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[00:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:43] <exec> 08└─All the 'smart' people, the ones who ruined the world, are laughing. In a couple of years we will see whether results improve or not. There probably isn't even a theory where education is impaired by a lack of access to Instagram and worse. So what is the downside to running this experiment? Kids ha...
[00:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:44] <exec> 08└─- I need a phone - You're in Middle school, you don't need a phone - My friends have phones - Good for them. You're still not getting one - What if I need to call you? - Ask your friends for their phone - What if it's an emergency? - Ask an adult in the school, then ask your friends for a phone - Wh...
[00:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06"Tiny" Great Barrier Reef Foundation Awarded $443 Million Australian Govt. Grant, Inquiry Ensues - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:54] <exec> 08└─"The Great Barrier Reef Foundation says its remit does not include tackling climate change." Were it be saying the opposite, would this same grant be praised instead?
[00:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06"Tiny" Great Barrier Reef Foundation Awarded $443 Million Australian Govt. Grant, Inquiry Ensues - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:56] <exec> 08└─'tis not the Barrier Reef about, neither climate change. Guardian FA: The inquiry heard the foundation’s chairman’s panel, a corporate membership group made up of chief executives and directors of companies including Commonwealth Bank, BHP, Qantas, Shell and Peabody Energy, has 55 members, each...
[00:09:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:11] <exec> 08└─And by the way, we're always, always hiring at the White House. No experience needed! apply.whitehouse.gov [whitehouse.gov]
[00:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:26] <exec> 08└─People feel better when they contribute to society (to family, or whatever) and you'd ban them from that because they just aren't worthy in your eyes. Maybe they are old. Getting a token job keeps them physically moving about and in the presence of other humans. This beats lying in bed in front of t...
[00:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:27] <exec> 08└─the fact that my spell checker hasn't worked since the 80's.
[00:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:29] <exec> 08└─Get a catheter inserted. Alternately, wear a condom catheter. Run the tube down the inside of your pants. Wear long socks with holes in the bottom, and route the tube through that. Now nobody can see the tube, and you can pee in your shoe. I know you're thinking you'd have a shoe full of pee, but th...
[00:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:31] <exec> 08└─I remember when Java first came out and there were a lot of contract positions for a Java coders. Every one wanted 3-5 years experience even though Java new. Most hiring managers have no clue what the requirements mean.
[00:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:33] <exec> 08└─Hire for the attitude you want and train. Better than hiring the skills you need but with a shit attitude.
[00:09:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03danmars [3662] 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 386 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:48] <exec> 08└─If we ensure that political decisions are justified based on what makes logical sense, instead of moralizing, then people aren't going to call/rate you a hypocrite if new facts come out that lead to new, better paths. I don't know why we have so few politicians that justify decisions based on what w...
[00:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:10] <exec> 08└─At least in the United States, we're so used to politicians being lying, self-serving corporate whores that when one does come to a change of heart we simply assume that they're merely pandering for votes.
[00:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:23] <exec> 08└─So? It's good that it was released at all, regardless of who it may or may not have "helped". I believe people are ultimately responsible for their own votes anyway, regardless of any attempted indirect interference to sway them.
[00:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:24] <exec> 08└─parents don't want their small kids exposed to certain things until they are older. period.
[00:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:27] <exec> 08└─Wrong about what? Why would that even matter that it's not just about bathrooms, since that doesn't change the point? Maybe changing rooms should be better designed in the first place, so that they actually provide privacy. I don't care that snowflakes might be offended that someone they don't appro...
[00:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:29] <exec> 08└─I don't care that snowflakes might be offended
[00:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:32] <exec> 08└─I don't think society should accommodate snowflakes
[00:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:29] <exec> 08└─Mozilla needs to die. Plenty of us remember what that sad excuse for a company did to Brendan Eich.
[00:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:31] <exec> 08└─There are better people to cry over than the creator of JavaScript.
[00:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:33] <exec> 08└─Likewise - this is news to me. And concerning.
[00:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:35] <exec> 08└─Any feedback on how Waterfox compares to Palemoon?
[00:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:37] <exec> 08└─GNOME went off the rails with version 2 if you ask me.
[00:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:40] <exec> 08└─Clearly they are trying to be more relevant to their user base, in the vein of Microsoft's 'My Computer' or Youtube. Obviously they should call it "FoxYou"
[00:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google: No More Than Two Notches Per Android Phone - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:31] <exec> 08└─I think that Android's dreadful update situation is absolutely Google's fault. They designed an ecosystem that requires updates to go through phone manufacturers rather than direct to the customer - what did everyone think would happen?
[00:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pizza Physics: Why Brick Ovens Bake the Perfect Italian-Style Pie - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:02] <exec> 08└─My favorite pizza is an "Hawaii", it is a with tomato sauce, cheese, ham, and pineapple. Second favourite is "Banana" (tomato sauce, banana, curry, cheese).
[00:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teens Are Debating the News on Instagram - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there are a couple of Trans characters/stories in the Pathfinder material. I agree - it seems very 'odd' to go to all of these lengths with special potions, alter self spells etc, when a Girdle of femininity/masculinity instantly and completely changes the person's gender. The fact that the it...
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[01:08:43] <exec> 08└─I am King of the Nigger Faggots.
[01:08:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 590 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:51] <exec> 08└─- I need a phone - You're in Middle school, you don't need a phone - My friends have phones - Good for them. You're still not getting one - What if I need to call you? - Ask your friends for their phone - What if it's an emergency? - Ask an adult in the school, then ask your friends for a phone - Wh...
[01:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:53] <exec> 08└─They're so desperate to have those proprietary, spying shiny goodies. Good little slaves.
[01:09:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06"Tiny" Great Barrier Reef Foundation Awarded $443 Million Australian Govt. Grant, Inquiry Ensues - 342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:04] <exec> 08└─'tis not the Barrier Reef about, neither climate change. Guardian FA: The inquiry heard the foundation’s chairman’s panel, a corporate membership group made up of chief executives and directors of companies including Commonwealth Bank, BHP, Qantas, Shell and Peabody Energy, has 55 members, each...
[01:09:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:22] <exec> 08└─You don't want to, OK. But there are plenty of girls that will!!!
[01:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:39] <exec> 08└─People feel better when they contribute to society (to family, or whatever) and you'd ban them from that because they just aren't worthy in your eyes.
[01:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:40] <exec> 08└─It basically crash stopped. Nothing was processed since the last fall. Not even US citizen marriage or closed relatives based cases. They are busy looking for criminals who got citizenships since the creation of the USA. Can I say wage inflation? Finally...
[01:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:42] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. Millennials don't even go to the bathroom anymore. They just use an app.
[01:09:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 568 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:55] <exec> 08└─It feels almost irrelevant to conjecture on an answer as to true beliefs about it. "All politicians are equally bad and hypocritical" is exactly how you end up with concentration camps with children dying of trivial infections because no one is caring for them, though. Just because cynicism is const...
[01:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 1688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:20] <exec> 08└─I only voted for Trump to stop Hillary from continuing her felonies. I figured Trump would be useless, ineffective, and quite possibly as liberal as Hillary. Boy was I wrong! Trump turned out to be wonderful. He's in the running for best president ever. He clearly beats everybody since 1900 except p...
[01:10:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Uber Shutting Down Self-Driving Truck Division - 796 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:29] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/14/lyft-market-share-051418-bosa-sf.html [cnbc.com] For the first time, Lyft is disclosing internal market-share numbers, and they show its momentum isn't letting up after it capitalized on Uber's disastrous 2017. Lyft says it has 35 percent of the national ride-sharing...
[01:11:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03idiot_king [6587] 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:17] <exec> 08└─WL is also majorly responsible for Trump winning. I'm all for toppling corrupt systems but WL needs to be held to its own standard for it to be considered trustworthy.
[01:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:26] <exec> 08└─Wikileaks/Assange are nothing like government. The DNC is not part of the government either...
[01:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:27] <exec> 08└─You are a snowflake, though. Just a different type of snowflake from SJWs.
[01:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:29] <exec> 08└─You clearly are offended.
[01:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:34] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of Opera. When they changed their UI and dumped menus I uninstalled.
[01:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:49] <exec> 08└─I think the concept has wide application. Lots of profits to be made in assault cars. Just paint em up, with tiger teeth on the front, or sharks or what have you, like they did in the 50s. And maybe black paint, or red, or maybe a fluorescent camouflage pattern, you know, something really garish and...
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[02:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Black Hole Hologram" in a Graphene Flake - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:50] <exec> 08└─...anyone wanna translate this into human speak? Or at least jargon the average code grinder can understand?
[02:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Black Hole Hologram" in a Graphene Flake - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:52] <exec> 08└─Your tax money is being used to fund science which is incomprehensible to a rockstar coder such as yourself. Get on Twitter and tweet about how government needs to be abolished and replaced with responsible private enterprise. Neoliberal libertarian free market capitalism is the only way we long as...
[02:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:02] <exec> 08└─I would say that, given children's propensity to get into difficult situations, every one of them should have a phone. Not necessarily a smartphone. Just so when they are in trouble they can call for help.
[02:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:04] <exec> 08└─And miss a learning opportunity ?
[02:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:06] <exec> 08└─Then they should create phones which aren't loaded with proprietary software and spying. I refuse to support such things with my money.
[02:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:08] <exec> 08└─I use a 'dumb phone' just one step above a flip phone, in that I can text but I don't connect to the net or have apps on it. Does that mean I could leave it on ? I can totally understand the point of not having google or the net to cheat from during class but I still like the idea of having the phon...
[02:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 1894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:10] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure it will "be just fine." I mean, it will be something. I don't think the human race is headed for extinction or civilization is going to end because of smartphones. But I look at behavior of ADULTS now, and it's weird. Yes, things like telegraphs and telephones and radio and television a...
[02:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:58] <exec> 08└─Your argument is a straw man. I'm saying that this sort of quasi-apprenticeship can emerge when there isn't this externally imposed risk of a loss. And, we're not talking about culturally traditional, explicit apprenticeships in skilled fields; we're talking about general employment, including intro...
[02:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:00] <exec> 08└─How can your parent be clearer? We're talking about NEW people. It's crazy how the left thinks that children's jobs are supposed to support a wife and 2 kids these days. CRAZY.
[02:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:02] <exec> 08└─We will (not) miss the bulls!t recruiter ads that demand 5 years rockstar experience in a technology only 2 years old.
[02:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:04] <exec> 08└─I have little experience with HR. The experience I have is with a moron, who doesn't understand people at all. It's all about nepotism. "Oh, but Gary is such a WONDERFUL preacher! He'll make a perfect supervisor!" And, I have to ask, "WTF does preaching and supervising have in common?" Absolutely no...
[02:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:07] <exec> 08└─My experience of HR is kind of limited, but I have noticed that it is an area of business that doesn't seem to attract the sharpest tools in the shed. The current one I have to avoid dealing with combines stupidity with malevolence. She is also a toady and spends a fair bit of her time attempting...
[02:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:51] <exec> 08└─You obviously have a lot of war zone experience, and are unaffected by the "fog of war". Is your name Mephistopholes, or Jesus Christ?
[02:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:53] <exec> 08└─The cameras looked like RPGs. Which they don't, but never mind that.
[02:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:13] <exec> 08└─Printed weapons are a challenge to gun industry profits (doesn't have to be true now or at any point in the future, they just have to cynically believe it might).
