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[00:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:19] <exec> 08└─You switch your family to an all-plant diet for a generation or two. Measure your grandchildren's physical and mental development. Then we can talk.
[00:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:20] <exec> 08└─One can make the comparison look bad by feeding the cattle beer and giving them massages. http://news.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk] On the other hand, cattle can graze on irregular rocky slopes that are unfit for crop harvesting.
[00:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:22] <exec> 08└─The Truth About Soy Boys https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[00:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:34] <exec> 08└─you should quickly return before some homeless person that does not suffer memory loss like you, and 3 extra brain cell for critical thinking stakes a homestead on your rock. Really 10 days old and you're just now re-re-hash-hashing the rehash.
[00:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:35] <exec> 08└─https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/06/vpnfilter-malware-infecting-50000-devices-is-worse-than-we-thought/ [arstechnica.com]
[00:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:56] <exec> 08└─Speaking of Australia, some books still in copyright in the US are out of copyright there, and Project Gutenberg of Australia has them. One of the more notable authors available is George Orwell, who died 68 years ago. Not sure about the legalities-- is it illegal to download 1984 inside the US, eve...
[00:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:48] <exec> 08└─I suspect those sexbot buying folks will quickly learn that the best part of sex is the emotional connection. It is stimulating your partner and having them respond. A robot will never do that, even if they eventually figure out how to make its moans sound sincere. As to the effect of sexbots on soc...
[00:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:50] <exec> 08└─> Of course sex robots with the appearance of children shouldn't be banned, since they're not real children. > (...) > They have zero quality evidence to support anything they say, and they don't believe in personal responsibility. Not banned, but maybe registered? "look, we'd rather you take your i...
[00:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:52] <exec> 08└─> won't be able to refuse consent, at least not until someone equips Miss Super Hyper-real Green-haired Schoolgirl Bot 3000 with a small flamethrower. "Our most realistic model comes with our patented trans-vaginal cervix-activated bear trap, which is only deactivated by putting a ring on her finger...
[00:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:54] <exec> 08└─Not banned, but maybe registered?
[00:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:13] <exec> 08└─Anything's possible but it won't be soon. Stripe has stopped accepting BitCoin entirely and the perl I wrote for the BitPay API would have to be entirely thrown out and rewritten to function at all and I'm not inclined to do so given the idiocy of BitPay's dev team. Which would mean research and the...
[00:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:14] <exec> 08└─Interesting is perfectly legit for something you disagree with too if it is indeed interesting.
[00:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:16] <exec> 08└─My sentiments exactly, though I can't afford to subscribe.
[00:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:41] <exec> 08└─Current estimates of the total Oort cloud mass is about 5x that of Earth, scattered across a volume of about 10 cubic light years. Does that really sound appealing to you? Besides the basic thing about metal - one of the basic first things you do with it, for basically any purpose, is to melt it and...
[00:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:42] <exec> 08└─Well, okay, but I can see it as an indirect conclusion. Something is "statistically" wiping out independent intelligent ponderers (IIPs), otherwise we should either be surrounded by lots of galaxies with humans (dominance theory) or by lots of other species (Trek model). So what's wiping out IIPs? M...
[00:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:44] <exec> 08└─How long does it take to fill the solar system to the point the some groups don't want to deal with the others badly enough to leave altogether?
[00:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’ - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:46] <exec> 08└─The government isn't homogenous. It's entirely possible, even likely, that the courts would slap a big ole "eat shit and die" on any law/treaty like this.
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[01:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:20] <exec> 08└─Can anyone name any omnivorous species of mammal that became herbivorous and has not died out or is currently on the brink of doing so? The only animals I've ever heard of, from a few species of early hominids to the modern Giant Pandas, that started off as omnivorous and become herbivores all have...
[01:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:22] <exec> 08└─The moment you can make taste like a sirloin...
[01:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:24] <exec> 08└─The Truth About Buzzwords. I don't see why it matters as long as you're getting the right amount of calories, nutrients, minerals, and so on. And you don't need to go near soy, even if you're a vegetarian or a vegan.
[01:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:27] <exec> 08└─Is that they disregard the fact that we are supposed to eat meat. As far as I am concerned though, we eat *too much* of it. and there are alternatives that could helps us reduce our meat intake greatly (I mean beef as well as others...). But giving up on meat altogether would, in my opinion, be an i...
[01:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:29] <exec> 08└─Anecdotal evidence, but: I'm a second-generation vegetarian. Both my sister and I were solidly near the top in mental abilities by available objective measures. Physically, I'm reasonably healthy, she's doing triathlons for fun. So I'm not convinced that a vegetarian diet = unhealthy or underdevelop...
[01:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:32] <exec> 08└─https://www.amazon.com/Whole-Foods-Diet-Lifesaving-Longevity/dp/1478944919 [amazon.com] "THE WHOLE FOODS DIET simplifies the huge body of science, research, and advice that is available today and reveals the undeniable consensus: a whole foods, plant-based diet is the optimum diet for health and lon...
[01:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:45] <exec> 08└─It's like the customer that came in bitching that the repairs on his car was taking too long and costs too much, as his neighbor is a mechanic (that came with him to the shop). I asked the mechanic neighbor where he worked and what ASE certs he had... "I work at McDonalds". I think he was an IT expe...
[01:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:46] <exec> 08└─People can be self-taught. The biggest question is why didn't the guy get his neighbor to fix his car if he's a mechanic and is willing to come with him to the shop? That's what raises doubts.
[01:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:08] <exec> 08└─nothing even remotely close to contemporary
[01:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:10] <exec> 08└─if you aren't paying then the creator isn't getting any money anyway
[01:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:12] <exec> 08└─I've been listening to stuff like Dragnet, Gunsmoke and the old comedies from the internet archive, but yeah, they need to set it up better: have people contribute but not in their own portal so you have to search like a friend. "Dragnet, brought to you by Fatima long cigarettes"...damn commercials...
[01:35:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 407 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:35] <exec> 08└─Thank you for defining that term. It was being bandied about here the past month or so, but I didn't want to encourage the coining of such whackadoodle labels by looking it up. It's an old concept, and as such there are other perfectly acceptable English words for it: lonely, lovelorn, etc. Let's pr...
[01:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:09] <exec> 08└─How much C4 should we pack into them and what should the trigger conditions be?
[01:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:10] <exec> 08└─"Only a small fraction of pedophiles (as opposed to child molesters) actually want to rape children to begin with. So maybe there are people who will be stopped from raping others because of this, but probably not a massive amount." Yes, I don't find unsubstantiated claims of a significant direct ef...
[01:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:12] <exec> 08└─which part of "kind of person who needs to discharge your impulses out on a kid-shaped piece of silicone and rubber" did not register with you ? Being sexually attracted is one thing, and there are plenty of harmless ways to cope with it. When you get to the point where you have to go beyond the ama...
[01:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:14] <exec> 08└─The best part? Let's be honest, that part is orgasming YOURSELF. I enjoy making the other person cum and enjoy the intimacy and buildup for them, but if I am not cumming the vast majority of the time, it's not worth it. Might as well just give them a backscratch instead of sex.
[01:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:01] <exec> 08└─True, for "life like us"... maybe it's not possible to form life out of first or second generation systems, but if there is a way, somewhere in all the galaxies it has surely happened by now.
[01:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:02] <exec> 08└─To live on another planet without bubble-boy caliber life support systems they'd need to kill off all the native lifeforms down to the bacteria and then build it up from scratch.
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[02:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watchdog Slams TSB Boss for Underplaying Extent of IT Meltdown - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:17] <exec> 08└─...about the TSA. Alas, no such luck.
[02:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:34] <exec> 08└─Vitamin B12 - Methylcobalamine - is required to make red blood cells and is not found in plants. Not Even A Little Bit. My doc told me that a B12 deficiency can cause brain damage. The guy who discovered it won the Medicine Nobel for curing Pernicious Anemia, a formerly fatal disease that killed you...
[02:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:50] <exec> 08└─*finds the pleasant glow of Tomato... *pats self on back, just because.
[02:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:52] <exec> 08└─To be fair, given the way the FBI has trashed it's own reputation year after year, my first thought when I saw that they were asking people to reboot was "hold on, let's think this through".
[02:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:17] <exec> 08└─Just smoke some crack, maaaaan..... ....audio books come with pink unicorns now!
[02:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:18] <exec> 08└─I tried to listen to Animal Farm the audio book, but it's just a bunch of mooing and oinking and animal screams. Put me off my steak dinner, tell you what!
[02:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:20] <exec> 08└─From the humble bundle, I got a bunch of Doctor Who audio books (Dalek Empire) that is great quality. Never really got into a.books until I heard that.
[02:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:22] <exec> 08└─Care to recommend any of these in particular? Last time I was in there, everything I found was cringe worthy.
[02:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:25] <exec> 08└─And all the Grammarly commercials you want. :)
[02:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:27] <exec> 08└─With Overdrive through your public library, authors are paid, usually by whatever funds your library. Ultimately, that ends up being you, so you might as well use it.
[02:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:29] <exec> 08└─I'm shocked that YouTube hasn't broken the site for Adblock users yet. What are they waiting for?
[02:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:30] <exec> 08└─I was kidding when I asked if "pedobot" buyers should get added to a watchlist. It's no crime, and there should be no list. If need be they can just build it themselves and avoid the list.
[02:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:31] <exec> 08└─The trigger condition: explode as soon as asshole Mr. leftover finishes packing it.
[02:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Easter Island Never Had an Over Population Problem - 2891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:48] <exec> 08└─There is a cooling, and there’s a heating. I mean look, it used to not be climate change, it used to be global warming. That wasn’t working too well because it was getting too cold all over the place. The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting r...
[02:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Easter Island Never Had an Over Population Problem - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:50] <exec> 08└─We call them gingers. I wouldn't call them a race. But they're very special. And if they were a race they'd win. They'd absolutely win. Because they're always horny. Really incredible people. I know because my grandmother was a ginger. If you want an amazing time like you've never had in your entire...
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[02:42:33] <exec> 08└─I chose this story for several reasons - but 'for clicks' isn't one of them. Firstly, it was submitted by one of our community, it was well written and supported by a link from a reputable source, and it is among a small number worth printing from many others in the submission queue which are, frank...
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[03:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:35] <exec> 08└─Vegetarians (no modifier) can eat eggs and drink milk.
[03:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:36] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Quick look on our friend Wiki reveals B12 is found in fermented foods and seaweed, algae etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[03:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:39] <exec> 08└─But the good news is that B12 is found in fungus. Try some brewer's yeast on your fried tofu for supper tonight; brewers yeast tastes really, really good.
[03:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:41] <exec> 08└─I'm not a cook. But I eat a lot so I know a lot about food. And I'll tell you, yeast is not a mushroom.
