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[00:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:02] <exec> 08└─Where is the summary of the results? An honest article would put them up front, or in the conclusion, but probably both. Since its missing I dont trust a word of this.
[00:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:03] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen the Domas presentation covered in the tech press and didn't want to editorialize too much in the sub. I'm sure everyone understands that the complexities of the modern CPU (with embedded processors) present a massive attack surface. Another phrasing for my closing question could be -...
[00:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:05] <exec> 08└─Results for what? The ucode slowdowns for various simulated workloads are in the phoronix article (second link), there's no summary but you can clearly estimate percentages from the test results.
[00:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:07] <exec> 08└─There should be a summary of the results. Ie, "Intel Xeon performance is a% -b% worse depending on workload, AMD Epyc is c%-d% worse." There could even be another sentence about "mitigations had biggest impact (b/d%) for x type of tasks". Then people who are intrigued will read the details.
[00:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotic Kitchen Opens in Boston - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, as you said the queue is full of interesting stuff. While here we have a meh -- so much for the $15 minimum wage.
[00:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotic Kitchen Opens in Boston - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:39] <exec> 08└─. Yay, permissive data mining might make this viable..
[00:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotic Kitchen Opens in Boston - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:41] <exec> 08└─Software QA companies pay $15 an hour for robot testing, so there's your minimum wage. You can pretend you work in the tech industry, but you're not allowed to see the code inside the robots.
[00:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Failed Chinese Films and Fake Ticket Sales Used to Manipulate Stock Prices - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:04] <exec> 08└─Connections are everything, no rule of law: don't be surprised if you lose your investment, your IP and your shirt there. Movies, huh? I've been wondering why Chinese company 万达, advertising all over the world cup, has been buying up loads of US movie theatre brands.
[00:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Failed Chinese Films and Fake Ticket Sales Used to Manipulate Stock Prices - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:06] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, that does ring a bell. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Also waaaat [deadline.com]
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[00:46:39] <exec> 08└─Thanks to the Internet, you can get global news now. If you are in the industry, the trade press should cover it. But I don't see mass media even cover the CES, let alone the IFA. There's been traditionally more coverage in popular European media; I heard of this years iteration via BBC world servic...
[00:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest Explanation for Cuban Embassy Symptoms: Microwave Weapons - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:29] <exec> 08└─It's hard to undertstand why you went on and on about vaccines then changed gears to Mefloquine when that didn't pan out,
[00:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest Explanation for Cuban Embassy Symptoms: Microwave Weapons - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:30] <exec> 08└─Assuming the Canadians will hang out at US parties, they can easily catch mass hysteria. And since the Canadians have had long term relations with Cuba, while the current US administration wants to delegitimize the previous administration's opening to Cuba, they won't entertain any bullshit.
[00:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AI Sucks At Stopping Online Trolls Spewing Toxic Comments - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:57] <exec> 08└─Letting the government decide what is and is not legitimate discourse is dangerous.
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[01:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:59] <exec> 08└─Sure but phoronix is a tech site, these are server tests and you can skim through the synthetic benchmarks yourself and see which is most applicable to your workloads. A summary based on synthetic benchmarks would be misleading as much as it may satisfy clickbait culture.
[01:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:00] <exec> 08└─Did you look at all of the graphs of the performance differences for the multiple Intel and AMD chips, as well as two VMs? There were more than a dozen graphs, each representing real world tasks. There is no single measure of the performance hit because it varies depending on what the system is doin...
[01:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:03] <exec> 08└─A summary based on synthetic benchmarks would be misleading as much as it may satisfy clickbait culture.
[01:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:05] <exec> 08└─is spectre / meltdown only the start of these attacks?
[01:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:07] <exec> 08└─I believe that with the increased complexity of these processors comes more and more vulnerabilities. Basically CPUs and whatnot are nothing more than software modeled in hardware. And software of this complexity? Were it a standalone program what would your expectations be with regards to it being...
[01:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Bridenstine Says It Won't Cost Much to Get Back to the Moon - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:32] <exec> 08└─Better yet, tax cuts. Who needs moon landings, education, healthcare or civil society for that matter when you've got 1 MILLION DOLLARS?
[01:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, And Now We Know How That's Possible - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:02] <exec> 08└─I can't see magnetic fields but I can fuck your bitch. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[01:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Sentenced to 8 Months in Prison for Role in Leaking iCloud Celebrity Photos - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:24] <exec> 08└─How much money did the guy get for the pictures? ... I'm trying to decide whether it would be worth 8 months in prison or not.
[01:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club is Alive - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:03] <exec> 08└─Coincidentally, I re-read Foundation last year, after having read it the first time in 1974 (I think). It has not aged well. Everyone smokes all the time. Ashtrays must be mentioned about a dozen times, as if they're really important. The idea behind the story is, of course, fantastic. The characte...
[01:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptop Bezels Continue to Shrink - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:42] <exec> 08└─My $100 Chromebook [blah blah pointless get-off-my-lawn story]
[01:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptop Bezels Continue to Shrink - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:43] <exec> 08└─If the $100 Chromebook died after a year, it would be worth it when compared to a $4000 machine lasting 40 years. My Cr-48 original Chromebook test unit only lasted a little more than a year... and they aren't building them better and better with time, either.
[01:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest Explanation for Cuban Embassy Symptoms: Microwave Weapons - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:34] <exec> 08└─I'm sure I don't know what really happened, can't know what really happened, but to have somebody of that "caliber" show up just around the time that they're all grasping at straws in an attempt to burn Wakefield at the stake (and some of the "science" put forth to counter Wakefield around the time...
[01:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI Sucks At Stopping Online Trolls Spewing Toxic Comments - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:00] <exec> 08└─that's not legitimate discourse. It's not for you to decide what is "legitimate discourse"... A person's decision to act violently is entirely personal, and only he is responsible. The participants are responsible for the attacks, not the "organizers" via public communication Oh, I see. It should al...
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[02:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robotic Kitchen Opens in Boston - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:01] <exec> 08└─And if you send the food back to them for further cooking because it is not up to your standards, they will ejaculate gear oil into it out of spite.
[02:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, And Now We Know How That's Possible - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:24] <exec> 08└─Good to know that there are some knowledgeable people around.
[02:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club is Alive - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:25] <exec> 08└─We're living in the Juul renaissance, bro. The world is our ashtray. 🎄🎄🎄🚬
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[03:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:45] <exec> 08└─Could it just be "stale water" in the pipe? I know the water from certain rarely used spigots in my house taste terrible until I run the water a bit. Also, some "water cooler" water tastes terrible to me, as it seems as if I am tasting the corrosion of the refrigeration tank. Same with my boss's co...
[03:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:46] <exec> 08└─I went to school in Germany where schools don't have a cafeteria. If there's not enough money, maybe they should cut that. I'm sure the food is horrible, anyway. Also, cut school buses.