[02:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:14] <exec> 08└─Well, not sure about cars, but one can definitely download (for a relatively small fee) plans for an airplane and build it. In fact I just came from Oshkosh where around 20,000 such "nuts" were present. That's builders mind you. Visitors counted at 600,000 Making a lower receiver is a rather simple...
[02:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:16] <exec> 08└─It would be more convenient and practical to rent a maker facility and cnc mill the lower receiver. They could off course buy a mill. They are in 5-10 grand range new and can be found under 1000 on garage sales.
[02:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:19] <exec> 08└─You bring up an interesting point. I assume by "maker facility" you mean "hackerspace" or such? They might specifically forbid making weapons in the contract you sign with them, or go completely bonkers if you do make one. I expect someone will try to do just that and an incident will make the news.
[02:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google: No More Than Two Notches Per Android Phone - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:56] <exec> 08└─Look! I am incompatible with everything out there! Any effort on your part to make me work is clearly a violation of my intellectual property! But I have the Logo everyone wants, because I have the marketing skills to make everyone think I am better than the other options. When I saw the picture of...
[02:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pizza Physics: Why Brick Ovens Bake the Perfect Italian-Style Pie - 1721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:29] <exec> 08└─To each his own. If you create wonderful pizzas by your standards with your device, great. Keep doing what you're doing and enjoy your food the way you like it. But just as you claim a Chicago pizza is actually a "casserole", there are many different pizza styles in the world. Roman pizza is differe...
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[03:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:44] <exec> 08└─Just delete Facrbook. Walk away... life it too short to waste on social masturbation sites.
[03:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:46] <exec> 08└─Speaking of which, I wonder if they'll roll out a similar tool on Pornhub?
[03:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:48] <exec> 08└─Don't we already have a time limiter at hand, so to speak? How many hours can you stroke that thing before it starts getting sore?
[03:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:50] <exec> 08└─How many hours are in a day?
[03:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Black Hole Hologram" in a Graphene Flake - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:01] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing that they're using it in a manner like you could use a two-dimensional shadow as a model of certain behaviours of the three-dimensional objects casting them. I'm very likely wrong though.
[03:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Black Hole Hologram" in a Graphene Flake - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:04] <exec> 08└─Every atom of graphene is a simulated black hole! Whatever you do, DON'T SHAKE IT!
[03:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Black Hole Hologram" in a Graphene Flake - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:06] <exec> 08└─I like my cosmic strings like I like my little girls. Bound and gagged.
[03:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:20] <exec> 08└─So - if a young woman attempts to lose her virginity, but fails to tweet about it - is she still a virgin?
[03:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:22] <exec> 08└─You are the most Amurrican zen philosopher.
[03:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:24] <exec> 08└─Law at 10am. Surrender at 2pm News at 6pm Someone takes perverse pleasure deploying "[sic]" in an article likely written by a 2nd language English person. How many 1st language English speakers can spell "fulfill" correctly, first time? Fulfil, fullfill, fullfil fulfill... aaargh! Maybe we should "[...
[03:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:16] <exec> 08└─People feel better when they contribute to society (to family, or whatever) and you'd ban them from that because they just aren't worthy in your eyes.
[03:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:17] <exec> 08└─"Nothing was processed since the last fall. Not even US citizen marriage or closed relatives based cases" Have a source for that? Can't seem to find anything.
[03:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:19] <exec> 08└─I take it you don't approve of teenagers working at all then? Paying them enough to support themselves is absurd in most cases. Finding one able to contribute enough value to earn their keep is rare as hell nowadays.
[03:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:22] <exec> 08└─It's crazy how the left thinks that children's jobs are supposed to support a wife and 2 kids these days. CRAZY.
[03:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:24] <exec> 08└─I take it you don't approve of teenagers working at all then?
[03:13:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 449 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:29] <exec> 08└─Didn't they just spend like a million dollars and months of meetings last year developing "Moz://a"? Methinks they should reconsider if branding is really the problem and maybe double down on some actual developers. They used to be able to claim to work better than the alternatives but no longer hav...
[03:13:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:30] <exec> 08└─How about "Fox-Off"? That seems to be what they've been saying to their user base for a couple of years now.
[03:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 1638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:16] <exec> 08└─I also went to SeaMonkey when my Firefox got infected with some malware from a radio/MP3 recorder soundcard driver, which transferred when I plugged a USB cable from my computer to the radio as per instructions. I thought the connection was for the purpose of accessing the radio's SD card for .MP3...
[03:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:18] <exec> 08└─Mozilla has fucked up a lot, but i sense your anger is coming from somewhere else. Firefox is still one of the better more free brpwsers even with thei collosal fuckups. I prefer the FF forks myself.
[03:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 1456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:20] <exec> 08└─It seems everyone does the same thing... they start off small, make a really useful thing, attract the attention of the money-boys, who come a calling en masse, hands out for a shake. Put this in! Enforce this for us! Block that for us! We are Money-and the Hand is Extended! They do their best to k...
[03:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:22] <exec> 08└─Waterfox until recently was basically an alternative build of Firefox with some of the questionable stuff pulled out of it and some other tweaks. Waterfox is not going to Quantum so now it's a fork of Firefox 56. A few fixes have been backported but overall it's basically still Firefox 56. There's n...
[03:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:42] <exec> 08└─If you have an iq over 80 and $10 you can build a gun from plumbing pipe.
[03:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:44] <exec> 08└─That pisses me off. Both Crimson Trace and Ruger make good equipment, I hate to have to boycott them.
[03:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:46] <exec> 08└─Why a spoon, cousin?
[03:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:48] <exec> 08└─Well, I imagine a conservative community just buying a maker bus to educate their children. A few AK47 per night can be made easily from kits available over the Internet. The kits are usually a fully capable rifles with lower receivers cut in half. While I never tried it myself, I am pretty sure i c...
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[04:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:51] <exec> 08└─How many hours are in a life?
[04:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:52] <exec> 08└─Run ads. Lots and lots of ads. Make 'em so they don't go away... you have got to tolerate the stream of them for several minutes at a time. Television Broadcasters have used this same technique very successfully to get people to go somewhere else. Hollywood, theaters, and Google are now also runn...
[04:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:54] <exec> 08└─the off button?
[04:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:56] <exec> 08└─In other news, water introduces tools to help swimmers be less wet. Mysterious drownings ensue.
[04:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Black Hole Hologram" in a Graphene Flake - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:10] <exec> 08└─...anyone wanna translate this into human speak? Or at least jargon the average code grinder can understand?
[04:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Black Hole Hologram" in a Graphene Flake - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:11] <exec> 08└─It means someone just did something VERY SPECIAL with Carbon -- otherwise known as beautiful Clean Coal. It means cellphones are about to get much thinner & lighter -- with sexy holograms. Thanks to our amazing Coal Miners!!!
[04:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:30] <exec> 08└─Now hopefully more nations (particularly Australia) will follow suit. I'm not entirely sure why I think this is a great idea, but I don't see how smartphones in school can be any good for children. Maybe less cyber-bullying? Either way, less screen time is good for their eyes and brains.
[04:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Tiny" Great Barrier Reef Foundation Awarded $443 Million Australian Govt. Grant, Inquiry Ensues - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:42] <exec> 08└─My bro in-law (stem cell med researcher) spends 75% of his time writing proposals and complains endlessly how government funding of medical research is so constrained. The government climate change body who gives out funding to programs has had its budget cut. The ABC has had its budget cut a number...
[04:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:31] <exec> 08└─Preachers have fine tuned the ability to collect a tithe, yet have no deliverables! And people keep coming back week after week to hear him. Three minutes with ME and they simply walk away!
[04:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:32] <exec> 08└─I think the HR drones finally understood the notion that they can't find people for entry level positions and wages when they require 5+ years of experience.
[04:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:35] <exec> 08└─Hiring a teenager who comes to you asking for a job so they can save for a car or have some extra spending money is not exploiting child labor. That's the teenager starting to take some personal responsibility and it should absolutely be encouraged. Exploiting child labor was sending preteens into c...
[04:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:37] <exec> 08└─I have often wanted to do this. Some sort of condom-catheter thingie... cause I often have to piss at the most inappropriate times and places, and can't be caught wagging my weenie in public trying to get relief. But I can almost always find a grate, drain, or sandy spot to dress down when no one is...
[04:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:39] <exec> 08└─Hiring a teenager who comes to you asking for a job...
[04:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Comes Under Fire by Chinese State Media for Not Doing Enough to Filter Prohibited Content - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, isn't Facebook under the gun for not policing political influence campaigns?
[04:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:28] <exec> 08└─Considering your ilk fell for a con man
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[05:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Now Buy a 1,000-Horsepower Corvette From Your Chevy Dealership - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:40] <exec> 08└─With 1k HP you'd never get your 'vette out of 2nd gear...
[05:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Now Buy a 1,000-Horsepower Corvette From Your Chevy Dealership - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:42] <exec> 08└─Spending instead of saving nowdays, else I'd be on that sucker like the local VFW on your mother.
[05:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:58] <exec> 08└─I just go to theatre that lets me reserve my particular seat, and then show up 15 - 20 mins after the advertised start time. Everything works out nicely that way. I miss the ads and still get my choice seat. The last straw for me was seeing the same ads on the theatre screen that I was on my TV scre...
[05:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 1494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:31] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why you think it's a good idea either. Let's give a car example. Let's say a rural school has trouble with parking because a number of students drive to school and then don't park in their assigned spots. How do we fix that (supposing we support the idea of assigned parking as a solutio...
[05:10:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 193 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:52] <exec> 08└─When youtube decided to stop financially incentiveizing nazis it just happened to coincide with advertisers withdrawing money after seeing their ads on videos like "Why white genocide is real".
[05:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:14] <exec> 08└─"He is whatever he needs to be." -- Malik Obama, on Barack's beliefs
[05:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:16] <exec> 08└─That's the problem with finding the middle ground, which was Obama's speciality. The right just lurched further right and dragged the middle to something unpalatable to liberals. Obama, in his typical compromise position, would then adopt the formerly right wing stance and take heat for being SOCIAL...
[05:12:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:58] <exec> 08└─He did nothing the New York Times and Washington Post didn't engage in a few decades ago. We used to call it "journalism", it's actually mentioned in the Bill of Rights.
[05:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:28] <exec> 08└─Hopefully you're speaking tongue-in-cheek. I'll tell you, I love our FABULOUS chemical industry as much as anyone. But the only time I'm giving my tongue a workout like that is in the mouth of a GORGEOUS woman. A 10, somebody on a par with Ivanka. Can we call that teflon? Why not!
[05:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:38] <exec> 08└─When you see a website that really POPS, it's because of VERY SPECIAL cyber called Javascript. Mozilla, very lucky company. Because they hired the guy that invented Javascript. Brendan, otherwise known as the Einstein of modern cyber. Then they did something foolish, they fired him because he wasn't...
[05:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:39] <exec> 08└─FoxNew
[05:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:04] <exec> 08└─Do you have to have an IQ over 120 to make it safe and reliable?
[05:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 1609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:06] <exec> 08└─Well I used to carry a spear or an axe. Also great 'assault weapons', as long as you paint em black and do some tacticool stuff with them of course, otherwise they're just plain 'weapons' and who wants that? But there are two problems; first off they're heavy, cumbersome, hard to carry around as you...