[03:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:43] <exec> 08└─You might be smart. If you don't short yourself on nutrients, you have a chance for this. Mental development is more than just being capable of intellectual pursuits. For example, with maturity comes a change in priorities. Additional changes happen as people settle down and raise families. From num...
[03:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:45] <exec> 08└─Believe me, I love a juicy, delicious cheeseburger or a well-done steak as much as the next guy. Possibly more. But I visited China, otherwise known as the home of soy. And the home of tofu. Which they've been eating for THOUSANDS of years. Not a lot of meat! But A LOT of people. Tremendous crowds,...
[03:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:48] <exec> 08└─I'm 36. Been vegan for 5-6 years, and vegetarian for many years before that - easily the majority of my adult life. I'm a sysadmin as my day job. Strava says I ran a total of 208km last month, and 306km during April (I recently purchased a Garmin watch to start tracking). I've also been riding to an...
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[03:34:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, people can be self taught, but if someone aspires to be a professional, why not get the certs? I've read quite a lot of medicine, I trust my judgment on myself, but like hell I would let some other "self-taught" smartass start cutting me.
[03:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Universal Broadband Speed Plan 'Unambitious', Say Lords - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:54] <exec> 08└─That's the difference. That's why a Government job has an "inherent wrong". Why can't you see that? And, when a corporation takes resources at the point of a gun, it's only able to do so because it has gotten a Government to do its dirty work; governments corrupt corporations, not the other way aro...
[03:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:39] <exec> 08└─How can you be certain he went "up"?
[03:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Easter Island Never Had an Over Population Problem - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:58] <exec> 08└─You know, I am starting to think is is the realDonaldJTrump. The insanity is just too fresh to be a mimicry.
[03:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Invaders at 40: 'I Tried Soldiers, but Shooting People Was Frowned Upon' - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:19] <exec> 08└─If you've made up your mind to use violence to resolve conflicts, then why are some targets acceptable but not others? How would it make it "dark"?
[03:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Invaders at 40: 'I Tried Soldiers, but Shooting People Was Frowned Upon' - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:20] <exec> 08└─It's an imaginary game with imaginary violence on imaginary beings. People can't tell imagination and reality apart anymore huh?
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[04:33:19] <exec> 08└─Also operates as BlackBerry Mobile. I wonder if they recieved that deal before or after their agreement with BlackBerry. The Hub was ported to Android for the Priv and is present on the KeyOne and Motion, so they would likely have some access through BlackBerry's deal anyway.
[04:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:50] <exec> 08└─Question: is it the bike riding or the vegan diet that made you into a whiney bitch?
[04:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:51] <exec> 08└─If there is a problem, why should I change my lifestyle when I can just kill some soyboys and absorb their share of whatever fancy made up pollution allotments you can come up with?
[04:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:53] <exec> 08└─Plus kebab meat only if your drunk tho.
[04:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:56] <exec> 08└─It appears to be the usual 'i know the answer, lets make figures to prove it!' kinds of research. For example they do not allow for the fact that grasslands, and the cattle that feed on them, are a rather significant carbon sink. They also do not appear to adjust for the detrimental effects of crop...
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[04:33:58] <exec> 08└─Probably because none of those are actually plants?
[04:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is the same malware that was covered earlier. What is new is that they discovered new device families that are vulnerable. And your second point is partially correct. This is a three-stage malware and rebooting it will kill stages 2 and 3, as they are memory-resident. Stage 1 will survive...
[04:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:18] <exec> 08└─also 'mcdebian' on some linksys. debian stays up to date a lot more than many plastic routers do.. its not lede or wrt. its real debian, with apt-get and all that goodness.
[04:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:21] <exec> 08└─FBI (as well as police) is not our friend. They are out to get us to receive bonuses and promotions. Doing what they ask is stupid at best and potentially dangerous.
[04:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:23] <exec> 08└─Might be a better as a poll or ask Soylent question, but I am in the market for a router. I have not looked in to them since the WRT was great, so I am very out of the loop. What are other Solyenters using these days? In particular I am looking at one that supports port bonding for future-proofing,...
[04:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:53] <exec> 08└─Same here plus I have a long commute. However, I pirate simply because it is more convenient. I do pay for amazon audible subscription and local library is an option, but yet pirating is faster and simpler and the files play on my little devices that don't support DRM but work for weeks on one charg...
[04:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:39] <exec> 08└─Too many connotations of vendor lock in.
[04:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:21] <exec> 08└─I would also point out, as I just discovered, you can renew a subscription early, and you can pay more than the asked rate.
[04:40:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Russian Physicist Proposes New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:09] <exec> 08└─It's all about the invisible quotation marks: Fox "News" posts a "Science" story about a non-answer to Fermi's Paradox.
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[05:33:18] <exec> 08└─I'm actively look for some unimproved land in northwest Oregon or southwest Washington. Five acres is just ten grand. Very first thing I'm going to rent a tractor plow it then scatter a whole lotta meadow in a can. Then I'm gonna buy some beehives Then I'll pick out spots for my house, workshop and...
[05:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:19] <exec> 08└─I like the idea of the different states tryng different ideas, states taking risk and successfully implementing "green" plans that work out for the economy are a great way to show other states the possibilities. There are good ideas and reasons to go for renewables and reduction of carbon that shoul...
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[05:33:22] <exec> 08└─Get some adjacent forest too, if you can. Great for materials, and also hunting/trapping.
[05:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Confirms Data-Sharing Deals With Huawei and Other Chinese Companies - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:30] <exec> 08└─Google still flies under the radar. They probably have 10x more data than FB, they're probably selling it to everybody and their dog who's willing to pay for it without any restraint, and nobody cares. But Facebook? Uuh, baaad! I'd investigate Google sooner than I would Facebook, personnally. But he...
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[05:38:25] <exec> 08└─But if you believe it's uninteresting...
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[06:33:21] <exec> 08└─You should have reported having received your ancestor's tools and duly declared them as income for the purpose of taxation. The only reason you can dream of your little homesteading experiment is because you've stolen resources from The State, you resource-centralizing capitalist pig–dog! Not ev...
[06:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:23] <exec> 08└─Some people (Trump voters) do not realize that Hawaii is a State of the United States. They think it is part of Kenya! But then, they have no idea where Kenya is! Ha! What maroons! But the real kicker, is that Donald J(oker) Trump was not born in the United States! He was born in Bermuda, and his...
[06:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Confirms Data-Sharing Deals With Huawei and Other Chinese Companies - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:33] <exec> 08└─Fight one battle at a time. I'd dearly love to see that psycho Zuckerberg burn first. And then once Farcebook has been burned and salted we can get down to the business of doing the same to Google.
[06:33:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:58] <exec> 08└─But the good news is that B12 is found in fungus. Try some brewer's yeast on your fried tofu for supper tonight; brewers yeast tastes really, really good.
[06:35:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06UK Universal Broadband Speed Plan 'Unambitious', Say Lords - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:18] <exec> 08└─It's amazing that you were able to be such a fantastic athlete with those bone spurs in your foot. Very Inspiring.
[06:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:48] <exec> 08└─Perhaps because they're trying to do a piss-poor job of stealing ostensibly good ideas from Plan 9 [9p.io]?
[06:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:08] <exec> 08└─As to the effect of sexbots on society, it seems the effects will be self-correcting over the long run. That is, the people who use sexbots exclusively and fail to have successful relationships with others will die out.
[06:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:10] <exec> 08└─In other words, the sex bots are a trap: people will reach a comfortable local behavioral minimum with them and simply stop trying to relate to real flesh and blood humans.
[06:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:34] <exec> 08└─The costs aren't really any more short-term than the subscriptions; $120/year is $120/year whether you pay it all at once or $10/month for example. It does help that we don't have to hit everyone up around the holidays though. Not everyone has a lot to spare around then.
[06:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:35] <exec> 08└─If it's not interesting you wouldn't be paying it any attention. I mean I think socialist writings are interesting for example. Horribly, astoundingly, malevolently wrong but interesting.
[06:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:37] <exec> 08└─That brings to mind the BBC's "Boring Talks" podcast : https://www.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk] The speakers "talk about subjects that may appear boring to others, but they find very interesting. and who knows? Maybe you will too." (The first episode involves calculat...
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[07:33:25] <exec> 08└─Born in Panama!! Who ever let him run for president of USA?? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[07:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:26] <exec> 08└─I've already done this, but in AZ. I have land in WA also, but the solar potential there absolutely sucks. My girlfriend's grandparents set up a homestead on as few acres with a very big house built with lumber they felled and milled themselves not far from Seattle and were able to live 100% self su...
[07:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Confirms Data-Sharing Deals With Huawei and Other Chinese Companies - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:37] <exec> 08└─they don't seem to charge their users for their service.
[07:34:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 820 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:11] <exec> 08└─It appears to be the usual 'i know the answer, lets make figures to prove it!' kinds of research. For example they do not allow for the fact that grasslands, and the cattle that feed on them, are a rather significant carbon sink. They also do not appear to adjust for the detrimental effects of crop...
[07:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:13] <exec> 08└─75 million American bison were killed (Seton 1929) in order to be replaced by 94.4 million cows (https://www.quora.com/How-many-cows-are-there-in-the-US).
[07:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:16] <exec> 08└─Carl Popper, regarded as the 20th century's greatest philosopher of science, called this pseudo science.
[07:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:18] <exec> 08└─Diversity and moderation would, in my opinion, work much better than messages about switching diets entirely.
[07:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:20] <exec> 08└─cattle can graze on irregular rocky slopes that are unfit for crop harvesting. Not in the imagination of our vegan masters.
[07:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:22] <exec> 08└─yeast is not a mushroom. After a few shrooms, (or maybe quite a lot) you might be willing to revise your opinion!
[07:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:45] <exec> 08└─If you want to run OpenWrt, there is a discussion on this topic on the LEDE forum, here: What’s your favorite enthusiast LEDE/OpenWrt device? [lede-project.org] What’s your favourite cheap LEDE/OpenWrt device? [lede-project.org] Note, OpenWrt forked a while back into LEDE (Linux Embedded Develop...
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[07:36:03] <exec> 08└─I modded this 'Insightful', and I fear this is exactly how this will play out, planned or unplanned.
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[08:33:14] <exec> 08└─The boy ran. He ran and he ran and he ran throughout the house. Finally, the boy reached the master bedroom closet; he entered it and shut the closet door behind him. "They won't find me here..." the boy thought to himself, as if the certainty of that statement was unclear. Then, the little boy hear...
[08:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:34] <exec> 08└─The rest of my land will get Solar Citied
[08:34:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03goodie [1877] 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 1124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:03] <exec> 08└─Is that they disregard the fact that we are supposed to eat meat. As far as I am concerned though, we eat *too much* of it. and there are alternatives that could helps us reduce our meat intake greatly (I mean beef as well as others...). But giving up on meat altogether would, in my opinion, be an i...
