done, and...
[14:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:17] <exec> 08└─Pure nicotine is very dangerous, spilling a couple drops can kill you. It's still easily available and cheap online.
[14:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:20] <exec> 08└─Fuck America land of NO FREEDUMBS!!!
[14:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:22] <exec> 08└─200 mg caffeine seems like a lot to me. That's over twice as much as I drink in a day. 2 cans of Diet Coke, each 46 mg. (Except on Fridays, 3 or 4 cans.)
[14:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:24] <exec> 08└─I have very little argument with that. Other than the concerns that there are bad people who do bad things. But that has always been true. I would propose that certain bad things should be kept out of the hands of certain bad people. But that idea never seems to get very far. Even if it is a sincere...
[14:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:27] <exec> 08└─Wow, now folks we've got a special treat today. Look out your left window and you can see a libertarian applying shitty logic and overly basic principles to complex human biology. Most people are too ashamed to demonstrate their lack of education, but not the free range libertarians!
[14:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:51] <exec> 08└─Telling lies is not a position. Anyone who is like a stable genius would realize you meant that you got a perfect score of 30%.
[14:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:52] <exec> 08└─Makes me wonder: which is worse for your life expectancy, office work or military service?
[14:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:31] <exec> 08└─They probably don't read Soylent News. :-)
[14:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:33] <exec> 08└─IoT is the suffix for Id.
[14:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:58] <exec> 08└─Now I read that .... cities are attracting new residents.
[14:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:59] <exec> 08└─1) for a good time tell a high school career counselor you want to apprentice into the skilled trades. Some of it is probably jealously, IBEW base rate is in the low 30s where I live which puts you about 50% higher pay than the average high school guidance counselor or teacher, LOL. Or tell them you...
[14:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:01] <exec> 08└─Look into the history of blockbusting in real estate, you're not going to be allowed to passively stay in N.1. Red pill them a bit? Make sure they get an education (which has nothing to do with state systems). A N.2 is a N.1 who got blockbusted (not entirely of course, but ...) The specific enforcem...
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[15:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:47] <exec> 08└─Half of infinity is still approximately infinity, right?
[15:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:48] <exec> 08└─It's about damn time to get tantalum capacitors cheap and reliably again.
[15:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:50] <exec> 08└─I swear. Your comment has been replicated across every forum that discusses this topic. We can deduce that "semi infinite" means "practically infinite"; we'll hopefully be mining asteroids by the time this reserve even comes close to running out, and that means we never have to worry about it runnin...
[15:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:58] <exec> 08└─The real question is this: Is this ever-collapsing part of the labor force showing up in the bottom line? Is the market converting the death of these bees into an economic signal that cannot be ignored by anyone (e.g., is the price of downstream commodities rising inordinately)? If no, then why not?...
[15:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:00] <exec> 08└─Kill the bees, we gots profit to make! We don' need no stinkin' food.
[15:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:02] <exec> 08└─Actually, he retired (age 70) from beekeeping two years ago, but was working well into the "crisis." He had challenges with varroa mites, but apparently there's this insecticide you can order online from Australia that works wonders, just soak a piece of rag in it, drop it in the hive (yes, the same...
[15:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 5081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:19] <exec> 08└─There's two aspects to the China story, what makes men gay, and what story we'll tell ourselves in the West vs the East about gayness. It all seems to boil down to Chinese are not Jews so gayness doesn't matter like it does in the west, its a story about western progressive leftists Jews talking abo...
[15:39:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:34] <exec> 08└─War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Telemetry is Security
[15:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:48] <exec> 08└─Didn't they compare the GPL to a virus? Embrace, Extend, Epidemic!
[15:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:50] <exec> 08└─"Your airbag is about to be deployed due to a crash. Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
[15:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:09] <exec> 08└─before installing the parts, because they WERE Apple parts
[15:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should find a cite for this other side of the story you seem to desperately wish existed.
[15:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 1440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:13] <exec> 08└─They're ALL evil in one way or another. Google just wants to put ads in front of your eyes. In exchange they provide you with lots of fantastic services that improve your life. Google is not interested personally in you. Your data is just a drop in a vast ocean of data. (That is probably true of oth...
[15:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:15] <exec> 08└─Pixelbook observation: It has two USB C ports. One on each side. Each with LED to indicate charging status or battery remaining. At any time with the lid closed, if you double-touch in the area of the LED or USB port, the LED will briefly light to indicate battery level. It is unclear how the double...
[15:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:17] <exec> 08└─Also like I wrote anecdotally there's high likelihood he once signed a contract for ipad batteries or some tangentially related thing where he got 5% discount on parts if he solemnly swears not to traffic in dodgy parts, then turned around and did it anyway, and at least per the propaganda his sole...
[15:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:03] <exec> 08└─Any factory-like environment which hasn't taken the basic requirements of comfort and hygiene into consideration when designing their business processes is frankly unfit to be doing business. I've worked in several factories, and I can state categorically that none of them tracked nor cared about st...
[15:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:04] <exec> 08└─Or they could just link the unendowed employees to the necessary equipment, orderable through Amazon. [amazon.com]
[15:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:06] <exec> 08└─Amazon should sell the glass jars so that other workplaces can introduce this innovative productivity improvement. As a cost control measure the corporate head office could introduce an adult diaper sharing plan.
[15:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 1958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:08] <exec> 08└─Amazon's past behavior has been exposed before and it fits perfectly into this. They automate part of management so workers are tracked and measured at insane levels never possible before computers. The worker is tracked against the BEST time ever and always feels like a failure and management explo...