[03:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:49] <exec> 08└─so more tiger moms can battle it out to get little snowflake to school? fsck that
[03:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:51] <exec> 08└─Because our social safety net is shit, that could be the only meal a kid will get that day.
[03:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotic Kitchen Opens in Boston - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:43] <exec> 08└─socialist revolutions have never helped the common person in the long run.
[03:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotic Kitchen Opens in Boston - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:45] <exec> 08└─Interesting as avocado is very environmentally damaging.
[03:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robotic Kitchen Opens in Boston - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:47] <exec> 08└─And I have already been drinking robotically prepared coffee for most of my life! I just loaded the machine... it woke up in the wee-wee hours of the morning and brewed it.
[03:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robotic Kitchen Opens in Boston - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:49] <exec> 08└─Ummm... where do we think "TV Dinners" came from? Does any of us believe a chef personally prepared these one by one? Or did a chef instruct a machine how to do it, then the machine makes millions of them?
[03:44:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06NASA Administrator Bridenstine Says It Won't Cost Much to Get Back to the Moon - 1582 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:31] <exec> 08└─Depends on what you mean by investment. People could live on the Moon without significant resupply from Earth. They could use lunar ice to get water and oxygen, and grow crops indoors. They can build structures using regolith, or dig tunnels. After the initial investment(s), they at least don't have...
[03:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Bridenstine Says It Won't Cost Much to Get Back to the Moon - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:42] <exec> 08└─Some people say they would pay to live on the Moon. Extremely few of those would. It's all fun and games until reality sets in after the novelty wears off. What happens when people start paying more to come back to Earth?
[03:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Bridenstine Says It Won't Cost Much to Get Back to the Moon - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:43] <exec> 08└─What privatization? NASA does not build anything. Moon rocket -- Boeing designed and built the boosters, Rocketdyne built the engines, Gruman built the lunar lander, North American Aviation built the command module, GM built the lunar rover and Playtex designed and built the spacesuits
[03:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club is Alive - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:18] <exec> 08└─Careful. You get what you pay for and maybe a little bit extra!
[03:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club is Alive - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:19] <exec> 08└─+1 for Snow Crash
[03:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest Explanation for Cuban Embassy Symptoms: Microwave Weapons - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:54] <exec> 08└─I don't think you can seriously link a porn star and a discredited former Doctor. Unless you're arguing that Wakefield was not a lying scam artist. In which case I think you're wrong.
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[04:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:56] <exec> 08└─Now how are the kids supposed to get their RDA of lead? Oh, wait, Detroit. Nevermind.
[04:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:57] <exec> 08└─Coke Inc. would be happy to step in and get a contract to 'hydrate' all the little snowflakes at 8 or 9000% profit. Kids need water during the day, shutting off the supply is only a very short term answer. What's next ? Canceling recess so they don't get thirsty, or requiring them to bring their own...
[04:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:59] <exec> 08└─If I could spell I'd be dangerous...
[04:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:16] <exec> 08└─With jewish-owned Intel, who is surprised that it contains hardware backdoors, a (demon)god-mode to harm us? Tell me the designers of the enhancements in Intel processors did not know they could be misused. In fact, they designed them for that precise purpose while adding a performance gain that the...
[04:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Robotic Kitchen Opens in Boston - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:55] <exec> 08└─Guacamole is the Devil's vomit.
[04:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Bridenstine Says It Won't Cost Much to Get Back to the Moon - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:49] <exec> 08└─I was born less than a year before a man set foot on the moon the first time.
[04:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Bridenstine Says It Won't Cost Much to Get Back to the Moon - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:50] <exec> 08└─What happens when people start paying more to come back to Earth?
[04:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, And Now We Know How That's Possible - 1200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:23] <exec> 08└─The problem is not that language changes. Language has changed constantly. My parents and grandparents had little clue what we were talking about half the time, and my own kids talk nonsense with their friends. Clothing changes, and even conduct changes over time. Gender specific conduct and clothin...
[04:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laptop Bezels Continue to Shrink - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:04] <exec> 08└─I like small enough to be portable laptops (I have an 11.6" netbook at home). My work just got me a Dell XPS-13. The thing fits in the same case as my netbook, but the screen is quite a bit larger. Since 11.6" with-bezel netbook has the smallest keyboard I would want to type on, the 13" no bezel Del...
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[04:47:06] <exec> 08└─I may be strange but I think a lap made of clear acrylic would be cool. Not cool enough to sacrifice functionality but still. I'd also say the same thing about a car. It would be cool to see an IC engine running at speed, the pistons and crank shaft etc. but again not cool enough to sacrifice perfor...
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[04:47:08] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't be one world language, every culture should have a language to help preserve their identity and that which is unique. But having a common language, be it English or otherwise for commerce and trade is not a bad thing either. Being multi lingual is a good thing at any level. Is ASL or IS co...
[04:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Legislature Approves Strongest Net Neutrality Bill in the U.S. - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:18] <exec> 08└─Nah, you're just thinking too narrowly. Every dollar the government gets as profit on that infrastructure creation/upkeep/improvement is a dollar they can't justify taking at gunpoint. See, I recognize the need for extremely limited government involvement in the lives of its citizens but I also reco...
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[04:49:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm giving the proper solution not the easy one.
[04:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Better Fisheries Management Could Help Offset Climate Change's Negative Effects, Research Suggests - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:44] <exec> 08└─There is no evidence that climatic (heat waves have no place here) warming or cooling happened faster than our current warming trend.
[04:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Better Fisheries Management Could Help Offset Climate Change's Negative Effects, Research Suggests - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:46] <exec> 08└─No, actually. I used the findings of the same people who are saying the sky is falling. And linked them.
[04:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Sucks At Stopping Online Trolls Spewing Toxic Comments - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:28] <exec> 08└─Now, the real trick is going to be how do we keep the professionals over here, and keep the kids and jokers over there?
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[05:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:58] <exec> 08└─I've had a problem with it my whole life. Its a feeling of dread when there shouldn't be. Its the anxiety of doing something that is totally out of proportion to the task. Its directly tied to these things even though you know its irrational you still have to actively resist it in order to get thing...
[05:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:59] <exec> 08└─This one begs to be from the no-shit-sherlock dept. Anyone who's ever procrastinated knows full well that they put off doing $whatever because they didn't feel like doing $whatever. Whoever funded this study needs to sue for a refund.
[05:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:01] <exec> 08└─I'll read it eventually...
[05:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:32] <exec> 08└─The Blackhat video is interesting. Good presentation. He published his CPU fuzzing code on github too. The case study of the VIA chip, and then explaining how a BIOS manufacturer had left the system unsecured by default, allowing the embedded ARM to be enabled from ring 3. I liked the hacked togethe...