[08:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:25] <exec> 08└─Can anyone tell me what an all-plant diet would look like? Now I mean one that can sustained for at least a year: plants (and water) only. When failing that add minerals as well. and when failing that add bacteria and/or fungi as well. I'm mainly curious about just what beyond plants only that is ne...
[08:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:26] <exec> 08└─For example they do not allow for the fact that grasslands, and the cattle that feed on them, are a rather significant carbon sink.
[08:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:08] <exec> 08└─Thus getting rid of everything that makes GIT better than the competition.
[08:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:10] <exec> 08└─How else do would you make sure to not be interoperable with KDE? Heck, if it worked at the OS level or library level, it would work without either of them.
[08:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:12] <exec> 08└─Sequel was the name of the system that came before SQL. Calling MS SQL Server "Sequel Server" thus falls in the same category as calling the current Microsoft OS "DOS 10". (Which would put me on DOS 7, but that's just confusing).
[08:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:14] <exec> 08└─Because your question makes wrong assumptions. This is about gnome the project and if for instance you want to open files on network storage or dvd or ..., this is shown to you applications as a virtual filesystem. Otherwise every text editor would need to implement reading dvds in case you want to...
[08:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:37] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, did you just threaten to blow up and/or enslave the entire world if you can't have your animatronic fucktoy...? You know, there might, *just might,* be a *reason* other real flesh and blood humans have decided not to relate with you. This certainly won't help your case. On the other hand,...
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[08:37:38] <exec> 08└─with places like the UK actually putting people in prison for underage rape cartoons and comic books
[08:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:40] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't bet on it. Factor in your assessment that the author of the first one is a woman.
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[08:39:08] <exec> 08└─As long as cost remains exactly 1v1 mapped to expense, but how realistic is that? All I am saying that don't let someone's 2 year subscriptions (2x$120 = $240) be used to to balance this year's expense of 240. Because next year you won't get even $120. As long as future earnings are not used for pre...
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[09:33:34] <exec> 08└─Taking climate change and sea level rise into account definitely is a common sense, but spending money on going green for a such a small island archipelago is just a token gesture which does little to solve the global problem affecting it.
[09:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:35] <exec> 08└─Get Back To Me When _YOU_ Can Claim A Charitable Deduction On Your Form 1040 Schedule A. Portland Rescue Mission [portlandrescuemission.org]. They also have transitional housing. They can sleep 56 men year round as well as an additional 96 from late fall until early spring. They give free clothes to...
[09:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watchdog Slams TSB Boss for Underplaying Extent of IT Meltdown - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:53] <exec> 08└─It reminds me of how reliant we are on banking infrastructure. At the end of the day, many folks have significant (majority of) assets tied up in the banks. If the banks lose that data due to IT "meltdown", what happens?
[09:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:29] <exec> 08└─You don't need to eat meat products to be healthy.
[09:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:31] <exec> 08└─They allow for global warming effects of cattle 'emmissions' (of the gaseous kind) as a huge impact, but have NO allowance for rotting cropping leftovers, which produce EXACTLY THE SAME GAS.
[09:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:33] <exec> 08└─Try some brewer's yeast on your fried tofu for supper tonight; brewers yeast tastes really, really good.
[09:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah I thought of something like that too. It is not a eat meat or not eat meat political/ethical divide, there is a continuous spectrum there. Ample plant based food with only as much meat as to provide the flavors is more satisfying for the palate and the belly than a meat-heavy meal.
[09:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:59] <exec> 08└─My days of buying a consumer crap router and reflashing with third-party firmware are over. There are a lot of inexpensive but fearsomely powerful choices now, like Ubiquiti, MikroTik, OPNsense, etc.
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[09:35:32] <exec> 08└─You might try The Six Shooter. Jimmy Stewart is perfect, and the plots aren’t the usual Western filler.
[09:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:49] <exec> 08└─Being sexually attracted is one thing, and there are plenty of harmless ways to cope with it.
[09:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:51] <exec> 08└─There's just this pesky thing called "consent" they can't get.
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[10:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Scientists Develop More Error-Tolerant Approach to Quantum Computing - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:26] <exec> 08└─Scientists at Hokkaido University and Kyoto University have developed a theoretical approach to quantum computing that is 10 billion times more tolerant to errors than current theoretical models.
[10:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:43] <exec> 08└─The peak of Mauna Kea on the big island has an altitude of 14,000 feet. There's not many other mountains in the rest of the US that can match that.
[10:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:44] <exec> 08└─but spending money on going green for a such a small island archipelago is just a token gesture which does little to solve the global problem affecting it.
[10:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Confirms Data-Sharing Deals With Huawei and Other Chinese Companies - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:55] <exec> 08└─I'm sure Zuck is REALLY SORRY and will look into it, just like all the other times they got caught. I'm sure he's really sorry for all the things they haven't yet been caught doing. He's sorry...you can trust him...
[10:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:44] <exec> 08└─Plant matter ferments in cow guts, cow farts methane. Plant matter ferments in human guts, human farts methane. Let's all turn vegetarians and outstrip the cattle in fart production, yessss!
[10:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:45] <exec> 08└─You switch your family to an all-plant diet for a generation or two.
[10:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:11] <exec> 08└─Reboot? Why? Does it run Windows?
[10:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:45] <exec> 08└─Episodes based on stories by famous writers [wikipedia.org]
[10:36:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:23] <exec> 08└─Radically Embraced Industry Standard Extending Revision File System.
[10:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:38] <exec> 08└─Microsoft have given up trying to milk hundreds of dollars for licences for visual studio from developers and businesses. It will die. Soon. Replaced by Visual Studio Code ala VSC. Businesses now use gitlab, not github. Although, it's not that hard to push code from gitlab to github. My place has it...
[10:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:39] <exec> 08└─From the gitlab Wikipedia page: "In June 2018, the acquisition of competitor GitHub by Microsoft[24][25] caused a migration of over 250,000 projects to GitLab[26]." Will it still be worth that much of most people move elsewhere?
[10:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:41] <exec> 08└─How can this person be remotely qualified if a simple search for existing names is beyond them? Does MS have hiring issues?
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[11:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:13] <exec> 08└─Since the most like cause of "sonic attacks" seems to be two interacting ultrasonic devices. Do the US by any chance employ jammers that are part of these interactions? I mean, since it basically only seems to be US diplomats that are targeted and only at places where you'd expect jammers (and liste...
[11:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe some side effects or adverse reactions caused by an "anticommunist vaccine" administered to US personnel, manifested as brain inflammations?
[11:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Scientists Develop More Error-Tolerant Approach to Quantum Computing - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:35] <exec> 08└─Yes. But not this week.
[11:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:54] <exec> 08└─A second bill requires the state to use carbon offsets
[11:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:55] <exec> 08└─Have you not reached maturity?
[11:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:56] <exec> 08└─Except that humans produce much less methane, due to more varied sources of food. Cows need to use a lot of bacteria to break down the cellulose, because the cows won't get too much of simple sugars and lipids and proteins from other sources. Look, there's very little fat in the grass they eat - and...
[11:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:23] <exec> 08└─if someone aspires to be a professional, why not get the certs?
[11:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:25] <exec> 08└─The worm infecting these routers is apparently like the SQL Slammer worm from 2003 [wikipedia.org]. It infects only the copy of the operating system in RAM, not the copy stored in the device's flash memory. Rebooting is the easiest way for a non-technical user to kill the rogue process and reload a...
[11:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:00] <exec> 08└─Careful, you're on a slippery slope that leads to becoming a vegetarian (gasp!) Then you might feel virtuous that you're helping to save the world from Global Warming by eating less meat, thus reducing the need to raise cattle, which will reduce methane emissions from, well, you know where. Animal n...
[11:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:55] <exec> 08└─The OS already does these for you! No need for the desktop environment to reimplement all that.
[11:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:23] <exec> 08└─That would have the opposite effect. "You need to register to get a too small piece of plastic, but you don't need to register to get access to the playground".
[11:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:51] <exec> 08└─This is cheap. It works. Why change?
[11:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:53] <exec> 08└─Then buy more servers! Geez is it that hard?
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[12:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:26] <exec> 08└─So is it identical issues to the once on Cuba or are they different? If they are not different it would seem likely that there is something the US brings with it to the various countries instead of something someone is doing to them. That is unless China and Cuba are now in secret developing surveil...
[12:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:27] <exec> 08└─Not just that, but nobody else apart from those in the US embassy are suffering, despite sound not being particularly directional. I do think the anti-communist vaccine is the simplest explation so far.
[12:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:35] <exec> 08└─Is there a list of these "easily duped reporters"?
[12:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:11] <exec> 08└─Humans eat fruit and cereals/tubers and nuts and pulses etc, something you won't find in ruminant's diet.
[12:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:12] <exec> 08└─The answer is that propaganda has diminishing returns in large quantities. The population eventually devolves into a population of people who have embraced or rejected the propaganda, and thus, can't be changed further.
[12:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:15] <exec> 08└─that requires time travel and extra universes.
[12:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:13] <exec> 08└─The kernel doesn't know how to mount all file systems, especially things that aren't traditional file systems. GNOME virtual file system can mount, for example, an SSH server using SFTP. Even if file systems are made for FUSE, as I understand it, mounting may available only to the superuser, and a s...
[12:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:14] <exec> 08└─Semitic roots are typically made of three consonants, one of which is often a Q. The writing systems for Semitic languages often omit vowels, and the reader is expected to guess the vowel based on preexisting knowledge of the spoken language. People who pronounce "SQL" as "sequel" may be following a...
[12:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:16] <exec> 08└─(Score: 5, Informatively Funny)
[12:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:45] <exec> 08└─Aside: "using a sex robot encourages rape/pedophilia/misogyny" is a stupid argument
[12:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:15] <exec> 08└─I agree. If Soylent is going to remain "of the people" it serves a useful purpose to do a fundraiser like this occasionally. It reminds everyone, especially the trolls, that nobody is doing this for the money. One thought about the swag--i have the SN t-shirt and baseball cap, but i think the logo c...
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[13:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:18] <exec> 08└─It doesn't seem to me that 1-10 million years constitutes "very long periods" when we are talking astronomy.
[13:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:19] <exec> 08└─Right, having multiple Sun workstations won't kill you. The stories about radiation and lead poisoning from vintage electronics are just made up by marketers trying to sell iPhones, that are probably worse for you. Although Solaris might make your hair fall out, but you will eventually grow a neckbe...
[13:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:30] <exec> 08└─Not true, Canadians were also affected in Cuba.
[13:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:39] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't it be illegal for officials to lie about the government service they are providing to the public? Is it already, and I just don't know it because lying is so prevalent?
[13:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:13] <exec> 08└─Found the incel! Everybody knows that Hawaii is a territory of Kenya! Our President made a tremendous deal with Pele. A fantastic deal to get rid of the Kenyan imperialists! And Pele is a very fit woman. Very hot. You sound like somebody who is scared by alphas like Trump and the effect he has on wo...