[15:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ketamine Shows Promise as a Fast-Acting Treatment for Depression - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:19] <exec> 08└─That's a sin, for which your hide should be tanned. Just a sec, sin, cos, tan?
[15:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:23] <exec> 08└─This dates back to my early twenties when I was in my physical prime. There is stuff in Red Bull as well as caffeine, which may also have contributed. However, anecdotally, several of my friends have suffered similar effects and nowadays we all refuse to drink the stuff. The release rate is also imp...
[15:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:25] <exec> 08└─Do feel free to point out any specific flaws in my statements. Until then your trolls lack both style and bite. It's really quite pathetic and below SN trolling standards.
[15:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:27] <exec> 08└─I expect it's probably the taurine then or some unfortunate synergistic effect between ingredients.
[15:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:29] <exec> 08└─because we pick the sumac from trees in Prospect Park in August; it brews up like sun tea, and when sweetened and carbonated tastes something like a cross between lemonade and raspberry
[15:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:31] <exec> 08└─FDA may be going after such sales in the future: http://vaping360.com [vaping360.com]
[15:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:33] <exec> 08└─A more reasonable size would be 100 mg. 200 mg is the exxxtra strength version for sure. Even one of those can make a person jittery. I don't consider it too healthy or useful and I don't use it anymore. I did "OD" on it once, where I basically had maybe a whole gram, fell asleep, and woke up a litt...
[15:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:36] <exec> 08└─Nicotine. With a very diluted dose you would make the water fleas hyperactive. With a larger dose they would almost instantaneously die, with maybe a barely visible blur of activity. Gave me a new respect for both caffeine and nicotine. Not enough to stop abusing the former, but enough to avoid the...
[15:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:02] <exec> 08└─Does that count as activity, inactivity, or the 'vigorous activity' they mentioned not helping resolve the condition? I wonder how much time they spent 'experimenting' with that to determine if it does/doesn't help...
[15:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:09] <exec> 08└─No, they're more into nice fat checks from Goldman Sachs. They only care about the immigrants insofar as it helps them look good on TV.
[15:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:38] <exec> 08└─It would have been cheaper for them to send him to Hamburg, buy him a few beers and tell him to pee against a certain wall.
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[16:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:49] <exec> 08└─What a bloody stupid idea. If you want to erase a storage device, use a proper tool for the job. Personally I use DBAN (https://dban.org/).
[16:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:00] <exec> 08└─Bad example as 640 KB used to be the size of a fridge, and is now microscopic. We'll see if it holds true if electricity from nuclear fusion hits 1 cent per kilowatt-hour.
[16:39:02] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03datapharmer [2702] 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 720 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:02] <exec> 08└─The frontier is always "nearly limitless" to those who pillage them and leave behind ruin and damnation for future generations who get to visit the tree museum of the redwoods and suffer the cancers of industrialization and mining. Britain had nearly limitless forests until it didn't, as did the Ame...
[16:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:04] <exec> 08└─Don't get your hopes up yet. China is probably going to be studying those maps, then claim the areas where the deposits lie. Even if they have to build another stationary aircraft carrier to protect their interests.
[16:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:06] <exec> 08└─+1 true, but depressing.
[16:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:09] <exec> 08└─This. Infinity times this. And very well put.
[16:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:11] <exec> 08└─WWIII here we come.
[16:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:13] <exec> 08└─as soon the cosmos will be too.
[16:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:24] <exec> 08└─The signal is being lost in the noise, because to many businesses are insulated from upstream suppliers. Face it, we're talking food here. Restaurants, institutional kitchens, and home makers alike, are insulated from the production of food products. How many Americans have ever processed their own...
[16:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:26] <exec> 08└─Uh, wow. Way to miss the point. I believe GP was trying to ask why colony collapse disorder (syndrome?) hasn't made the price of food go up. Perhaps GP meant to demonstrate that the article is pointless environmentalist crap. Then I imagine he'll use whatever response to suggest that the reason envi...
[16:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:29] <exec> 08└─Hold fast, fellow AC. Don't look away from the Truth.
[16:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:47] <exec> 08└─I can hear the sirens now, not heard since the Regan years. They're coming for you VLM, you escaped your padded room and found a laptop, VPNs and TOR are not enough, they're gonna toss you back where you belong!
[16:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:48] <exec> 08└─Yep. Because lesbianism is right and good because guys can hang their heads in shame. What did we ever do to turn that girl into a lesbian! We are so ashamed and so sorry! We will all self-flagellate for turning a girl off to men forever! It couldn't possibly happen that way for gay men. They're jus...
[16:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:50] <exec> 08└─No problem for VLM! He'll just snort some more powdered caffeine and then bore them to death with Moldbug!
[16:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:22] <exec> 08└─Giant sphere of rock appears rolling toward your car in the parking lot... please wait for system reboot before engine will start.
[16:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:24] <exec> 08└─Updates? FUCK OFF
[16:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:26] <exec> 08└─Installing Update 1 of 243...
[16:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:50] <exec> 08└─You might be surprised. iDevice-only fans might fall into that category, but Mac fans are having a serious falling out with the company and that's translating into reduced enthusiasm for iDevices too, myself included. Just check this article [macdailynews.com] on a website I've called the Fox News o...
