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[00:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 of 2018 - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:46] <exec> 08└─Here have a better discussion. Yev regularly posts there. Here we can listen to _gewg pretending how enlightened he is. https://news.ycombinator.com [ycombinator.com]
[00:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:58] <exec> 08└─If malware writers are the users, then who's using the browser... the products! The products are being used by the browser! So I guess the true test here is to see who can get access to updates. Are there some Windows 10 users who won't quality for support much longer?
[00:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:59] <exec> 08└─Quick! Let's get to phishing into important email accounts and sending their mail to Wikileaks! At least let's nab Satya Nadella - if Microsoft's CEO won't use Edge, neither should anybody else.
[00:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:02] <exec> 08└─Lets not nit-pick. When I am logging into my bank's internet banking, I am on "my bank's website". I don't care whether it comes from a single server, a small army of my bank's servers or randomly generated packets from pigeons indigenous to my part of the world. What I do care about is that when I...
[00:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:04] <exec> 08└─It is out before the vulnerability is even discovered, download here [google.com.au]
[00:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, but his lenders aren't necessarily his shareholders, and, if they are getting their interest payments, they won't care. Shareholders, by and large, are *not* rational: dividends are always money taken out of a company, so shareholders' interests are not the company's.. https://www.bloomberg.com...
[00:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:24] <exec> 08└─Be sure to thank us for the record high stock market, record low unemployment, enormous commitment to US manufacturing, and better growth in his first year than anything O'dipshit could manage in 8. You're welcome. PS: we told you so about Iran.
[00:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:56] <exec> 08└─You say "it's about their personal religious morality", but that misses the point. It's about God's universal morality. These people don't have a choice, and neither do you: the morals apply to everybody. It doesn't matter if you object to God's will or even if you deny God's existence. The morals a...
[00:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:57] <exec> 08└─I hope you and your imaginary sky daddy will be very happy together. And no, you've just mistaken your trained-in prejudices for the laws of nature. Educate yourself or remain forever ignorant.
[00:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:00] <exec> 08└─The difference is that you don't believe there is a God or that the Bible is anything more than myths.
[00:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siberian Wooden Statue is 'Twice as Old as Stonehenge' - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:28] <exec> 08└─Ancient encrypted code ... or pretty floral pattern.
[00:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soylentnews Server Reboot Schedule May 5-10 - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:25] <exec> 08└─Nucleon [google.com] N.B. First responders were nervous when the current generation of electric vehicles appeared. Just imagine their apprehension if they had to deal with a crashed vehicle that was nuclear-powered. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portland Fast-Food Workers Win a Union - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:17] <exec> 08└─...and ferchrisake, if the business is wavering on a knife's edge such that paying the workers a living wage is a breaking point, it's clear that their existing management totally sucks.
[00:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prof Stephen Hawking's Multi-Verse Finale - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:46] <exec> 08└─The paper itself has a lot of simplifying assumptions, as is routine for papers trying to estimate what happened back then. This situation will continue until our mathematical capabilities are a lot better then they are now. It is heady stuff. As for placing constraints on other universes, it clearl...
[00:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prof Stephen Hawking's Multi-Verse Finale - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:47] <exec> 08└─I particularly enjoyed the line in the original paper describing the entire observable universe as being a small patch.
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[01:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:00] <exec> 08└─So, an intelligent, insightful remark is flamebait? Windows is a buggy, hackers-heaven of an operating system, and MS doesn't know what they are doing. Their developers are shitty and their security sucks. Prove me wrong! Flamebait my fucking ass. Prove. Me. Wrong.
[01:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:02] <exec> 08└─What useful things would you find in his account? A list of the best streets in Richmond for shitting on?
[01:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:04] <exec> 08└─I considered including something like your comment in my original post, but decided against it because while I gag at the thought of using Windows I recognise that some people have proprietary software needs that can only be met by Windows without building something from scratch. Edge doesn't offer...
[01:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:58] <exec> 08└─20%... Your laughable statistic suggests you are transgender twit.
[01:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:59] <exec> 08└─transgender twit
[01:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Kilopower Nuclear Reactor Exceeds Expectations in Tests - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:07] <exec> 08└─It still doesn't automatically mean the reactor works in the critical area - a very risky regime, small fluctuations and you can go supercritical/in meltdown easy. You can still have a hot reactor using enough mass of "short" life elements using the natural rate of decay (238Pu - 87years half-lif...
[01:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews Server Reboot Schedule May 5-10 - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:27] <exec> 08└─Nope, $260 to Linode and another ten to our "offsite" backup server provider per month or a total of $3240 server costs per year. We've been covering that as well as the non-technical business expenses and managing to stuff a wee bit back for a rainy day*. The tl;dr of it is, I've no objection to se...
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[02:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:45] <exec> 08└─> just 27 percent of 3,000 respondents believe Facebook will protect their privacy and user data ... from non-paying third parties, obviously.
[02:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:47] <exec> 08└─https://www.technologyreview.com/s/509026/how-obamas-team-used-big-data-to-rally-voters/ [technologyreview.com] https://www.infoworld.com [infoworld.com] https://www.forbes.com
[02:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:49] <exec> 08└─If you choose to use fb, assume any and everything you put up will be exploited. How else do you think they make their money? Privacy my ass.
[02:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:51] <exec> 08└─How else do you think they make their money?
[02:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:54] <exec> 08└─So, Facebook offers a "reset" kind of thing, but they aren't apologizing for raping the American public. Nor are they promising not to rape the public anymore. All they are offering is a kind of abortion. "Reset", or "clear history" is the best you can hope for. Well, for a little while. Once all th...
[02:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:56] <exec> 08└─They did also introduce a new Facebook Dating™ feature. So not only Do the Jews control your news feeds, they control your sex-life, too, if you are seeking to have one. Or give those details to others in a more intimate way. And they wonder why sexbots are becoming a thing.
[02:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:58] <exec> 08└─You're right, of course. Realistically, politicians are going to use all the tools at their disposal to drum up votes. The tech egg has hatched, and you can't put the chicken back in the shell. We CAN, however, decide how morals, ethics, and laws might apply to all this data collection and usage. Li...
[02:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:24] <exec> 08└─Why not nit-pick ? The responsibility of delivering clean code without nasty tag-alongs should be legally enforced on the website you visit. Right now, people just grab executable code left and right to build their site, security is a friggin nightmare, and the place you thought you visited is never...
[02:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:25] <exec> 08└─You clearly don't use Microsoft Edge, given your reference to Noscript, for which no remotely equivalent extension seems to exist on Edge, so you aren't affected by this idiocy and have at least some assurance that you are on the website shown in the address bar, a bit stronger assurance if you are...
[02:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:27] <exec> 08└─Why not nit-pick? Because that's not what this story is about, and you're straying very far from the terrible security implications of the Edge bug. The security of third-party sites is a whole other problem.
[02:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:30] <exec> 08└─Let's get to phishing into important email accounts and sending their mail to Wikileaks!
[02:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:50] <exec> 08└─I think everybody should sit back and wait until later in the year. Looking at the Model 3 backlog and history, I think Tesla will be fine. But, let's see what Q3/Q4 bring.
[02:05:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 649 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:01] <exec> 08└─"Some Republican lawmakers" may think it's a good thing for the anti-abortion movement if a law like this goes to court. They are idiots. The Iowa Catholic Conference, which is very anti-abortion, does not support this bill [iowacatholicconference.org] specifically because of what is likely to happe...
[02:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:27] <exec> 08└─There's no need to bring taxes into this. Stay on topic.
[02:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:29] <exec> 08└─Oh, bless your heart.
[02:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:31] <exec> 08└─Since it's none of my concern, then you'll agree that Planned Parenthood needs to be defunded. They have no business taking taxpayer money to do things that are none of the taxpayer's concern. Or - are you going to switch over to an authoritarian position now? I'm not opposed to all abortions, but I...
[02:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:33] <exec> 08└─Notice how they won't dare touch when the absolute latest the abortion should be legal. Instead, lets focus on the fraction of a percent edge case.
[02:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:35] <exec> 08└─Do tell when the absolute latest an abortion should be allowed. I'm waiting here with baited breath. Oh, you don't want to talk about that? Why not?
[02:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:37] <exec> 08└─The cognitive disconnect is on your end. Planned Parenthood will fold up and disappear without government funding. So, WTF is government interfering with our lives by funding Planned Parenthood? Why is government telling us what to do? Yes, you are indeed cognitively disconnected. When you stop dema...
[02:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:40] <exec> 08└─I'll pray for you. :-)
[02:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:42] <exec> 08└─That's not a straw man. It's a garden variety stupid argument made by a garden variety stupid person. It's the very definition of straw man. He's refuting an argument nobody has made. [wikipedia.org] Remember, always apply Hanlon's Razor before assuming malice. Malice isn't required for something to...
[02:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siberian Wooden Statue is 'Twice as Old as Stonehenge' - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:12] <exec> 08└─They were actually carved by shoggoths under the direction of elder things, before they rebelled against their masters. What's depicted isn't a 5m tall human, it's Aylith.
[02:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Portland Fast-Food Workers Win a Union - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:03] <exec> 08└─Portland metro is 12/hr minimum wage, so they are wanting at least 17/hr.
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[03:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blastocyst-Like Structures Created from Stem Cells - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:45] <exec> 08└─Something doesn't pass the smell test here. They go out of their way to answer a question nobody asked with a firm denial, but using an unconvincing alternative.
[03:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blastocyst-Like Structures Created from Stem Cells - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:47] <exec> 08└─Something doesn't pass the smell test here.
[03:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:01] <exec> 08└─EF is so predictable. How about a surprise, now and then, EF? Do or say something unexpected. I don't think you have it in you.
[03:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:03] <exec> 08└─It doesn't work to blackhole FB's domain name: http://www.facebook.com [facebook.com] Each FB developer is issued a unique ID
[03:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:05] <exec> 08└─Welcome to 2015. Can I get you some keys, or do you need some of your own?
[03:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:07] <exec> 08└─I don't know. Maybe you'd better ask those who have been dating on Facebook.
[03:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:36] <exec> 08└─Why not nit-pick? Because that's not what this story is about
[03:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:38] <exec> 08└─That's not a browser. That's a browser. [youtu.be]
[03:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:40] <exec> 08└─Let's see ... function security(edge) { Stop() ; } Looks about right to me.
[03:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:46] <exec> 08└─I don't know about them, but I think the woman should be able to terminate the pregnancy at any point, since it's her body. Therefore, to me, Roe v. Wade is insufficient.
[03:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:47] <exec> 08└─Oh thank god! I though you were one of those "vampire enthusiasts!" (not that there's anything wrong with it)
[03:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:49] <exec> 08└─There's also no right to reside in someone else's body against their will, even to keep yourself alive.
[03:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:51] <exec> 08└─Fair enough then. I disagree but don't feel like belaboring the point. How will we fund the orphanages?