[13:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:14] <exec> 08└─When you have to import all of your energy taking steps to go green and independent does make sense. It might not compare on the scale of moving the entire USA to solar, but in conversion from carbon to alternative energy we need to look for the easiest conversions first.
[13:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:21] <exec> 08└─Conveniently, the human body is designed to live off refined flour derived from the US staple crops (corn and wheat), that has been enriched and fortified with everything we need to survive. These are also ideal for the environment.
[13:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 1443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:22] <exec> 08└─What about an all meat diet? It looks like there are no negative health effects, but you lose weight, lower your blood pressure, stop farting, and even your shit stops stinking: Two normal men volunteered to live solely on meat for one year, which gave us an unusual opportunity of studying the effec...
[13:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:25] <exec> 08└─I walk and read ebooks every day Is this a "can't chew gum and walk at the same time" type of problem for you?
[13:37:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:10] <exec> 08└─Thought my suggestions were good but that one sounds killer...
[13:38:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:06] <exec> 08└─"Where is Tony?" "He ran to the pharmacy after the error log said something about a failed redirection of STDOUT."
[13:38:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 2738 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:08] <exec> 08└─The thing that separates sex robots from something like a dildo or--how I wish I didn't know these existed--an "onahole" is that they are human-like. Without even getting into the ramifications of AI here (I'm speaking strictly of lifelike robot shells with minimal to no autonomous movement), the hu...
[13:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:54] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, did you just threaten to blow up and/or enslave the entire world if you can't have your animatronic fucktoy...?
[13:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:26] <exec> 08└─This was the basis of dogecoin so why not?
[13:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:28] <exec> 08└─Stripe is awesome. They even accept gift visa cards
[13:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:30] <exec> 08└─I will have the business minded people behind SN know that it is a bad strategy to sell long term subscriptions to fulfill short term costs.
[13:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:10] <exec> 08└─So, what it sounds an awful lot like to me is "Please give my friends billions to go play with their toys out in the ocean."
[13:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon Completes Draft Plans for New Low-Yield Sea-Launched Nuclear Weapons - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:12] <exec> 08└─As to why we avoid assassinations: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Yes, they seem like a clean way to do things, but that is why they are so troublesome.
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[14:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:18] <exec> 08└─If patents fail to promote innovation, as the author claims, and can even be harmful, then should not Europe outstrip America in terms of computational innovation? Do we observe that consequence in reality? If not, then the author's reasoning may be flawed.
[14:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:20] <exec> 08└─If Botswana was the only country in the world to abolish software patents, would it become the world leader in software?
[14:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:22] <exec> 08└─No. It is your time scale that may be flawed. Software was ignored by copyright law at first and then during the growth decades was under copyright. It was only in recent years that it has also been encumbered by patents and the data is in on that. Software patents have hindered "innovation" [phys.o...
[14:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:32] <exec> 08└─having multiple Sun workstations won't kill you
[14:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:34] <exec> 08└─That's nice, since multiple star systems are very common. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Research over the last two centuries suggests that half or more of visible stars are part of multiple star systems.
[14:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:36] <exec> 08└─We're not talking astronomy, we're talking evolution. Millions of years are conceivable plenty long enough for a species to evolve far enough to escape its home planet before it becomes uninhabitable.
[14:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:48] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be a "Communism Vaccine"? rather than an Anti?
[14:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe it is a withdrawal effect of being off some of the meds they take in the US.
[14:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:59] <exec> 08└─The list of easily duped reporters is basically all reporters. The personality that tends to go into journalism is one that so wants to get the story that they will accept any information that they can get their hands on and will treat it as fact so long as it fits their "narrative". To get an idea...
[14:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:36] <exec> 08└─I'd be interested in hearing more about that. The U.S. East most of the most important species of trees were logged out by about 1900. With selective harvesting after that, almost everything that has grown back since has been useful only for pulp, stick house building and firewood. Gone are the vast...
[14:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:37] <exec> 08└─Once, in a previous millennium, I did a study on implementing wind concentrators to boost output from vertical-axis wind turbines. The concentrators were only feasible if they did not need to turn, so I looked for places with the most consistent winds. Hawaii was the hands-down winner with consisten...
[14:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:47] <exec> 08└─I don't need to change my diet - humans need to stop overpopulating the planet.
[14:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:15] <exec> 08└─Like swatting at flies I'd expect. I haven't seen any update studies, but the last one [sans.edu] gave an unpatched Windows system ~4min before (re-)pwnage. Since then a lot of attacks have switched to target routers, so I'd imagine there'd be a lot of rebooting required to keep it clean...
[14:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:52] <exec> 08└─Listening to a reading of, say, Common Lisp: The Language, 2nd ed, would be, to put it mildly, quite boring. Despite how I loved CL back in the late 80's early 90's. I just stuck with the book. I wasn't going to wait for the movie version. Yes, I am a hard person to buy books for. The books I like a...
[14:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:22] <exec> 08└─What do you want girl? Do you want to force people, who the world at large deems unattractive to associate with, to interact with that world at all costs? I'm doing fairly well for a nerdy, gay introvert, but I know how hard it is to relate to those who are categorised as "normal people". From a lar...
[14:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:24] <exec> 08└─So, those in Pon Farr will be allowed to kill everybody in the neighborhood
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[15:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:15] <exec> 08└─Most IPv6 subnets are 2^64 addresses and you can encode some bytes of data into the address. So you could imagine someone wanting a larger than 128-bit address.
[15:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe the Network Effect will come into play. If I was the only person in the world that had a telephone, the usefulness of a telephone would be somewhat less than it is currently. Once a 2nd person has a telephone, a telephone becomes more useful. A 3rd person, etc. As more and more sites have IPv6...
[15:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:27] <exec> 08└─If Botswana would have the strongest patent laws in the world would it become the world leader in software?
[15:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 1725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:29] <exec> 08└─Without the MP3 patents - there were I think three dozen of them - we wouldn't have Ogg Vorbis. The problems I see with many patents are found among most kinds of patents, not just software: patents must be "novel and unobvious". Many patents fail that test and so should be voided by the courts. The...
[15:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:31] <exec> 08└─Without software patents we wouldn’t NEED Ogg Vorbis! Without patents the algorithm would have been free for anyone to study and improve upon, and we would likely have had better compression algorithms thanks to that. Shoulders of giants and all.
[15:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 1693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:33] <exec> 08└─I think that most of the suggestions this author has would push people back into using trade secrets to protect their software. It's not like development is cheap, so a company would have a strong incentive to not to publish source or disclose how they did something. As a company in that market, you...
[15:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:35] <exec> 08└─Your post is awesome. An obvious cutting acidic sourmander sarcastic slice into the current patent stupidity affecting legal systems across the globe while avoiding being an obvious troll. Well done you. I'll pay this
[15:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:38] <exec> 08└─What's the advantage of this patent red tape compared to defensive publication? You'd have to act like patent troll to monetize it in any way. Otherwise your patent will be just a part of some patent "war chest" that is cross-licensed to everyone anyway. In practice this only prevents new entrants o...
[15:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:49] <exec> 08└─Conceivable, sure. Likely? I don't really think so. Depending on which source you use, the oldest known hominid is somewhere between two and five million years. And, we still haven't settled our nearest neighbor in space. Granted, other life forms in other systems may evolve a lot faster than we did...
[15:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:04] <exec> 08└─Since the most like cause of "sonic attacks" seems to be two interacting ultrasonic devices
[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:05] <exec> 08└─You mean this one? https://gizmodo.com [gizmodo.com]
[15:34:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rondon [5167] 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:13] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't it be illegal for officials to lie about the government service they are providing to the public? Is it already, and I just don't know it because lying is so prevalent?
[15:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that and the pressure they're under to publish quickly. A slight paraphrase of a Mark Twain quote: "Never let facts get in the way of a good story."
[15:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:19] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't it be illegal for officials to lie about the government service they are providing to the public?
[15:34:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 715 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:40] <exec> 08└─I'm actively look for some unimproved land in northwest Oregon or southwest Washington. Five acres is just ten grand. Very first thing I'm going to rent a tractor plow it then scatter a whole lotta meadow in a can. Then I'm gonna buy some beehives Then I'll pick out spots for my house, workshop and...
[15:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:58] <exec> 08└─The new law, which comes into effect July 1, sets the goal for the state to become carbon neutral by 2045.
[15:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:59] <exec> 08└─Thank you very much I spent much of my teenage years learning how to properly stroke wood. Even today I continue to benefit from my own self education.
[15:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:01] <exec> 08└─Are they trying to offset the tonnes of CO2 their volcanos thrust into the air?
[15:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:04] <exec> 08└─I donate more than 15K per year. Well. I don't get a say in it per say but still that's money from my back pocket straight to the poor starving politicos who really need it
[15:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Confirms Data-Sharing Deals With Huawei and Other Chinese Companies - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe. Google has a hell of a lot of data, there's no denying that. But, the source, and the nature of data on Facebook are different. People are more likely to expose very intimate details of their lives on Facebook, than on Google apps, with the exception of Gmail. On which site do people post pic...
[15:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:15] <exec> 08└─The b12 in the fermented foods is from the microorganisms doing the fermenting, not the plants.
[15:36:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:32] <exec> 08└─To be fair, given the way the FBI has trashed it's own reputation year after year, my first thought when I saw that they were asking people to reboot was "hold on, let's think this through".
[15:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Universal Broadband Speed Plan 'Unambitious', Say Lords - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:40] <exec> 08└─nobody aspires to be a cog of the government
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[16:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:15] <exec> 08└─The nurse used the Staying Alive beat to explain the frequency of the cardiac massage to perform. Not sure I'd be singing such an aptly named song if my kid needed it but at the moment we had a good laugh...
[16:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:25] <exec> 08└─Goddamn. These are fine machines that do a fine job. The only thing that has made them even remotely "obsolete" is the inherently crappy nature of software that has been exposed by the existence of both 32-bit and 64-bit machines; programmers clearly do not understand abstraction, and so unbeknownst...
[16:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:27] <exec> 08└─That sounds obscene.
[16:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:29] <exec> 08└─Blame the C programmers. As a Java programmer, what I write runs just fine on 32-bit or 64-bit. (The same object code even.) Okay, well, there is this one application that uses enough gigabytes of memory (because of the size of the data sets) that 32-bit becomes unsuitable due to address space limit...
[16:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:31] <exec> 08└─The Crypto Wars and "Going Dark" (but they didn't call it that) were fought long ago. During the Clinton years. The government gave up. But not without trying. And while this was known within the technology sector, it wasn't that generally well known to the general public. They were wanting to manda...
[16:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:34] <exec> 08└─Last I checked, Java runs in a virtual machine not directly on the CPU. And the JRE definitely cares about 32 or 64 bit CPUs.