[16:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:52] <exec> 08└─The only thing they're good at is the actual design of course,
[16:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:54] <exec> 08└─Well, I guess if you're satisfied the story is fair and balanced and informs you of both sides moral, ethical and legal arguments, then you're all good. I see it as terribly inadequate reporting by the clickbait journalist and can think of at least one perfectly reasonable argument from personal exp...
[16:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ketamine Shows Promise as a Fast-Acting Treatment for Depression - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:55] <exec> 08└─I know you are being slightly sarcastic with your post. That said, I want to ensure the real benefit of treating highly depressed people is highlighted. Bringing a highly depressed person back from the edge is a huge win; they don't have to get to "pure happy time", just enough so they can get some...
[16:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:47] <exec> 08└─Only green was people. Others were plant life.
[16:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:41] <exec> 08└─Not disagreeing in an anecdotal sense that is absolutely true, but a significant fraction REALLY don't like white people...
[16:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:42] <exec> 08└─This of course assumes the teacher has zero student loans from the bachelors and credential programs.
[16:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:44] <exec> 08└─and grade homework at night
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[17:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:57] <exec> 08└─Cat videos? Dog videos? Make them go through goatsie videos.
[17:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:58] <exec> 08└─Not completely true. We managed to do this well enough to get the gist of text on 5MB ST506 hard drives in about 1980. In those days, I designed my own data separator, and could tune it to do this. We also used to read 556 BPI tapes by sprinkling iron filings on the tape and using a magnifying glass...
[17:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:01] <exec> 08└─Is the cat video important somehow? Is cat video data better or more efficient at overwriting data then other some other data? Are cat images better then say Goatse? The whole overwriting thing is like getting a lock on your door, you use it to keep out the amateurs -- the professionals will find a...
[17:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:03] <exec> 08└─You can be much more confident in your data erasure if you always use full disk encryption. Erasing the disk then becomes a fairly simple matter of "forgetting" the encryption key. Feel free to also zero/randomize the drive or whatever suits your fancy... This is especially important with SSDs where...
[17:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:05] <exec> 08└─When you really really need to destroy a hard drive, remember that hard drives make good targets for firearms training purposes.
[17:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:07] <exec> 08└─Three letter agencies like the non-existent No Such Agency?
[17:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:10] <exec> 08└─The art of recovering data is to line it up and do neat tricks to reveal its secrets. I'd say a cat is a pretty good line of defense against this process.
[17:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:12] <exec> 08└─When you really really need to destroy a hard drive, remember that hard drives make good targets for firearms training purposes.
[17:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 1728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:14] <exec> 08└─'Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.' - Robert A. Heinlein I agree with you, only with the caveat that you cannot completely know what the TLA's are capable of or if they have found exploits to the hardware process of which you are unaware - on softwar...
[17:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:16] <exec> 08└─Nothing like a bit of recycling. Especially when it's a cool magnet.
[17:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:35] <exec> 08└─My first thought as well. China does seem to have latched onto the idea of cornering the world supply. This could disrupt their plan unless they claim it as you suggest. I wonder if a number of such announcements from elsewhere would further deflate their expectations. Who knows, some of the surveys...
[17:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not convinced that mining the sea floor is remotely as bad as mining anything on dry land. First, there's just not that much on the seafloor in most places; hurting coral reefs is bad of course, but those only exist offshore at relatively shallow depths, not out in the open ocean. And while we c...
[17:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:50] <exec> 08└─What I have read is that the cost is essentially being borne by beekeepers who are able at some cost to reproduce colonies by fission with the purchase of a new queen: " rel="url2html-7104">https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-of-the-bee-pocalypse/ I have zero personal experience and can't comment as t...
[17:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:51] <exec> 08└─Are they being subsidized by the Government? Or, are they just Angels? Something doesn't make sense.
[17:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:12] <exec> 08└─I can see girls who are beaten and treated like shit by a guy going lesbian, but I did not see any 'choice'. More likely, women like that were already in-between somewhere on the Kinsey scale, somewhere from 1-3, and a bad experience or two from a man, combined with some kind of opportunity (society...
[17:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:48] <exec> 08└─You don't have to be so long winded about it. I'd assume everyone remembers the Microsoft Strategy. EMBRACE. EXTEND. EXTINGUISH.
[17:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:50] <exec> 08└─That was the first "Fieval" movie, An American Tale. The wowwee was to protest the cats and something to do with Warranty Rat SPOILER **** He's not a rat he's a cat **** That's all I have to say about that. I'm with you on joys of parenting. At least I haven't called my children by the pets name. I...
[17:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:52] <exec> 08└─Almost correct... It was the IEEE standard, Integrate Embrace Extend Extinguish.
[17:41:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 294 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:02] <exec> 08└─“Intellectual Property Law is a specialized area of law, and seeking legal advice is in many instances recommended,” Jorgensen wrote in the letter accompanying the settlement agreement. “However, we can inform you that further proceedings and costs can be avoided by settling the case.”
[17:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Coinbase Acquires Earn.com - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:27] <exec> 08└─Some of the other coins have poor liquidity, but bitcoin is very, very liquid. That liquidity comes from lots of people buying and selling bitcoin all at the same time.
[17:42:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:49] <exec> 08└─If you add chocolate flavor to it, isn't it just the cool, hip Silicon Valley version of Ensure, the meal drink for geriatrics?
[17:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:13] <exec> 08└─They recalled it, but that didn't kill their business. Similar to how Bluebell ended up having to recall a bunch of product.