[03:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cambridge Analytica Shutting Down, Company Says - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:23] <exec> 08└─Butbutbut, how will we violate the cows' privacy, then? No, this is the way to go. Nominate a scapegoat, lynch them, and the cows will settle back in. Then we can get back to turning Facebook into a mass surveillance and propaganda tool. Oh, and make sure that Zuckerfuck knows that he can't ever fuc...
[03:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portland Fast-Food Workers Win a Union - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:14] <exec> 08└─From http://www.chicagotribune.com [chicagotribune.com] it's essentially a political fig leaf, with so many significant flaws and loopholes that it allows employers to knowingly hire undocumented workers with little repercussions for doing so.
[03:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portland Fast-Food Workers Win a Union - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:16] <exec> 08└─It's a point to open negotiations at. Hopefully the union is realistic and will give up the childcare, or settle for a subsidy, perhaps settle for a job after they go on UI for their paternity/maternity leave (does America support paternity/maternity leave and allow employees to collect unemployment...
[03:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prof Stephen Hawking's Multi-Verse Finale - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:47] <exec> 08└─Dr. Hawking brought attention to the sciences and that was great. However, IMO, he placed far too much faith in the current state of the Standard Model. And insisted on imposing what are likely emergent properties to the origins of the Universe
[03:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Gives Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo 30 Days to Remove Illegal Warranty-Void-If-Removed Stickers - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:34] <exec> 08└─I needed that laugh
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[04:04:04] <exec> 08└─How does this really work? > ...It will be a simple control to clear your browsing history on Facebook -- what you've clicked on, websites you've visited, and so on." User sees: after clearing, browser loses access to FB history, auto-complete won't be so precise and so on. FB database: Do they keep...
[04:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:05] <exec> 08└─Dear Zuckerbooger: When you say Clear History, which do you mrean? 1. Remove history of browsing activity. 2. Make your browsing history clear for all the world to see. Thanks
[04:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 of 2018 - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:14] <exec> 08└─Is this [newegg.com] the one? Kids these days. When I first got a really high-paying job I bought a Fujitsu 5 1/4" full-height 135 MB - MEGABYTES! - SCSI drive used off the Usenet News as well as a shoebox case from the Weird Stuff Warehouse [weirdstuff.com]. That hard drive is still in service, att...
[04:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:00] <exec> 08└─FTFY
[04:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:02] <exec> 08└─Politicians barely ever answer any questions, and are using my tax dollars to blow on inefficient things.
[04:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:04] <exec> 08└─Yea, the CEOs need to start to pull a Donald Trump on analysts, "Fake News!".
[04:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:06] <exec> 08└─Whenever I read a story about Tesla, it seems like the author has been talking to a bunch of Tesla short sellers. You have to give Musk credit for the success he's achieved, and for trying new things. Beyond that, a lot of Tesla's future depends on the availability of easy money. If the Fed raises i...
[04:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siberian Wooden Statue is 'Twice as Old as Stonehenge' - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:25] <exec> 08└─It still doesn't stop you from writing "duck tape" instead of "duct tape" though...
[04:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siberian Wooden Statue is 'Twice as Old as Stonehenge' - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:26] <exec> 08└─Umm "Duck Tape" is correct too... https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[04:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siberian Wooden Statue is 'Twice as Old as Stonehenge' - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:28] <exec> 08└─Why does it have to be always something sophisticated when we speculate on stuff like these? Can't it be something mundane and simple like a primitive dildo or some dung scoop and the patterns are just decorative?
[04:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siberian Wooden Statue is 'Twice as Old as Stonehenge' - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:30] <exec> 08└─The original name [octanecreative.com] of the stuff was "duck" tape, because it was waterproof and moisture rolled off it like "water off a duck's back [wikipedia.org]." "Duct" tape developed later when the color was changed to silver and HVAC guys started using it. Either one's correct now, but it'...
[04:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Somebody Tried to Hide a Backdoor in a Popular JavaScript npm Package - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:57] <exec> 08└─We don't need no stinking javascript! [ibb.co] Browser: (http://man.9front.org/1/mothra [9front.org], RTFM!)
[04:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Somebody Tried to Hide a Backdoor in a Popular JavaScript npm Package - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:59] <exec> 08└─Javascript was a mistake.
[04:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Somebody Tried to Hide a Backdoor in a Popular JavaScript npm Package - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:01] <exec> 08└─If you're building a small website or small application, don't use Java. Use PHP or something simple.
[04:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Somebody Tried to Hide a Backdoor in a Popular JavaScript npm Package - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:03] <exec> 08└─I looked at PHP about 18 years ago. Obviously, I am not a modern PHP programmer. :-) As for the other thing that you mention . . . Even modern mental health care has great difficulty helping people to achieve complete recovery from having programmed in Perl. A problem i had to unfurl. My stomach it...
[04:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNC's Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks is an Attack on Freedom of the Press - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:09] <exec> 08└─Ron Paul is not worthy to tie Carter's shoes. You're delusional.
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[05:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Radio Companies Acquire a Podcast App - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:46] <exec> 08└─I'm not a fast reader, but I can still read faster than I can listen to people talking. Even with the speed-up play back feature. A Podcast is a medium I just can't get excited about. Most seem like contrived conversations, unencumbered by the thought process. I've been to board meetings that were m...
[05:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Radio Companies Acquire a Podcast App - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:48] <exec> 08└─Is there more to "podcast" than audio recording?
[05:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blastocyst-Like Structures Created from Stem Cells - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:58] <exec> 08└─The people who can afford this are the people having the least offspring. And there are off-label uses for fertility advances.
[05:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:19] <exec> 08└─Is there any browser out there that doesn't have a clear your history/cookies cache function ? Lazy people can't be troubled to login at the beginning of a session, or is it that they just can't remember their ID and password from day to day. I guess I should not complain if the average user was eve...
[05:04:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:36] <exec> 08└─Users of Windows might want to get a better operating system.
[05:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:53] <exec> 08└─We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some ways. Somebody will say, "oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech." These are foolish people!!
[05:05:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 29 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:04] <exec> 08└─I thought Musky liked boring.
[05:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's a well-known game. Short-sellers, or even those who want to pump-and-dump, use various forms of media to fool people into going either way. My uncle the PhD Petrochemist from Shell lost a lot of money on hot email tips like those; a testament to the truism that it's possible to be very sma...
[05:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:21] <exec> 08└─Oh, are you happy you voted for me. You are so lucky that I gave you that privilege!
[05:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siberian Wooden Statue is 'Twice as Old as Stonehenge' - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:47] <exec> 08└─My understanding of totem poles, at least as used in the Pacific Northwest, is that they're actually... well, billboards. They indicated what a tribe had available for trade. The marks on the artifact may be simply counting marks.
[05:12:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02 - 06FTC Gives Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo 30 Days to Remove Illegal Warranty-Void-If-Removed Stickers - 524 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:51] <exec> 08└─false. thruhole caps (electrolytics) are, by far, the most common failure component and they are super easy to source and replace. connectors can be reglued to the pcb and traces repaired with wire wrap wire. I wholly reject the 'no user service...' bullshit stickers. who are they to say what I can...
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[06:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Public Radio Companies Acquire a Podcast App - 3759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:53] <exec> 08└─The man let out a heavy sigh. Having to watch seven children was quite burdensome. If he did not keep a close eye on them and keep them entertained, who knows what sort of trouble they would get themselves into? Because of this, the man, Johnhamson, had to think of a game they could all play togethe...
[06:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2, Offtopic) 02 - 06Public Radio Companies Acquire a Podcast App - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:55] <exec> 08└─It's a "tape" for iPod. And so many terrorists use iPod. We had one in Chicago, the Chicago History Museum. Who used iPod to threaten Trump Tower Chicago. But our Chicago Police Department made sure it was safe. Great job!
[06:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Radio Companies Acquire a Podcast App - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:57] <exec> 08└─A while back I was shopping for some USB instrument mics. I kept coming across "Podcast" microphones that were in no way different from voice mics. But your company's voice mics won't sell; only your Podcast mic will.
[06:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Radio Companies Acquire a Podcast App - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:59] <exec> 08└─Most will listen to the podcast while doing something else, like driving, cooking, cleaning, etc. You could try to read something else and listen at the same time, but you will probably get distracted.
[06:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 of 2018 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:37] <exec> 08└─Look at the lifetime failure rate, not just last quarter. WD 6 TB has a lousy 4.19% failure rate.
[06:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:04] <exec> 08└─I expect to get a USB 3 protocol analyzer sometime this year but to the best of my knowledge they only work with windows. You need Windows to use TI's Code Composer Studio to write firmware on top of TI RTOS Kernel. I really enjoyed coding for DSP/BIOS, a previous name before they called it SYSBIOS...
[06:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:06] <exec> 08└─Not sure if Crocodile Dundee showing off to a date by pulling out a bigger knife then the (mugger) black guy is the closest thing to a dick size contest a white guy can win or just stupid. Moreover, do you call it ozploitation? whitesploitation? I'm sticking with just stupid.
[06:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siberian Wooden Statue is 'Twice as Old as Stonehenge' - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:59] <exec> 08└─Well, the thing is 5.3 meters (that's over 17 feet) in size, so I'm going to go ahead and rule out primitive dildo. I don't care how brave you are and all on this one, it's just not going to work. In other related matters, I'm also going to put the pin back into "dung scoop" for now. I get that fibr...
[06:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Kilopower Nuclear Reactor Exceeds Expectations in Tests - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:45] <exec> 08└─Eventually we will need something like this for manned missions. a Mars mission for example can't rely on solar as there are dust storms that can last months.
[06:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Kilopower Nuclear Reactor Exceeds Expectations in Tests - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:46] <exec> 08└─The problem is that Pu-238 is harder to make/separate and if IRC needs more then a simple breeder reactor. Basically neutron irradiation of neptunium-237 or Americium.
[06:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Gives Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo 30 Days to Remove Illegal Warranty-Void-If-Removed Stickers - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:19] <exec> 08└─I've desoldered a fair few DIP-chip RAM chips on 8-bit micros. As they're already faulty I'm not generally fussed whether they get more damaged, but I invariably get them out in one (physical) piece. It probably isn't as quick as your use of a rework station, but I don't own one of those.
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[07:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:46] <exec> 08└─This makes me happy, Go, San Quintin kangaroo rat, go! If at least one species, besides Asian Brown Cockroaches, survives the Anthropocene era, there is hope for Earth!
[07:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:48] <exec> 08└─Of course there is little incentive to go looking. Far better to cry about all the six gorillion species exterminated by evil Capitalist humans. Lots more money in it at ant rate. This author obviously needs further training though, speaking of drought is unacceptable without an obligatory reference...
[07:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:50] <exec> 08└─the researchers are concerned that farmers may eventually make their own comeback
[07:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Radio Companies Acquire a Podcast App - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:02] <exec> 08└─In fact that's exactly how I listen to podcasts, but there is only so many hours in the day, and there are only so many tasks that you can overlay audio. Unless you mow lawns for a living.