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[06:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can Now Buy a 1,000-Horsepower Corvette From Your Chevy Dealership - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:58] <exec> 08└─Tell that to the dude(s) that drive past my house every night. I'd LOVE if they'd shift into 2nd.
[06:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Now Buy a 1,000-Horsepower Corvette From Your Chevy Dealership - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:00] <exec> 08└─Call me now for the coordinates of a nice canyon road with no guard rails, and no pesky cops bugging you about seat belts! The regulars here know I'm a big fan of natural selection.
[06:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:17] <exec> 08└─If you are doing all the hours of the day, clearly something is wrong the way you do it.
[06:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:52] <exec> 08└─The lesson is "you can't argue with me, because I have the law on my side, so shut the fuck up you little immature prick, and you'll get your phone back when your parents go ask the principal for it. If they're more polite than you, maybe there won't be a fine" You would not believe the abuse some t...
[06:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Tiny" Great Barrier Reef Foundation Awarded $443 Million Australian Govt. Grant, Inquiry Ensues - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:05] <exec> 08└─from these horror clowns.
[06:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:39] <exec> 08└─It always seemed to me they are embarassed about their atheism and embarrassed that they don't oppose gay rights. If Trump taught us anything, it's that "values voters" have absolutely no values whatsoever. They vote for the biggest a-hole. Period. Dress it up in abortion blah blah and small govt bl...
[06:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:41] <exec> 08└─I doubt your awesome values would last a month under bombardment from the world's best propagandists.
[06:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:43] <exec> 08└─And yet, at that level, you're basically talking 50-50 on every issue. There's no slam dunks because someone else already would have done them. I'd suggest we as a nation could save $400k EVERY SINGLE YEAR by replacing the President with the flip of a coin. It almost seems like we're there already ;...
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[06:11:45] <exec> 08└─There have been no new facts, Sir, since the New Testament.
[06:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:09] <exec> 08└─Very helpful, thanks! :D
[06:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google: No More Than Two Notches Per Android Phone - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:14] <exec> 08└─Awww, go ahead and go whole hawg and get a Prince Albert.
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[07:09:04] <exec> 08└─Which is why they do productplacement in movies.
[07:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Black Hole Hologram" in a Graphene Flake - 6538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:20] <exec> 08└─In English what this means is that graphene, with a particular edge configuration can, under intense magnetic fields, exhibit some properties similar to a black hole. Consider that graphene is for all intents and purposes 1 dimensional, that is to say, it is a single layer of atoms. So in a nutshell...
[07:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:42] <exec> 08└─I use a 'dumb phone' just one step above a flip phone, in that I can text but I don't connect to the net or have apps on it. Does that mean I could leave it on ?...
[07:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:43] <exec> 08└─Now hopefully more nations (particularly Australia) will follow suit.
[07:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:49] <exec> 08└─So basically you as a business owner want prospective employees to shoulder the majority of the risk of a new hire. If I as an employee am gonna be the one taking all that risk anyway, then in that case I might as well stop being an employee and try to start my own business and compete with you, sin...
[07:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:58] <exec> 08└─"I prefer the FF forks myself" Exactly, me too. FF itself is no longer relevant. Thanks for reinfocing my point, but perhaps you could take a tone that is less ad hominem next time you inadvertantly agree with me.
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[08:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 1406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:49] <exec> 08└─I guess the options most of us have now is to do one of the three: (1) Use another OS. Linux, Apple, Android, for example. (2) Refuse to give up earlier Windows versions. WIN10 is probably already lost due to its undisableable remote updating. Microsoft may brick it. On purpose. (3) Throw in the t...
[08:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:50] <exec> 08└─I don't think this will fly as long as Linux is around. Linux is always (regressions aside) getting better. Hopefully, this will bite Microsoft.
[08:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06You Can Now Buy a 1,000-Horsepower Corvette From Your Chevy Dealership - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:02] <exec> 08└─We've been talking about efficient cars for a while. Improve fuel efficiency, reduce the carbon footprint, drive less, etc. Yet we still see lots of big, heavy and overpowered cars being designed and produced. We've already reached earth overshoot day and are moving forward at full speed into a bric...
[08:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:20] <exec> 08└─Product Placement: Remember how they used to do this with tobacco, mink coats, furs, and diamonds? Got us all hooked on thinking things were to be done that way, because that's what was shown as the way things are supposed to be on the big screen. The burly rough cowboys were always lighting one up....
[08:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Black Hole Hologram" in a Graphene Flake - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:37] <exec> 08└─2 dimensional!!! Graphene is 2 dimensional. I can't believe I let that 1D statement slip through. Doh!
[08:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:01] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should "[sic]" it every time a USAian F's up using...
[08:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:51] <exec> 08└─1. In a course of 20 years a quarter of Americans changed their views on gay marriage without such incentives. 2. Obama never had a moral position on gay marriage since he's a closet atheist like 99% of American politicians. Democratic voters usually understand this. Republican voters don't. Usually...
[08:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:04] <exec> 08└─Reigning anything would require taking this presidency seriously. But that would require accepting that Hillary lost! May be learn why? That would be anathema to the plethora of far-left people who embedded themselves into the system during Obama. They would be recognized as the root cause. They won...
[08:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:43] <exec> 08└─Conservative communities don't need a bus. They have garages with tools and equipment. Their children already learn how to use those. Makerbuses are for city people who never learned to build a house, repair a vehicle, weld, or use power tools.
[08:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:45] <exec> 08└─There is no safe in guns. Period. Any gun can jam and blow up in your hand. Buy the best-rated steel tubing you can and you'll get /safer/, but it will never be /safe/. Zip guns are generally recomended as one-time use only, reliability isn't a concern. Hit the target, toss your pipe, burn your clot...
[08:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pizza Physics: Why Brick Ovens Bake the Perfect Italian-Style Pie - 1724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:56] <exec> 08└─Champagne [wikipedia.org] (the bubbly stuff, not the city) is a sparkling wine that is made in the Champagne region of France with grapes grown in the same region. If it's not abiding by these two simple rules, it's not champagne. Call it something else, e.g., "sparkling wine". But don't call it cha...
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[09:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:43] <exec> 08└─so, which way is the causality? Low acetyl-L-carnitine worsens and/or prolongs depression, OR depression supresses acetyl-L-carnitine, OR something that supresses acetyl-L-carnitine also causes or prolongs depression?
[09:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:44] <exec> 08└─Depression: One 2014 review assessed the use of ALCAR in fourteen clinical trials for various conditions with depressive symptoms; the trials were small (ranging from 20 to 193 subjects) and their design was so different that results could not be generalized; most studies showed positive results and...
[09:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:55] <exec> 08└─I guess we will see how many people will accept the responsibility of paying another monthly checque instead of buying it outright. To me, its like having a landlord over me, saying what I can and cannot do to where I live. What trees are approved. If I can paint the house. What color, etc, and pay...
[09:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:57] <exec> 08└─2a) Virtualise your earlier Windows version on another OS, limit use as much as possible to non-Internet facing apps (entirely if possible, or use multiple VMs). Works very well, is fairly seamless, and lets you transition your apps over to native versions or equivalents on your new OS as time and f...
[09:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 1409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:59] <exec> 08└─Ever since Win10 and Office 365, I have been posting on forums (including general interest ones) that this was the way MS was heading for everybody. The forced upgrade to Win10 gave MS the power to do anything they wanted with people's PCs. Eventually MS will do no further updates of Win10 unless yo...
[09:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:01] <exec> 08└─Windows division needs to get a revenue stream from somewhere, and it's not coming from the free update model of Windows 10.
[09:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Now Buy a 1,000-Horsepower Corvette From Your Chevy Dealership - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:13] <exec> 08└─You know the funny things about powerful, exhilarating cars? Electric sports cars accelerate much quicker and can easily go faster than their internal combustion engined equivalent for a lot less money. I test-drove a Tesla S a while ago, and it's just incredimazing how hard this heavy sedan acceler...
[09:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06You Can Now Buy a 1,000-Horsepower Corvette From Your Chevy Dealership - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:15] <exec> 08└─it doesn't make stupid amounts of engine noise, so you won't be able to impress your buddies in car meets.
[09:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can Now Buy a 1,000-Horsepower Corvette From Your Chevy Dealership - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:17] <exec> 08└─It'll pass anything on the road except a gas station...
[09:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:15] <exec> 08└─The lesson not here is "Paris, 1968". those that are condemned by history ...
[09:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:22] <exec> 08└─Why would an enterprise need charity money to survive, In a country built on slavery, the answer to this should be fairly obvious.
[09:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:24] <exec> 08└─You can't take a chance on a newbie when you have to pay them more than they might be worth.
[09:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Shutting Down Self-Driving Truck Division - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:18] <exec> 08└─Where do we think Uber screwed up so badly? Business Trickery? Mistreating customers? Mistreating drivers? The first I listed, Business Trickery, is the quickest one that turns me off to businesses. If they can't present an offer clearly in an ad, I'd be damned to get in bed with them only then t...
[09:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Comes Under Fire by Chinese State Media for Not Doing Enough to Filter Prohibited Content - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:45] <exec> 08└─This is begging the question. The way we build cities is designed around and to service the personal ownership of automobiles that are run on petrol. A less capitalist society would have gone with electric public transit from the start and could have made the transition to solar power without lithiu...
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[10:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Game Doesn't Offer Brain Gain - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:43] <exec> 08└─I'm living proof that this is true. I'm really good at playing Sudoku on my phone, but I still have trouble entering a phone number when making a call (especially if a digit appears more than once).
[10:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:52] <exec> 08└─At least with the tracking data there should now be an objective way to measure depression that doesn't involve cracking open skulls.
[10:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:54] <exec> 08└─This seems pretty straightforward to test. Acetyl-L-carnitine is easy to get as an OTC supplement and is already safe for human consumption. Its side effects are well known, as is how long it normally takes to build a blood level and for it to clear the body.
[10:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:07] <exec> 08└─another monthly checque
[10:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:08] <exec> 08└─It would not surprise me at all if all prior versions of Windows ceased functioning one day, with the problem blamed on a virus running amok amongst unsupported machines. We may be able to recover via backups and "Daz loaders"... but one would have to keep it off the net. Until we could identify the...
[10:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:10] <exec> 08└─That certainly explains the move to DaaS; the Windows division needs to get a revenue stream from somewhere, and it's not coming from the free update model of Windows 10.
[10:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:44] <exec> 08└─"AC, after analyzing the amount of time you spent on social media this week we see you're averaging three hours a day across a variety of social media platforms. We recommend that you stop using everything but Facebook and Instagram, but increase your time on each to bring your social media use to a...
[10:10:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 1894 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:14] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure it will "be just fine." I mean, it will be something. I don't think the human race is headed for extinction or civilization is going to end because of smartphones. But I look at behavior of ADULTS now, and it's weird. Yes, things like telegraphs and telephones and radio and television a...
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[11:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brain Game Doesn't Offer Brain Gain - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:48] <exec> 08└─Try to arrange the phone number in a 3x3 grid.
[11:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Game Doesn't Offer Brain Gain - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:50] <exec> 08└─Ten numbers won't fit in a 3x3 grid
[11:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:16] <exec> 08└─MS will have to physically put this into my cold, dead hands before I'd use it or any Windows. Long live Linux (except the sheeple WILL just accept it: they'll bend over and just take it, over and over and over.....)