[16:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:36] <exec> 08└─How much room does IPv6 have? Enough to give network addresses to 340 undecillion devices -- that's two to the 128th power, or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 if you're keeping score.
[16:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:38] <exec> 08└─The only thing that has made them even remotely "obsolete" is the inherently crappy nature of software [such that] unbeknownst to [programmers], even their source code ends up targeting exactly one of these types of machine.
[16:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:41] <exec> 08└─I used to be (years ago) responsible for the firewall rules at my employer and at the time, deliberately disabled IPv6 until I could spend the time to learn all its ins and outs. Of course, having the time to sit down and do that never happened, so when I left that role, we still didn't have it enab...
[16:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:43] <exec> 08└─All we gotta do is tell the hipsters that IPv6 is white and cool and has a nice logo on it, and all the Apple fanbois will want to sign up for it, no matter when it comes out or how much it will cost. Hipsters RULE! :)
[16:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:45] <exec> 08└─There's been retrograde advance, also. I had ipv6 access from HE static tunnels and SIXXS dynamic tunnels since like before this century back when we used A6 records for ipv6 addrs (long story there, dynamic prefix magic) and when SIXXS shutdown I lost ipv6 access at home for awhile, until I could h...
[16:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:47] <exec> 08└─> complicated by multilayer trickery called network address translation It's both a pain and a feature. Crafting your own territory and keeping an eye on what goes in and out of it because it has to flow through the NAT can be better than letting any device in talk to anyone out, with little indicat...
[16:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:50] <exec> 08└─"that's two to the 128th power, or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 if you're keeping score." I WAS!, thank you. It's now 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 to 1 against my beloved Westham. And did you see that ludicrous display last night? What was Wenger thinkin...
[16:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─The Botswanian Prince sure is raking in spam profits.
[16:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:07] <exec> 08└─Funny thing is that most papers will measure innovation by counting the number of patents :D
[16:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 1125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:21] <exec> 08└─I would be interested (genuinely) in how Evolution could explain a species escaping their planet as it becomes uninhabitable. A random mutation, or simply the genetic diversity that occurs in species that use sexual reproduction, could be responsible for one member of the species becoming suddenly a...
[16:34:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aiwendil [531] 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 477 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:27] <exec> 08└─Since the most like cause of "sonic attacks" seems to be two interacting ultrasonic devices. Do the US by any chance employ jammers that are part of these interactions? I mean, since it basically only seems to be US diplomats that are targeted and only at places where you'd expect jammers (and liste...
[16:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:47] <exec> 08└─You mean the Trump administration is blatantly lying? Shocked, I say, completely shocked!
[16:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:49] <exec> 08└─The list of easily duped reporters is basically all reporters. No, in this case it was entirely Fox "News." Your false equivalency is false.
[16:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:42] <exec> 08└─Study Finds No Benefit to Taking Multivitamins and Some Other Supplements https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[16:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:12] <exec> 08└─The worm gets into some routers via default passwords. Changing the password on your router's admin interface should protect you unless its system software has a vulnerability. But to be sure, I'd recommend adopting these three measures: 1. Change the router's password to something that isn't one of...
[16:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:50] <exec> 08└─But see, if we stop raising cattle, there will be no pigs to see over the other animals (which there will be none of) and therefore the idea of the whole Animal Farm story will become lost to future generations! PLEASE! THINK OF THE CHILDREN! :)
[16:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Universal Broadband Speed Plan 'Unambitious', Say Lords - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:12] <exec> 08└─> That is the role of the goddamn, motherfucking People; that is the role of society, not the role of this one particular organization of armed would-be overlords. But I chose the government from the People. That's what I did when I voted.
[16:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:53] <exec> 08└─As we all know, folks from Microsoft don’t have a rich tradition of picking super awesome names for things.
[16:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:26] <exec> 08└─Do you need to be a virgin to qualify as an Incel ?
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[17:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:20] <exec> 08└─I thought it was the US that used "Staying Alive" while Britain used "Nelly the Elephant": "Nelly the elephant packed her trunk and said good-bye to the circus, off she ran with a trumpety-trump, trump, trump, trump."
[17:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:21] <exec> 08└─"Stayin' Alive" here in Canada as well.
[17:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:24] <exec> 08└─"Oh shit! He needs CPR!" "Hmm... I read a story that there was a new app for that. Let's see here... Where is that app store icon? Oh there it is! Search for "CPR". Hmm... I don't see it here... Oh! There it is! Installing now.. ... ... ... ... ... ... Done! It needs permissions. Camera. GPS. Contac...
[17:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:26] <exec> 08└─This is a trick. We've always been at war with Euroanaesthesia.
[17:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:28] <exec> 08└─Both seem more appropriate titles than '"La Macarena" - perhaps this is just a twist on whatever music is currently popular. Yes, having actually heard the song within the last 20 years makes it a bit more effective. ('Staying Alive' was the one I learned)
[17:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:30] <exec> 08└─Also, do not use EDM unless you wish for the patient to explode.
[17:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:33] <exec> 08└─Somethin' somethin' somethin' somethin' somethin' Macarena! somethin' somethin' somethin' somethin' somethin' Macerena! somethin' somethin' somethin' somethin' somethin' Macerena! HEY MACARENA! It's been a long time since I was in Jr. High.
[17:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:35] <exec> 08└─"La Macarena" - perhaps this is just a twist on whatever music is currently popular.
[17:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:38] <exec> 08└─While i'm doing CPR, i like to sing "I'm just a sweet transvestite": really freaks out the victim person. They come back from the brink of death and i'm licking my lips and grinning down at them like i'm Tim Curry and they're Rocky......
[17:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:40] <exec> 08└─Blockchain. Needs more blockchain. And quantum.
[17:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:42] <exec> 08└─You mean there's ACTUAL real words to that song OTHER THAN "HEY MACARENA!"? I basically just heard NANANANANANANA HEY MACARENA!
[17:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 1507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:44] <exec> 08└─Most (tempted to say all modern) AED's provide a metronome beat as well. Me, I've just practiced counting seconds "one thousand one, one thousand two..." Two beats per second works, as the range is 100-120 BPM, delivered at a rate of 30:2 breaths unless two persons are working an infant (15:2) so lo...
[17:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:47] <exec> 08└─using the song 'La Macarena' as a mental memory aid.
[17:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:49] <exec> 08└─The UK TV promotion [youtube.com] used Vinnie Jones and 'Staying Alive'. I do not doubt that at other times and in other fora, Nelly the Elephant has also been used.
[17:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:51] <exec> 08└─Going by syllables I know exactly the same amount of 'Staying Alive' as I do of 'Macarena'.
[17:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:12] <exec> 08└─what if I carried a book, say, Applied Cryptography, or similar, with me as I traveled abroad?
[17:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:14] <exec> 08└─That is correct. But I am abstracted (mostly) away from those details. On the horizon we can see native Java ahead-of-time compilation coming. I'm not sure whether to rejoice or hide under my desk. For my use of Java at work, I target only one platform, in practice. The production servers. For my pe...
[17:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:16] <exec> 08└─I don't really know. But one way that would work would require that IPv6 fans link IPv6 websites in other places such as their blogs or on Social Media.
[17:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:18] <exec> 08└─All we gotta do is tell the hipsters that IPv6 is white and cool
[17:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 1389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:20] <exec> 08└─I would have to go home to look to see which book I mean. I know there are several on the subject. I'm going TOTALLY FROM MEMORY here . . . Long before 9/11, I was reading something interesting in the book . . . (I just googled it, and the entire book I am thinking of is downloadable. [psu.edu] So n...
[17:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:23] <exec> 08└─That's a lot of IoT systems to secure. Pity the poor soul who has to clean up that mess.
[17:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:25] <exec> 08└─How much room does IPv6 have? Enough to give network addresses to 340 undecillion devices -- that's two to the 128th power, or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 if you're keeping score.
[17:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:27] <exec> 08└─I am still not sure that IPv6 is going to catch on,
[17:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah key escrow is basically the gun control argument. Only criminals would want crypto. The writers of the constitution never envisioned blah blah blah. The way the civilized modern world looks at key escrow is pretty much how (real) americans look at gun control.
[17:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:32] <exec> 08└─CPUs get faster, and computers get more memory . . . because of Microsoft software. We get more disk space, and so file systems such as ZFS become necessary primarily to handle larger collections of pr0n. We get IPv6, to facilitate IoT run amok.
[17:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:34] <exec> 08└─There is one big difference. The legitimate every day uses of crypto technology VASTLY outweigh the illegitimate uses. Even if there is such a thing. Furthermore, crypto does not have the direct purpose of killing someone. I mean it is not inherently a weapon nor is it violent. It is an academic dis...
[17:34:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 304 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:44] <exec> 08└─No. It is your time scale that may be flawed. Software was ignored by copyright law at first and then during the growth decades was under copyright. It was only in recent years that it has also been encumbered by patents and the data is in on that. Software patents have hindered "innovation" [phys.o...
[17:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:54] <exec> 08└─There are *exceedingly* few bits of software where I think to myself "I have no Idea how that's done". That's me. I do business software, scientific, database stuff, web stuff, a bit of hardware, etc. Someone who does video processing, pattern recognition, etc would cover another *huge* swath of sof...
[17:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:56] <exec> 08└─Without the MP3 patents - there were I think three dozen of them - we wouldn't have Ogg Vorbis.
[17:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:59] <exec> 08└─Well, if you believe others won't figure it out, keeping it secret is still the better strategy. Software patents are exactly used for stuff of the sort that others might figure out independently. Because, face it, if you don't expect anyone to figure it out, it is a waste of money to protect agains...
[17:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:01] <exec> 08└─I would like to see software patents disappear. They're a huge pain to deal with.
[17:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:03] <exec> 08└─Ok speaking as a software developer... you're wrong. The idea is the EASY part. The code is the HARD part. Because this is the way software works, patents are terrible. I think you're a patent troll, own any patents yourself? Eh?
[17:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:06] <exec> 08└─That is a very important argument. Many of the things patented ARE in fact obvious. It's just that for the longest time, nobody thought they should race to the patent office to prevent other people from using obvious techniques. Some argue, it is only obvious in hindsight. if it were so obvious, why...
[17:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:19] <exec> 08└─It's not like planets just randomly happen in two minutes at the whim of $deity. There's no question that some planets will find themselves in an awkward position, reject the constant tugging, and leave the system. But most planets are there because there was enough general agreement about the neigh...
[17:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:20] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you, there's a great movie from the 70s, The Andromeda Strain. About a killer germ that came from outer space. Possibly from another planet. And it's a made up story. But it could happen!!!!
[17:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:37] <exec> 08└─My original was "not-quite-commie", but per US patent rules, you're close enough to owe me royalties. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[17:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:38] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one that thought of https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] when I heard sonic attack?
[17:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:40] <exec> 08└─"I'm being attacked, like those guys were in Cuba" "Close, but no cigar" [ducks] Also: first three panels are very true [giantitp.com].