[07:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:09] <exec> 08└─"Score 5: Flamebait" Beautiful.
[07:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:11] <exec> 08└─So, an intelligent, insightful remark is flamebait?
[07:05:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 402 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, but his lenders aren't necessarily his shareholders, and, if they are getting their interest payments, they won't care. Shareholders, by and large, are *not* rational: dividends are always money taken out of a company, so shareholders' interests are not the company's.. https://www.bloomberg.com...
[07:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:40] <exec> 08└─Sorry in advance for any perceived insults, they are unintended. How can your uncle be a petro-chemist and a creationist? Exactly where do your uncle thinks oil comes from? Six thousand year old dinosaur remains? Geez… On the other hand, I would love to hear exactly where oil comes from according...
[07:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Who Attempted DIY Gene Therapy Found Dead - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:49] <exec> 08└─What he was doing was already a waste. He did an experiment with a sample size of one. Good luck getting any reproducible data out of so small a sample.
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[08:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:11] <exec> 08└─Because Progressivism is a death cult.
[08:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:13] <exec> 08└─I promised the American people I would END the catch & release at our Southern Border. And I signed a memo -- last month I did a memo -- asking for reports. I wrote a memo to 5 departments, I told them to report back on what they need to END CATCH & RELEASE. And I gave them 75 days to report back to...
[08:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blastocyst-Like Structures Created from Stem Cells - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:37] <exec> 08└─it could be worse. They could be shining lasers into mice brains as they sleep just to discover that shining lasers into a brain affects sleep patterns.
[08:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 of 2018 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:07] <exec> 08└─No more WeirdStuff? Ah, that place was legendary. The world is indeed a less significant place today.
[08:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 of 2018 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:09] <exec> 08└─Seagate drives... reliable? I don't believe it. Nah! Not possible.
[08:05:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 763 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:19] <exec> 08└─> What Website Are You Really on? Silly question: On SN, I can say I'm on SN. Since I browse with Noscript, I'm usually on whatever the address bar says. Most people and websites ? They're not "on" any website, but merely occupying a virtual space bounded by the 30+ VMs serving them scripts which di...
[08:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:41] <exec> 08└─I think we should contact both Edge users and warn them.
[08:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 1971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:42] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Definitely flamebait. Best flamebait I have seen all year. Precisely aimed at the company that needs it the most too, no less.... I would not rag on them so much if the weren't whoring with the "invaders of privacy" so much. Its not the government I distrust so much, its all those damned...
[08:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:44] <exec> 08└─And by this, I do not mean Boudecia, the Queen of the Iceni, who very nearly kept the nasty Romans out of Britannia! No, I mean keeping the Gates out of the Internets! If you are still using Windows, you must be a shill. If you are still using windows, and deny being a shill, you are a shill. If you...
[08:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 1934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:47] <exec> 08└─I don't think even Bill Gates knows what is happening anymore. Actually, I don't think *anyone* does. Its become that big elephant that a lot of blind people are trying to describe... and all this "intellectual property" law regarding obfuscation and ignorance of how things work isn't helping one io...
[08:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siberian Wooden Statue is 'Twice as Old as Stonehenge' - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:42] <exec> 08└─"Mysterious symbols", "encrypted code", or evven... going out on a limb here... just some zig-zag and hatching decorations.
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[09:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe the article discussed it differently, but the researchers basically stated that farming in the area destroyed the kangaroo rat's natural habitat by making (I assume) heavily arid to desert conditions into moist farmland. Due to drought in the region, which had been de-desertified, it began to...
[09:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:48] <exec> 08└─"If you choose to use fb, assume any and everything you put up will be exploited." Also note that this privacy tool is just going to affect what's shown about you on facebook - so that third party assholes can't easily rip everything about you from facebook like Cambridge Anal. did. I like that abbr...
[09:05:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 1234 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:13] <exec> 08└─Lets not nit-pick. When I am logging into my bank's internet banking, I am on "my bank's website". I don't care whether it comes from a single server, a small army of my bank's servers or randomly generated packets from pigeons indigenous to my part of the world. What I do care about is that when I...
[09:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 1861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:34] <exec> 08└─That bit about not being able to trust the address bar was the first thing that sullied my acceptance of JavaScript. I took a class in JavaScript at the local Community College, and when I learned the mischief I could do with it, I failed to see why ANY "Reputable" business would have it on their si...
[09:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 1943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:35] <exec> 08└─I believe most of the Microsoft users are that way due to sheer IGNORANCE. I did not say Stupidity. IGNORANCE is only the lack of knowledge - which is quite fixable - but it takes time. That is why Microsoft and Apple want to be in the schools. Like a language, one has a tendency to stay with th...
[09:06:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 856 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:37] <exec> 08└─You really are a selective reader, aren't you? There is another passage stating that if a pregnant woman is injured, and loses the baby, but otherwise "no harm follows," there is a fine to be paid. A fine. NOT the death penalty. Psalm 139 speaks to God's supposed omniscience, and therefore it could...
[09:06:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Iowa Legislators Pass One of the Nation's Strictest Abortion Laws - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:48] <exec> 08└─The fact that life starts when the sperm meets the egg isn't disputed in the Bible
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[10:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:00] <exec> 08└─It won't change anything politically for the project because that would require multiple SJWs to admit that they were utterly wrong and the only real diversity is intellectual diversity but refusing to aid in your own persecution is basic horse sense.
[10:04:02] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:02] <exec> 08└─but not including *him* "You have the right to think anyway you like except..that way..."
[10:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:21] <exec> 08└─a Richard Gere joke.
[10:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:59] <exec> 08└─I thought the whole idea behind Windows 10 is that support would be infinitely forthcoming.... well as long as Microsoft as a corporation remains viable. But, in exchange, you give up control of your machine to Microsoft. Kinda like giving up your car to some corporation, then asking them nicely if...
[10:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:29] <exec> 08└─Why is his trolling?
[10:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:30] <exec> 08└─Does it really matter where oil come from if your job is to extract kerosene from it?
[10:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soylentnews Server Reboot Schedule May 5-10 - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, them running a tight ship has been our experience over the past few years as well except for a networking glitch on their end that caused one of our web frontends to have massive packet loss for a few days.
[10:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Launches Oculus Go, a $200 Standalone VR Headset - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:57] <exec> 08└─You're not saving that if the Go can't actually *do* the things you want to do. You know, like spend the evening gaming perhaps?
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[11:03:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 251 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:47] <exec> 08└─It won't change anything politically for the project because that would require multiple SJWs to admit that they were utterly wrong and the only real diversity is intellectual diversity but refusing to aid in your own persecution is basic horse sense.
[11:03:50] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 967 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:50] <exec> 08└─Indeed good on him! Personally I stay the hell away from any project with an exclusion policy (aka CoC'ed up project). I don't care if you're a dog or a martian as long as your code (or doc, or releng, or whatever) contribution is good. You can tell me bluntly that my stuff sucks, if you can back it...
[11:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:52] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the brave new world of reverse racism [wikipedia.org] where your skin color can determine if you can get a job or not, or if you will be considered for a position at a school. Sound familiar?
[11:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:54] <exec> 08└─"And this, too, shall pass away."
[11:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:56] <exec> 08└─Sound familiar?
[11:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:59] <exec> 08└─What color was your code? I make sure my editor colors all my words differently so I don't offend anyone.
[11:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:01] <exec> 08└─No doubt they will find a person with a more appropriate skin color or bits between their legs or whatever to replace him
[11:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:08] <exec> 08└─Just walk around in the bush for a while or something
[11:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:11] <exec> 08└─Are there clinics performing euthanasia in the Australian bush? 'cause the critters there are quite discerning, will kill only able people. Idiots like you are safe, you are welcome to try.
[11:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:24] <exec> 08└─Good.
[11:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:25] <exec> 08└─Of course there is little incentive to go looking
[11:04:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 850 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:57] <exec> 08└─https://www.technologyreview.com/s/509026/how-obamas-team-used-big-data-to-rally-voters/ [technologyreview.com] https://www.infoworld.com [infoworld.com] https://www.forbes.com
[11:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:11] <exec> 08└─No it does not work to block just the faecebook domain. You have to block the whole set of networks assigned under their Autonomous System Number. Here are the steps again: $ host www.facebook.com $ whois -h whois.radb.net 31.13.72.36 $ whois -h whois.radb.net '!gAS32934' \ | sed -n '/^[0-9]/{s/ /\n...
[11:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:00] <exec> 08└─> Edge doesn't offer this Proprietary web interface to Oracle database that requires MS browser to view. The reason that it requires MS browser is because this is the only one that will accept the insecure "security certificate". I think it is an issue with protocol rather than signing authority - f...
[11:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:02] <exec> 08└─Shhhh we don't want people to actually believe Edge is an actual web browser it's crappy beta software intended to one day replace ie11 when it dies and perhaps one day it may do that when they release version 1 of it
[11:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siberian Wooden Statue is 'Twice as Old as Stonehenge' - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:00] <exec> 08└─The statue was originally 5.3 metres tall but parts of it went missing during the Soviet Era.
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[12:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:46] <exec> 08└─Seriously. OK? Just knock the hell, I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise.
[12:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:01] <exec> 08└─Women have one of the great acts of all time. The smart ones act very feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers. The person who came up with the expression "the weaker sex" was either very naive or had to be kidding. I have seen women manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye -- or p...
[12:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:02] <exec> 08└─A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market. I think sometimes a black may think they don't have an advantage or this and that. I've said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated bl...
[12:04:04] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 977 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:05] <exec> 08└─The LLVM CoC says [llvm.org]: be friendly and patient, be welcoming, be considerate, be respectful, be careful in the words that you choose and be kind to others, and when we disagree, try to understand why. The rest of the document is a clarification of these rules. I'm not sure which of these you...
[12:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:07] <exec> 08└─Is your background editor color black? Because, you know, some people might find that offensive
[12:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:09] <exec> 08└─What kind of bullshit is this? "Up until now this industry has been prejudiced in favor of white heterosexual men. We are going to institute programs to give advantages to people that are not white heterosexual men to bring the industry back into balance." White heterosexual male crybaby: "Reverse d...
[12:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:11] <exec> 08└─I was about to post the same; I fail to see how anyone could find that CoC offensive. It shouldn't have been necessary to have in the first place, or to write more than "just be a decent person", but I can't find anything unreasonable in there. The "outreachy" thing, on the other hand, I find extrem...
[12:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:13] <exec> 08└─I know you're a consistent troll, but that's bullshit. In 2011 a university did a study with college student graduates, submitting their resumes to various businesses for job applications. On 50% of the resumes they had names like "Tom" and "Jane" and on 50% they had names like "Saahd" and "Shanequa...
[12:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:21] <exec> 08└─So, Facebook offers a "reset" kind of thing
[12:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:12] <exec> 08└─Dude, you're link is borked. try this one [mozilla.org]
[12:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:14] <exec> 08└─>>> And few of us ( if any ) were exposed to Linux in the school system. I certainly wasn't, but I got tired of getting kicked in the nuts over and over again (IE crashing all the time, and BSOD until I could screeeeeeeeam) and I searched out alternatives. THAT'S when I found Linux and never looked...