[11:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:17] <exec> 08└─Microsoft Bangs Bing's the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline
[11:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:19] <exec> 08└─Just jump: so glad I did it years ago.
[11:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can Now Buy a 1,000-Horsepower Corvette From Your Chevy Dealership - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:34] <exec> 08└─Pricing for a car with a seven-speed manual transmission starts at $68,995, while buyers who want an automatic transmission will pay $77,995 -- on top, of course, of the price of buying a Corvette Grand Sport donor car. That's a big chunk of cash, but note that you're partly paying for exclusivity:...
[11:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:55] <exec> 08└─This sort of sound like drugdealers handing out smaller baggies cause they want you to smoke less weed, or if COKE was to make smaller cans cause they don't want you to drink so much coke. I'm not even sure this will actually have an effect if it's something you have to turn on, the real screen fan...
[11:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:57] <exec> 08└─Why would I want to spend less time at Pornhub?
[11:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:38] <exec> 08└─How many 1st language English speakers can spell "fulfill" correctly, first time?
[11:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:46] <exec> 08└─You hire someone for what he's worth, which is more than nothing
[11:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:48] <exec> 08└─As much as I dislike laws and regulations, I'm going to stick by minimum wage and propose an extra tack-on for your teen labor force, I myself was a teen laborer, for a short time, until I told "the man" than I wasn't working for no stinking minimum wage and got myself started at $6 per hour instead...
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[12:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:43] <exec> 08└─I refuse to fly until the TSA is eliminated.
[12:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:51] <exec> 08└─When non-screened US airports feed the "real" transportation hubs like LaGuardia and JFK, will we be treating the passengers like we do international flights now? Anybody ever see "FreeJack"?
[12:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:53] <exec> 08└─Pick your theatre: You can have security at the borders or you can have security everywhere. [dw.com]
[12:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:55] <exec> 08└─https://www.aci-na.org/north-america-airport-rankings [aci-na.org] Unfortunately, the chart shows no stats for how many flights from small airports connect at a bigger one. Good news, no waiting for screening for the first hop. Bad news, big wait at the hub for the second hop. What do you figure, 3...
[12:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:33] <exec> 08└─A follow-up question for you. I've been running a virtualized Windows-7 for a couple of years now, but have recently upgraded hardware. The Windows 7 VM I have won't run on the upgraded hardware, so I'm also having to maintain the old hardware. Do you have any suggestions as to what to do when the o...
[12:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:34] <exec> 08└─What I'm thinking is. 1. Expensive Paid tier - enterprise/LTSB/PRO? 2. Ad supported free/home edition Regular people are never going to PAY rent on their os so that's why they've also been testing showing you ads. Businesses that want it will get DaaS or stand alone windows. ATMs and devices will ge...
[12:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06You Can Now Buy a 1,000-Horsepower Corvette From Your Chevy Dealership - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:50] <exec> 08└─Like a few muscle cars means shit to the environment. Get some fucking persperctive. Why don't you let the few people to enjoy something you are not interested in and not harass them like it's your religion?
[12:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Now Buy a 1,000-Horsepower Corvette From Your Chevy Dealership - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:52] <exec> 08└─640 hp should be enough for anyone!
[12:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Now Buy a 1,000-Horsepower Corvette From Your Chevy Dealership - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:54] <exec> 08└─I'm a major environmentalist and even I agree with that. Sort out the container ships and aircraft instead.
[12:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:16] <exec> 08└─https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account [facebook.com]
[12:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:58] <exec> 08└─You would not believe the abuse some teachers and principals get, from students and/or their parents, when they dare confiscate the sacrosanct digital pacifier. Especially women niddle-school teachers in shitty neighbourhoods.
[12:12:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 408 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:00] <exec> 08└─Hiring a teenager who comes to you asking for a job so they can save for a car or have some extra spending money is not exploiting child labor. That's the teenager starting to take some personal responsibility and it should absolutely be encouraged. Exploiting child labor was sending preteens into c...
[12:14:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 296 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:51] <exec> 08└─Please stop with the fiction that there is a left in US politics. There is a right and there is a far-right. Any illusion that any group with "Socialist" in their name will be allowed to have any national role in politics is stupid. The people who run America will never let any of that happen.
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[13:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:42] <exec> 08└─I agree with AC #716154, have not flown since Feb 2002. Here how to explode the deplorables last 3 brain cells. All landing are a successfully controlled crash. Of all attempts the failures that validate the laws of gravity are very few. But here is the "spin". Crashes [loss of control] reduced by 5...
[13:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoors/a5045/4344036/ [popularmechanics.com]
[13:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:46] <exec> 08└─wot?
[13:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:57] <exec> 08└─Where is the border on a flights from SF to LA?
[13:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:59] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this will create a business opportunity for flights that avoid large airports altogether.
[13:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:02] <exec> 08└─Or we could just not have the theater?
[13:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brain Game Doesn't Offer Brain Gain - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:13] <exec> 08└─Now that you realized, maybe you will succeed with the 10x1 grid?
[13:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:24] <exec> 08└─Well, it will be useful but I don't think we can objectively state that Bob has a lower level than Alice, so his depression (and thus risk of, say, suicide) must be higher than hers.
[13:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:25] <exec> 08└─"No. I find drug tests degrading. You guys are still doing this stuff?" "It's not a drug test; we want to know whether you're at risk for depression. Depressed people reduce productivity."
[13:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:27] <exec> 08└─Yep, and if the patient doesn't respond to depression after giving them supplements for a week or two, tell them that they just don't want to get well and threaten them with being committed to an insane asylum and strapped into an electric chair every day, then left in their cell to soil themselves...
[13:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:48] <exec> 08└─I hate Microsoft as much as the next Free Software Foundation card-carrying member, but before we dive too deep into this, the ZDNet article states that Microsoft expects small businesses to adopt this model. Computerworld's supporting evidence for their article is another ZDNet piece, https://www.z...
[13:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 2376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:50] <exec> 08└─As soon as MS released Win10 & all the crap inherent in that particular turd I decided Win7 was the point where I got off the MS infinite treadmill for anyone else. I refuse to accept the telemetry, my Screen Reader is a *Mission Critical* application for me (I can not use my computer without it), &...
[13:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:52] <exec> 08└─I said on day one of Win10 "free" launch this would not end well, as it would soon be "rented". So it is named and has a "birth date", DaaS. For those without a 4 core or 2/2 core/thread with 4gig ram, or progressively better hardware, you are stuck to hard loading a new OS. [see recommendations] If...
[13:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:54] <exec> 08└─Almost everyone else would jump to Android, ChromeOS, and Macs with a tiny trickle, unfortunately, to non-Android, non-ChromeOS Linux.
[13:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Now Buy a 1,000-Horsepower Corvette From Your Chevy Dealership - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:13] <exec> 08└─To be pedantic, you can buy a Mustang or Camaro that will outrun a Tesla Model S for a lot less money. The Model S will launch off the line faster, but you can mod the combustion engine car to beat the the Model S in the quarter mile (and higher) for a total price far less than the Model S sticker.
[13:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:20] <exec> 08└─It's a terrible idea because you're using the power of the state when the power of the teacher and school was more than sufficient. bob_super [soylentnews.org] said it best: you can't argue with me, because I have the law on my side
[13:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:21] <exec> 08└─It's a terrible idea because you're using the power of the state when the power of the teacher and school was more than sufficient.
[13:11:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:58] <exec> 08└─You hire someone for what he's worth, which is more than nothing, but not enough to survive on.
[13:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:32] <exec> 08└─Yes. They have little responsibility at first, and yes, their parents are kind of footing the bill by providing room and board. That's the way it's supposed to be. If you're switching professions as an adult, then yes, that's on you. Either you have a network of friends and family to help you out on...
[13:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:34] <exec> 08└─Try again.
[13:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 1413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:36] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. Before minimum wage you had coal mine owners paying people the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $1 per hour and the shift supervisor was getting inflation-adjusted $5 per hour, because the demand for labor outstripped supply. When you died they dumped your body in a ditch and then found so...
[13:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Comes Under Fire by Chinese State Media for Not Doing Enough to Filter Prohibited Content - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:58] <exec> 08└─We've seen what less capitalistic societies do; they drive people into the ground and crush them into the mud.
[13:15:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:03] <exec> 08└─Ministry of "at least mighty buzzard will stop posting".
[13:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:19] <exec> 08└─No, just proof test it with a hot load, and anything less powerful will be safe. And a slam fire pipe gun is likely to be more reliable than a modern semi due to its dead simple design.
[13:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:21] <exec> 08└─And any neural network can become Skynet and take over the world, right?
[13:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:23] <exec> 08└─In other words, "Because it hurts more, you twit."
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[14:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:35] <exec> 08└─The motion of Mars matches the predictions of the epicycle model [wikipedia.org] almost perfectly. However, the epicycle model is wrong, though still useful.
[14:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:37] <exec> 08└─I mean, you're welcome to indicate the places parsimony and/or coherence of general relativity could be increased without sacrificing predictive power.
[14:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:39] <exec> 08└─Why does it continue to be called the Theory of relativity rather than the Principle or the Law of relativity? There is no counter evidence and plenty of observable evidence. The very design of GPS is corrected for relativity in order for it to function. Why do we use the word "Law" for thermodynami...
[14:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:41] <exec> 08└─You're not thinking in circles. You're thinking in epicycles!
[14:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:53] <exec> 08└─But this plane crash was just after takeoff. The distance to the ground is much less than a flight at cruising altitude. Yes, a crash is a crash is a crash. But I'll take one like this Aeromexico flight, TYVM.
[14:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:54] <exec> 08└─All of the crashes cites are close to the ground or at the airport. It's like judging the survivability of falling off the first rung of a 100 foot ladder, see ladders are safer. This is like how to lie with statistics 102.
[14:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:56] <exec> 08└─But this plane crash was just after takeoff. The distance to the ground is much less than a flight at cruising altitude....But I'll take one like this
[14:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:59] <exec> 08└─Fatal crashes were always kinda rare and when aviation was wealthier thats the only kind they had; the kind of pilot who can't keep it on the runway was weeded out by the Air Force years before flying a jetliner. To some extent this minor stuff is a symbol of more, less selective, poorer paid, pilot...
[14:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:01] <exec> 08└─But this plane crash was just after takeoff. The distance to the ground is much less than a flight at cruising altitude.
[14:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:03] <exec> 08└─Less potential energy
[14:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:06] <exec> 08└─But they keep me safe from affordable water!
[14:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:18] <exec> 08└─On your right (with intentional waters) and straight ahead (with Mexico). You're welcome. (grin)
[14:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:20] <exec> 08└─Screaming is not usually a problem at the smaller airports. So why even bother to eliminate it there? Smaller airports do not seem to interfere with the theater experience. And you are more likely to know the people groping you.
[14:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:22] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this will create a business opportunity for flights that avoid large airports altogether. Should be interesting when Southwest starts flying 737s out of smaller, regional airports (some of them do have big enough runways). Trumptards need another 9/11 to justify their excesses ... how lo...
[14:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:24] <exec> 08└─"Trumptards need another 9/11 to justify their excesses" TSA is an equal opportunity joke. It may have started under The Shrub, but Obama kept it going just fine for eight long years. Now, under Trump, they're considering eliminating some of the useless theater - and you somehow manage to twist that...