[17:43:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:41] <exec> 08└─Mostly I'm just concerned that I get what I pay for in the concentration I expect. Anything else can be quite dangerous when purchasing chemicals.
[17:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:33] <exec> 08└─Well, Math would say 5 pills can cause irregular heartbeats and 50 would provide the required 10g of caffeine on the low end of the life threatening dosage. Of course metric measurements are so difficult that the idea that it would take 5 - 200mg pills to equal 1 gram is so hard to determine if my c...
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[18:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:08] <exec> 08└─Cat video don't do shit. Use a nuke video - it's the only way to be sure.
[18:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:09] <exec> 08└─Wonder if that AC's real name is Sean or Michael...or Donald? Really now if you seriously want to destroy data on a drive the old HHB method (Hacksaw,Hammer, Blowtorch) seems to work pretty well. That method is almost as good as tossing the drive into the ocean a couple of miles offshore. Then there...
[18:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:11] <exec> 08└─Our secure shredding company has a couple of trucks that have a drive/tape shredding portal to their grinder. One of the most wicked things I ever saw was to hand them a box of drives (20+ - a couple of them old IDE's), watch them feed them one by one into the slot whole, hear the grinder crunch, an...
[18:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:14] <exec> 08└─What a bloody stupid idea.
[18:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:16] <exec> 08└─I suspect not, but it's a common meme that the Internet consists mostly full of inane cat videos so why not use a bunch of them as a substitute for "junk" data? The real question is "If I overwrite my data with crap, is that enough to render it inaccessible?". Of course it is - that's all tools like...
[18:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:18] <exec> 08└─Actually, in the days of ginormous platter drives, it was a thing and might have happened a time or two in situations that mattered, not situations you're likely to read about in the "free" press, but a guy with a mag-reader head and a servo actuator arm could occasionally read between the tracks an...
[18:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:20] <exec> 08└─"An Anonymous Coward poses a question that is asked every few months or so:" An windows/mac user poses a question that is asked every few months or so: FTFY
[18:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:23] <exec> 08└─Even with the cloud data, it may be worth destroying the hard drive so the data can't be tied to you in a legal sense. (Not that the physical device is the only way to do that...)
[18:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:25] <exec> 08└─Belt and braces is the way to go, zero out the drive 57 times, drill a hole through the platters and then spin them up until horrible noises are heard, pour acid in the hole and give that time to stew, place the drive in an electromagnetic can crusher, go for target practice and don't neglect the ta...
[18:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:27] <exec> 08└─I prefer the shotgun method. Remove drive from computerPlace drive on fence post, oriented verticallyFire a 12 gauge shotgun at itRepeat steps 2 and 3 as necessary for your peace of mind
[18:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:29] <exec> 08└─The "shooting it" solution was something I picked up from one of the sysadmins I worked with, who was also really into target shooting. So he used this as an excuse to mix work and play.
[18:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:32] <exec> 08└─Or just give the platters to a pre-teen relative who will think they're nifty and ensure the unrecoverability of your data within a few minutes.
[18:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:34] <exec> 08└─Nah, the NSA has quantum computers which they can use to work backwards from the sound waves and air currents produced when shooting a hard drive to recreate the patterns of zeros and ones on the platters to 98% accuracy. I have friend who told me. He held the ladder for Neil Armstrong too.
[18:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:36] <exec> 08└─Or just give the platters to a pre-teen relative who will think they're nifty and ensure the unrecoverability of your data within a few minutes.
[18:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:57] <exec> 08└─We learn. Easter island. We just don’t think it can happen to us. Hell some see it as their duty to bring the end. They will of course suffer none. Saved by the rapture. Everyone can read you post. Few will ever believe it til they are unable to escape the cesspool.
[18:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:59] <exec> 08└─At least the asteroid belt has no ecology to screw up.
[18:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:14] <exec> 08└─I don't understand - in what way are you seeing beekeepers being generous, here? It's all about the profit motive for everybody concerned, as far as I can tell.
[18:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:14] <exec> 08└─>> Microsoft did publish an interesting article about an outlier in telemetry data being used to spot malware before it got released and became broadly available. A related and extremely helpful use is to determine if a newly reported security vulnerability is in use in the wild. As an example, look...
[18:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:16] <exec> 08└─I don't really think the division of their Windows operating system means anything. Windows for consumers may never be a huge profit center for Microsoft the way Windows for business, SQL Server, Exchange, Office, and Office365 are but Windows for consumers is still essential to their strategy: it's...
[18:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:18] <exec> 08└─>> Installing Update 1 of 243... They fixed that, finally, by moving to cumulative updates, and I wish they'd done it sooner. If you are installing the "Security Only" updates you are shooting yourself in the foot.
[18:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:20] <exec> 08└─And what about ReactOS [reactos.org], that noble project to implement a free OS compatible with Windows NT 4.0? If Microsoft really wanted to do an Apple, they'd create a fork of LLVM with a front end for a new proprietary language and write huge parts of Windows in it, including some "open" source...
[18:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soylent Has Arrived At Walmart - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:42] <exec> 08└─Now I know manboobs can be a very sensitive topic, but if you just go on a proper diet and start working your upper body a bit you can get rid of those hormone induced lactating titties.
[18:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:03] <exec> 08└─I use a CO2 tank using a tank-to-bottlecap-adapter thing. You can get them online, just made sure your CO2 is beverage-grade, don't put just any random CO2 into your drinks. :)
[18:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:05] <exec> 08└─The human body has evolved over quite a long time to be able to handle an insane variety of chemical input. If your body is less tolerant of variety than average, Darwin would say it is less fit for survival. That is what I mean.