[12:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:16] <exec> 08└─I thought the whole idea behind Windows 10 is that support would be infinitely forthcoming.... well as long as Microsoft as a corporation remains viable.
[12:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Somebody Tried to Hide a Backdoor in a Popular JavaScript npm Package - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:44] <exec> 08└─I'm not the GP but I want to jump in and defend, I feel like JNCF is oblivious to agreeing with GP. GPAC >> Unless you know what is in your software JNCF > Of course I can. ...1000 times, and it always gives the same expected output right, one way to know something is empirically. JNCF > Do you ever...
[12:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Somebody Tried to Hide a Backdoor in a Popular JavaScript npm Package - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:46] <exec> 08└─Milk churning on a hot day. Roiling froth of UI and digestive acids. CPUs overheating from busywait, curdling thermal paste. JavaScript was a bad idea.
[12:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soylentnews Server Reboot Schedule May 5-10 - 1592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:23] <exec> 08└─The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by university physicists. The element, tentatively named "Administratium," has no protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of 0. However, it does have one neutron, 15 assistant neutrons, 70 vice neutrons, and 161 assistant vice...
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[13:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First-Ever Detection of Helium in an Exoplanet Atmosphere - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:46] <exec> 08└─They say WASP-104b is VERY DARK. Darker than charcoal. So I'm thinking, they picked a dumb name for that one.
[13:03:54] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03KiloByte [375] 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:54] <exec> 08└─Isn't there a precedent with gay wedding cake that says you can't refuse service to customers in just this kind of difference of ideology?
[13:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:56] <exec> 08└─As much as I'd love me some ASCII picard facepalm spam, I would but my face palm is stuck and typing difficult.
[13:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:58] <exec> 08└─Ideology may or may not be the real motivation here, but this isn't quite the same situation as GoDaddy are claiming that the site breached their perfectly legal AUP re. incitement to violence rather than an ideological reason as justification for the termination of service. If Richard Spencer wante...
[13:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:20] <exec> 08└─http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/donald-trump-racism-quotes/ [fortune.com] In 1989, [Donald Trump] told Bryant Gumbel in an interview, “A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market…if I was starting off today, I would love to be a well-educa...
[13:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:21] <exec> 08└─Be careful in the words that you choose and be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other participants. Harassment and other exclusionary behavior aren’t acceptable. This includes, but is not limited to: * Violent threats or language directed against another person. * Discriminatory jokes and...
[13:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:24] <exec> 08└─White on black is how I roll.
[13:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:26] <exec> 08└─The reason I would do it - is so that if someone is being an asshat, one has a document to point at to justify whatever sanctions. It is harder to say "you are being an asshat so we are going to sack you" than to say "you have breached this and that item in our CoC so we are going to sack you". "Ass...
[13:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:28] <exec> 08└─What if a colleagues code contributions are good but are full of hateful comments, like comments insulting everyone from *some gender* or *some race*? Is that okay for you?
[13:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:52] <exec> 08└─You are doing it too. When an environment becomes good for humans it is "destroyed", but when it changes to be good for rats it is "returned".
[13:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blastocyst-Like Structures Created from Stem Cells - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:19] <exec> 08└─This is great. Pretty soon, we'll be able to use this technology to make artificially-created humans, so that developed nations can end their fertility problems by outsourcing reproduction and child development management to the state instead of leaving it to amateurs. Even better, the embryo factor...
[13:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:43] <exec> 08└─Everything you "erase" of course will still be kept privately by Facebook to continue doing exactly what they're doing now. Just wait a few years when we hear about Facebook's servers getting hacked and all that erased data ends up all over the net.
[13:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 of 2018 - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:55] <exec> 08└─They used to be reliable in my experience until a few years back we started getting laptops with them from Dell and we had over a 25% replacement rate and the replacements they sent were even higher failure rates until they started sending WDs instead. These were Self Encrypting drives so not sure i...
[13:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 of 2018 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:57] <exec> 08└─With the price of SSDs getting lower in my opinion a laptop should never have a spinning disk, ever.
[13:09:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06Siberian Wooden Statue is 'Twice as Old as Stonehenge' - 437 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:25] <exec> 08└─In case older than Stonehenge doesn't give you a good feeling for how old this is: 1. This is the oldest known wooden statue 2. 11500 years old puts us roughly at 9500BC 3. The Neolithic age (New Stone Age, tools became common and domestication of agriculture and animals occurred) occurred around 10...
[13:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Somebody Tried to Hide a Backdoor in a Popular JavaScript npm Package - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:11] <exec> 08└─There are many ways to write a program that gives the same output a thousand times, and knowing the output does not mean I know what is in the software. In fact, I shouldn't have to know what is in the software if I believe in the competency of the maintainer. The maintainer of a package should be a...
[13:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Somebody Tried to Hide a Backdoor in a Popular JavaScript npm Package - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:13] <exec> 08└─If you're looking for simple, I'd vote for Python/Django. It's very good at expressing a lot with very little code, and not being super-complicated about it.
[13:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cambridge Analytica Shutting Down, Company Says - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:50] <exec> 08└─> Something about that needs to be revised because it is so extensively abused. Well, the people running the company have not done anything legally wrong. So why should the board of that company, who have not broken any laws, not be allowed to start a new company?
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[14:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First-Ever Detection of Helium in an Exoplanet Atmosphere - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:49] <exec> 08└─Different planet, different star system, merely same (loose) organization detected both. But thank you for trying, Mr. President.
[14:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06First-Ever Detection of Helium in an Exoplanet Atmosphere - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:51] <exec> 08└─Post invasion demographics
[14:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:02] <exec> 08└─It's not about that, at least as GoDaddy puts it: "In instances where a site goes beyond the mere exercise of these freedoms, however, and crosses over to promoting, encouraging, or otherwise engaging in specific acts of violence against any person, we will take action," GoDaddy's statement read. "I...
[14:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:03] <exec> 08└─Strange, violence against animals is what I associate with godaddy. What is it, with dns registries jumping up on the censorship bandwagon? At least there is still competition in that industry.
[14:04:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:19] <exec> 08└─Women have one of the great acts of all time. The smart ones act very feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers. The person who came up with the expression "the weaker sex" was either very naive or had to be kidding. I have seen women manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye -- or p...
[14:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:31] <exec> 08└─My editor's background is a shade of grey.
[14:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:33] <exec> 08└─So you mean like a feminist who might cite any number of feminist authors who have written volumes dripping with homophobia, transphobia, misandry, transmisogyny (and probably works championing transmisandry and the idea that trans men are traitors), sexism, and cissexism? I will admit though that I...
[14:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:35] <exec> 08└─Two words: selective enforcement. "No tolerance for intolerance" and all that jazz. University professor making a "joke" about white genocide [cnn.com]? Oh dear, we better slap him on the wrist. Now imagine the shitstorm if it he had said black genocide. The university would have totally just given...
[14:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:37] <exec> 08└─Did they also control for "foreigner effect" by testing historically European non-American names like Astrid or Jaroslaw? No? Right. Either the study is bullshit or you are disingenuously misrepresenting the conclusions.
[14:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:39] <exec> 08└─Comments should explain code. Those comments don't do that. Rejected.
[14:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:49] <exec> 08└─There was a second link from 2015 referenced in the article that was interesting, detailing the differences between assisted suicide, euthenasia, and assisted death, and showing where each is legal. http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] TLDR on the link: Assisted suicide is any act for in...
[14:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:06] <exec> 08└─The article shows a picture of a rat in someone's hands. I've seen the sort of lab rat that viciously attacks everything that gets close enough. Perhaps they were traumatized. No way could a person hold one of those. The rat would go berserk biting and clawing at the hands and leaping out and fleein...
[14:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:07] <exec> 08└─They said it was found in a trap so it may be starved or dead. Also, what did the lab rat you saw look like?
[14:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Radio Companies Acquire a Podcast App - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:22] <exec> 08└─As in, using the NPR App to listen to programs post-broadcast. I hope that doesn't go away in favor of having a different app. I'm used to my lawn, dammit.
[14:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:59] <exec> 08└─"Flush your cookies when you want" does absolutely nothing with the data they've already amalgamated on you, and it does nothing with the data they amalgamate during the session prior to your asking for the flush. And I wonder if they can retain the session data that you asked for to be flushed. (65...
[14:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:56] <exec> 08└─If you are still using Windows, you must be a shill.
[14:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:57] <exec> 08└─I think you're right, bob_super It opens up a disconnect just a little for whom you consider "responsible" when you go to a website and are served something you didn't want (like malware, malvertising, whatever.) Who is repsonsible? When third-party ad services do it, the URL owner will happily poin...
[14:07:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:15] <exec> 08└─Wrong kind of boring. He did drill right through those questions, though.
[14:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:29] <exec> 08└─he cut off guy #4 who was asking the same thing
[14:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:31] <exec> 08└─Except that the people who make those investments have done so with certain expectations of convention and assurances that the corporation and its officers are responsible in a fiduciary sense. Blowing off questions in an investment call, if it results in a stock drop and a devaluation of investment...
[14:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:33] <exec> 08└─Correction... CxOs are responsible to the Board, who are responsible to the shareholders. Missed the intermediate step even though I think the meaning holds.
[14:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is perplexing.
[14:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Somebody Tried to Hide a Backdoor in a Popular JavaScript npm Package - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:38] <exec> 08└─From the editor-was-too-lazy-to-add-a-dept.-line dept. On topic: From the code-review-working-as-intended dept.
[14:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Kilopower Nuclear Reactor Exceeds Expectations in Tests - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:57] <exec> 08└─I think submarine drones dont work unless they are fully autonomous. You can't get enough penetration depth with any conventional comms.
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[15:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:46] <exec> 08└─Do they have the votes? No? Then we all know what the outcome will be. Just another "wah waaaahh.... ebil rebublicans" crying. It would be a lot more productive for them to actually try to affect change instead of posturing. Don't bring things to a vote just to show who voted for what so that you ca...
[15:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:47] <exec> 08└─If the Democrats controlled Congress, this wouldn't even get brought to a vote. They just want to play political theater like the Republicans did for eight years about the repealing the ACA.
[15:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:50] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>Well, I for one, am glad that our elected representatives truly represent us in all ways and understand what is truly important</sarcasm>
[15:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:52] <exec> 08└─Thank "god" someone is standing up to the crazy traitors. Hopefully we can get back to business as usual if they keep pushing.
[15:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:54] <exec> 08└─Congress has a habit of wrapping turds with a big bow and giving it a name like Children Have Inspiring Life Decisions (CHILD act), then saying anyone who votes against it is against children. Unless we know what's in the "net neutrality" bill then this is nothing but a bunch of turds with a shiny r...
[15:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:15] <exec> 08└─Seriously, how evil, wicked, and nasty do you have to be for GoDaddy to refuse your business?!