[14:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:26] <exec> 08└─Because government has no aversion to overspending for a bad implementation... Little airports may have no security but when you fly from one of those to big airport you will have to be screened there. If your main hub is Denver or Houston or Atlanta or whatever, all of the security theater at thos...
[14:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:28] <exec> 08└─"I wonder if this will create a business opportunity for flights that avoid large airports altogether." That would be great - a return to the pre-hub days, when there were a lot more direct flights between cities. It may be less efficient for the airlines, but it is a lot more convenient for passeng...
[14:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:31] <exec> 08└─I'd bet what's being talked about here is not having "no" security at regional airports, just the TSA dropping their coverage. As in those regionals will still be required to provide their own security that meets TSA standards, just not being paid out of the Federal coffers.
[14:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Game Doesn't Offer Brain Gain - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:42] <exec> 08└─Tin numbers? What about international dialing?
[14:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Game Doesn't Offer Brain Gain - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:43] <exec> 08└─My super skillz at 2048 don't seem to have magically transformed me into a genius. (as evidenced by posting history)
[14:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Game Doesn't Offer Brain Gain - 1995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:45] <exec> 08└─It's an Elsevier publication so I guess I'll never get to read that paper since I'm sure as fuck not going to pay them for it and the University stopped subbing their publications. Anyway. I do find it kind of interesting. Doesn't this then have further implications for learning? Doing things might...
[14:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:59] <exec> 08└─Thanks for jumping the shark.
[14:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:01] <exec> 08└─Too bad someone has not invented a simple "piss into this cup" test for psychopathic managers and C level people. After all, soulless psychopathic people with no empathy reduce productivity. I thought paxil back in 1992 was supposed to be the magical cure all for depression. At least from the ads an...
[14:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:03] <exec> 08└─Bonus points if we can come up with a crazy interpretation of some verse in the bible that prophecies the discovery of acetyl-L-carnitine so that when da starts going crazy on Prednisone again he can jump straight to the conclusion of shape-shifting demons from the burning hells.
[14:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:05] <exec> 08└─If there's one thing that history shows, it's that soulless psychopathic people with no empathy drive productivity, especially when the economic system in place provides an incentive to do so in a way that benefits everyone else at the same time.
[14:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:31] <exec> 08└─running a virtualized
[14:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:32] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of "real end users" are never going to run anything but Chrome on those windows boxes, so when windows is too much of a PITA its chromebooks all the way. I own a legacy win10 laptop connected to an astrophotography setup and the only native app it runs is APT (astrophotography tool...
[14:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:34] <exec> 08└─I don't think this will fly as long as Linux is around.
[14:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:36] <exec> 08└─I own a legacy win10 laptop connected to an astrophotography setup and the only native app it runs is APT (astrophotography tool). Technically the whole thing could/should be replaced by a raspi
[14:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:19] <exec> 08└─How many hours can you stroke that thing before it starts getting sore?
[14:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:05] <exec> 08└─You do that enough, and learning suffers.
[14:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:06] <exec> 08└─Ugh its like arguing with management... just tell them what it'll cost and let them decide. OK that phone will cost you mowing the lawn seventy times because phones have exploded in price in recent years, and then shoveling the driveway approximately twice a week to pay the monthly bill, every singl...
[14:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:09] <exec> 08└─This is about ensuring the rules and the law are respected.
[14:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:11] <exec> 08└─is she still a virgin?
[14:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:13] <exec> 08└─If the kids don't have smartphones in schools then how will they be able to call 911 or their parents each and every time that a school shooter bursts into the school with automatic weapons?
[14:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Tiny" Great Barrier Reef Foundation Awarded $443 Million Australian Govt. Grant, Inquiry Ensues - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:26] <exec> 08└─My bro in-law (stem cell med researcher) spends 75% of his time writing proposals and complains endlessly how government funding of medical research is so constrained.
[14:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:28] <exec> 08└─You can't take a chance on a newbie
[14:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:32] <exec> 08└─To be more specific about this: This particular journalist was not part of the Pentagon's "embedding" program
[14:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:33] <exec> 08└─Given what we've come to expect from journalists, why is no one surprised?
[14:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:35] <exec> 08└─Leave my wife out of this.
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[15:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:41] <exec> 08└─A theory may apply to this Universe, or it may not. A "law" is an axiom within a theory that applies to this Universe.
[15:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:43] <exec> 08└─A theory, in science, is typically composed of multiple laws, and a supporting framework of understanding for how those laws work. There is, for example, within relativity, a law of mass-energy equivalence. It's a piece that the whole needs to work. It doesn't seem like if you took mass-energy equi...
[15:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:45] <exec> 08└─In modern science "Theory" is the term for believed to be accurate/true. They gave up on "Law" because we kept finding ways to refine the old models. So now, it doesn't get to be an officially accepted "Theory" until there is sufficient evidence and support within the scientific community. The scien...
[15:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:47] <exec> 08└─Your notion of "theory" is utterly wrong.
[15:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:50] <exec> 08└─Why do we use the word "Law" for thermodynamics?
[15:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:52] <exec> 08└─In modern science "Theory" is the term for believed to be accurate/true.
[15:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:54] <exec> 08└─Basically "law" is used for old theorems because that was the term used then. It's not used anymore.
[15:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:57] <exec> 08└─and his ycles ARE epic! :)
[15:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:59] <exec> 08└─Because theory is an explanation which fits observations and not the prediction of observaable events (laws). It tries to explain why things are, not what they are. https://www.livescience.com [livescience.com] https://blog.ed.ted.com
[15:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:35] <exec> 08└─Screaming is not usually a problem at the smaller airports.
[15:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:37] <exec> 08└─not true. My local airport has 12 gates (2 wings). A single scanner, metal detector and 2 belts. Granted, they seem quite professional, how it has taken over *90 minutes* to get through to a gate, because the "TSA Pre" option was slowing down everyone else!!!! I feel sure we are being manipulated wi...
[15:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:09] <exec> 08└─Citation please, for the statement on the current US Vice President.
[15:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 1694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:39] <exec> 08└─But most people don't care in the slightest about this as an issue. They only care about what they can do with their computer now and today. Does it email? Does it browse? Does it not bother them with administrative trivia and was it easy to install? The latter is where Linux usually fails, utterly,...
[15:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:41] <exec> 08└─But it will be sold as a necklace - such a pretty thing that will let you see, be seen, and get things done more easily.
[15:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 1363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:43] <exec> 08└─Dear Linux Devs and major game developers, My skills as a software developer are sadly limited. I do not have the skills needed to support high-end games that were written for Windows to run properly on Linux. These are the only types of programs that I still need Window to run. In the past 20 years...
[15:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:45] <exec> 08└─The Windows 7 VM I have won't run on the upgraded hardware
[15:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:19] <exec> 08└─You might think so, but I have this theory. Some other woman is impregnated the night before she departs on a flight into destiny. The plane crash lands on some desert island, and she is the sole survivor of the crash. She is stranded there for years - maybe even decades. Yes - OF COURSE she got pre...
[15:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:20] <exec> 08└─I strongly suspect that a human female who is unable to communicate her first sexual encounter to another human female may still be a virgin. At least until the communication takes place.
[15:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:37] <exec> 08└─That's what happens when your system of interaction is based around men-with-guns controlled by vote-grabbing politicians. It's arbitrary and capricious, and thus everyone must be treated as a fucking moron who is on the verge of fucking everything up.
[15:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:38] <exec> 08└─Hire all teenagers for all I care. You get what you pay for and that will be reflected in your profits. Shouldn't teenagers be in school too?
[15:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:41] <exec> 08└─A not entirely disagreeable compromise in the first paragraph. And good on you for bargaining yourself into a better wage. That's what's supposed to happen as your worth to employers increases. The second paragraph is crap though. Just mark the differentiation at the age of majority, allow those who...
[15:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:43] <exec> 08└─Lemme splain then. Wages are not and should never be based on what the employee needs. They are and should always be based on the value of the work the employee provides.
[15:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Shutting Down Self-Driving Truck Division - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:39] <exec> 08└─Getting caught. Rule #1: Don't get caught.
[15:15:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:32] <exec> 08└─Nope, telling the truth is never a bad thing. There may need to be more of it being done and it may need to be done less selectively but that doesn't mean we're better off not knowing.
[15:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:51] <exec> 08└─No, you should excuse me, because as you say, Assange is not a US citizen, nor does he reside in the US. No jurisdiction. If some American tells him something, and he repeats is, he has broken no US law, and certainly no enforceable US law. Let's say you post some meaningless nonsense insult about s...
[15:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:52] <exec> 08└─is in the mouth of a GORGEOUS woman
[15:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:54] <exec> 08└─So, manners is defined as having a socio- and psycho-pathic wife who will make the bodies disappear?
[15:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:57] <exec> 08└─Dictionary.com definitions I'm referring to: "2b) ways of behaving with reference to polite standards; social comportment: That child has good manners. 3a) person's outward bearing; way of speaking to and treating others: She has a charming manner." In other words it's a Southern Thing. https://www....
[15:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:59] <exec> 08└─general population attitude of, well, better having them in ovens than having them as neighbors...
[15:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:01] <exec> 08└─they have wanted to tear the system down even before all this drama started.
[15:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it may be a southern thing - but these kids have begun to annoy me. Four, five years ago, some of them started calling me "Mister Runaway". I griped. Griping about it just caused more of them to call me that. Now? About the only people who don't "mister" me are the ones I've been working with...
[15:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:17] <exec> 08└─Would it be helpful or wrong to think of Waterfox as a rebrand of "Firefox ESR 56" (if that existed), analogous to the "Firefox ESR 52" in Debian 9 "Stretch"?
[15:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:19] <exec> 08└─Contrary to these claims, FF started to phone home getting a text file from some Mozilla's server every start (success.txt, look in your Wireshark capture!)
[15:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:21] <exec> 08└─Killing the plugins was the last straw for me. Palemoon is my primary browser now.
[15:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google: No More Than Two Notches Per Android Phone - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:32] <exec> 08└─That is just crap on the iPhone why bother? For what? A couple of pixels at the top?
[15:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google: No More Than Two Notches Per Android Phone - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:34] <exec> 08└─Square. Not kidding.
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[16:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:52] <exec> 08└─Throw the pictures onto Flickr, or skip the middleman and put them directly on Internet Archive.
[16:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:54] <exec> 08└─Your reply appears to be a straw man.
[16:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:56] <exec> 08└─skip the middleman and put them directly on Internet Archive.
[16:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:17] <exec> 08└─The epicycle model is wrong, as are things that may be compared to the epicycle model. Yet as you note, we can obtain useful predictions from the epicycle model, very close to the ones actually observed, but still wrong enough to give Kepler the heebie-jeebies. When we look at Mars, we find that New...
[16:09:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:26] <exec> 08└─https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoors/a5045/4344036/ [popularmechanics.com]
[16:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:37] <exec> 08└─All of the crashes cites are close to the ground or at the airport.
[16:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:05] <exec> 08└─I've found that Linux has been harder to install as time gows by. Mandrake was a piece of cake, but I can't find a distro that will run on an old XP Gateway laptop I have.
[16:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:06] <exec> 08└─Should be easier now that this is out. https://en.wikipedia.org(API) [wikipedia.org] I've been seeing growing numbers of higher end games coming out for linux over the years. I'm hoping the designers/programmers hop on that shit. Once Microsoft dumps windows 7 I'll be dumping my dualboo...