[18:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:07] <exec> 08└─I'm glad to know that TMB's sense of taste is considered the standard across all human beings. People regularly do much stupider things than downing an overly bitter self-made energy drink.
[18:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:09] <exec> 08└─> If your body is less tolerant of variety than average, Darwin would say it is less fit for survival. That is what I mean. I'm the chocolate coffee bean AC. My background is very much northern European -- pale skin, red hair. Since coffee is native to tropical and southern Africa and tropical Asia...
[18:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:11] <exec> 08└─I would like to see a citation for "very few people died", possibly modified as "very few people injured". The human IQ distribution hasn't shifted all that much, and seeing how stupid many people are today, I find it dubious that "very few people died". You also need to account for the fact that th...
[18:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:13] <exec> 08└─I did the 1 gram and I don't ever want to do that again. Whatever wakefulness you get is coupled with momentary pauses of regret that interrupt your work.
[18:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, I personally know vegans who think that getting a splitting headache from someone using beef or chicken broth instead of vegetable broth makes them somehow superior as well. They're what we sane people like to call "morons". If something that most of the world can tolerate at least moderate amo...
[18:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:18] <exec> 08└─Ha! Wuss! My upper limit has been determined entirely by my kidneys saying "OMGWTFBBQ" when I get too close to 2g/day of sustained consumption. I will admit that the corner-of-the-eye hallucinations get annoying when you start getting into levels around that though.
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[19:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:52] <exec> 08└─Because it's not [wikipedia.org] possible [wikipedia.org] to do cryptocurrency differently [wikipedia.org]. No sir, Bitcoin is the one and only possible way to implement this idea, and since Bitcoin has obviously failed, there will never be a cryptocurrency.
[19:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:54] <exec> 08└─I tried to buy bitcoin years ago but got an email saying the government killed my trade, so I never logged in again.
[19:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:56] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin promised a world with a decentralize currency, where people could sell and buy using it. No dependency on credit cards o banks. No control from governments.
[19:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:58] <exec> 08└─So explain to me, genius, how those overcome the same issues? Most of the problems with bitcoin are inherent to all those others. The main difference is that, with those other ones, it is still sort of early to jump in on the ponzi scheme. With bitcoin, it is time for the early ones to jump out of t...
[19:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:00] <exec> 08└─"Better Washington"? "got pictures" ? Can we leave the lame anti-intellectual right-wing opinions out of the Fine Articles? Might as well had an aristarchus submission!! And Worse? No mention of Aluminium, Boeing, or the Feds.
[19:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:02] <exec> 08└─I am in Portland, five hours away from East Wenatchee. In the article the main interviewee calls out as $2000/BTC as the rough cost to mine coins in this town. So I plan on a quick visit if bitcoin crashes, and perhaps see if there is any auctions for networking equipment or try out dumpster diving.
[19:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:05] <exec> 08└─You should probably look up what a ponzi scheme is. Maybe try wikipedia?
[19:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:41] <exec> 08└─This approach might leave recoverable sectors on spinning rust. Discharging a firearm within city limits is a big no-no. As it should be. From the 29th floor you probably can't hit a fence post accurately.
[19:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:42] <exec> 08└─The ability to store very large collections of such videos was the primary motivation behind the development of ZFS.
[19:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:45] <exec> 08└─It's not so much the range that gets you as the elevation. Firing from well above or below a target will throw anyone who isn't used to doing so off for at least a few shots.
[19:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, yeah. Just like all the conspiracy theories about No Such Agency turned out to be true when the Snowden documents were revealed. In fact, the conspiracy theories turned out to be pretty tame compared to reality.
[19:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 1839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:49] <exec> 08└─Good luck using that on your work computer without permission. You will be escorted out of the door if not locked up in jail for "hacking" or some shit. If it is your own personal hard drive then fine, but be aware that answer won't fit all needs. The question had come up before where someone had st...
[19:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:51] <exec> 08└─I have friend who told me. He held the ladder for Neil Armstrong too.
[19:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:53] <exec> 08└─I don't trust that to truly get rid of all of it. If we're talking physical destruction of the drive, bloody well *destroy* it, with something like Thermite. Technically, the "information" is still out there, but good luck trying to reconstitute it :D
[19:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:56] <exec> 08└─But, overwriting just once isn't enough. Nor is writing a bunch of zeros over the data all that great. The cat videos are actually better than zeros, as they are compressed, and the bulk of compressed data can look rather random. Thing is, because hard drives microscopically shift position, a partic...
[19:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:19] <exec> 08└─I'm way ahead of you. I'm stockpiling sharp sticks and rocks. Why you ask? Because when WWIV comes I'll be able to flood the weapons' market at the climax!
[19:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:20] <exec> 08└─Wanna bet? I'm sure Space-Greenpeace or one of the other treehuggers will find some microscopical alien bacteria whos life matters more then minerals.
[19:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:37] <exec> 08└─That might kill the mites but will it cure the bees? Most research on the subject I've seen suggests insecticides are at least part of the problem.
[19:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:38] <exec> 08└─Beekeepers certainly are trying to keep their hives healthy, and it is possible to fission a new hive, but you can't just buy new queens if the queens don't exist. Apparently, there are methods available to artificially stimulate queen production, but it's definitely real work. One other aspect of a...