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[05:43:33] <exec> 08└─These are two entirely different animals. The Spectre related flaws are simply a result of complexity and failure to account for every possible side effect of speculative execution. Most efforts to push Instructions Per Clock severely over 1 along with aggressive caching is likely to run into some o...
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[06:42:10] <exec> 08└─Ask an obvious question, get an obvious answer. If you paid for it, shame's on you.
[06:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:12] <exec> 08└─Or...don't just do something. Just sit and meditate. Most of the time in my fairly long life, I've found that if I didn't really want to do something, it was usually not worth doing. Maybe having an enlarged amygdala is a feature instead of a bug.
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[06:42:14] <exec> 08└─Or just go fishing.
[06:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:16] <exec> 08└─"Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment." ~Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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[06:42:18] <exec> 08└─"Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul...
[06:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:32] <exec> 08└─And we've known about this problem with the brass for about a decade: https://www.sciencenews.org [sciencenews.org] Plumbing manufacturers were allowed to have up to 8% lead in the brass alloy. They claimed the lead would not leach out, an...
[06:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptop Bezels Continue to Shrink - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:43] <exec> 08└─To my eye, the lack of bezel is visually annoying (perhaps much as are "flat" interfaces). There's no boundary between the screen and what's around it. Needs a minimum of about 1/3 inch to be comfortable.
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[06:46:45] <exec> 08└─Yep on all counts. In short, "Why should I have to lug around all this other junk to achieve the functionality that used to be built right into my laptop?" IMO the race to sexy is mostly in fact units per pound of air freight. Weight is money, both in shipping and raw materials, so they don't spend...
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[07:42:29] <exec> 08└─sagen alle schlauen Leute! :)
[07:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:44] <exec> 08└─I've played around with bismuth alloys for solder... mostly for melting point considerations.... The big problem for me here is loss of ductility... the solder is quite brittle, and breaks easily. So far, the main use I have for the stuff is an aid for getting parts off of circuit boards without d...
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[07:42:45] <exec> 08└─I did too, but we got school milk in primary school. Secondary school had a vending machine at first, but it wasn't replaced after being vandalized. Transport was via city bus, paid by the school.
[07:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:48] <exec> 08└─Here's a business idea... kinda like football, but the moms play, and the kid's like the ball... see which one gets their little furballs to the school door! Call it a sport. Get Howard Cossell to narrate it, and televise it as a sport. Keep the moms in training...for the big day of the playoff of...
[07:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, And Now We Know How That's Possible - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:07] <exec> 08└─Well, to a certain extent, that is one of the ways that language evolves. It used to be that imbecile, idiot, moron, feeble-minded were all terms used by the medical community [wikipedia.org]. It is an interesting exercise (for small values of interesting) to try and work out a noun for 'toilet' tha...
[07:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptop Bezels Continue to Shrink - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:54] <exec> 08└─I'm looking at the wall behind my laptop right now. I could carefully place a piece of black cardboard on the wall.
[07:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest Explanation for Cuban Embassy Symptoms: Microwave Weapons - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, I did, and then sneakily commented a few months earlier than that, giving a link to put people off the scent. Ignore the time machine behind the curtain. Microwave auditory effect? [soylentnews.org]
[07:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Legislature Approves Strongest Net Neutrality Bill in the U.S. - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:07] <exec> 08└─You misspelled fiber!
[07:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Still Trying to Patent a Public Domain Video Compression Algorithm - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:41] <exec> 08└─"We haven't killed anyone" ... YET
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[08:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cheese Danish Shipping, Warrantless GPS Trackers, and a Border Doctrine Challenge - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:21] <exec> 08└─Peel the tracker off my car, pull into the parking lot of a truckstop, attach the tracker to the first Harley I find, & then make my purchases inside as normal. Let the folks monitoring the tracker wonder WTF when "my car" starts veering in & out of stopped traffic, goes off road through places impo...
[08:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:38] <exec> 08└─I will. tomorrow.
[08:42:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:50] <exec> 08└─Because our social safety net is shit, that could be the only meal a kid will get that day.
[08:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:59] <exec> 08└─Here and there about the Pasadena Campus of the California Institute Technology [caltech.edu] are water foundations above and behind which are ceramic mosaics. They're all disabled because the glaze for all the yellow tiles is made of Uranium. And yes, I Am Absolutely Serious. I don't know whether t...
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[08:43:01] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to tell me that no one is ever so thirsty so as to drink the stale water? You must not know from bright Sunshine and heavy exercise.
[08:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Robotic Kitchen Opens in Boston - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:00] <exec> 08└─Unless you mean the specific brand but rather pre-made meals that just is popped into the oven/microwave oven I would think they are being made by the ingredients being prepared in bulk in big vats, then assembled in the belt-assembly-worker fashion, and then popped into commercial kitchen style ove...
[08:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotic Kitchen Opens in Boston - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:02] <exec> 08└─I was of the idea the TV dinner prep was more like a candy factory or bottling plant... the main reason humans were even around is they know what to do when things go wrong, and make sure no vermin hang around the plant. Someone getting a bonus serving of mouse or cockroach in their dinner isn't go...
[08:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotic Kitchen Opens in Boston - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:04] <exec> 08└─Kale seems to be a leafy cabbage, so threat it as such. This means that your best bet for finding regions able to cook it to perfection is korea and japan but europe also has lots of interesting uses. The first things I would try doing with it are: * Cabbage rolls * As part of Kimchi (i.e: fermentin...
[08:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Failed Chinese Films and Fake Ticket Sales Used to Manipulate Stock Prices - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:27] <exec> 08└─Another thing I have noticed... when I was a kid, one NEVER saw a woman messing with gym equipment! It was bon-bons and chocolate. Now, I see them working out in fitness centers just like the men do, and for the same reasons. ( I like it actually, not only that, gym time is a helluva lot cheaper th...
[08:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Failed Chinese Films and Fake Ticket Sales Used to Manipulate Stock Prices - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:28] <exec> 08└─Men? Don't get me started. Seems like they pride themselves on acting like animals, calling it "testosterone", then reverting to some sort of gorilla. Especially if in gatherings when beer is involved. Men + Sports + Beer -> Animals!
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[09:42:30] <exec> 08└─roughly two-thirds of the US' population is treated as being within 100 miles of the border,
[09:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cheese Danish Shipping, Warrantless GPS Trackers, and a Border Doctrine Challenge - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:31] <exec> 08└─If you live near an airport, that might be fun too. Of course, it's not real easy getting close to a plane you don't own.
[09:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cheese Danish Shipping, Warrantless GPS Trackers, and a Border Doctrine Challenge - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:34] <exec> 08└─so one guy gets arrested with bags of cocaine. Two other guys get arrested driving the same truck: possession of blackberry phones and sugar Where is the conspiracy?