[17:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:42] <exec> 08└─When I think of a sonic attack, I think of Justin Bieber music.
[17:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:56] <exec> 08└─Remember when lying politicians were a bad thing? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
[17:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, I think I do, but now I wonder if it was all smoke and mirrors, and now with much more communication (including the Internet, cell-phone video, etc.) the lies are being exposed. The real question is: who is going to do what? And when? Someday when I have lots of free time I'll do some historica...
[17:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:00] <exec> 08└─No, they're just lying a LOT more, and a lot more brazenly.
[17:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:42] <exec> 08└─They should only allow people to visit with sailing ships. No fossil fuels allowed. It would make the islands a truly exclusive, once in a lifetime experience again. And no cars, only donkeys.
[17:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:43] <exec> 08└─You should have reported having received your ancestor's tools and duly declared them as income for the purpose of taxation. I'm pretty sure a few tools aren't worth $5.6 million dollars. [forbes.com] But don't worry, the hero of the common-man has raised that limit to $11.2 million dollars! We woul...
[17:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Just Plain Common Sense": Hawaii Governor Signs Most Ambitious Climate Laws in USA - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:46] <exec> 08└─We don't have any money for poor starving politicos. They're probably incels anyway. That's why we need to bomb the shit out of the Middle East. We need to give our military more handouts, otherwise we'll be overrun by incels just looking for handouts! Stop being an incel pussy and sign up today. Se...
[17:36:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Facebook Confirms Data-Sharing Deals With Huawei and Other Chinese Companies - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:56] <exec> 08└─I'm sure Zuck is REALLY SORRY and will look into it, just like all the other times they got caught. I'm sure he's really sorry for all the things they haven't yet been caught doing. He's sorry...you can trust him...
[17:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Confirms Data-Sharing Deals With Huawei and Other Chinese Companies - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:58] <exec> 08└─Or, we could draft a series of rules that all companies must follow w/r/t to our private data. Then we could take care of Google and Facebook at the same time. But that would require people to vote in their own best interests which is sadly out of fashion.
[17:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Confirms Data-Sharing Deals With Huawei and Other Chinese Companies - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:00] <exec> 08└─This is how we end up with all those regulations certain folks are always going on about. If businesses weren't complete assholes we wouldn't need things like OSHA and the EPA.
[17:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watchdog Slams TSB Boss for Underplaying Extent of IT Meltdown - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:11] <exec> 08└─People like me would just bring their archived bank statements to the FDIC and get their money back. Oh, you went "paperless" ? Tough luck !
[17:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:03] <exec> 08└─It's just so convenient: Stretch the message so much that it is easy to refute, then conclude that it is obviously wrong from the start. No need to even think about your personal contribution, then. AKA the slippery slope fallacy. [softschools.com]
[17:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:04] <exec> 08└─Can anyone name any omnivorous species of mammal that became herbivorous and has not died out or is currently on the brink of doing so? 375 million humans. [expo2015.org] That's a lot of not-dying going on!
[17:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:35] <exec> 08└─1. Change the router's password to something that isn't one of the most common 10,000
[17:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:36] <exec> 08└─it's cool how you change people's words, make assumptions about the order of their actions, and then judge them for it. All your posts are like that, are you doing okay?
[17:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:15] <exec> 08└─That's just mean. Way to spoil an entire series for some poor kids.
[17:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:17] <exec> 08└─The bedtime Lisp reading [xkcd.com] appears to be more common than I would have thought.
[17:40:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gawdonblue [412] 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 970 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:03] <exec> 08└─Word processors are called "Word" by nearly everyone, spreadsheets are called "Excel" by nearly everyone and databases are called "SeQueL" by nearly everyone (including the developers I work with on Oracle DBMSs (WTF?)). Microsoft will just make this thing part of the MS Git installer that comes wit...
[17:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:20] <exec> 08└─What's in a name? Apple, Microsoft, at least JellyBelly makes sense. Marketspeak is for people who like Marketing. Windows - Lets you see through a wall. DOS - I guess Uno was taken. Access - To what? Excel - lent Cortana - What's she do? OneNote - Forged in the darkness to bind them. XBox - ?? I th...
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[18:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:37] <exec> 08└─I know its a decade late to the party but you're missing a "you're holding it wrong" joke, somehow.
[18:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:38] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna call bullshit on that ever having happened :P
[18:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:40] <exec> 08└─Ooooooh, you were in the military! That explains why you're so fucked up and have a tenuous grasp on many aspects of reality. Poor brainwashed cannon fodder.
[18:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:13] <exec> 08└─IPv6 addresses will be plentiful and cheap.
[18:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:15] <exec> 08└─I think 10.4 had 64-bit command line programs with a 32-bit kernel. 10.5 had 64-bit GUI and command line, 32-bit kernel. 10.6 had a 64-bit kernel. The current macOS is 10.13.4. The current macOS that actually _works_ is 10.12.5 or maybe .6. Apple announced 10.14 at their developer conference on mond...
[18:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:17] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, crypto does not have the direct purpose of killing someone.
[18:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:19] <exec> 08└─You're way off. 80/20? Ha! More like 99.99/0.01. And, that's not just for networking; that's for everything. Virtually nobody has control over anything, and virtually nobody knows how anything works, anyway. Each person has fallen into a certain position within the Great Machine, and just does one...
[18:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:21] <exec> 08└─I Am Absolutely Serious: It was clearly OCR with human eyeball corrections. For a little while I was working on a true GUI Mac OS X PGP encryption program - MacPGP was just a really brain-damaged GUI wrapper around the command-line PGP. I was able to read a keychain file once I transcribed some of t...
[18:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:24] <exec> 08└─Don't worry citizen, we already have MAC addresses for that. (How else do you think corporations would be able to monetize "free" WiFi spots?)
[18:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:26] <exec> 08└─I am absolutely serious: they've offered me Class C twice.
[18:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:28] <exec> 08└─I have had the same experience with IPv6 research as you. And like you have been waiting to see how things roll out and improve, or not. This is a "game" where there is little to no downside of waiting for the early adopters to run into a majority of the problems. Reminds me of a true story... When...
[18:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:31] <exec> 08└─I have a fairly insulting analogy (maybe, maybe not?) that ipv6 is kinda the gen-x version of boomer quadraphonic sound, where its been totally technologically possible since we were kids but it just couldn't make it in the market place until it was rebranded as "surround sound Dolby" and all that w...
[18:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:33] <exec> 08└─one of the VPs in our company got it installed in their home. He opened
[18:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:35] <exec> 08└─It's true. That's why it's good, for everyone, to try not to be a propagandist. Propagandists twist things to absurd lengths. Reasonable people want to protect themselves from how far some reasonable idea could be stretched beyond any sane limits. That also leads to a lot of division. Maybe try to w...
[18:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:38] <exec> 08└─The more that crypto source code gets published in textbooks, the better. It makes it look a lot worse to try to suppress academic text. Ah, Think C. It was my first experience with C, and C++ after being a long time Mac Pascal programmer (even on Lisa using MacWorks before MPW existed). Then I got...
[18:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:41] <exec> 08└─The point is that no matter how far you may be abstracted away from the actual computer, somewhere at the bottom is code that needs to interact with the real metal. And that code, and the the people that write it, do need to care about 32-bit or 64-bit processors, and other architectural designs. An...
[18:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:20] <exec> 08└─But if it takes 4 billion years for the primordial slime to turn into a species that can master fire, language, and science, then 10 million really ain't gonna be enough.
[18:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah but they're Canadian so they needed 2x the vaccine.
[18:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:42] <exec> 08└─24 Americans stationed in Havana have experienced dizziness, headaches, fatigue, hearing loss and cognitive issues
[18:37:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03boltronics [580] 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 927 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:31] <exec> 08└─I'm 36. Been vegan for 5-6 years, and vegetarian for many years before that - easily the majority of my adult life. I'm a sysadmin as my day job. Strava says I ran a total of 208km last month, and 306km during April (I recently purchased a Garmin watch to start tracking). I've also been riding to an...
[18:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:02] <exec> 08└─The areas where "stinted population growth" would make a difference are usually poor countries. Those countries don't have things like easy access to birth control and have different cultures that may be in conflict with the make less babies idea. Not to mention, they're likely hung up on things lik...
[18:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:35] <exec> 08└─Some time back I bought a Linksys WRT1900AC and flashed it with dd-wrt and I've been pretty happy with that. However I do have one complaint: Apparently between some of the early versions of that model and the one I got they went fanless. The older models had a fan. I like many others found out the...
[18:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:17] <exec> 08└─The ideas and philosophy behind Librivox and Gutenberg are great. Preserving old materials for future generations. Very interesting books I've listened to on Librivox: "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" (Possibly the best book I've listened to. He really knew how to write.) "Narrative of The L...
[18:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:18] <exec> 08└─Generally, the Author has been long dead for any books on Librivox or Gutenberg. The nice thing is that their works are available in a nice repository that is also Legal. Though, it's entirely possible that your countrie's copyright laws are different than USA copyright laws and it could still be il...
[18:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:20] <exec> 08└─Have you seen any of the videos of people walking without looking and running into things? This is generally, because people aren't paying attention to where they are going. Yes, meme is people looking at smartphone / texting and walking into walls, etc. Audiobooks are a good remedy for that. Since,...
[18:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Best Places to Find Free Audiobooks (Legally) - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:23] <exec> 08└─It's for the United States of America. Your laws in your country may differ.
[18:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Needs Your Support... WOW! Just under $300 to go! [Update #2] - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:32] <exec> 08└─Thats pretty insightful AC, I'll send you 1 karma of SoylentCoin as soon as the ICO is complete
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[19:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:22] <exec> 08└─Not me.
[19:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:23] <exec> 08└─Serious question, is this really useful for gamers today in 2018? I only use a couple cores for minecraft and my minecraft server even with extensive mods, so I don't know about twitchy FPS sequels maybe those use all the cores, I donno. 28 cores seems a little far fetched. I think my server has 4 a...
[19:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:25] <exec> 08└─But why?
[19:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:27] <exec> 08└─We tried a Threadripper Gen1 for our compiles, but it turned out not faster than our Xeon, despite much more memory bandwidth. Had to go to an Intel in the end to actually go faster. Now that Zen+ claims double-digit percentage gains in cache latencies compared to Zen, hopefully it can offset the de...
[19:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:30] <exec> 08└─Should be interesting to see what they do with the pricing. Maybe 50% more than the Threadripper 1950X ($1000) for the 32 core variant, and then when a 7nm Threadripper 3 comes out, drop it back down to $1000 for 32 cores.
[19:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:55] <exec> 08└─You must need some help from our artificial intelligence friends: you don't seem able to identify humour on your own.
[19:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:42] <exec> 08└─Don't assume xhis gender.