[19:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:00] <exec> 08└─You don't "go lesbian," okay? It's something you're born (or close to it) as; upon coming out to my parents, my mother turned to my father and said "You lost that bet, Mark. I told you 12 years ago." So apparently she knew I was gay at 4, which is weird since I didn't know until 14 and didn't admit...
[19:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:02] <exec> 08└─If you're trolling, well...good effort, though the end result doesn't work too well. If you're serious, for the love in Madokami, get help. This is some J-Mo-level insanity here.
[19:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:45] <exec> 08└─Winux?
[19:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:46] <exec> 08└─Updates ok, I get how it can make things more secure..., but... telemetry can be used to secure a device?
[19:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:48] <exec> 08└─someone should create a list of all companies who use any of that shit so they can be boycotted.
[19:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:50] <exec> 08└─Losesux?
[19:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:53] <exec> 08└─I don't trust anything MS touches. This is *classic* embrace/extend/extinguish, and the motherfuckers are as evil as they were back around the Halloween Memo dump if not more. Just because they're acting friendly to Linux on the surface doesn't mean they've changed.
[19:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:55] <exec> 08└─You'll have to boycott everything. My mechanic uses Windows. My doctor, my kids' orthodontist, and our dentist uses Windows. All of my employers had Windows on most of the desktops and laptops, with at best 20% Apple and less than 1% Linux. The public school uses Windows.
[19:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coinbase Acquires Earn.com - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:31] <exec> 08└─Evangelist, technologist, originalist. The CEO is welcome to stick his digitalist up his assholist on behalf of the English language.
[19:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ketamine Shows Promise as a Fast-Acting Treatment for Depression - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:26] <exec> 08└─Did I trigger you :P Seemed I got tanned and downvoted as off-topic :D wikipedia... In veterinary anesthesia, ketamine is often used for its anesthetic and analgesic effects on cats,[216] dogs,[217] rabbits, rats, and other small animals.[218][219] It is highly used in induction and anesthetic maint...
[19:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:49] <exec> 08└─True, and the species is better off for it. Intense stupidity is not a valuable species survival trait last I checked.
[19:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:50] <exec> 08└─Ah shit I remember those little fuzzies. Also 1g at once is going to be worse than 2g over the whole day. Supposedly the biological half life is around 6 hours.
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[20:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Will Attempt to Recover Falcon 9 Upper Stage With a "Giant Party Balloon" - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:45] <exec> 08└─TFA does not mention what gas the balloon is inflated with. Is it helium? Helium is needed for science and important uses. It is a limited resource. We fill party balloons with it. "A naked American man stole my balloons." -- boy at zoo in An American Warewolf in London
[20:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Will Attempt to Recover Falcon 9 Upper Stage With a "Giant Party Balloon" - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:46] <exec> 08└─Helium is not really a limited resource. That's why it's still cheap enough for party balloons. This doesn't need any special gas. It works with the drag from the baloon, not with the buoyancy. The size of a baloon big enough to have a significant impact via buoyancy would be huge, and very fragile,...
[20:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:02] <exec> 08└─I have honestly never heard your rant before. Thanks for the original insight in bitcoin!
[20:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:03] <exec> 08└─The dream is not over. In fact, everything you are saying is: it is still just a dream. Throw the "hard computation" out of bitcoin, keep the blockchain and multiple validators, and it comes closer to practical. I'm too lazy to tear apart Ethereum, but it seems to promise a compromise in this direct...
[20:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:05] <exec> 08└─Ok, so you don't know then.
[20:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:07] <exec> 08└─I would point out that while the early adopters of ${insert-digital-currency-here} have a better chance of making money trading it, that does not make it a ponzi scheme.
[20:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:10] <exec> 08└─heh, the alt-wrong is strong on this site. Even disavowing aristarchus wasn't enough to ward off the flamebait mod. They are just upset that they've been intellectually cuckolded by a lot of things, but more recently by Trump. They must lash out at the nearest available scapegoat on a continuing bas...
[20:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:54] <exec> 08└─This whole argument is rather pointless as there's only 2 extremes. 1) You want to erase it so that short of TLAs nobody can read it. Just dd'ing over the whole disk a single pass of zeroes is more than enough for this. *Old* hard drives from the 80s, no, but now it's fine. 2) You don't want anyone...
[20:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:55] <exec> 08└─Easiest way to delete sensitive data is to delete the encryption key (sensitive data is encrypted at rest by definition; if it's not encrypted, it must not be sensitive). The concept of overwriting sensitive data is misguided. There are so many ways it can go wrong. If the data was ever stored unenc...
[20:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:57] <exec> 08└─Meh, you don't need to worry about it. We vastly outnumber the TLAs, and this recovery method does not seem to be automated, nor cheap, nor quick. Which means mass surveillance is out the picture, as well as any Big Data technologies to make predictions from those large data sets. I don't think you...
[20:40:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:05] <exec> 08└─Half of infinity is still approximately infinity, right?
[20:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:40] <exec> 08└─Supply chain signal propagation is notoriously slow. There's a common introductory business game (one example [1]), where everyone splits up into a bunch of teams to simulate the various parts of the supply chain (retailers, warehouse, manufacturer, etc), the teams pass around cards to send signals...
[20:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:41] <exec> 08└─He was pretty successful (in Central Florida) with just the mite treatment. We actually met when he took a bee lease on our property, which is mostly palmetto/oak woods with an orange grove about a half mile away. So - he wasn't near any intensively pesticide treated areas. Some of his bees naturali...