[16:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:08] <exec> 08└─vmware reports itself via bios as "vmware". vmware also reports CPU type and stuff. winblows 7 checks this and other stuff. there's a way to "modify" winblows7 install so that it becomes virtual machine type agnostic and can be moved around regardless... else the backroom dealing between m$ and virt...
[16:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:10] <exec> 08└─well, the wack-a-mole game just needs a bigger, heavier hammer then. maybe soemthing like a piratebay windows (-4v)XX proxy server. modify some (probably) hardcoded ip-addresses and certs in the install then point to the proxy and get all the updates from there? this way we can socially and democrat...
[16:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:13] <exec> 08└─For older hardware I typically turn to Puppy variants, assuming that operating as administrator all the time isn't a problem. (Actually I'm pretty certain you can introduce users into a Puppy environment, just never tried to do so and it isn't the default.) But even though Xenialpup is current my di...
[16:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:49] <exec> 08└─Please note, a lot of educators are liberals. As such, it's all about how little Johnny or little Suzie is Feeling. Not about how letting a child go undisciplined will end up making them an entitled little brat. Who may or may not learn their lesson in the long run. Yes, behavior modification works...
[16:13:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:21] <exec> 08└─I think the HR drones finally understood the notion that they can't find people for entry level positions and wages when they require 5+ years of experience.
[16:13:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:39] <exec> 08└─People feel better when they contribute to society (to family, or whatever) and you'd ban them from that because they just aren't worthy in your eyes.
[16:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:10] <exec> 08└─I have a new niece that is 12. She's not from the US, but she is a US Citizen now as of this Summer. Yes, the system is working.
[16:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:12] <exec> 08└─It's interesting how you're pro forced mental labor...
[16:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:14] <exec> 08└─If the nepotism is ruling then I'd suggest that your HR person understands people completely. (As in, it's rarely about the tasks that need to be done and entirely about the relationships.) And many people confuse being religiously active as being in possession of superior faculties or skills.
[16:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:16] <exec> 08└─That is school for every child unless you're claiming it became voluntary at some point.
[16:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:02] <exec> 08└─Does the same effect apply to scientists then? As Carl Sagan once said: In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know, that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they actually change their minds, and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it....
[16:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:48] <exec> 08└─Shure. Browsy McBrowseface. Next!
[16:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:21] <exec> 08└─Boris and Natasha say Russia collusion fake news - work of Moose and Squirrel.
[16:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:23] <exec> 08└─Ask me about the time I smacked a velociraptor with my cane for walking on my lawn sometime.
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[17:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:50] <exec> 08└─An independent review by IBM Security Services
[17:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:52] <exec> 08└─But, but, that's impossible. The software was all properly certified! Software certification will take care of all authenticity and integrity questions. Just ask Bill himself.
[17:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:54] <exec> 08└─ur the lasiest troll on here and thats saying lots
[17:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:56] <exec> 08└─You know, you're making that joke from the standpoint of them not caring. But my experience says the more "certified" software is the more it complies with non-functional requirements that limit real testing and bug fixing. It means every build someone signs 10-15 pieces of paper for every requireme...
[17:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:09] <exec> 08└─This Jefferson guy was very disrespectful toward books, sure he prefers to hang out in chatrooms or facebook. Now he is known for dumping books. He could chose the books path and become known for his acomplishments not for his bad behaviour.
[17:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:10] <exec> 08└─You have to encrypt them first. Also, where's the NSA login page?
[17:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:33] <exec> 08└─Scientific Laws are just statements that describe or predict various natural phenomena, essentially a distillation of the results of many observations and/or experiments. They aren't expected to give a mechanism or explanation for why they hold. For instance, we have Kepler's laws of planetary motio...
[17:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:52] <exec> 08└─Gotta pay extra for that no-parasite guarantee!
[17:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:54] <exec> 08└─200kph = 108kn (the worldwide standard in aviation and marine, https://en.wikipedia.org(unit)#Modern_use [wikipedia.org] ) landing speed of 787 is 145kn or 268kph
[17:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:56] <exec> 08└─One of them was run over by a fire truck that responded to the crash.
[17:10:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 275 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:15] <exec> 08└─I'd bet what's being talked about here is not having "no" security at regional airports, just the TSA dropping their coverage. As in those regionals will still be required to provide their own security that meets TSA standards, just not being paid out of the Federal coffers.
[17:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:20] <exec> 08└─The industry is already moving in this direction. Aside from the A380, smaller planes are being introduced, replacing large ones in more direct routes.
[17:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Game Doesn't Offer Brain Gain - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:34] <exec> 08└─Just like you can't read a book about Surgery and then become a great Automechanic
[17:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Game Doesn't Offer Brain Gain - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:36] <exec> 08└─It's an Elsevier publication so I guess I'll never get to read that paper
[17:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:37] <exec> 08└─Hmm, I'd considered it bricked only when it won't even accept a firmware reload. (So unrecoverable even with specialist tools and knowledge.) To me bricking means that its only remaining use is as a boat anchor.
[17:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:39] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the part where they blame people in tech jobs (the ones who would really love it if people would stop using windows) because windows sucks.
[17:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:41] <exec> 08└─Actually, I am running VMware. Windows has enough smarts to figure out that I've moved the virtual machine image to new hardware even though I installed the same version of VMware. Don't know how it does it, just that it does.
[17:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Now Buy a 1,000-Horsepower Corvette From Your Chevy Dealership - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:00] <exec> 08└─Going down there road, it wouldn't be using any more fuel than a lot of vehicles. But... Just think of all the burning rubber, and worn out tires you would be making!
[17:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:25] <exec> 08└─Coke does make small cans. On their face, they want to know that drinking too many sugary drinks is a bad thing. Their pocket books hope you're too addicted to their delicious sugary drink to realize what their face is saying, though.
[17:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:21] <exec> 08└─Please note, the kid doesn't need a smartphone, but some form of contact would be a good idea. A quick look on the internet provided different options. "Just a Phone" kind of devices marketed for kids or seniors. (Some have tiny games, but not anywhere near a "smartphone" kind of thing.) Example of...
[17:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:22] <exec> 08└─> > you can't argue with me, because I have the law on my side > Think about it. Don't see your point. You can't argue with a cop that you should get away with $crime, just because That's Not Fair and Just This Time and Who Said That I Can't and ... (Most) French teachers and headmasters are not gon...
[17:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:25] <exec> 08└─My my you really don't know your opposition. By your logic all you conservative types only teach creationism and your spiritual leaders keep sodomizing kids. I'll take your liberal straw man over those dummies any day.
[17:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:27] <exec> 08└─We have found the topic where VLM has useful advice! Huzzah, come celebrate and be merry!
[17:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:29] <exec> 08└─Hey dummy, FRANCE! Weed laws are enforced, try driving around in Arizona with a big bag of weed and make sure some is being burned and the smoke is going out the window! Ooooh, you mean federal law?? I guess on THIS point you're 100% a federalist then? Fuck state's rights because... hippies? Immigra...
[17:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:53] <exec> 08└─Not in my experience, Half of the courses in Uni were though.
[17:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:54] <exec> 08└─Right now, it doesn't work, because the full-time minimum wage is below the poverty line.
[17:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:57] <exec> 08└─I have several stories about HR. One of my favorites was the time when I wanted to interview for a particular position and the manager wanted to interview me. HR had to be in the middle to setup the interview date and time. Many emails and phone calls later (about two months later) and getting nowhe...
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[18:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:55] <exec> 08└─Hey, you take that back! He's nowhere near as lazy as I am.
[18:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:57] <exec> 08└─> It means every build someone signs 10-15 pieces of paper for every requirement, but no one does any sort of sanity check or automated tests or anything us in the industry would call best practices. That's as much to impair the ability to actually audit the software as it is to raise barriers to en...
[18:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:59] <exec> 08└─Oh no, audit is the magic word it's specifically for. It's so if someone sues you you can go "look at all this paperwork we generated in demonstrating our software works, even if it was the same 1-2 QAs running the same 10 tests ten thousand times". WE DID DUE DILLIGANCE, LOOK AT HOW MANY TIMES WE S...
[18:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:01] <exec> 08└─From TFA (emphasis mine): The company [IBM] recommended that the county update its software code so it's compatible with the state's, implement quality control practices for election officials and increase the capacity on its website.
[18:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:04] <exec> 08└─I dunno, not bothering with reaching down from the home row to type the Z in lazy is pretty lazy. Are you questioning the Russian incel tinker-hacker-meddler-spy narrative? What are you, LITERAL HITLER? A QAnon anonops incel who hates women because he can't get laid? Join the army today, son. We'll...
[18:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:19] <exec> 08└─We're all just a delay line for the landfill
[18:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:43] <exec> 08└─IIUC the epicycle model is not wrong, exactly, it's just that to get arbitrarily close the observations requires an exponential number of epicycles. Or perhaps that's just that it can approach arbitrarily close to Newtonian mechanics.
[18:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:44] <exec> 08└─"Law" has fallen out of use for scientific statements, because theories cannot be proven, only falsified. Also because there's no presumed "law giver". If a theory cannot be tested for falsification (not necessarily at the moment, but in principle) then it's not a scientific statement. But you can't...
[18:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:46] <exec> 08└─Well, the historical epicycle model is definitely wrong, because (contrary to popular belief) there were no "epicycles upon epicycles." You can read more about that in the link someone already gave above. The mathematics required to build models of epicycles upon epicycles simply didn't exist in med...
[18:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:09] <exec> 08└─Oh no. Not again...
[18:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:10] <exec> 08└─I remember that one. Whether you're going to Heaven or Hell, that's one embarrassing story to have to tell at the gate. Especially if you're a hard-core believer who just thanked $God every single step you took after leaving the plane.
[18:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:12] <exec> 08└─> It is getting very rare (although not unheard of) for an aircraft at cruising altitude to suddenly fall all the way down to the ground/water. It is also getting very rare for an aircraft to get the wrong altitude reading, speed reading, or night-time misreading of terrain. Or for an engine failure...
[18:10:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Alfred [4006] 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 716 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:29] <exec> 08└─Because government has no aversion to overspending for a bad implementation... Little airports may have no security but when you fly from one of those to big airport you will have to be screened there. If your main hub is Denver or Houston or Atlanta or whatever, all of the security theater at thos...
[18:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:36] <exec> 08└─It's definitely an aggravating circumstance which requires extra screening, having to deal with intentional waters. I hear those are filled with sharks, too. (grin)
[18:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:11] <exec> 08└─It's not that simple. People who are really depressed don't commit suicide...until they start to recover. When they're really depressed they're too down to think that would help, or too innervated to act or some such. I've never been there, so I can't detail it, but this is one of the major risks i...
[18:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:56] <exec> 08└─"high-end" games becoming trashier with each year. From my point of view they can no longer justify existence of Windows. Especially considering that most of them use cross-platform engines like Unreal and Unity.
[18:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:57] <exec> 08└─I used to game with a friend, but he doesn't anymore. The main pull to windows for me has always been games. Force a Subscription model on me for Windows and I will drop it in a heartbeat. I'm not flat broke 100% of the time, but introducing extra monthly / yearly payments isn't something I'm lookin...
[18:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:00] <exec> 08└─For most companies, renting vs buying isn't that big a deal (modulo locale-specific tax advantages). A single license for Office 2016 costs $229.99 for business or $149.99 for home / student use. This is tied to a single computer, so if you replace the machine then you have to buy a new one (as my m...