[09:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cheese Danish Shipping, Warrantless GPS Trackers, and a Border Doctrine Challenge - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:36] <exec> 08└─The feds may turn to your door and ask the device back [techdirt.com] as being their property. However, there's no law stopping a private investigator to track you and/or your wife using GPS trackers [ajc.com]
[09:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cheese Danish Shipping, Warrantless GPS Trackers, and a Border Doctrine Challenge - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:38] <exec> 08└─Where is the conspiracy?
[09:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:56] <exec> 08└─This one begs to be from the no-shit-sherlock dept.
[09:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:57] <exec> 08└─Was Du heute kannst besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf morgen: Übermorgen ist auch noch Zeit, und bis dahin ist's noch weit. ;-) And for those who don't speak German: The original AC post was referring to a German saying: "Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute, sagen alle faulen Leute" ("Tomorrow, tomorr...
[09:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:19] <exec> 08└─The interesting issue is the mention of Copper levels, one wonders if the next move will be someone suggesting the removal of all that valuable Copper piping and replacing it with plastic (I'll bet there won't be any mention of Legionella or any of the other nasties which thrive in cold water plasti...
[09:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:20] <exec> 08└─The water dept. says "the lead is not coming from us!" But, as I recall from that other water quality scandal in Michigan, what happened was that a change in acidity of the water supply caused a spike in lead levels. The lead came from the plumbing, but the plumbing wasn't what had changed, and wasn...
[09:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:40] <exec> 08└─I've mentioned sandsifter last year in the context of blocking javascript and how it could expose secret instructions and microcode capable of circumventing ring privileges: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] People were fuzzing x...
[09:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:41] <exec> 08└─Don't kid yourself, there's only one possible solution: only run trusted code, if you must, run untrusted code on isolated hardware. Places with real security demands (properly managed certificate authorities, top secret systems) already knew this for decades. There will always be security issues. S...
[09:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotic Kitchen Opens in Boston - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:24] <exec> 08└─Realised that people might misunderstand a thing here so I should clarify. It is a thing of scale really. In the range between a few dozen and a couple of thousand (tens) units per day is where assembly style workers are best, they also are needed for things where robotics just isn't there yet. Howe...
[09:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, And Now We Know How That's Possible - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:56] <exec> 08└─Christ, someone prepare the "flammably disabled" blanket, this is about to get heated!
[09:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, And Now We Know How That's Possible - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:57] <exec> 08└─I actually went and read the article. Basically, through experimentation it was discovered that birds can't see magnetic fields without blue light. So they went and measured the amounts of proteins that react to blue light, and decided that one of them seemed like the most likely since the amount of...
[09:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, And Now We Know How That's Possible - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:59] <exec> 08└─https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shitter#Etymology_1 [wiktionary.org] See also: https://en.wiktionary.org [wiktionary.org]
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[10:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s Now an Even More Precise “Recipe” for Blowing the Perfect Bubble - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:32] <exec> 08└─A team of mathematicians has devised the most precise recipe yet for blowing perfect bubbles
[10:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cheese Danish Shipping, Warrantless GPS Trackers, and a Border Doctrine Challenge - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:46] <exec> 08└─Good. As long as the cheese danishes were innocent.
[10:43:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:05] <exec> 08└─This one begs to be from the no-shit-sherlock dept.
[10:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:07] <exec> 08└─You left off the most important part "... the first step of which is not doing the dishes or laundry until you have exhausted available resources."
[10:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:09] <exec> 08└─Laziness isn't a drawback for coders, it's a feature. The less we want to do something tedious, the more motivated we are to automate and/or optimize it.
[10:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:31] <exec> 08└─Uranium? Never heard of that, do you mean Thorium Oxide [wikipedia.org] as used in early photographic lens coatings?
[10:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:33] <exec> 08└─Uranium Hexafluoride gas is yellow too. I expect the sixth oxidation state of Uranium is yellow whatever else may be in the molecule.
[10:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:56] <exec> 08└─unless you're fabbing your own processors, you're running untrusted code anyway, that's part of the point of the article - your processors are coming with lots of bundled misfeatures.
[10:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:57] <exec> 08└─Don't kid yourself, there's only one possible solution: only run trusted code, if you must, run untrusted code on isolated hardware.
[10:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:59] <exec> 08└─Don't kid yourself, there's only one possible solution: only run trusted code, if you must, run untrusted code on isolated hardware.
[10:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:02] <exec> 08└─I see no problem with some form of mandatory code signing mechanism for javascript or GDPR type click-through for unsigned code.
[10:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Sentenced to 8 Months in Prison for Role in Leaking iCloud Celebrity Photos - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:38] <exec> 08└─-er. Oh. I can't. Well I do plan to purchase an Android phone sometimes soon, not to write Apps but to screw around with Android Platform Development [soggywizards.com]. As opposed to App Development which is mostly done in Java, Platform Development is done in C, C++, sometimes a little Assembler,...
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[11:42:05] <exec> 08└─My view on this is the same as my view on New Orleans: move or figure out a way to deal with it but I don't want to hear any bitching whichever you choose. If you insist on building somewhere when it's an absolute certainty that the planet is going to try to remove you (swamps, volcanoes, fault line...
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[11:42:07] <exec> 08└─Basically; Save the ladyboys - build a dyke!
[11:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s Now an Even More Precise “Recipe” for Blowing the Perfect Bubble - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:16] <exec> 08└─And coauthored by Dr. SquarePants and Sir Star. For the kids.
[11:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:20] <exec> 08└─Uranium Oxide used in the glaze. [digitalfire.com] Problematic radiation source or overzealous university health and safety? We're never going to get the fucking X-Men at this rate.
[11:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:21] <exec> 08└─So you're saying that for generations, potentially huge numbers of americans have been exposed to lead poisoning in the most formative years of brain development. This explains soooooo much.
[11:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptop Bezels Continue to Shrink - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:50] <exec> 08└─You could, and it might be perfectly feasible at your own desk, but is that convenient to haul around with you?
[11:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptop Bezels Continue to Shrink - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:52] <exec> 08└─I keep a laptop at the desk pretty much at all times. It's pretty much just an easier to move desktop. I don't believe in the bezel premise anyway. None of these laptops have advertised a 100% screen, 0% bezel ratio, so there should still be a small border around the content in most cases (unless th...
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[11:48:22] <exec> 08└─Well, since there is no known example or mechanism for vaccines to cause those effects,
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[12:42:33] <exec> 08└─Good thing - Bangladesh will move to neighborhood near you then
[12:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:34] <exec> 08└─but I don't want to hear any bitching whichever you choose. If you ..., you don't get sympathy from me.
[12:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cheese Danish Shipping, Warrantless GPS Trackers, and a Border Doctrine Challenge - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:58] <exec> 08└─As long as the cheese danishes were innocent.
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[12:43:35] <exec> 08└─And we've known about this problem with the brass for about a decade: https://www.sciencenews.org [sciencenews.org] Plumbing manufacturers were allowed to have up to 8% lead in the brass alloy. They claimed the lead would not leach out, an...