[15:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:17] <exec> 08└─Ideology is not a constitutionally-protected category. Sure, the government can't keep you from espousing it, but GoDaddy is not the government and is perfectly within their rights to discriminate based on ideology.
[15:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:19] <exec> 08└─Masterpiece Cakeshop, so important. SC deciding now. We're praying they do the right thing!!
[15:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:21] <exec> 08└─Tue, but my point was that it doesn't really matter either way. Regardless of whether there's legal standing for an ideological based ban or not, and regardless of the real reason for the action, GoDaddy didn't state that they kicked Spencer on ideological grounds - they said they did so for a breac...
[15:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:24] <exec> 08└─You'd think asshats like Spencer would get the hint that their communications are not welcomed by many and perhaps they should re-examine their views.
[15:04:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 650 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:45] <exec> 08└─I know you're a consistent troll, but that's bullshit. In 2011 a university did a study with college student graduates, submitting their resumes to various businesses for job applications. On 50% of the resumes they had names like "Tom" and "Jane" and on 50% they had names like "Saahd" and "Shanequa...
[15:04:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 831 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:53] <exec> 08└─Two words: selective enforcement. "No tolerance for intolerance" and all that jazz. University professor making a "joke" about white genocide [cnn.com]? Oh dear, we better slap him on the wrist. Now imagine the shitstorm if it he had said black genocide. The university would have totally just given...
[15:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:57] <exec> 08└─Where muh reparashuns? I wants me forty acres and a mule.
[15:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:59] <exec> 08└─On 50% of the resumes they had names like "Tom" and "Jane" and on 50% they had names like "Saahd" and "Shanequa". The traditional names got the overwhelming majority of callbacks and phone calls.
[15:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:01] <exec> 08└─That is the logical reason of existence of a CoC. If things stop there, fine. The danger is that CoC may become a cargo cult, with every body fighting for it Rules (written or unwritten) are politics. Politics are necessary, but politics take time, so every organization should have only the minimum...
[15:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:04] <exec> 08└─> On 50% of the resumes they had names like "Tom" and "Jane" So all they proved is that name discrimination happens rather than racial discrimination, oh, and that they are idiots. Name discrimination isn't racism and besides, most places your name is a choice (unlike your skin), and you can change...
[15:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:06] <exec> 08└─We will find, however, that when we find the basis for the problems blacks are statistically more likely to face, we will find a preponderance of blacks in the working class--the working poor specifically.
[15:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:08] <exec> 08└─Chris Lattner is the LLVM project founder, Tanya Lattner is the one who announced the cooperation with the discriminist "Outreachy" org: http://lists.llvm.org [llvm.org]
[15:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:10] <exec> 08└─This is hilarious. Your argument depends on the unspoken assumption that *names* are an aspect of "race!" And I bet you don't even realize YOU are the racist.
[15:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:12] <exec> 08└─Gnome Foundation - Current state of Foundation finances - Friday 11th April 2014 23:32:12 UTC From: Ekaterina Gerasimova [archive.is] Due to a shortfall in the budget, the Foundation board voted on 2014-04-08 to freeze all expenditure which is not essential to the running of the Foundation... The is...
[15:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:15] <exec> 08└─There's also this: "In addition, violations of this code outside these spaces may, in rare cases, affect a person’s ability to participate within them, when the conduct amounts to an egregious violation of this code." Which amounts to "we can punish you for anything you say anywhere on the Interne...
[15:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:17] <exec> 08└─Personally I'd rather have one asshat that writes good code than 100 nice people that write CoCs and mission statements.
[15:05:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:28] <exec> 08└─Euthenasia is when a terminal intervention relieves suffering.
[15:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:30] <exec> 08└─Just walk around in the bush for a while or something
[15:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:32] <exec> 08└─Life is a terminal condition.
[15:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:34] <exec> 08└─what I find very annoying is the fact that his "friend" relates the suicide to his problems with an office from the university (for those who don't know: two years ago the university wanted him to stop coming to his office, because they had safety concerns; he went to court and won the right to an o...
[15:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:36] <exec> 08└─*don't go return pedant* *don't go return pedant* *don't go return pedant*. Damn, failed. Give you props. "Intractable pain" is often the general standard and not just "suffering." Although in many cases that suffering must be defined for euthenasia to take place, which is why it differs from assist...
[15:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:46] <exec> 08└─You are right. Add to that those of us not on Facebook ARE TRACKED by Facebook. See the little Facebook icon on most pages. So we cann ALL see what they are tracking of us without are convent? Only if you accept our TOS
[15:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 of 2018 - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:59] <exec> 08└─I've always been wary of Helium and Shingled (SMR) drive technology, so been sticking to the WD 6TB Reds at the moment for the past few years. But given this new data, I'll reconsider Helium drives now. SMR however, still wary, due to the poor performance when it comes to overwriting data instead of...
[15:07:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:07] <exec> 08└─users of Edge might want to get a better browser.
[15:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:45] <exec> 08└─Boudecia
[15:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:47] <exec> 08└─Dude, you are link is borked.
[15:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siberian Wooden Statue is 'Twice as Old as Stonehenge' - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:51] <exec> 08└─I think I could type faster using my old T9word dumbphone than with Swype these days. It's practically impossible to get through a whole sentence without it picking the wrong word. But full QWERTY keyboard using only my thumbs feels silly. Even being a completely adequate touch typist, it feels like...
[15:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Kilopower Nuclear Reactor Exceeds Expectations in Tests - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:45] <exec> 08└─We, the French, the Canadians (probably not the French Canadians), and many other countries have had the technology for over 50 years. What we lack is the will to use it.
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[16:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:46] <exec> 08└─A good automobile analogy of why delays are resulting in screwed up test results, is if you rebuild your car engine in one weekend in one unitary effort, you'll remember all kinds of rando trivia and detail such that you won't have random bolts and parts laying around the garage when you're finished...
[16:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:47] <exec> 08└─I've taken apart things with like 5 fasteners and still had hardware left over once it was back together. I swear to god, once you get a few nuts/screws/washers in a bowl, they breed.
[16:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:59] <exec> 08└─Even on the off chance they had the votes to pass the bill, Trump would veto it. So it has no hope... but as mentioned earlier, it will be used as political fodder during the elections because low ball estimates roughly 86% of the population are against the changes the FCC is currently making to net...
[16:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:26] <exec> 08└─Leftists want to look bad to the independent voters in the 2020 elections. Win every tiny meaningless battle, lose every war...
[16:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:28] <exec> 08└─Leftists want to look bad to the independent voters in the 2020 elections. Win every tiny meaningless battle, lose every war...
[16:04:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 555 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:50] <exec> 08└─http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/donald-trump-racism-quotes/ [fortune.com] In 1989, [Donald Trump] told Bryant Gumbel in an interview, “A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market…if I was starting off today, I would love to be a well-educa...
[16:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:11] <exec> 08└─Where volunteer workers accept a nose ring install and cower in fear before the non-contributors that invade their projects. Kudos to Rafael and others who have the courage to say "You're not playing your stupid games on my back!".
[16:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 1) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:12] <exec> 08└─Though if we'll all leave all projects with CoC wouldn't soon be no project for us to contribute to? This only delays the inevitable. Only way to counter concern trolls is to formalize and popularize principles of FOSS meritocracy so there would be no opening for imposing "ethical constraints" as if...
[16:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:14] <exec> 08└─How much of the limp resistance to SJW entryists is due to a fear of potential blowback to their bread-and-butter jobs at SJW controlled companies?
[16:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:16] <exec> 08└─For five years you pay person A $100,000 a year and person B $20,000 a year. Then in year six you realize you were wrong, and if you simply bump person B to $100,000 a year you will never, ever offset the $400,000 advantage person A unfairly had. So you pay person B more than $100,000 a year until t...
[16:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:19] <exec> 08└─Meh, I don't feel like logging in. Y'all know who I am.
[16:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:21] <exec> 08└─I have a lot of respect for Rafael and I don't wish to second-guess his departure, but the CoC is far from the only thing that he's been unhappy with recently. I suspect that this was a convenient excuse for him, rather than the underlying reason for his wish to move on.
[16:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:35] <exec> 08└─Yet one has a 100% chance of dying due to birth. Might be decades later, but it will happen!
[16:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:37] <exec> 08└─Entropy is present at birth, and ever increasing! No technology (save maybe time crystals) can save you. Proper pedantic riposte: "entropy is merely probabilistic!"
[16:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:23] <exec> 08└─If I understood the summary I read, he actually quit taking questions from Wall Street and turned over to YouTube as a source of questions to answer for the press conference. If he's not hiding something, that's a gutsy, cool, in your face move. If he is hiding something important, oh man will it hu...
[16:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Kilopower Nuclear Reactor Exceeds Expectations in Tests - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:49] <exec> 08└─One of the plutonium isotopes is literally thermally hot in bulk which makes for crappy bombs because of fizzle danger (self triggered at the wrong instant resulting in bad yields) and great RTGs, the other isotope is the opposite. So you need a military bomb focused breeder program along with a bom...
[16:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Kilopower Nuclear Reactor Exceeds Expectations in Tests - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:51] <exec> 08└─AFAIK the French are not into RTG generation but thats political and has varied from decade to decade.
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[17:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:00] <exec> 08└─"but it's not good news, either" I completely disagree. Finding these problems ahead of time is very good news. I would much rather find the problems now than leave it unfound and have a failure after launch. There is no such thing as a failure during testing unless you fail to find the problems at...
[17:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:02] <exec> 08└─So somebody dropped some screws into the thing during assembly. Now we have to hope that random dropped parts don't jam the mechanism after launch. You'd think NASA would be tracking every fastener to avoid this situation. Sounds like a management problem, which does not bode well. Alternatives such...
[17:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:04] <exec> 08└─So you think finding screws and washers on the floor as opposed to not finding them is good news? If I were the NASA administrator, I might hope that Congress cuts the JWST, so I don't have to explain a $10 billion lost mission.
[17:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:06] <exec> 08└─One the other hand, you're not talking about a very advanced 3D-printed part having a flaw, or a camera that's near-sighted. You're talking about someone not counting their screws right, or not specifying the torque right, or not torque-wrenching right. When the budget is north if five billion dolla...
[17:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:08] <exec> 08└─I have no doubt that more than a few people wouldn't mind if Ariane blew up, because not knowing whether their piece would have failed and crippled the whole thing could be better than the alternative. I am counting on all the others involved, to make sure those people get to say "I helped build thi...
[17:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:11] <exec> 08└─All the parts falling off this spacecraft are of the very finest American manufacture!
[17:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:23] <exec> 08└─They do that because it works to buffalo the unwashed masses. Working as designed.
[17:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:25] <exec> 08└─> low ball estimates roughly 86% of the population are against the changes the FCC is currently making to net neutrality 13.999% are just uninformed, and the remainder works for, or has major holdings in, the big Telcos.