[18:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:02] <exec> 08└─I have not yet seen a reason to upgrade my AutoCAD 2012 (one of the last versions it was easy or affordable to buy a perpetual license for), and I have moved to Linux as my main OS so I have a WinXP VM with no internet access and I run autoCAD within it. It has been quite painless actually.
[18:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:04] <exec> 08└─FreeBSD is just as easy to install as it was 10 years ago. Unfortunately.
[18:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Introduces Tools to Help Users Spend Less Time on Social Media - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:49] <exec> 08└─I only see the tiny little cans on airplanes tho, not anywhere else so they are sort of a specialty product (even tho I can't really understand why they dont have the normal 33cl cans since they carry so much other crap on the planes). So I'm not sure they are a "drink less" can, but more of the the...
[18:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:49] <exec> 08└─How does doing mandatory chores translate into a real-life cost ? 70 times zero is ... (not even going into the fact I haven't mowed my lawn 70 times over the last 5 years)
[18:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:17] <exec> 08└─Ah well, here in the US your parents can get fines, jail time, or even have you taken away from them if they don't force you to go to school until the state mandated age. If they can't afford to home school you, get you a private tutor, or send you to private school that means you must attend a gove...
[18:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 1490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:04] <exec> 08└─I challenge your list of priorities a bit, because you're putting "What I care about" first, and "What I care about" if I'm a politician usually involves first and foremost either getting re-elected to the office you currently hold, or getting elected to a higher office. And barring that, it usually...
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[19:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:53] <exec> 08└─>call a planet "dwarf" >complain about "planet 9" being an insensitive name
[19:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:55] <exec> 08└─insert the usual 'probe to uranus' joke here...
[19:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:57] <exec> 08└─...what a handy list of scientists whose opinion should now be ignored since we have a documented history of them disregarding scientific facts in favor of personal emotions.
[19:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:59] <exec> 08└─Seriously - out past Pluto's orbit, even a Jovian planet won't "clear it's orbit", so we get the ridiculous notion that at 5 AU, it's a planet, at 55 AU it's a 'dwarf planet'? I mean, sure, it's a Kuiper Belt Object - that's flippin' generic. And I'd say you'd be hard pressed to argue that the four...
[19:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:02] <exec> 08└─Planet Nine isn't a name that makes more sense than their other options. It's hypothetical, and there may be other non-dwarf planets in between Neptune and "Planet Nine". Such as a hypothetical Mars-to-Earth sized "Planet Ten". "Planet X" refers to a number of past hypothesized planets, and you coul...
[19:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:04] <exec> 08└─You were Happy about Pluto being a planet? It's a Sleepy empty nothing. Well guess what, your asteroid that managed to role itself into a ball is a Dopey bag of shit. Ain't no one want your negative-200-Celsius ice ball that will give you a cold and make you Sneezy. Doc Tyson was right to dunk on yo...
[19:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:06] <exec> 08└─Oh dear! How far we fallen! I wish to protest the Higgs field name as being insensitive towards Aristotle’s aether and also, Empedocles is furious of the fun made of his theory of the elements. Back to planets, calling Mars the fourth rock from the Sun is like totally insensitive to the Egyptians...
[19:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:09] <exec> 08└─Instead of 'Planet 9', call it Planet Peter Dinklage: therefore if it is a Dwarf planet, it will still be AWESOME and get all the boobs and sex and everytime it is placed in a scene with the other planets, it'll be the only planet you really notice.
[19:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:11] <exec> 08└─I wish to protest the name Jelizondo: it is insensitive to the whole Tribe of Gum. :)
[19:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:13] <exec> 08└─Preach it. Science has no room for halfassery.
[19:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:16] <exec> 08└─I worked for years as a research support math/programming person for a university planetary geology and they still referred to Pluto as a planet, at least among themselves. I never followed this mostly made up controversy, but have read that it isn't as well received by geologists as astronomers.
[19:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:18] <exec> 08└─so we get the ridiculous notion that at 5 AU, it's a planet, at 55 AU it's a 'dwarf planet'?
[19:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:20] <exec> 08└─at 5 AU, it's a planet, at 55 AU it's a 'dwarf planet'?
[19:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:23] <exec> 08└─That's a long, and rather unimpressive, way to go for a Snow White joke. BTW, you forgot Grumpy.
[19:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:39] <exec> 08└─This was due to a change in data file format. Certified software, uncertified software, open source software, none of it matters if your data is not what you've been receiving in the past.
[19:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:41] <exec> 08└─That conservatives no longer care about election security is what's saying lots.
[19:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:43] <exec> 08└─Conspiracy Theorists Assemble!
[19:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:45] <exec> 08└─Conservatives are the ones against voter id and paper ballots?
[19:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:48] <exec> 08└─this is what is happening to all legacy media. just listen to the illiterate evening news read by people who can't even speak properly. they hire morons so they can use them for propaganda. morons don't ask as many inconvenient questions.
[19:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:50] <exec> 08└─It doesn’t require any concerted action by a state or private actor to deny you the right to vote. All it takes is good old fashioned incompetence! It’s totally unreasonable for you to expect our software to be sufficiently robust to consistently and errorlessly record your vital election data,...
[19:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:06] <exec> 08└─if Jefferson threw that shit in the dumpster
[19:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:08] <exec> 08└─*threw out, ugh
[19:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:35] <exec> 08└─but now that Einstein has been shown to (pardon the word) trump Newton, will anyone speculate on the cumulative effect of gravity from barionic/light&dark matter? Would it no effect the red-shift between us and the end of the observable universe? Wouldn't/Couldn't that 'do something' to the hubble v...
[19:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:36] <exec> 08└─IIUC the epicycle model is not wrong, exactly, it's just that to get arbitrarily close the observations requires an exponential number of epicycles. Or perhaps that's just that it can approach arbitrarily close to Newtonian mechanics.
[19:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:02] <exec> 08└─A bowl of petunias, is that you?
[19:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:29] <exec> 08└─Now, under Trump, they're considering eliminating some of the useless theater - and you somehow manage to twist that to fit your anti-Trump agenda? Yes, in the same way you are twisting this Obama-admin proposal into your ant-Obama agenda.
[19:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:30] <exec> 08└─they just need to do a check against a federal database when you buy your ticket. in 2 seconds, approved or not. make the no fly lists nice and legal and fair (no americans not currently *wanted for a crime*, convenient remedies for others, etc.). no other mandated screening in airports at all. If a...
[19:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:06] <exec> 08└─After some googling . . . I am able to find that a social media post from a few years ago makes this statement, and is false. So wherever I picked up that false meme shows how well such things can spread. I will stop using it. I can also find that Mike Pence uses vague language which can be argued t...
[19:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:08] <exec> 08└─It's not that simple. People who are really depressed don't commit suicide...until they start to recover. When they're really depressed they're too down to think that would help, or too innervated to act or some such. I've never been there, so I can't detail it, but this is one of the major risks in...
[19:12:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 1409 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:20] <exec> 08└─Ever since Win10 and Office 365, I have been posting on forums (including general interest ones) that this was the way MS was heading for everybody. The forced upgrade to Win10 gave MS the power to do anything they wanted with people's PCs. Eventually MS will do no further updates of Win10 unless yo...
[19:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:58] <exec> 08└─Are they crazy, or do they think we're all stupid?
[19:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:59] <exec> 08└─but before we dive too deep into this, the ZDNet article states that Microsoft expects small businesses to adopt this model.
[19:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Now Buy a 1,000-Horsepower Corvette From Your Chevy Dealership - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:21] <exec> 08└─They have a major impact on the noise environment. Fucking pricks believe it's their God-given right to keep, in a half-mile radius, everyone's kids awake at 1AM...
[19:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:15] <exec> 08└─See, here's where I have to correct you. Surviving means not dying and a thousand bucks a month is more than enough for simple survival for one person. Hell, one person can easily eat for a year on $5,200 without losing weight. Less if they make an effort to spend wisely. Now what you want to define...
[19:16:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:47] <exec> 08└─If a politician changes their view to your POV, then they are Brave. If they change their view to The Other POV, then they are a Hypocrite.
[19:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:04] <exec> 08└─Or in the words of Joss Whedon: "It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another." I think there are degrees of wickedness, though: Generally speaking, the standard I use is "How much harm to other people has/will this person cause in order to furt...
[19:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:05] <exec> 08└─A lot of political matters aren't a matter of rational argument. Take, for instance, abortion: There's no evidence-based argument that will convince either the pro-life folks or the pro-choice folks to change their mind, because this isn't an evidence-based issue in any way, shape, or form.
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[20:08:50] <exec> 08└─inclusiveness
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[20:08:52] <exec> 08└─#MeToo
[20:09:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tara Li [6248] 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 477 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:03] <exec> 08└─Seriously - out past Pluto's orbit, even a Jovian planet won't "clear it's orbit", so we get the ridiculous notion that at 5 AU, it's a planet, at 55 AU it's a 'dwarf planet'? I mean, sure, it's a Kuiper Belt Object - that's flippin' generic. And I'd say you'd be hard pressed to argue that the four...
[20:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:14] <exec> 08└─With our media that loves to dish out the drama to their readers and viewers, controversy over the definition of "planet" is good for Pluto missions, astronomy, and science. Sure, there are trolls who will try to claim that any uncertainty means astronomers and scientists are a bunch of fakers who d...
[20:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:16] <exec> 08└─Also, to show that I'm really agnostic on this, here's an interview with a real planetary scientist [space.com] (one of the guys who actually proposed the first metric for clearing the neighborhood) about why he thinks the IAU definition is bad. Point being: the IAU definition of a "planet" may or m...
[20:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:18] <exec> 08└─I was grumpy.
[20:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:20] <exec> 08└─"Planet X" refers to a number of past hypothesized planets, and you could treat the "X" as an integer variable.
[20:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:22] <exec> 08└─Planet ⑨ is the strongest planet!
[20:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:44] <exec> 08└─And you know what's the next thing to go south? Capitalization.
[20:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:46] <exec> 08└─Conservatives are the ones against voter id and paper ballots? They're opposed to paper ballots, yes. Republicans reject funding for paper-based voting [cnet.com] Opposition from Republicans and the White House has sparked defeat of a Democratic proposal to reimburse state election officials for con...
[20:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:48] <exec> 08└─You ever read a history book? Russians and Nazis don't go together at all.
[20:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:05] <exec> 08└─Why is there so little cynicism here? I mean, which is more likely? 1) Books from over 200 years ago passed unknown from hand to hand, lost in storage, unrecognized, and then made their way to a dumpster where they were suddenly found. 2) This is a hoax being perpetuated by somebody for fortune and...
[20:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I mean I thought the garbage men came late sometimes in my neighborhood -- but not clearing trash out for 200 years...?
[20:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:09] <exec> 08└─Well, as someone who has actually worked with historical materials and archives, I'm pretty familiar with how things that seem "important" to us often get randomly discarded. To a different person or to a different time in history, a "historical artifact" may just be an annoying piece of junk to thr...
[20:11:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:18] <exec> 08└─"Trumptards need another 9/11 to justify their excesses" TSA is an equal opportunity joke. It may have started under The Shrub, but Obama kept it going just fine for eight long years. Now, under Trump, they're considering eliminating some of the useless theater - and you somehow manage to twist that...