[19:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:43] <exec> 08└─Why does IPv6 need marketing? Most people will never know what it is, and they don't buy products on the basis of IPv6 support. IPv6 support just slips into more products, services, and websites over time, and things start using it (smartphones especially).
[19:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:45] <exec> 08└─Consistentcy in virtue signaling has not gained wide traction yet. Same as IPV6 it seems.
[19:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:47] <exec> 08└─You can still firewall without Nat.
[19:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:50] <exec> 08└─Xactly, and that was kinda the analogy problem with Quad sound in the 60s/70s. You can make a boatload of money off "now you can listen to The Beatles whenever you want" but its an uphill battle to sell "OK now buy and install another pair of speakers and position them just so and it'll sound 0.001%...
[19:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:52] <exec> 08└─With a side dish of the fallacy of argument to moderation, where there are some areas of debate like crypto freedom or gun control or slavery or ownership of property where "kinda in between" is worse than either extreme.
[19:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:54] <exec> 08└─Leftists are generally anti-white Oh good Lord, the throwback righties are at it again. Treating others (say, with darker skin) with respect, equality, and kindness does not mean you hate yourself, or those like yourself. Most leftists in predominantly "white" countries are themselves white, dipshit...
[19:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:57] <exec> 08└─The "masculine" forms in English are only masculine in that they are "not explicitly feminine". The "feminine" forms are explicitly gendered. Basically, you use "she", et al., to denote things that are special, unique, or cherished—such as females, or boats. If you use "he", et al., you are not ac...
[19:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:59] <exec> 08└─White people came late to slavery and then did the most to end slavery. White people built plumbing, transportation, and power grids around the world. White people invented tolerance, multiculturalism, and respect for the individual above the collective, and white people remain the greatest practiti...
[19:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:01] <exec> 08└─Considering that the current internet is only 2^32 bits, even if we hand everyone a /64, that's still 4 billion internets worth of prefixes. Notably, a MAC address is only 2^48 bits. I'm not really sure why "they" thought we need two full bytes to encode that the address is based on autoconfiguratio...
[19:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:03] <exec> 08└─It's my experience too. Apparently the ISPs (except really new ones) in Denmark have enough IPv4 addresses for all customers so they simply don't bother with IPv6. My sad store here [i1.dk]. I don't think IPv6 will take off in Denmark before there pops up some IPv6-only services, and since all the h...
[19:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:06] <exec> 08└─Again, you can use your extra address space to do dumb things like encode a couple of unicode characters in there.
[19:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:30] <exec> 08└─I think that most of the suggestions this author has would push people back into using trade secrets to protect their software.
[19:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:33] <exec> 08└─If you're absolutely sure they won't figure it out, it's good to keep it secret. You're right. But if you suspect that they MIGHT figure it out, because you decided to research how to skin a cat one day and found only one way to do it, you need to defensively file. The first-to-file nonsense we have...
[19:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:50] <exec> 08└─Some alien planets in multiple-star systems — such as the two-sun Tatooine, Luke's home world in the 'Star Wars' universe — may indeed nestle in orbits that are stable for long stretches of time, a new study suggests.
[19:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:13] <exec> 08└─now in secret developing
[19:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:15] <exec> 08└─In Cuba, some people in specific hotels which were approved for diplomatic use, were also affected.
[19:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:17] <exec> 08└─Not if required by the State Department!
[19:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:19] <exec> 08└─And you're masturbating to that thought a good half dozen times a day or more, aren't you? Jesus, but you set some kind of record for lowest signal-to-noise ratio. What do you propose we DO about it? And don't suggest something from the 19th or 20th century that we already tried and that didn't work...
[19:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:21] <exec> 08└─That is unless China and Cuba are now in secret developing surveillance equipment or share said equipment with each other or if China some how fieldtested their equipment on Cuba. Or a third party, say Russia, has a device and is seeking to damage and undermine US diplomacy in those locations for so...
[19:36:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:32] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't it be illegal for officials to lie about the government service they are providing to the public?
[19:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:39] <exec> 08└─I have yet to encounter a news organization that hasn't either been duped or willingly published propaganda at least once. Saying "Only Fox News is duped / a propaganda outlet" allows you to be duped or propagandized by other outlets, like the New York Times or CNN. In this case, Fox was the one dup...
[19:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:41] <exec> 08└─Remember when lying politicians were a bad thing?
[19:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:44] <exec> 08└─Generally you can get all you need from a plant-based diet. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Consuming refined sugar and / or bleached white flour is arguably worse than having a steak. Certainly worse than having fish like Salmon. Jesus almost certainly ate meat, spec...
[19:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:45] <exec> 08└─Vegetarians are sometimes advised to take iron supplements, because meat is an important source of iron. It's entirely possibly to get enough iron via a vegetarian diet, but you have to pay some attention or risk getting anemia.
[19:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:19] <exec> 08└─Not an exact measure, but you can check password usage here: https://haveibeenpwned.com [haveibeenpwned.com]
[19:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:41] <exec> 08└─"Nerdy, gay introvert" is a fair description of me. I just lucked out and met another nerdy gay introvert (and she's even nerdier than me, like "builds Gundam models for fun" nerdy). You're still missing the point here: no human owes another human access to his or her body or heart.
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[20:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steve Jobs Promised to Make FaceTime Open Source. It's Time. - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:15] <exec> 08└─I hate Apple and I hate the name 'FaceTime'. That being said, it does seem to work very well. It seems to be much better than skype, which sucks and is a total pain in the ass to use. It would be nice to have one standard that you can expect to work on all mobile devices.
[20:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:27] <exec> 08└─Intel was teasing 80+ core CPUs in 2006... I guess they're finally starting to deliver something approaching that old tease.
[20:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:29] <exec> 08└─No. Maybe if you are also live-streaming at the same time but even then it's overkill. These are for workstation loads. Video editing, running a bunch of VMs, sciencey mumbo jumbo, crap like that. For games you'd be better off with fewer, faster cores.
[20:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MikeVDS [1142] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:31] <exec> 08└─Just a test post
[20:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:33] <exec> 08└─Game authors _could_ use massively multi-threaded processing for many things (think: processing NPC logic and decisions), but game authors are driven by the mass market: what does their buying audience have access to, so, no, I doubt many game authors are going to go massively multi-threaded anytime...
[20:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:36] <exec> 08└─The AMD one is certainly not marketed to gamers. The "game mode" on Threadripper cripples the processor which is somehow supposed to improve game performance. If all you are doing is playing games, you don't want Threadripper at all. I am considering Threadripper for my next video / photography proc...
[20:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 2906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:38] <exec> 08└─It's taken longer than I had hoped, but there are now plenty of languages with the right features, and various frameworks that make it much easier to take advantage of using any number of cores to handle "embarrassingly parallel problems". And there are plenty of embarrassingly parallel problems. So...
[20:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:40] <exec> 08└─If they develop their games on workstations, and test them on both the workstations and dual or quad-core PCs, they should be able to design engines/games that use even as many as 64 threads. Games like Skyrim ran pretty well on low-end systems as well as high-end systems. That's the way it should w...
[20:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:29] <exec> 08└─Why are you blaming Botswana for the activities of Nigerians a couple thousand miles away?
[20:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:31] <exec> 08└─Without the MP3 patents - there were I think three dozen of them - we wouldn't have Ogg Vorbis.
[20:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:33] <exec> 08└─I also do software, though I tend towards the lower level side of things. If the code is the easy part, you shouldn't have any patents on it. I agree with that. However, there's still software out there that requires getting a bunch of people in a room for several days to figure out how the thing ca...
[20:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:35] <exec> 08└─You're both wrong! And you're both right. I think you two are in disagreement about what "idea" and what "code" is. GP: The "idea" is the algorithm or process to approach to a problem (e.g. things like "to render determine collisions in 3d engines more efficiently, invert the problem to describe wha...
[20:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:38] <exec> 08└─I'd rather have that than what we have now, where basically 2 lawyers go into a room, drop their stacks of patents on the table, and whoever has the tallest stack wins.
[20:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:40] <exec> 08└─If Botswana was the only country in the world to abolish software patents, would it become the world leader in software?
[20:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:58] <exec> 08└─I've still got three Sun workstations, two 4 CPU Ultra 80s and a Sun Blade 100.
[20:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:44] <exec> 08└─The 1980s were a decade of lies. There wasnt much lying 1992-2000, then a lot of lying 2000-2008, then there was a hiatus until 2016 at which point the lying returned with a vengence.
[20:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Confirms Data-Sharing Deals With Huawei and Other Chinese Companies - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:44] <exec> 08└─draft a series of rules that all companies countries must follow w/r/t to our private data proliferation of nuclear weapons
[20:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:46] <exec> 08└─Never claimed that. Don't believe that to be true ever. I do believe you are severely overstepping with your ick reaction to robotic companions. Some people need physicality and can't get it from beings with a pulse. Why take away a surrogate? It seems unusually cruel. Sometimes the world doesn't re...
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[21:33:19] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Steve Jobs Promised to Make FaceTime Open Source. It's Time. - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:19] <exec> 08└─Waht Booga said. You have to be careful when listening to the guy who tried to cure his cancer with acupuncture and juice.
[21:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steve Jobs Promised to Make FaceTime Open Source. It's Time. - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:21] <exec> 08└─Steve Jobs was a lying piece of sales-weasel. Apple is generally against open standards.
[21:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:41] <exec> 08└─Only certain games, like DiRT Rally, require the Threadripper "game mode". In my quick search I didn't see any lists that show which games require game mode, don't require game mode, or can use all 16 (soon 32) cores. But maybe those lists are floating around somewhere. Game developers know that Int...
[21:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:42] <exec> 08└─Indeed. You only need a dedicated circuit in your house to power it, and an air conditioner to cool it. This is far beyond practical. Intel won't be releasing this...ever. It's simply a desperate attack to take attention away from AMD recent success.
[21:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:44] <exec> 08└─people should design their stuff to work well with 64 or more threads even if customers don't have that yet
[21:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:47] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teraflops_Research_Chip [wikipedia.org]
[21:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:49] <exec> 08└─The current question tends to be : Will it run on Xbox/PS4 at reasonable settings, and how much does the extra PC eye candy cost ?
[21:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:51] <exec> 08└─How many dies fit into a 30cm platter? What's yield rate for 15-core dies?
[21:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:53] <exec> 08└─The legacy of that would be Xeon Phi [wikipedia.org] with 57-72 cores.
[21:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:56] <exec> 08└─It's good for playing a video game while live streaming and having Google Chrome up with a dozen tabs. Most video games don't utilize more than four cores, but over the past few years more games have come out which utilize six or even eight, such as Overwatch. I don't know of any video game that uti...
[21:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:23] <exec> 08└─The rhythm you choose is NOWHERE NEAR as important as deciding to, starting and maintaining CPR in the right instance. Literally you could do it to Soft Kitty, just fecking do it.