[17:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:54] <exec> 08└─But that is complete BS. First off, godaddy is big. I am sure they host many terrorist organization websites. But most importantly, I have never even heard this guy speak a single sentence, and even I know that he is known for his anti-violence rhetoric.
[17:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:55] <exec> 08└─After months of criticism that GoDaddy was providing a platform for hate speech, the Web hosting company announced late Sunday that it will no longer house the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website that promotes white supremacist and white nationalist ideas. https://soylentnews.org
[17:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 1389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:57] <exec> 08└─That is one of the thoughts that ran through my mind. But, it seems to miss the mark, somehow. In any decent sized city, you can find your gay wedding cake SOMEWHERE. I mean, there aren't only six qualified wedding cake shops in the entire state, are there? Well - - - Maybe Montana, I'll give you th...
[17:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:00] <exec> 08└─Ideology isn't protected, but political affiliation is. Once again - Spencer is a douche, but his nazi ass has political grounding.
[17:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:02] <exec> 08└─I am sure they host many terrorist organization websites.
[17:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:04] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, people like Spencer are so very convinced of the their own righteousness, that no amount of "persecution" can shake them. And, also unfortunately, every bit of "persecution", including being booted from GoDaddy, only convinces them yet more of their righteousness. It's one of those vi...
[17:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:06] <exec> 08└─When it comes to private businesses, the law that generally applies is the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [ourdocuments.gov], which does not protect political affiliation. Specifically, it requires that government and private businesses not discriminate based on "race, color, religion, sex, or national or...
[17:05:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 602 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:46] <exec> 08└─Gnome Foundation - Current state of Foundation finances - Friday 11th April 2014 23:32:12 UTC From: Ekaterina Gerasimova [archive.is] Due to a shortfall in the budget, the Foundation board voted on 2014-04-08 to freeze all expenditure which is not essential to the running of the Foundation... The is...
[17:05:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Jiro [3176] 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 437 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:47] <exec> 08└─There's also this: "In addition, violations of this code outside these spaces may, in rare cases, affect a person’s ability to participate within them, when the conduct amounts to an egregious violation of this code." Which amounts to "we can punish you for anything you say anywhere on the Interne...
[17:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 1771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:56] <exec> 08└─Obligations to be "kind" and "welcoming" are out of place and actively counterproductive here for a start. Being "kind" means hiding things that others would rather not see, it means refraining from pointing out obvious flaws in others or their work. This is a good thing in normal human social inter...
[17:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 1) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:58] <exec> 08└─That is just a good path for even more dramas stemming from rules-lawyering. Because in most cases that would be just smartasses trying to bend those rules for maximum mischief. Childish and counter-productive behavior can be already be stemmed by moderators of mailing lists and other public places....
[17:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:00] <exec> 08└─Hopefully we'll never work at the same place. Ever.
[17:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:03] <exec> 08└─i think affirmative action and keeping things professional are rightfully two different issues, even though these dumb @#$5 like to mix them up in their COCs, evidently.
[17:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:05] <exec> 08└─yeah, or "if your comments stir up enough shit to make us look bad, even if it's our pals stirring up all the shit, we may have to let you go, b/c we're a pack of sneaky weasels"
[17:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:07] <exec> 08└─two wrongs don't make a right.
[17:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:23] <exec> 08└─Can you get assisted suicide services in Australia by claiming Terminal Growing Entropy ?
[17:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:25] <exec> 08└─There is no evidence to support that that claim. All you can say is that, as yet, there has not been an observation proving otherwise.
[17:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Radio Companies Acquire a Podcast App - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:58] <exec> 08└─People like my Dad get to know one system and just stick with it. He used to do podcasts only, because that's what he could work with. My brother got him a Chromecast though, so now he also does YouTube.
[17:07:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 806 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:24] <exec> 08└─You're right, of course. Realistically, politicians are going to use all the tools at their disposal to drum up votes. The tech egg has hatched, and you can't put the chicken back in the shell. We CAN, however, decide how morals, ethics, and laws might apply to all this data collection and usage. Li...
[17:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Kilopower Nuclear Reactor Exceeds Expectations in Tests - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, but eventually isn't now, and a manned mission had better have a repair tech available. That said, Stirling engines are among the most reliable mechanical engines. For one thing, they can be sealed against contamination. So for the manned mission you'll need multiple generators, the ability to...
[17:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Kilopower Nuclear Reactor Exceeds Expectations in Tests - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:41] <exec> 08└─Well, you don't need full autonomy, but you need it to be pretty autonomous, as the communications channels that work have a low bit rate. Even if they didn't, you wouldn't want to automatically reveal your position. So say as autonomous as a Tesla autopilot, or maybe a bit more (and a bit less in o...
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[18:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:48] <exec> 08└─This is from the same people that think 2 mW laser pointers cause "very serious incidents" over a range of 5 km or more. I'd take it with a large grain of salt.
[18:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:49] <exec> 08└─it would be stupid for the Chinese to provoke the US there, now, abd the US has a long history of questionable "casi belli" under their belt. OTOH if the chinks are playing the long game they may want to purposefully have the yanks protest over this and play the victim...
[18:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:52] <exec> 08└─Why not modify them a little, to ride that laser beam right back to it's source? We could even use mini-missiles, or "unarmed" missiles, so as to kill the guy holding the laser, but not level the apartment complex he's standing in.
[18:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:54] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, murder, the obvious solution for prank level hijinks.
[18:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:56] <exec> 08└─So the chinese were probably using lasers to blind cameras on spy planes, some US pilots got too close to the base, maybe unintentionally, probably to spy, got hit by the laser and got partially blind. I don't know if this kind of act is covered by some convention on engagement, but I would call thi...
[18:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:58] <exec> 08└─prank level hijinks
[18:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, a good old retroreflector https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] would be great, but you'd lose too much power. I suggest an automated laser system that returns fire at comparable levels.
[18:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:03] <exec> 08└─You call it murder. I call it pranking the prankster. Or, we could call it wanking the wanker. Whatever we call it, I'm with Darwin. Only the fittest should survive, and obviously, these wankers aren't fit.
[18:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:05] <exec> 08└─I suggest an automated laser system that returns fire at comparable levels.
[18:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:07] <exec> 08└─same people that think 2 mW laser pointers cause "very serious incidents" over a range of 5 km or more
[18:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:09] <exec> 08└─I understand your statement, but I disagree. On one hand you have passive observation. On the other hand, you have an action which certainly _can_ cause harm, called "reckless endangerment" in legal terms.
[18:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:12] <exec> 08└─So make sure and hurt them first? I get the angry sentiment, but that doesn't make it any less stupid of a statement. Like seeing kids dropping pennies onto a freeway. Chance of anyone actually getting hurt is near zero, but you still think someone should go run them over. Maybe the last few days of...
[18:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:26] <exec> 08└─When a friend is rebuilding an engine, or putting together IKEA, stop by and sprinkle some extra nuts, bolts, and washers around. Then have a beer while they try to figure out where they came from. If I actually like them I'll let them in on the secret before they start tearing the item down again s...
[18:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:41] <exec> 08└─Don't bring things to a vote just to show who voted for what
[18:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:43] <exec> 08└─I would agree, but fifteen years is to long. I'm only willing to give them 8 years. If they haven't achieved whatever goals sent them to Washington within 8 years, then they are losers. Send them home, we don't need them. Fifteen years is a career, and we don't need any career politicians.
[18:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:45] <exec> 08└─flood gates to have every precedent retried in perpetuity
[18:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:47] <exec> 08└─Under current law, Congress can nix any regulatory change by the executive branch by passing a "resolution of disapproval", which does not require the president's approval. So in the event that this passes, the rules would go back to what they were back in 2016. My general take on this: The odds of...
[18:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the Dems who passed the Net Neutrality rules that were just repealed are totally opposed to those policies.
[18:05:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:05] <exec> 08└─Seriously. OK? Just knock the hell, I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise.
[18:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:25] <exec> 08└─but I'm pretty sure this is a business decision for GoDaddy, and not a political one. You see, if there is any form of boycott and GoDaddy looses a few thousand customers (or more) they lose quite a bit of money.
[18:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:27] <exec> 08└─I don't think that's in the same jurisdiction. If I read correctly, GoDaddy requires you to file actions against it in Arizona. That's a different appellate court area. OTOH, if he could win anywhere it should be in an Arizona court.
[18:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:29] <exec> 08└─I'm not getting "all up in arms" about this or any actions a company like GoDaddy takes. The free market can, should and will sort these things out. As far as "inciting faggorty" is concerned, that is the prime directive of the gay agenda.
[18:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:31] <exec> 08└─As any rational person knows, *incitement to violence* is a bullshit concept. It implies that people can be compelled to act by mere words. If we have no free will, then we are just bald apes.
[18:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:33] <exec> 08└─Our Supreme Court took the case. But, no decision yet!!
[18:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:36] <exec> 08└─Isn't there a precedent with gay wedding cake that says you can't refuse service to customers in just this kind of difference of ideology?
[18:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:38] <exec> 08└─If he is committed, he could get a VPS in the cloud and publish his views on it. He could probably get the Linode $5 / month plan which might fit the amount of traffic his audience would generate.
[18:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:40] <exec> 08└─You can sometimes incite people to do things. I'm trying to incite you to reply and disagree with me. Maybe that is the word provoke instead of incite? +1 Inciteful
[18:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:42] <exec> 08└─One more thought about gay cakes. Jesus was a carpenter. I wonder if he refused his professional services to anyone he disagreed with or who had any sin in their lives.
[18:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:37] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you read TFA? If so, maybe you just missed the bit about, "When I joined llvm no one asked or cared "about my religion or political view." Your post reminds me of the upskirt project. Every_single_thing related to the program was flagrantly sexist. So, uhhhhh - why in hell would any woman, o...
[18:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:38] <exec> 08└─He very specifically objected to the elevation of women, gays, trans, and any and everything else above real males. I cited the upskirt project above. They were a deplorable collection of sexists. Here, we have a different kind of sexists, targeting males - and you seem to miss that they are deplora...
[18:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:40] <exec> 08└─only real diversity is intellectual diversity
[18:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, that would be immoral. For starters, you have forgotten that your company doesn't depend on just those two people. You have also forgotten that your company isn't in the business of social justice warrioring. In year six, you SHOULD BE paying everyone in the company precisely what they are wort...
[18:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:45] <exec> 08└─"it is critical to the long term health of the project that we preserve an inclusive community." What does allying with an discriminatory outreach program have to do with inclusiveness? Lying whore.
[18:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:47] <exec> 08└─So, change your name to something more traditional. Or, at least use a "professional" name. I probably wouldn't call Shanequa. I certainly wouldn't call anyone whose name was obviously misspelled. And, yes, there are dozens of names on birth certificates that are obviously misspelled. If the parents...
[18:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:49] <exec> 08└─Drat! Next time, I'll express my vile ideology in the choice of identifiers (variables, functions, methods, classes, etc).