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[12:45:55] <exec> 08└─Longer term, yes: We will (or schould) eschew gravity wells for rotating pseudo-gravity in spacebound habitats. We aren't quite ready for that though. To build anything like that we need more experience of working and building in microgravity and in airless environments. We also need access to mater...
[12:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club is Alive - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:35] <exec> 08└─The year is 1934, and Superman has arrived in Metropolis. Features Lex Luthor as the villain protagonist as he comes to grips with the arrival of an alien god.
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[13:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:20] <exec> 08└─Paying the higher tariffs, wait for it ..... Tariffs have been removed from pork
[13:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:21] <exec> 08└─Think of the chitterlings!
[13:42:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:33] <exec> 08└─but I don't want to hear any bitching whichever you choose. If you ..., you don't get sympathy from me.
[13:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:35] <exec> 08└─Assuming that they knew about those risks in the first place, I reckon many of them would take the "high risk, high reward" deal. Even if long term the expenses would be significant (see Amsterdam), the long term profit would be greater.
[13:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:37] <exec> 08└─S'fine. We've got room. So long as they don't go crowding up my favorite fishing holes, integrate themselves into American and local cultures, and provide a taxes-paid/tax-benefits-received ratio greater than 1 as a group, I don't mind.
[13:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s Now an Even More Precise “Recipe” for Blowing the Perfect Bubble - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:48] <exec> 08└─Don Ho
[13:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:51] <exec> 08└─The AI says that shutting off the water and selling them beverages will bring in more money, so it will be done.
[13:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Bridenstine Says It Won't Cost Much to Get Back to the Moon - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:58] <exec> 08└─Why do we only consider locations at the bottom of a well as "real"?
[13:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03danuk [5137] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, And Now We Know How That's Possible - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:36] <exec> 08└─I read a great book which proposes there are Quantum effects in conjunction with the Cryptochrome within the eye of the birds to allow it to "see" magnetic fields. Also the birds cannot distinguish north from south only between "towards a pole" and "away from a pole". Life on the edge by Jim Al-Khal...
[13:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club is Alive - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:42] <exec> 08└─Funny anecdote about the Foundation Series, I had a paperback book set from the 80s, and in that era Second Foundation cover and spine pix was an extremely long legged tight short shorts young beauty strutting her stuff, and I had this girl over to my place in the 90s and she saw I was reading that...
[13:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club is Alive - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:43] <exec> 08└─"The central thesis is a dichotomy between two modes of thought: "System 1" is fast, instinctive and emotional; "System 2" is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The book delineates cognitive biases associated with each type of thinking, starting with Kahneman's own research on loss aversio...
[13:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest Explanation for Cuban Embassy Symptoms: Microwave Weapons - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:25] <exec> 08└─The joke is: McCarthy was thrust into prominence by the anti-Wakefield camp, to help make the whole thing reek of non-credibility. Take a random sampling of 100 practicing research M.D.s and dig on them for dirt, at least 50 can be smeared as badly as they did Wakefield - if there is a motive to do...
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[14:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:26] <exec> 08└─Recall several years ago there was a widespread outbreak of Swine Flu among humans. The gummint of Egypt got the idea in their heads that human swine flu was being spread by pigs, so they ordered all the pigs in Egypt slaughtered. Up until their untimely demise, the pigs kept by the Egyptian Copts -...
[14:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:28] <exec> 08└─They had good reason for doing - some manner of health reason - but I'm afraid I don't recall what it recall what it was, and can't be bothered to lift a finger to find out.
[14:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:30] <exec> 08└─Apparently the disease usually has no symptoms in wild species of swine, so it looks like humans' selective breeding of domestic pigs introduced some kind of weakness. I guess that's what happens when you try to screw around with natural selection to optimize for traits that don't serve the species....
[14:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:32] <exec> 08└─100% pure horseshit. That was only an excuse for Jew vaccine manufarturers to make more profits scaring the American public.
[14:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:45] <exec> 08└─"Rising sealevels" are a few mm per year. But TFS says the ground is sinking by 1-2 cm per year. The culprit is subsidence.
[14:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:46] <exec> 08└─When you build on a swamp and don't sink piers clear down to bedrock, your shit is going to sink pretty much no matter what happens. Ask Chicago.
[14:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:48] <exec> 08└─Apparantly you don't know very many Bengalis. I hate to say it, no I actually don't, but if you want productive immigrants then what should be imported are Whites and some kinds of Asians.
[14:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:01] <exec> 08└─You can be sure manufacturers and cities are still trying to cut that corner, using lead everywhere they're allowed because it's slightly cheaper, for them. Costs society a lot more in the long run, dealing with all the health issues lead poisoning causes. Even a very little lead causes loss of inte...
[14:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:02] <exec> 08└─You didn't have your morning covfefe?
[14:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:04] <exec> 08└─Well that explains EF. He needs to stop licking the road when he gets drunk.
[14:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:06] <exec> 08└─Yes. When I was a kid, I played D & D, and used the lead figurines that they sold for the game in those days. But I also heard warnings that lead was toxic, so I didn't handle the figurines much. It was a conflicting message for sure. Why were game shops allowed to sell lead figurines to children, i...
[14:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:32] <exec> 08└─No, It is time for a class action suite by all Via C3 owners.
[14:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club is Alive - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:56] <exec> 08└─"Perry and Lester invent things—seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent entirely new economic systems, like the “New Work,” a New Deal for the technological era. Barefoot bankers cross the nation, microinvesting in high-tech communal mini-sta...
[14:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptop Bezels Continue to Shrink - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:46] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't be one world language, every culture should have a language to help preserve their identity and that which is unique.
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[15:42:42] <exec> 08└─Clean coal is the future. MAGA.
[15:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:58] <exec> 08└─This must be really bad if state controlled media is reporting it. I wonder how much larger this problem really is? The linked article says there was a warning from a UN agency back in May...
[15:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:59] <exec> 08└─> optimize for traits that don't serve the species Come on, don't dance around the topic, you mean BACON!
[15:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:01] <exec> 08└─OK, I'll admit I used to enjoy that stuff years ago but really it's just the saltiness, fat, crispiness, and savory flavor that makes it good. You don't need animal corpses to get those things.
[15:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:03] <exec> 08└─yes, the "something awefull" was the goddamned vaccine, you big pharma shill.
[15:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:21] <exec> 08└─Yup! When we moved to where we are, i knew the chance of (seriously damaging ) earthquake was almost nil (why live in California when you KNOW a big one is coming and you could lose EVERYTHING?): the one thing i DID look for was a house at the top of a hill, not the bottom. Rain run-off can be a...
[15:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:23] <exec> 08└─Let's see: build on a swamp/marsh? Yeah, no problems i can forsee. Quicksand? Meh. I wanted to build my house on the top of an ice cream cone, but it melted too fast. Shame. Woulda been great, i tell you what!