[20:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:54] <exec> 08└─If you are using Windows 8+ you are a sucker.
[20:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:21] <exec> 08└─Any ranking of those three is just a matter of degree.
[20:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ketamine Shows Promise as a Fast-Acting Treatment for Depression - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:27] <exec> 08└─Nah it was just a severely nerdy joke about trigonometry (sine, cosine, tangent, secant) but if I have to explain it I guess it's too obscure for anyone.
[20:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:51] <exec> 08└─True enough. I try to stick to about 1g from 5-10AM with half of it consumed in the first hour, a quarter over the following hour, and the last quarter allocated over the remaining three. And I'm still really wanting a nap by 11 or 12.
[20:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:53] <exec> 08└─Don't know why you jumped to vegans and broth? I'm the coffee bean AC, from N. America, and since you back-handedly questioned my diet, I'm happy to say that I eat nearly everything. The only thing I turned down in Taiwan was sheep testicle stew. I'll admit that parsnips taste (to me) like dirt, so...
[20:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:55] <exec> 08└─Re: vegans, I would have thought the similarities would be obvious. Look, you ain't perfect but there's no need to get your panties in a wad over it. That's just life as a human being. Ain't none of us perfect and special little snowflakes. I, for instance, suck donkey balls at artsy stuff and made...
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[21:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:44] <exec> 08└─I mean who wouldn't trust the same guys who are saying backdoors can be perfectly secure to handle their private messages?
[21:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:46] <exec> 08└─Backup just in case someone doesn't believe you: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Encryption under fire in Europe as France and Germany call for decrypt law [techcrunch.com]
[21:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:48] <exec> 08└─messaging? IRC+OTC and the like? I feel like all of these problems today stem from an un-creative, poorly skilled technical population that has been raised on the pablum of "press-play-to-run" IDEs.
[21:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:50] <exec> 08└─Here. [wikipedia.org] It can be used via direct messaging initiated via IRC.
[21:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:52] <exec> 08└─More countries need to create private secure versions of apps which government officials can securely use to keep data private. The US should start with a secure private encrypted version of Twitter which the president can use.
[21:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:54] <exec> 08└─IIRC, encryption was classed as munition in France until recently (perhaps it still is?). I propose some names for this new service; "porte de derrière", "tache sur les sous-vêtements de la liberté" or "nous accueillons à nouveau le fascisme".
[21:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:22] <exec> 08└─Aren't miners custom ASICs that would be difficult or perhaps impossible to adapt for other purposes?
[21:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:23] <exec> 08└─I really liked this article, 15 pages isn't that long. Either way it was well worth the read I think. It doesn't really focus on the bitcoins etc but on what happens with the community. It really does open up a lot of other questions, such as the one highlighted in the summary. This mining really wo...
[21:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:26] <exec> 08└─The dream died because it was a stupid idea all along. Currency is by its very nature a social construction. It's something that has value primarily because everybody says it can be exchanged for other things. If you take out any kind of central authority, then fraud and abuse happen almost immediat...
[21:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:13] <exec> 08└─Damn, that's my cover blown. They'll have to shoot me.
[21:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:15] <exec> 08└─Huzzah to that!
[21:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:17] <exec> 08└─Like always, it depends. Simply deleting the files doesn't (typically) remove the data. The guy at the computer repair place might undelete them. Overwriting the files once will eliminate them from all real, practical, attacks. This makes you safe from that computer repairman. There are theoreticall...
[21:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:19] <exec> 08└─I usually say FaceTwit to refer to both.
[21:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 1683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:22] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as magnetic history on a hard drive. Zero it, and you're done. It won't capture things like reallocated sectors, but then neither would a 26-pass random wipe either. Nobody has ever demonstrated being able to tell what was on a hard drive before being zeroed. There was a data...
[21:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:24] <exec> 08└─We managed to do this well enough to get the gist of text on 5MB ST506 hard drives in about 1980.
[21:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:49] <exec> 08└─Yttrium, europium, dysprosium and terbium are what's listed in the Nature article.
[21:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:51] <exec> 08└─Oh, so - rare earth as in those bottom rows on the Periodic table, not the actually rare and valuable ones from higher up...
[21:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:11] <exec> 08└─Soylent green does not need bees :)
[21:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:25] <exec> 08└─The privacy question comes up a lot. Those questions have answers. http://microsoft.com [microsoft.com] [microsoft.com]
[21:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ketamine Shows Promise as a Fast-Acting Treatment for Depression - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:58] <exec> 08└─it was a pun you know
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[22:38:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 227 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:56] <exec> 08└─More countries need to create private secure versions of apps which government officials can securely use to keep data private. The US should start with a secure private encrypted version of Twitter which the president can use.
[22:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:59] <exec> 08└─Considering that their governments are already omnipresent, and that nobody is allowed to forget what happened in WW2 (oversight of databases is in the law), most Europeans would probably prefer a government-sponsored not-perfectly-private local messaging with strong privacy rules, over some Califor...
[22:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:01] <exec> 08└─...most Europeans would probably prefer a government-sponsored not-perfectly-private local messaging with strong privacy rules, over some Californian guys with no ethics.
[22:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:03] <exec> 08└─> And there's fuck all you can do about it. Funny that, I'm pretty sure the French just kicked their two incumbent biggest parties to the curb, and are already busy demonstrating and striking against the changes the newly installed guys are trying to vote in. The Italians, the Greek and the Brits ha...