[21:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:22] <exec> 08└─You're way off. 80/20? Ha! More like 99.99/0.01. And, that's not just for networking; that's for everything. Virtually nobody has control over anything, and virtually nobody knows how anything works, anyway. Each person has fallen into a certain position within the Great Machine, and just does one...
[21:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:23] <exec> 08└─It's really not that complicated. It's just that instead of relying on NAT (which was never intended to be a security measure), you rely on a much less resource intensive stateful firewall rule. If you just use autoconfig for addresses, it is possible to derive some information about machines inside...
[21:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:56] <exec> 08└─I think it was Peter Gibbons who noted that the Nazis had software patents, too.
[21:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:02] <exec> 08└─If you expect perfection out of humans you're always going to be disappointed. Science also gets things wrong from time to time but that doesn't invalidate the entire pursuit. The important bit is what happens after they figure out they were wrong. Real journalists improve their vetting process, fir...
[21:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:03] <exec> 08└─Hmmm....there's a correlation there. I wonder what it is!
[21:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:05] <exec> 08└─MSNBC's Chuck Todd has by all appearances taken orders from the Democratic National Committee [wikileaks.org]. And yet he's not been fired. Your implication that conservatives are always pretend-journalists and liberal media outlets are at least trying to get the story right is belied by the evidenc...
[21:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:08] <exec> 08└─Now see, we have identified the error! No, in this case it was entirely Fox "News." Your false equivalency is false.
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[22:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, those of us who are still shooting film have been waiting for the release. It's been a year and half now since the initial announcement. At this point I have little to no faith that they're going to come through on this. Really all I want is a Super8 Ektachrome cartridge to run through the ol...
[22:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:19] <exec> 08└─There a shop in Portland that sells it Using my itoys camera brought my eye back. I'm going to buy a few rolls of slide film then do some industrial photography- machines, bridges industrial plants and the like I'm going to buy a new slide projector. I e never been happy with the one I've got
[22:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:21] <exec> 08└─What pieces of discontinued technology do you wish would come back?
[22:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:24] <exec> 08└─I read the linked articles, but it's still unclear what is the market for this film. Professionals transmit digital images to their offices online, as time is everything. Teenagers send their digital photos via many chat programs. Who then among normal people is going to take a complicated way of po...
[22:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:26] <exec> 08└─phone booth
[22:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:28] <exec> 08└─I always liked slide projectors. I liked the sound of changing pictures. I liked the circular slide holder thing on top. Back then showing off pictures was an event. You'd invite people over, make snacks, dim the lights and force them to look at your shitty pictures of your family trip to Milwaukee.
[22:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:30] <exec> 08└─What pieces of discontinued technology do you wish would come back?
[22:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steve Jobs Promised to Make FaceTime Open Source. It's Time. - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:41] <exec> 08└─The good news is that Facetime is coming to Windows. The bad news is that it will be as good as iTunes on Windows.
[22:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steve Jobs Promised to Make FaceTime Open Source. It's Time. - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:42] <exec> 08└─I tried to call someone on old fashioned cell phone today, it failed (UK vodafone phone in moscow to UK o2 phone in moscow) Tried facetime, also failed Tried whatsapp, worked fine There are several alternatives to facetime today that didn't exist in 2010.
[22:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steve Jobs Promised to Make FaceTime Open Source. It's Time. - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:44] <exec> 08└─The original HE-AAC (version 1 profile) and H.264 specifications (covering the baseline, main and extended profiles) were published in December 2001 and May 2003, respectively. So all the patents claimed to cover those profiles should be older than that, right? Thus they should all be expired within...
[22:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:12] <exec> 08└─We can't fully utilize 32 right now, so I'm all for them making the flagship go up 50% (for twice as many cores) if the 12- or 16-core chips, now "mid-range" drop by 25% in the process.
[22:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:13] <exec> 08└─i'd rather have a single core that was 28 times faster.
[22:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:15] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't get it for gaming, I would guess that a $300-$500 CPU and, say, $1500 invested in the right GPU would outdo a $1000+ 32 core machine and $500 less spent on GPU. I rip all of my Blu Rays and DVDs to disk and then reencode them to H.265 (since that's the most bandwidth/disk space -efficien...
[22:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:42] <exec> 08└─As a Java programmer, what I write runs just fine on 32-bit or 64-bit. (The same object code even.)
[22:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:16] <exec> 08└─What if I made it as easy as possible for people to buy stuff on my site? Is there anything easier than one click to purchase?
[22:36:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 400 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:25] <exec> 08└─Right, having multiple Sun workstations won't kill you. The stories about radiation and lead poisoning from vintage electronics are just made up by marketers trying to sell iPhones, that are probably worse for you. Although Solaris might make your hair fall out, but you will eventually grow a neckbe...
[22:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:03] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't your brain twist in a knot, if you were posted at an embassy in a sensitive country, having to harvest diplomacy out of the Sonic Attacks from Trump ?
[22:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:34] <exec> 08└─My culture is in conflict with the eat less meat idea. Why should my culture change instead of theirs?
[22:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:35] <exec> 08└─Not to mention nitrogen fixing bacteria [sciencedaily.com] (produced by the most important vegetarian protein sources) produce methane.
[22:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:57] <exec> 08└─The gospel according to Wikipedia... [wikipedia.org] Chamberlin and Boyce's first attempt of a relational database language was Square, but it was difficult to use due to subscript notation. After moving to the San Jose Research Laboratory in 1973, they began work on SEQUEL. The acronym SEQUEL was l...
[22:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence Yet for the Benefits or Downsides of Sex Robots and "Pedobots" - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:34] <exec> 08└─So long as the things never get AI, I'd be okay with this. It's when they become intelligent that we have a real problem. I'm wondering if there should be some kind of registry for purchasers of these things, or at least the, ugh, "pedobot" models, though. But it's still not the same thing as real i...
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[23:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03knarf [2042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:25] <exec> 08└─Small scale wood (or "biomass" as they can also consume corn cobs, nut shells etc) gasifiers should make a come back. Small enough to fit on a motorbike, car and tractor. Big enough to be used as a replacement for wood-burning or pellet-burning central heating boilers. Feed the gas to a turbine whic...
[23:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:27] <exec> 08└─No way. I've lost dozens of fingers to the unfinished sharp edges inside those things : P I prefer modern case features over old style any day. You'll have better luck buying a case and painting it. Also, a good case is 100$+ now. Anything under 50$ will probably be aluminum. Newegg has a filter to...
[23:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:29] <exec> 08└─I've considered that, but painting never comes out right for me. Make messes, dust gets stuck in stuff and all. Suppose I could take something to a professional, but if I'm going to bother doing something like that it might just work better to get one of the "vintage" beige ATX cases and have someon...
[23:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:31] <exec> 08└─The 4.5" smartphone.
[23:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:33] <exec> 08└─I know what you are talking about :) many early clone AT cases and early cheap ATX cases had sharp edges. But most of the later beige ATX cases, especially retail non-OEM cases, were perfectly fine. But that has zilch to do with color.
[23:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah and Fuji is slowly winding down it's entire film division, cancelling a couple stocks ever years. There is a lot of fear that they're going to shutdown Provia and Velvia production in the not-so-distant future, which would leave ZERO color reversal film stocks on the market.
[23:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:38] <exec> 08└─...it's still unclear what is the market for this film.
[23:33:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Steve Jobs Promised to Make FaceTime Open Source. It's Time. - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:46] <exec> 08└─Open standards? H.264? AAC? Not by most people's measure of "open."
[23:33:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06Steve Jobs Promised to Make FaceTime Open Source. It's Time. - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:49] <exec> 08└─Steve Jobs was a lying piece of sales-weasel. Apple is generally against open standards.
[23:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03danaris [3853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steve Jobs Promised to Make FaceTime Open Source. It's Time. - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:55] <exec> 08└─Apple got sued by patent trolls over FaceTime. They had to change how it works, and now cannot in any way both practical and legal follow through on what Jobs said. I thought this was known by...pretty much everyone who would have cared about that promise in the first place. Dan Aris
[23:34:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 2906 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:11] <exec> 08└─It's taken longer than I had hoped, but there are now plenty of languages with the right features, and various frameworks that make it much easier to take advantage of using any number of cores to handle "embarrassingly parallel problems". And there are plenty of embarrassingly parallel problems. So...
[23:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:25] <exec> 08└─This processor? doubtful. Currently using the Ryzen 8 core version and it's excessive. I play a coop game called Vermintide 2 that starts a local server that other people connect to. When i host we get wrecked so bad. There is enough spare CPU for the AI director to give you a really bad (or Fun?) d...
[23:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:27] <exec> 08└─IBM Demonstrates 100GHz Graphene-Based Transistors [popsci.com] Diamond on silicon chips are running at 100 Gigahertz and can also make power chips for directing 10,000 volts [nextbigfuture.com] Intel TeraHertz [wikipedia.org] Smaller and faster: The terahertz computer chip is now within reach [scie...
[23:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:56] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a first aid course I was at, where one of the trainees asked, after being told to start compressions in the sequence DRABC*, "but what of the patient gets up and hits you?" It took a while for us to realise they were serious. After going over the meaning of the "R" several times, they...
[23:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:57] <exec> 08└─Dale a tu cuerpo alegría Macarena Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegría why cosa buena Dale a tu cuerpo alegría, Macarena Hey Macarena
[23:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:01] <exec> 08└─On the horizon we can see native Java ahead-of-time compilation coming. I'm not sure whether to rejoice or hide under my desk.
[23:36:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 248 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:14] <exec> 08└─Without software patents we wouldn’t NEED Ogg Vorbis! Without patents the algorithm would have been free for anyone to study and improve upon, and we would likely have had better compression algorithms thanks to that. Shoulders of giants and all.
[23:36:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:29] <exec> 08└─Without the MP3 patents - there were I think three dozen of them - we wouldn't have Ogg Vorbis.
[23:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:44] <exec> 08└─MSNBC's Chuck Todd has by all appearances taken orders from the Democratic National Committee [wikileaks.org]. Oh boy, what a smoking gun! A political commentator scheduled a meeting to talk to somebody in a political campaign! And the orders where what, exactly, to use his mind control powers to ma...
[23:39:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:01] <exec> 08└─You switch your family to an all-plant diet for a generation or two. Measure your grandchildren's physical and mental development. Then we can talk.
[23:39:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 303 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:09] <exec> 08└─Anecdotal evidence, but: I'm a second-generation vegetarian. Both my sister and I were solidly near the top in mental abilities by available objective measures. Physically, I'm reasonably healthy, she's doing triathlons for fun. So I'm not convinced that a vegetarian diet = unhealthy or underdevelop...
[23:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:54] <exec> 08└─Humans eliminate methane through farts: Typical composition of human fart [fartshare.com] The typical chemical makeup of farts is 60% Nitrogen, 20% Hydrogen, 10% Carbon Dioxide, 5–10% Methane and 5% Oxygen.
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