[18:07:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:14] <exec> 08└─This makes me happy, Go, San Quintin kangaroo rat, go! If at least one species, besides Asian Brown Cockroaches, survives the Anthropocene era, there is hope for Earth!
[18:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:26] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus, rats, and roaches - what a trinity.
[18:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Blows Off Analysts and Media on "Bizarre" Tesla Conference Call - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:57] <exec> 08└─Because if it isn't, then he is truly a clueless Trumpian. All those things he says are true only because The Donald says they are true. However, like everything else The Donald says, they really aren't true. Unemployment is low because it was low when he came into office. I guess one could give Tru...
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[19:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:31] <exec> 08└─I'd hit the afterburner and go mach about 5 feet over their tiny heads.
[19:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:32] <exec> 08└─It's all fun and games until someone loses a missile launcher.
[19:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:34] <exec> 08└─Having just been blinded by a laser - you might go mach five feet under their feet. In which case, you would achieve your intended result - with a few unintended consequences added in to the deal.
[19:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:36] <exec> 08└─Instead of counter measures, I wonder if it is technically possible for the US to engage in the same kind of laser blinding against Chinese aircraft? It would require a budget, and laser pointers from a contractor at $50,000 per unit. But it could be done, I think.
[19:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:39] <exec> 08└─When you are surprised, maybe. Otherwise let's not be too dramatic about pilots falling over Hollywood-style: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[19:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:41] <exec> 08└─Is your comment directed at me? If so, you have 100% misunderstood my comment. Perhaps you aren't familiar with that phrase? Or did you click the wrong "Reply to This" button?
[19:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:43] <exec> 08└─I hear you but escalation... where would it end? Somewhere beyond Thunderdome I fear...
[19:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:45] <exec> 08└─When you are surprised, maybe.
[19:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:48] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, murder
[19:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:50] <exec> 08└─True. On the other hand the FAA has 28000 laser incident reports from 2011 to 2015 [arstechnica.com], and zero crashes. It's something bad which needs to be addressed, but it's not exactly the worst criminals-who-deserve-decades-in-jail problem we have...
[19:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:52] <exec> 08└─Do you even understand (of course you fucking don't, I'm being rhetorical...) what Darwin meant by "fittest?" No? Then shut your stinking gob.
[19:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:54] <exec> 08└─> On one hand you have passive observation. "Spy planes" don't sound very passive.
[19:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:57] <exec> 08└─True, but nobody's throwing politicians in jail, so we have to come up with some way to meet the quotas...
[19:05:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:05] <exec> 08└─I've taken apart things with like 5 fasteners and still had hardware left over once it was back together. I swear to god, once you get a few nuts/screws/washers in a bowl, they breed.
[19:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:15] <exec> 08└─It's also possible they were just dropped parts, of the "I'll get it later" type. Or two or three technicians doing one job resulting in the predictable Bob tightened them, no Bill did, just check the box and let's go to lunch. The paperwork at NASA can be mountainous, all of it piled on to prevent...
[19:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:17] <exec> 08└─There's about zero chance of JWST getting cancelled. It's too big to fail (on the ground). If it fails on launch or in space, well, it will be a bad day + years for a lot of people.
[19:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:19] <exec> 08└─Well, yes...screws and nuts. What did you expect?
[19:05:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03idiot_king [6587] 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:30] <exec> 08└─Thank "god" someone is standing up to the crazy traitors. Hopefully we can get back to business as usual if they keep pushing.
[19:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:41] <exec> 08└─If we are going to force every law to be revisited, I think it is better done by the legislature. I would prefer something like: Unless otherwise specified, every law expires in 10 years. If you want a law to last for more than 10 years, you must get a 2/3 majority vote to pass it. Something like th...
[19:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:43] <exec> 08└─Do they have the votes? No? Correct, they need to convince one whole Republican to get on board. [thehill.com]
[19:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:45] <exec> 08└─Unless we know what's in the "net neutrality" bill then this is nothing but a bunch of turds with a shiny ribbon. They want prevent the elimination of the Net Neutraility rules that are currently in place. You can find out what those rules are right now if you want to.
[19:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:48] <exec> 08└─I doubt the Democrats would have pushed for this vote unless they had made assurances behind-the-scenes that it wouldn't pass. Why would they want the rules that they implemented in 2016 to not be kept? Remember: this bill is to prevent the repeal of the existing rules
[19:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:50] <exec> 08└─Not a bad idea. There are so many obsolete laws on the books. That quote of the day at the bottom of my Soylent page has reminded me that in some city, it is illegal to eat in a burning building. I'm not doing a search to find out, but it's believable.
[19:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, amazing, the Democrats supported concentrating control of the internet in the executive branch...when the Democrats controlled the executive branch. You honestly think they want to give Trump's FCC the keys to the castle? Do you?
[19:06:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 716 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:10] <exec> 08└─Ideology may or may not be the real motivation here, but this isn't quite the same situation as GoDaddy are claiming that the site breached their perfectly legal AUP re. incitement to violence rather than an ideological reason as justification for the termination of service. If Richard Spencer wante...
[19:06:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Appalbarry [66] 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:13] <exec> 08└─Seriously, how evil, wicked, and nasty do you have to be for GoDaddy to refuse your business?!
[19:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:37] <exec> 08└─I am sure they host many terrorist organization websites.
[19:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:38] <exec> 08└─Between a lesbian couple and a bunch of neo-Nazis, which one is advocating for harm and/or death to others? Go on. I'll wait. Take your time answering, smart guy...
[19:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:40] <exec> 08└─Butbutbutbut MUH FREEEZE PEACH! Private corporations can't censor, it's in the Constitution!!!111one! WHY ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF PERSECUTING THE WHITE RACE?!
[19:06:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 15 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:52] <exec> 08└─Sound familiar?
[19:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:42] <exec> 08└─Wow, such self serving ignorance. You really want to pretend that it is simply name familiarity discrimination? We have words to describe people like you and they aren't nice.
[19:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:43] <exec> 08└─You loons are too much.
[19:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:46] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't their primary consideration be that they have the appropriate bits between their ears?
[19:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:48] <exec> 08└─Yes! We should boycot all projects that have written Codes [soylentnews.org] of Conduct! [soylentnews.org]
[19:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:50] <exec> 08└─Is that because you're the asshat who writes good code or the asshat who writes CoC's and mission statements?
[19:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Website Are You Really on? Edge Zero-Day Leaves Windows Users With No Clue - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:22] <exec> 08└─The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it's hardly doable.
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[20:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Sprint Announces Highest Profit Ever After Saying It Needs T-Mobile Merger - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:51] <exec> 08└─Sprint may be doing okay financially, but that doesn't mean that they have the resources to compete against Verizon and AT&T. It's entirely possible that they will need to join with T-Mobile to survive long term due to the nature of spectrum auctions and the cost of investing in network infrastructu...
[20:04:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03esperto123 [4303] 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 435 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:03] <exec> 08└─So the chinese were probably using lasers to blind cameras on spy planes, some US pilots got too close to the base, maybe unintentionally, probably to spy, got hit by the laser and got partially blind. I don't know if this kind of act is covered by some convention on engagement, but I would call thi...
[20:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:24] <exec> 08└─Escalation factors aside - because it's trivially easy for the target to remove the laser beam? My understanding is that laser-guided missiles typically use a laser to "paint" the target, creating a brightly blowing omni-directional bullseye. A laser pointer in comparison is about as tightly-focusse...
[20:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:25] <exec> 08└─"Now remember children, the age of human flight began in 1903 and ended in 2018, which was the start of Cold War II, also known as The Laser War."
[20:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:28] <exec> 08└─Except it's not prank level. You have a craft that weighs anywhere from 200,000 to 900,000 lbs. moving at great speed. Take moving vehicles and take the danger up an order of magnitude at least. The reality is that these pranksters are putting a lot of people in great danger when they disrupt pilots...
[20:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:46] <exec> 08└─I bought a barbecue a couple years ago. It required some assembly. No problem; everything bigger than a toaster oven does nowadays. I had the thing 98% built. All I needed to to was attach the doors to the propane tank area. Easy-peasy. A screw, a couple of washers and a nut. I found that there was...
[20:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:01] <exec> 08└─Well done, sir. I did not expect that the vast majority of the discussion on an article about the push for internet censorship from the capitalist elites would be about gay wedding cakes.
[20:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:08] <exec> 08└─Anyone that wants me to merge their pull request has to include a slur against a protected group in the request. Thus, if you care more about your virtue-signalling than your code, I can reject it and send them on their way with a Sam Adams quote. No muss, no fuss, no SJW drama, fork it if you don't...
[20:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:10] <exec> 08└─Name discrimination isn't racism and besides, most places your name is a choice (unlike your skin)
[20:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Making a Comeback in Mexico - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:48] <exec> 08└─Also, what did the lab rat you saw look like?
[20:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Somebody Tried to Hide a Backdoor in a Popular JavaScript npm Package - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:26] <exec> 08└─What cross-platform, sandboxed application runtime environment is not a mistake and should have been adopted instead of JavaScript? Or would you prefer that end users not be able to run an application at all because it's native and made for a different operating system?
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[21:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Worst Air Pollution Found in Indian Cities - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:44] <exec> 08└─I read recently that India had drawn up a plan that included burnt offerings on the shores of the Holy Ganges, seeking a miracle to clear up the smog.
[21:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sprint Announces Highest Profit Ever After Saying It Needs T-Mobile Merger - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe if they spent that money on infrastructure instead...
[21:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:28] <exec> 08└─Our complaint could be what they seek. It tell them that the lasers were not filtered out. This means we are vulnerable to that color of laser. It could be automated. There may be an anti-aircraft gun using that laser to measure for targeting.
[21:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:30] <exec> 08└─It's the difference between looking at someone and poking a stick in their eye.
[21:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:32] <exec> 08└─Then that can result in everyone onboard dying and the loss of all cargo, an expensive aircraft, and whatever it hits on the ground.
[21:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:52] <exec> 08└─The grill cover can perform the role of protecting the grill. The door on the last grill I had would come off the hinge during heavy wind with no cover on. Or just come off from swinging it open too hard.
[21:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:18] <exec> 08└─You assumption is exactly the problem mentioned. Congress is notorious for misleading titles. For all you know, the bill might be SOPA under a new name.
[21:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:19] <exec> 08└─The whole "net neutrality" thing is a mess. The actual legal issue is that our law forces the FCC to classify the internet as being either: a. something like a telegraph (people pay to send text messages to specific other people) b. something like a stock ticker (wire runs from stock exchange to sto...
[21:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:22] <exec> 08└─Personally, I think the 2/3s majority should be required for all laws that aren't available for review (in final form) for a period of 3 weeks prior to the vote. That way, we don't get "we didn't have time to read the law" for anything remotely controversial. If you need some money to pay for preven...
[21:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:10] <exec> 08└─What would give them a hint? If people stop listening to them, that would give them the hint. If people do want to listen to them but somehow they are censored, I think they would get the opposite hint.