[20:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:30] <exec> 08└─They'll add screening at the larger airports and screen the inbound passengers the way they do for inbound passengers from insecure countries. As a frequent traveler I don't love the idea. If I get fed up with the TSA at my source airport I can walk out, rent a car, and drive. A poor implementation...
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[20:12:58] <exec> 08└─The virtual machine isn't configured the same way. It might be as trying a new install, rather than a clone. But I suspect that the OS is smart enough to actually dig deeper. You need to configure the BIOS info, such as DMI BIOS information (type 0), DMI system information (type 1), DMI board inform...
[20:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:14] <exec> 08└─Forgive me. I thought we were speaking about living as human beings as defined in today's modern world in the U.S. in a major city. Perhaps in an apartment with healthy food on the table, able to move around the city with ease when desired, and going out with friends on occasion without having to wo...
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[21:08:48] <exec> 08└─oh boy here we go
[21:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reunited with LEDE, OpenWrt Releases Stable 18.06 Version - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:49] <exec> 08└─We need a list of these sensitive words so we can Make Soylent Safe Again.
[21:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reunited with LEDE, OpenWrt Releases Stable 18.06 Version - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:51] <exec> 08└─I think you might want to brush up on your vocabulary [urbandictionary.com]. Annoyance does not contain remotely enough REE particles to fit the definition of "triggered".
[21:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:17] <exec> 08└─Wait, does that mean that studying Mars is cultural appropriation?
[21:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:19] <exec> 08└─You still are :P
[21:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:21] <exec> 08└─We can rename Pluto to "planet eight and a half". After that there shouldn't be a problem with planets 9, 10 or whatever.
[21:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:23] <exec> 08└─None of this would have happened if anything that feels like a planet was just called planet, and the special 4+4 were just called Major Planets. Emphasize positively, rather than negatively, especially because grants. Any marketing guy could have told them that.
[21:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:26] <exec> 08└─Constantly angry at everything around you is just 2018.txt
[21:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:28] <exec> 08└─Consider the 'probe' inserted :-0
[21:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:14] <exec> 08└─You know, on a second read, there are some weird things about all this. The two specific books he claims were known to be in Jefferson's possession were apparently already sold on eBay months before he figured out they really belonged to Jefferson. So unless someone tracks down this buyer, we can't...
[21:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:15] <exec> 08└─(Sorry -- wish for an edit button again. In the last couple sentences I didn't mean to imply that I think this is a hoax -- I still don't. But I'm slightly more skeptical enough to say it would be good to verify his claims further.)
[21:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Books Found in Dumpster Belonged to Thomas Jefferson - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:17] <exec> 08└─It does make sense, if you consider how long it took to get a trash can all the way out to Incline Village at the time. That's one hell of a chore, and Little Timmy isn't coming back in for dinner until next year.
[21:10:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 428 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:28] <exec> 08└─Why does it continue to be called the Theory of relativity rather than the Principle or the Law of relativity? There is no counter evidence and plenty of observable evidence. The very design of GPS is corrected for relativity in order for it to function. Why do we use the word "Law" for thermodynami...
[21:10:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 749 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:32] <exec> 08└─A theory, in science, is typically composed of multiple laws, and a supporting framework of understanding for how those laws work. There is, for example, within relativity, a law of mass-energy equivalence. It's a piece that the whole needs to work. It doesn't seem like if you took mass-energy equi...
[21:10:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 1146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:43] <exec> 08└─Scientific Laws are just statements that describe or predict various natural phenomena, essentially a distillation of the results of many observations and/or experiments. They aren't expected to give a mechanism or explanation for why they hold. For instance, we have Kepler's laws of planetary motio...
[21:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:50] <exec> 08└─Missing mod: +1 Good question Thanks a lot for the good answers, belwo, but also thanks a lot for asking the question.
[21:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:52] <exec> 08└─but now that Einstein has been shown to (pardon the word) trump Newton,
[21:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:55] <exec> 08└─Oh, and for someone criticizing those who don't use dictionaries, you should know the term is "non sequitur" -- traditionally two words, and the Latin third-person deponent form is "-tur" not "-tor."
[21:11:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:32] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this will create a business opportunity for flights that avoid large airports altogether.
[21:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:49] <exec> 08└─Think of the jobless TSA agents, think of the worried travelers, think of the contractors all over the country who still have millions of income riding on delivering the next X-ray machine / explosive sniffer / bioparticle amplifier, think of how much harder it will be to pick political targets out...
[21:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Considering Eliminating Screening at Smaller Airports - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:51] <exec> 08└─This is good for SouthWest - they fly direct from small airport to small airport on many of their routes.
[21:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 1880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:28] <exec> 08└─And then there's times when you're too depressed to do anything and just waste away in bed nearly all day. That's when you're too depressed to commit suicide. You don't have the physical nor mental energy to do so. It takes too much effort to come up with a way that'll work and carry out those actio...
[21:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:21] <exec> 08└─"They only care about what they can do with their computer now and today. Does it email? Does it browse? Does it not bother them with administrative trivia and was it easy to install?" So...they are all looking for a chrome book?
[21:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:23] <exec> 08└─is your friend's name barney or alyx?
[21:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Bangs the 'Devices as a Service' Drum Ahead of Windows 7's End-of-Support Deadline - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:25] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a good idea actually. People use Windows for basically two things: professional software that is only available on Windows, and games. In both cases you need pretty good hardware. So is Microsoft proposing to rent out the newest CPUs and GPUs to users? That's great, it saves them fr...
[21:14:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06"Black Hole Hologram" in a Graphene Flake - 6538 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:26] <exec> 08└─In English what this means is that graphene, with a particular edge configuration can, under intense magnetic fields, exhibit some properties similar to a black hole. Consider that graphene is for all intents and purposes 1 dimensional, that is to say, it is a single layer of atoms. So in a nutshell...
[21:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:11] <exec> 08└─Do they really permit kids to sit there and play on their phones?
[21:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:13] <exec> 08└─(To clarify the last sentence, I meant consistent across a school or something... rather than dictated by government.)
[21:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:43] <exec> 08└─Age is a poor gauge of abilities - I'd like to see education instead of age to permit extension of these "starter jobs" to the disabled as they continue high school through age 22/25 in some states, and beyond. If they're still in a qualified educational program, I do believe allowing them to work f...
[21:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:45] <exec> 08└─If you like. Extend it as far as you care to for the mentally handicapped (school or no school) and it won't bother me. At some point they are going to learn their job well enough to warrant a raise though; no matter how difficult it is for them to learn. That's on the employer's intellectual honest...
[21:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:47] <exec> 08└─The local groceries are starting to have serious visible programs with Downs and similar help, mostly bagging, but also some other things they can do. In the handicapped situation, they're generally supported by people who help them get the jobs, etc. and, presumably, if they can learn a job well en...
[21:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:37] <exec> 08└─Do you want a leader, or a mish-mash of public opinion driving the nation? Should we listen to public opinion monthly, weekly, hourly? I thought the founding fathers established an interval of executive public opinion polling at once every 4 years.
[21:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political/Business Leaders Who Change Their Moral Stance are Perceived Not as Brave but Hypocritical - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:39] <exec> 08└─"Own ambitions" is a slippery term - the worst of them believe that their "own ambitions" are what is best for the nation. Even if you get all objective about what's "good for the country" - are you measuring GDP, or mean income, or median, or wealth disparity, or percent in poverty, or mean life ex...
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[22:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:46] <exec> 08└─... it can work anywhere. Rome features the purest breed of bureaucrats. They are existential bureaucrats, forged by centuries of Roman empire, Vatican second, Republic. You can wipe them out, leaving only one alive, repopulate the place with the best barbarians, in two generations they will have re...
[22:09:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:06] <exec> 08└─...what a handy list of scientists whose opinion should now be ignored since we have a documented history of them disregarding scientific facts in favor of personal emotions.
[22:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:30] <exec> 08└─You were Happy about Pluto being a planet? It's a Sleepy empty nothing. So's North Dakota, but it's still a state
[22:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:31] <exec> 08└─If we are going to “respect” dead people, let us respect all of them...
[22:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:33] <exec> 08└─I'm a member of the international cartographers union, we're reclassifying it to a dwarf state.
[22:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine... or Giant Planet Five? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:36] <exec> 08└─Agreed. The original "clearing the neighborhood" paper called them uberplanets, I believe. Everything sounds more awesome in German.
[22:09:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 393 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:59] <exec> 08└─Conservatives are the ones against voter id and paper ballots? They're opposed to paper ballots, yes. Republicans reject funding for paper-based voting [cnet.com] Opposition from Republicans and the White House has sparked defeat of a Democratic proposal to reimburse state election officials for con...
[22:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:01] <exec> 08└─You took the time to reply. I'm lazier than that even. Oh, wait...
[22:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:56] <exec> 08└─> though still useful. No, it isn't. Using proper elliptical equations predicts the orbits far more accurately and is also far easier to calculate. A model that is both less accurate and more complex is not useful. Epicycles only exist because of the blind religious devotion that the Pythagoreans ha...
[22:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Observations of Supermassive Black Hole Match General Relativity Predictions - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:57] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that you can represent Fourier series as epicycles [bgrawi.com].
[22:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:25] <exec> 08└─And they counted him against the plane crash survivors? He survived the crash. Does that mean we can't count all the deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the 9/11 air plane crashes?
[22:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:26] <exec> 08└─I refuse to fly until the TSA is eliminated.
[22:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Links Low Blood Levels of Acetylcarnitine to Depression - 2907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:36] <exec> 08└─Thank-you for sharing your first-hand experiences. There is an old adage: "Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one and they stink." Speaking from experience is something else entirely. I commend you for your perseverance and am grateful your prior suicide attempts were unsuccessful, thereby a...
[22:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Lawmakers Ban Smartphones in Schools - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:20] <exec> 08└─I've been out to dinner with people in their 40s who mostly just sit around and play on Facebook and whatever random stuff for mostly of their dinner. Why bother "having dinner WITH" someone else if you're not going to bother communicating with the people you're with?
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[23:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:46] <exec> 08└─As Italy did during WW2, those champions are going to change sides when they realize America's Microsoft is stronger than the Germany's LibreOffice
[23:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rome, Italy, Steps Towards FOSS Desktops - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:47] <exec> 08└─Microsoft's efforts to screw them up not withstanding, they will need to pry Excel Pivot Tables/Charts from my cold dead hands. I have tried LibreOffice and it doesn't even come close with Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts. I still pine for Excel-2003 though....everything MS has done to it since has m...
[23:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:02] <exec> 08└─Why did so many African Americans have the same birthday, hmm?
[23:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:03] <exec> 08└─And you know what's the next thing to go south? Capitalization.
[23:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:05] <exec> 08└─That's Republicans not conservatives. There's as big a difference as there is between Democrats and liberals. Frankly though, you'll find neither conservatives nor liberals up on the hill. Mostly you'll just find power-hungry shit-birds parroting whatever will get them reelected and their remoras. O...
[23:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airplane Crashes Becoming More Survivable - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:30] <exec> 08└─The damn pilot should have delayed takeoff until the weather cleared a bit. I believe the rule is, *Never fly into a thunderstorm during peacetime*
[23:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘No Experience Necessary’ - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:57] <exec> 08└─It's an obvious expense to the employer to support these people in their jobs...
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