[15:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe this Deeply Embedded Core is used by other systems too? Then perhaps, using the DEIS that the guy assembled together with fuzzing, we can write a compiler backend for it and then start utilizing it as a nice co processor..
[15:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:13] <exec> 08└─It's for the sake of loading more adds, I guess.
[15:48:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club is Alive - 205 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:18] <exec> 08└─I agree with the other AC. Might as well read it in the same order that readers encountered it. Doing otherwise will likely spoil plot elements from the initial books, even if the newer books are prequels.
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[16:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:12] <exec> 08└─I've owned Supermicro® rack servers, have any other users had experience with Supermicro® hardware and what were your experiences with Supermicro® hardware like?
[16:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:13] <exec> 08└─$ inxi -M Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: Supermicro model: H8DM8-2 v: 1234567890 serial: BIOS: American Megatrends v: 080014 date: 10/22/2009 I love my extended (EATI) board. Some might argue that it's not a true server, but it's a heckuva lot more than a mere deskto...
[16:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:16] <exec> 08└─EATI? WTF??? EATX is what I thought I typed. Extended ATX mainboard. Sorry for typo.
[16:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:18] <exec> 08└─By the time it gets released, it's been almost two weeks. So why are they out of compliance with Nasdaq?
[16:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:21] <exec> 08└─running pfsense (and a bunch of addons) on one of their 2U atom systems, like a half-length case. 4 years or so continuous. can't remember which model it is.
[16:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was taking the piss out of the registration symbol in the link, I wasn't faulting the hardware. Had a rack full of lowend Supermicro dual Pentium III-S (tualatin) [wikipedia.org] boxes back in the day. IIRC, just 1 SCSI drive failure in 4 years.
[16:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:25] <exec> 08└─One of these? [newegg.com]
[16:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:27] <exec> 08└─> So why are they out of compliance with Nasdaq? according to TheRegister link it's because they have only released abbreviated results which is less than required, apparently because they are still investigating previous results to find out how big the black holes are. OTOH it seems a little harsh...
[16:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:46] <exec> 08└─i'm not currently a vegetarian or vegan, but i do think meat consumers should boycott/drastically reduce their consumption (with communication of their reasons) until animals are raised and slaughtered humanely. factory farms and other practices should be stopped now.
[16:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:47] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=25583&page=1&cid=679441#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] Lab-grown meat could solve your animal suffering concerns and a lot more: http://www.ox.ac.uk [ox.ac.uk] The analysis, carried o...
[16:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:50] <exec> 08└─Do you vote at the grocery store by buying meat that is raised this way? (reality--the packaging makes this claim--pretty hard to confirm at consumer level) Like you, we think it makes a difference and we can afford it, so we do.
[16:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:52] <exec> 08└─I think it might have been related to the rise of Mongodb, but not sure.
[16:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:12] <exec> 08└─That's not trolling. That's called "an opinion that differs from yours".
[16:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:14] <exec> 08└─I wonder if Venetians have some tips, they've been fighting the same battle for centuries. Just don't ask the Dutch; they may solve the problem, but at what cost? [xkcd.com]
[16:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:16] <exec> 08└─Your view on this is dumb. Cities don't spring into existence. They either grow organically over time or they are planned for a specific location. In any case, climate change was not a consideration in placement of cities except in the broadest sense (don't build there, the cliff might collapse or t...
[16:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:18] <exec> 08└─climate change was not a consideration in placement of cities except in the broadest sense (don't build there, the cliff might collapse or the plain might flood)
[16:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s Now an Even More Precise “Recipe” for Blowing the Perfect Bubble - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:28] <exec> 08└─The answer: you want a circular wand with a 1.5-inch perimeter, and you should gently blow at a consistent 6.9 cm/s.
[16:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cheese Danish Shipping, Warrantless GPS Trackers, and a Border Doctrine Challenge - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:45] <exec> 08└─#1 While a bit scary and I generally sympathize with those that are erroneously targeted. It's one of those we signed away our rights with the Patriot Act kind of things. #2 Is creepy and there needs to be laws regulating the use of GPS tracking. Now, if it really was some licensed PI that was track...
[16:43:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Revek [5022] 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 315 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:53] <exec> 08└─I've had a problem with it my whole life. Its a feeling of dread when there shouldn't be. Its the anxiety of doing something that is totally out of proportion to the task. Its directly tied to these things even though you know its irrational you still have to actively resist it in order to get thing...
[16:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:07] <exec> 08└─The lazy version is traditional, but in my time the clever version was far more commonly used and heard.
[16:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:08] <exec> 08└─"Gone fishin' instead of just a wishin'." -- Franks Sinatra and Louie Armstrong. Great song.
[16:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:10] <exec> 08└─The study was supposed to have more in depth research. But they kept putting it off. :P
[16:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:42] <exec> 08└─that's because govs get to operate with no accountability. if they were held accountable people would see value in DIY, private, local, decentralization, etc. when there's no visibility, much less accountability, gov gets to grow like the cancer it is. as parents abdicate their parental role just li...
[16:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:44] <exec> 08└─Might the brand you were looking for be "Dasani"?
[16:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:14] <exec> 08└─yes, they have a free with ads/paid without business model. pay up or shut your pie hole.
[16:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:16] <exec> 08└─exactly. the only thing these people care about is whether it will affect their bottom line or if they can curry favor with entities with more power. they are whores of the supranational surveillance state.
[16:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:18] <exec> 08└─After watching the video, it is likely that the vendor considered their liability when building these architectures, and that the engineering in these architectures were quite expensive to implement. This leads me to the hypothesis that: 1. The architectures were built by request, not by invention....
[16:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotic Kitchen Opens in Boston - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:02] <exec> 08└─Kale mixed in with other salad greens makes for a pretty tasty salad. Otherwise, it can also be cooked like Swisschard. Boiled / steamed and served with salt + lemon juice. Those are some simple ideas at least.
[16:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, And Now We Know How That's Possible - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:38] <exec> 08└─> Magnetic fields do not emit photons passively. Um. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[17:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:40] <exec> 08└─It tastes like burning!
[17:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:00] <exec> 08└─Go home grandpa fst fingers, you have betrayed us for the last time!!!!
[17:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 1761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:01] <exec> 08└─I have several of SYS-E200-8D servers and they kick ass, IPMI is awesome, dual 10G ethernet (in addition to the dual 1G) is nothing to complain about. VMWare 'home lab' with ESXi Experience licensing which relates in a purely educational manner to revenue generating consulting, although I actually d...
[17:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:03] <exec> 08└─So why are they out of compliance with Nasdaq?
[17:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:05] <exec> 08└─it seems a little harsh
[17:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:30] <exec> 08└─Stupid person says stupid shit. Again.