[21:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:12] <exec> 08└─He is the obvious evidence that yes, you can change your skin color. He used to be black. "If you wanna make the world a better place Take a look at yourself and then make a change"
[21:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:14] <exec> 08└─Given that his friends included a prostitute and a tax collector, and that the only instances we see of him being angry with people is when they are doing stuff in the name of the church, I would say no, he didn't refuse services.
[21:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:16] <exec> 08└─What lesbian couple? My comment was about gay cakes, I have nothing against lesbians! :p (Apologies.) Yes, the top line is a nitpick that's derailing this (sub)thread, but so is your post. My argument was that one party demands to make illegal anything that doesn't follow their particular ideology,...
[21:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:25] <exec> 08└─Your argument only stands if the current market is a nearly perfect meritocracy. But it's not, so all available evidence is that persons C, D, E, and F are going to get the same shitty treatment that person D did. And I don't see the Anti-SJW Crusaders arguing that we should look up every woman, bla...
[21:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:27] <exec> 08└─The point is that the industry hasn't been paying non-whites and non-males what they're worth for decades, when we didn't have these Codes of Conduct and assistance programs. So if the problem was going to fix itself naturally, it would have done it already. There is this crazy fantasy that the tec...
[21:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:29] <exec> 08└─Obligations to be "kind" and "welcoming" are out of place and actively counterproductive here for a start. Being "kind" means hiding things that others would rather not see, it means refraining from pointing out obvious flaws in others or their work. This is a good thing in normal human social inter...
[21:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:31] <exec> 08└─First of all, if I saw a name like "Saahd", my assumption would be Arabic. But anyway... Those names tell me that you reject the highly productive culture of the USA and even western civilization. Your mom might be at fault, but you probably learned your culture from her and anyway you could have ch...
[21:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:33] <exec> 08└─There are ways to help those who are underserved by the current system without outright discrimination. Go rally support around those and you'll get a lot of takers. Or you can try to fight racism/sexism with more racism/sexism, but don't expect those you are discriminating against to help you do so...
[21:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:35] <exec> 08└─4. were backed by mysterious outsiders who offered a bribe and never paid up The leaders of Gnome were bribed to hand over the leadership of their foundation to outsiders.
[21:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:54] <exec> 08└─At birth? Hardly. Otherwise a baby would never be able to grow. A human being is not a closed system, and anabolism does not have to be balanced by greater catabolism during development. Not to mention ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny.
[21:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:56] <exec> 08└─but it shouldn't be that hard to obtain a weapon that provides a swift death
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[22:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Worst Air Pollution Found in Indian Cities - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:55] <exec> 08└─Anyone have information on how much of this pollution comes from which sources?
[22:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06World's Worst Air Pollution Found in Indian Cities - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:57] <exec> 08└─Officially, power plants and crop burning, plus city traffic. Unofficially, add the tiny contributions of Modi's friends burning Muslim possessions, sanitation/garbage issues, and the sweat of girls running away from men.
[22:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Worst Air Pollution Found in Indian Cities - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:59] <exec> 08└─Diesel trucks, buses, and trains, two-cycle motorcycle engines (tuk-tuk), burning the garbage in the morning, dust storm from the northwest, on and on. But probably the biggest and most recent factor is the coal-burning power plants, and you can't blame them - they still experience regular power out...
[22:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Worst Air Pollution Found in Indian Cities - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:01] <exec> 08└─... and the sweat of girls running away from men.
[22:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06World's Worst Air Pollution Found in Indian Cities - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:04] <exec> 08└─http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#top20 [worldometers.info] It takes a lot of new building, infrastructure, and energy to support a growing population.
[22:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:49] <exec> 08└─You should keep in mind the OP the thread was based on. Context.
[22:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:11] <exec> 08└─Does Loctite (or similar) work in this environment? Just curious if it would work or if not, why not.
[22:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:12] <exec> 08└─Do yourself a favor and get some decent hand tools. It's not that expensive, can be only a few cents difference between a good quality screwdriver and a cheap one. It's sad that so much material, cursing, sweating, and pain and bleeding is expended over such a little difference in cost. One way to t...
[22:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:14] <exec> 08└─Look over here at this fancy pants with his grill cover. The only thing my BBQ gets covered with is bird shit.
[22:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:17] <exec> 08└─https://www.doityourself.com/stry/barbeque-propane-cylinders-weather-safety-tips [doityourself.com] A heavy season of rain can cause the tank, and other attachments on the propane barbecue, to rust. Both hot and cold weather can affect gas tanks, as metal expands and contracts with fluctuations in h...
[22:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:19] <exec> 08└─Screws coming off or extra ones being dropped in is sheer carelessness and incompetence. Someone, somewhere has an engineering position for which they are not fit, to make such a shoddy design. Or possibly it's someone in assembly who, uh, screwed up.
[22:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:21] <exec> 08└─It has already been bad years for a lot more people, not that any of them want to see it fail. It has sucked the money out of many smaller, but arguably equal value space/science projects.
[22:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:23] <exec> 08└─Pro-Tip: Pawn off old/rusted tanks on those propane tank exchanges. You'll never have to buy another propane tank again.
[22:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:52] <exec> 08└─I'm not doing a search to find out, but it's believable.
[22:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Net Neutrality on May 9th - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:53] <exec> 08└─Why would they want the rules that they implemented in 2016 to not be kept?
[22:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:46] <exec> 08└─That's kind of what I thought too. I would also point out his reaction to the religious people bringing him a woman caught in the very act of adultry, to be stoned to death, to see what his reaction was. Also his encounter with the woman at the well in John 4. And there is more than one tax collecto...
[22:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:48] <exec> 08└─I think I pointed out that it's not the same thing. The difference is what you DO and what you ARE. There is another difference: GoDaddy refuses business of someone who is hateful, the cake bakers refuse business because they themselves are hateful.
[22:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:50] <exec> 08└─:-) Your incitement and even provocation are irrelevant. I have to choose to respond. All my reactions are either by choice or conditioning. People who claim to be incited to violence are actually conditioned (or have a personal predilection) to violence. Everything you do is by personal choice or c...
[22:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:04] <exec> 08└─-- or perhaps another body part!!
[22:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:06] <exec> 08└─No risk of that, my company doesn't hire transsexuals.
[22:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:08] <exec> 08└─FFS, ir's not about salary. It's about wasting contributor's donations building transgender washrooms when the money should be going towards new computers.
[22:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:10] <exec> 08└─Duh... if the blacks had learned anything in their "education" then they would have changed their ghetto names and started using "Tom" and "Sue" instead. The workplace is no place for politics.
[22:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:31] <exec> 08└─We just need good anti-aging treatments. This old man is only choosing death due to "diminishing independence". If he had the body of a twenty-something, he might choose to go on for centuries more.
[22:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blastocyst-Like Structures Created from Stem Cells - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:18] <exec> 08└─... and the fitness of the human race will be drastically reduced and they will wither away and die.
[22:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Announces "Clear History" Privacy Tool Ahead of Facebook's F8 Conference - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:46] <exec> 08└─I bet the "magic button option" will clear only YOUR view of your history. FB's and their backers' backups of ALL your history regardless, lies intact and unaffected in a storage bunker. All this is just more standard BS, smoke and mirrors from the web-elitists.
[22:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 of 2018 - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:01] <exec> 08└─I've used SMR disks and the reads are super fast as are fresh writes. Windows and Linux both seem to be smart enough to spread the writes around so it isn't really a problem. Day-to-day, they don't really seem much slower than regular disks. The real problem is on benchmarks or writes that are much...
[22:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 of 2018 - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:03] <exec> 08└─You need to look at the pre- and post- Maxtor acquisition data. I can't remember it exactly, but depending on which line your drive traces back to, you can have drastically different performance and reliability.
[22:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 of 2018 - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:05] <exec> 08└─Agreed. And that goes for desktops as well. I had the hard drive fail on my iMac recently and replaced it with an SSD. What was a somewhat sluggishly responsive system was turned into a highly responsive system overnight. I think we overlook just how much disk latency affects the performance of our...
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[23:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:47] <exec> 08└─Thank you, well said. I almost responded, but so many AC comments here are irrational and I've never found a way to correct irrational thinking. Besides, I have more important things to do. Thanks again.
[23:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:48] <exec> 08└─I think the US should use Chinese-made laser pointers.
[23:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:50] <exec> 08└─No unicorns and no accidents.
[23:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Complains That Chinese Military Personnel Are Injuring American Pilots With Lasers in Africa - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:53] <exec> 08└─It would require a budget, and laser pointers from a contractor at $50,000 per unit.
[23:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:20] <exec> 08└─Yep. I worked on a defence product once and they used loctite on every fastener as normal routine for shock and vibration. I'm surprised this has made it into the public. They might just be robustness testing it sans loctite which is what we did too. You really only use loctite once you are destruct...
[23:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:22] <exec> 08└─Sure if you've bought a Broil King, or Napoleon worth 100s or even thousands you'd be a damned fool not to spring for a $50 cover. If you bought a walmart special for $88... you may as well skip the $50 cover and just buy another walmart special when the first one disintegrates. :)
[23:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screws and Washers Have Fallen Off JWST Amid Testing and Independent Review - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:24] <exec> 08└─A quick search finds some covers at $15-17. You could also use whatever's available, such as a blue tarp (can be bought for $8 at Walmart).
[23:06:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 535 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:27] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, people like Spencer are so very convinced of the their own righteousness, that no amount of "persecution" can shake them. And, also unfortunately, every bit of "persecution", including being booted from GoDaddy, only convinces them yet more of their righteousness. It's one of those vi...
[23:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:50] <exec> 08└─If they went after the other hate groups like BLM and AntiFa then I *might* cut them some slack. They only go after random ones that it is currently popular to not like. They may be free to not carry him. He is *also* free to bitch a storm up about it. Not only is he free to do so, he will. People l...
[23:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:09] <exec> 08└─So Chris Lattner is transgender? This is getting confusing...
[23:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:11] <exec> 08└─Of course not, you racist scum!
[23:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:13] <exec> 08└─I've been using branch names.
[23:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:15] <exec> 08└─Up until now this industry has been prejudiced in favor of white heterosexual men.
[23:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:17] <exec> 08└─Unless you're claiming that color, weight, height, or gender should be used to define who a person is, yes, the only real diversity is intellectual diversity.
[23:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:20] <exec> 08└─> Perhaps you read TFA? I was responding to GP who said something like "I don't care if the guy acts like an asshat, as long as their work is good". So if the work is good, but the guy is just vile, to the point where people don't want to work on the project, I think that is an issue. I was respondi...
[23:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:22] <exec> 08└─> So you mean like a feminist who might cite any number of feminist authors Yes, I completely mean that; if someone is full of poison against *some gender* or *some race*, that's a problem. Could be a woman who is full of poison against men, or vice versa, or race or whatever. CoC is there to justif...
[23:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renowned Botanist David Goodall Flies to Switzerland to Die - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:43] <exec> 08└─Aahh, yes, never forget the good ol' TGE defence!
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