[22:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:05] <exec> 08└─Man, if you wanna buy that the new boss is any different than the old boss, go for it. It's astonishingly foolish but more power to you.
[22:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:08] <exec> 08└─subjects rather than citizens
[22:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:38] <exec> 08└─... It's a Gold Rush. And when the Rush drops..... Well, Bitcoin doesn't have intrinsic value nor jewelry value. There may always be some players, but Bitcoin will make more people (miners, traders) poor than rich. Oh, but you know who almost always made money in the Gold Rush? Those selling pickaxe...
[22:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:39] <exec> 08└─The region’s five huge hydroelectric dams, all owned by public utility districts, generate nearly six times as much power as the region’s residents and businesses can use. Most of the surplus is exported, at high prices, to markets like Seattle or Los Angeles, which allows the utilities to sell...
[22:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:41] <exec> 08└─The 'issues' are less issues and more religious in nature. Bitcoin Core refused to scale onchain because they think that being able to run a bitcoin node on a shitty raspberry pi is a priority. Bitcoin Cash decided that they don't care about non-mining nodes that are run on raspberry pi. Tests have...
[22:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:44] <exec> 08└─They want to move to proof of stake. Essentially, that means that large coin holders will be able to vouch for the validity of the chain. It's possible in this scenario that all the major coin holders could collude and re-write past transaction history fairly rapidly. Colluding and rewriting transac...
[22:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:46] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin has no fraud. All bitcoin transactions are valid and authentic. Every bitcoin input can be traced all the way back to the block that the coins were generated in. Bitcoin is a bubble though. Bitcoin Core has crippled the coin. Bitcoin Cash carries the original vision of being a currency for t...
[22:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:48] <exec> 08└─Apple, Tesla, Amazon... All ponzi schemes.
[22:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:42] <exec> 08└─Absolutely correct. With the older drives of the 1990 and bellow it was *kinda* possible. These days if you dd it to zero out a drive. There is pretty much 0% chance you can recover it.
[22:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:09] <exec> 08└─"Hell some see it as their duty to bring the end." Count me in that column. I'm not into Raptures, but cold hard physics. The "reason" you exist is that complex chemical systems like life are more effective at transferring energy (and thus entropy) from the hot sunshine on one side of Earth to the c...
[22:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:11] <exec> 08└─I've run into people who argue seriously that we never should have gone to the moon or space as humanity will ruin the environment there. I rated them as puddin' heads. ;)
[22:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:13] <exec> 08└─They're valuable to be sure. And they're rare in the sense that they tend not to be highly concentrated and easy to mine and separate for use. But many things are valuable and rare compared to our use and the effort required to extract them. Sadly, tantalum can be found in places where people get ex...
[22:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:15] <exec> 08└─We didn't realise the effects of mining on land until we'd been doing it for quite a while (we've been mining clay since the literal stone age), and we probably still don't realise all of them. I can't tell you what we'll fuck up on the ocean floor, but it could be way worse. I doubt the effects wil...
[22:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:36] <exec> 08└─When all you're doing is relaying information about supply and demand, then of course it will screw up; that's why socialism always devolves into dysfunctional breadlines. However, people don't fuck around with money. They will pass a burden on as quick as they get it, unless there is some strange,...
[22:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:18] <exec> 08└─Given the history of it being much more common for big organizations to have more power and to abuse it to bully, harm, and destroy little ones, for the sole purposes of eliminating competition and strengthening their monopolies, and also the fact that courts do make more good rulings than bad ones...
[22:44:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:00] <exec> 08└─Every source has its bias. Just be sure you know what it is. RT, for instance, sometimes provides certain criticisms that you might not otherwise see. Just be aware it is propaganda, just like FoxNews.
[22:44:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 843 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:01] <exec> 08└─On our factory floor, employees are "encouraged" to pee on their break time - but it doesn't always work that way. I presume that you are familiar with pregnant women, women in general, and people, both male and female who just don't feel well. Or, the person who chugged a pot or two of coffee while...
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[23:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:03] <exec> 08└─Dear France, There are open source implementations of encrypted messaging already. Feel free to implement your own software, but please leverage an existing protocol. For example, Google Chat was XMPP initially. Check out all of the options out there: https://en.wikipedia.org
[23:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:05] <exec> 08└─Californians, TMB, there were Californians.
[23:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:42] <exec> 08└─You go work on developing that magic medium of exchange that isn't controlled by government but can't be used in ways the government disapproves of.
[23:39:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 493 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:55] <exec> 08└─Not completely true. We managed to do this well enough to get the gist of text on 5MB ST506 hard drives in about 1980. In those days, I designed my own data separator, and could tune it to do this. We also used to read 556 BPI tapes by sprinkling iron filings on the tape and using a magnifying glass...
[23:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, they all suck. I've managed to avoid smartphones entirely so far, but I'm cautiously optimistic about Librem 5 [puri.sm] (no affiliation, etc), though the price is a bit spicy. I'll see if I can save up ~$600 for it before it comes out, in a year or so. I just hope that my 10-year-old flip dumb...
[23:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:10] <exec> 08└─> Well, I guess if you're satisfied the story is fair and balanced and informs you of both sides moral, ethical and legal arguments, then you're all good. Please show me on the doll where the Fake News touched you.
[23:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:11] <exec> 08└─Unlikely. When you're moving around your eyes are constantly and fully providing you with different information. When you're sitting looking at the same place most of your surroundings aren't changing thus the important data feed from your eyes is significally less. Your brain doesn't need to pay a...
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