[17:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:31] <exec> 08└─You don't need animal corpses to get those things. Bacon flavored bits ingredients: MCCORMICK® BAC'N PIECES™ BACON FLAVORED BITS Bac'n Pieces™ Bacon Flavored Bits are artificially flavored textured soy flour to imitate bacon pieces. FULL INGREDIENTS TEXTURED SOY FLOUR, CANOLA OIL, SALT, CARAMEL...
[17:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:33] <exec> 08└─Perhaps next time you try out some fried veg you could read through some accident statistics or newspaper articles about ongoing wars. That way your irrational taste for death and suffering could be satiated whilst your taste buds are adequately titillated, Runaway.
[17:43:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Spamalope [5233] 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 714 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:51] <exec> 08└─Well, the story is 'Subsidence threatens Bangkok, city built on a swamp - here's how it's the western worlds fault'. They need an Amsterdam solution or a move. (for a move - new building code requires x feet above sea level, requires any flood insurance to be local pool only so folks who move aren't...
[17:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:59] <exec> 08└─Taxes are theft asshole, why you trying to steal from people in trouble?
[17:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s Now an Even More Precise “Recipe” for Blowing the Perfect Bubble - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, baby. Yeah, that's it.
[17:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:30] <exec> 08└─Corporations and governments are really two arms of the same beast.
[17:45:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 302 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:43] <exec> 08└─Did you look at all of the graphs of the performance differences for the multiple Intel and AMD chips, as well as two VMs? There were more than a dozen graphs, each representing real world tasks. There is no single measure of the performance hit because it varies depending on what the system is doin...
[17:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Failed Chinese Films and Fake Ticket Sales Used to Manipulate Stock Prices - 1426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:13] <exec> 08└─Department stores disappearing are for economic reasons. I have had a few discussions with owners of stores in those mega malls. The building owners are typically absent. Usually in another country. They will try to lock you into 10 year leases when you are just starting out. So you get the one year...
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[18:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:34] <exec> 08└─Refresh with an all-natural, organic chemical burn.
[18:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:35] <exec> 08└─Caution: the beverage you are about to enjoy is extremely hot and/or cold.
[18:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:37] <exec> 08└─What the hell is going on in people's mind to ingest any kind of mass at a temperature of 77Kelvin? Even if nitrogen probably has a very low heat capacity in contact it can still suck a lot of heat: Try breathing air from an oven at 220C
[18:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:39] <exec> 08└─...that nobody has combined Liquid Nitrogen with something like Bhut Jolokia or Trinidad Scorpion Butch T? Talk about confusion.
[18:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:42] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_tgxzXmpKQ [youtube.com]
[18:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:44] <exec> 08└─Actually, liquid nitrogen is inorganic.
[18:43:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:20] <exec> 08└─Waaaait, you're anti-vax? Shit, that explains a lot...must have had something awful as a kid and it messed up your brain.
[18:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:32] <exec> 08└─I think he's got more than just one cause to blame for all of the symptoms he has. There's no vaccine that can cure what ails him.
[18:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:34] <exec> 08└─And I am sure the Republican party will be against calling such adhesed protein blobs "meat" because it wasn't grown by a honest to goodness capitalist the way god intended, with genetic engineering to and farm auctions and slaugther houses and manure pits. Lab grown meat will significantly improve...
[18:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:00] <exec> 08└─is everything that someone says that right leaning people don't like a virtue signal? isn't racism a virtue signal? authoratarianism? hiring undocumented workers while skirting the law because profit is more important than nationalism? asking for money isn't a virtue. lying about the causes isn't a...
[18:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s Now an Even More Precise “Recipe” for Blowing the Perfect Bubble - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:15] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlCiDEXuxxA [youtube.com]
[18:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s Now an Even More Precise “Recipe” for Blowing the Perfect Bubble - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:16] <exec> 08└─Apparently, the humidity of the local atmosphere is an important factor, which the researchers seemed to have missed. They should have consulted this woman: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[18:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s Now an Even More Precise “Recipe” for Blowing the Perfect Bubble - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:18] <exec> 08└─Wow! That's really a great video! I had no idea that Ho did such an involved "call and response" at live performances. Thanks!
[18:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There’s Now an Even More Precise “Recipe” for Blowing the Perfect Bubble - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:20] <exec> 08└─Nice reference! The reference to Lawrence Welk in the header is just as clever: "... and now-a, Bobby and-a Cissy will-a perform a wunnerful dance to the 'Pennsylvania Polka!'"
[18:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotic Kitchen Opens in Boston - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:51] <exec> 08└─Kale seems to be a leafy cabbage, so threat it as such.
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[19:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:12] <exec> 08└─Do Dell & HP still using chiped Power Supply to lock-in customers ? When I discovered that my DC-DC home-made Dell Power Supply don't charge the battery because it had no "security" chip, I decided that I will never buy a DRM infested product again.
[19:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:28] <exec> 08└─Surprisingly, one of the major dangers is not the cold but the rapid expansion of gas in your abdomen which can cause it to rupture. And when that happens, you're gonna have a bad day.
[19:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:29] <exec> 08└─well, not exactly. CHONS makes the bottom tier. The salts MaNaKCaPCl make the 2nd tier. Liquid N2 ice cream tacos are lovely ;-)
[19:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:31] <exec> 08└─Cold takes the heat away, though. So, it wouldn't be as intense as adding your Uber Death Sauce to Fried Chicken.
[19:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:33] <exec> 08└─Ok, sure it's not really a myth, but it would be interesting to see them put this one through the ropes. To get an idea of just how dumb it is to ingest stuff that's been cooled to stupidly low temperatures.
[19:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:55] <exec> 08└─Machine: Type: Server System: Supermicro product: H8DG6/H8DGi v: 1234567890 serial: 1234567890 Mobo: Supermicro model: H8DG6/H8DGi v: 1.0 serial: BIOS: American Megatrends v: 3.5-OCNG5. date: 12/22/2015 My molecular munching monster...
[19:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:24] <exec> 08└─If no samples were given? https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[19:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:26] <exec> 08└─Pork blockchain! Porkcoin! Web scale!
[19:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:53] <exec> 08└─The game goes on [soylentnews.org]. You can hate on anyone affected by the rising seas all you want. That doesn't mean the seas aren't rising.
[19:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:55] <exec> 08└─Well, now that we know, just have Bangkok shrink organically just like it grew. Solves the problem with minimal amount of fuss.
[19:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There’s Now an Even More Precise “Recipe” for Blowing the Perfect Bubble - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:12] <exec> 08└─This has Ig-nobel prize [improbable.com] written all over it.
[19:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cheese Danish Shipping, Warrantless GPS Trackers, and a Border Doctrine Challenge - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:31] <exec> 08└─I don't know how modifying someone else's property without their consent could possibly be legal, private investigator or not. That's just insane.
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[20:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:04] <exec> 08└─No.
[20:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:05] <exec> 08└─Going to be hard to market an 'almost computer' at that price. Marketing from the other side will destroy them. In truth all the average person's needs is actually met by the Chromebook, but the perception of being limited will be a deal killer unless its 'cheap'. Perception is reality.
[20:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:07] <exec> 08└─$299 Windows Laptops: A dangerous threat to $600 Chromebooks?
[20:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:09] <exec> 08└─As someone very new to Win10 I have to say its UI is a stinking smelling rotting festering pile of junk. Like did M$ devs, project managers, and execs think advertisements everywhere, a Siri-like virtual assistant that is 100x more annoying that Clippy ever was, forced upgrades, forced updates, and...
[20:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:12] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't be so sure. Obviously, there is a market for the things, at the price they are being offered at. How did Apple and Microsoft both get their starts? By donating computers to schools. Do you remember that? A generation of students were indoctrinated on Apple products, and soon thereafter Mi...
[20:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:31] <exec> 08└─Does "drinking this is safe" count? :-\ Seems like it is used for the same purposes as Dry Ice mostly, just a canister is more convenient than chunks? On the asphyxiation front, with dry ice your body has a mechanism to try to let you know something is wrong when it takes over your air. Not b...
[20:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:32] <exec> 08└─I've got a great idea for people for whom this Dragon's Breath (more like Dragon Farts from the gassyness) isn't enough: Try drinking 5L of liquid nitrogen and then pour a cup of hot coffee down your throat. Now that's Dragon's Breath!
[20:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:56] <exec> 08└─I have my eye on that board. All that I have for PCI-E is one 8x slot, and one 4x slot. Your board has 3 16x slots, in addition to my slots. And, if you have populated those 16x slots with CUDA processors, then, yes, you have some major number crunching capability. Forget about the CPU's. A single G...
[20:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBCubix [553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:57] <exec> 08└─I bought a SuperMicro EATX board to use as a server and quickly found out that SuperMicro EATX differs greatly from industry standard EATX form factor. I guess they use this as a way to drive sales for cases. Seeing that they are out of compliance with industry form factors, this doesn't surprise me...
[20:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, attempts to make soy taste like meat all fail. I'd rather have a decent Gardenburger, one of the ones that doesn't try to hide that it's soy, potato, and other vegetables. Of course, one must then put bacon++ on it, lest one be suspected of being a vegan incel. Or worse! An MGTOW! A traitor to...
[20:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:29] <exec> 08└─In general, vaccines don't cure things... they are prevention. So it is far too late.
[20:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:31] <exec> 08└─Don't know about all of that nonsense. I eat what I like to eat, and never worry about what someone who might be watching thinks. Traitor to the patriarchy? Do some people think like that? Something like Chelsea Manning? You mean Bradley Manning. amirite?
[20:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:58] <exec> 08└─"Land subsidence from deep well pumping has been affecting Bangkok for the past 35 years." Do it to yourself, blame climate change. News at 11:00.
[20:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, And Now We Know How That's Possible - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:30] <exec> 08└─Then why are you not trying to reinstate the words invalid or cripple into the general parlance; physically disabled people decided that these names were not descriptive enough and were used in a derogatory manner. The "retard" community has also decided that it doesn't like that term and has limite...
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[21:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:30] <exec> 08└─Sure there is a market, but not large enough to worry Microsoft.
[21:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:32] <exec> 08└─That doesn't come across as a rant, more like a troll. Hundreds of millions of people use Win10 everyday. The interface is just fine, its virtually the same as it's always been since Win95. Windows isn't going away any time soon, it's not going to be replaced by Chromebooks, or OS X, and certainly...
[21:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:34] <exec> 08└─Microsoft is like Mome. She worries about everything.
[21:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:36] <exec> 08└─From what i remember, they almost gave schools machines.
[21:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:38] <exec> 08└─I agree that it was a troll, i disagree that the interface is 'just fine'. From someone who has been around pre-cli days, The windows 10 interface is piss poor. it is too much 'techie' oriented ( even that is debatable ), and i dont think they involved 'regular people'. And no, i'm not pushing OSX e...
[21:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:40] <exec> 08└─Windows is widespread not due to quality but due to marketing and exclusive deals with OEMs. If MS managed to get its market position with DOS of all things then it's clearly obvious that quality of software itself is secondary. If MS decides to replace windows with its own linux distro and call it...
[21:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:42] <exec> 08└─We should not approach this as if there must be only one computer type in the world. Windows and desktop Linux will stay for a while in applications that require ultimate flexibility and high performance. Engineers, scientists, gamers will need them. At the same time the majority of the public does...
[21:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:45] <exec> 08└─Hundreds of millions of people use Win10 everyday.
[21:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:47] <exec> 08└─And America was at its greatest when schools were still segregated.
[21:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:49] <exec> 08└─" the company was seeing demand for Chromebooks from users with a bit more disposable income. For example, new college students that had used Chrome OS at high school "
[21:43:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:00] <exec> 08└─What the hell is going on in people's mind to ingest any kind of mass at a temperature of 77Kelvin? Even if nitrogen probably has a very low heat capacity in contact it can still suck a lot of heat: Try breathing air from an oven at 220C
[21:43:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Shire [5824] 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:04] <exec> 08└─Surprisingly, one of the major dangers is not the cold but the rapid expansion of gas in your abdomen which can cause it to rupture. And when that happens, you're gonna have a bad day.
[21:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:12] <exec> 08└─tide pods filled with chilli and liquid nitrogen! Make amazing videos of ambulance rides, doctors and death!
[21:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:37] <exec> 08└─I've always had good experiences with Supermicro 1U and 2U rackmounts. They run well and tend to be retired for obsolescence rather than failure.
[21:43:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 402 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:50] <exec> 08└─Apparently the disease usually has no symptoms in wild species of swine, so it looks like humans' selective breeding of domestic pigs introduced some kind of weakness. I guess that's what happens when you try to screw around with natural selection to optimize for traits that don't serve the species....
[21:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:11] <exec> 08└─flavored to taste like charred animal flesh.
[21:44:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:25] <exec> 08└─Assuming that they knew about those risks in the first place, I reckon many of them would take the "high risk, high reward" deal. Even if long term the expenses would be significant (see Amsterdam), the long term profit would be greater.
[21:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Sentenced to 8 Months in Prison for Role in Leaking iCloud Celebrity Photos - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:35] <exec> 08└─The Biggest Crime the guy committed was to expose the fact that celebrities are regular people like everybody else. He punctured the carefully crafted mystique they surround themselves with. They pay a lot of money to image consultants, designers, PR agents, and the like to make everything about how...
[21:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptop Bezels Continue to Shrink - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:11] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it is just my general location in the West/Southwest of the US but a lot of people speak Spanish here. Granted there are many localizations of Spanish depending on the country of origin but it is still a very commonly spoken tongue here. In my summer home in the SF east bay, you can commonly...
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[22:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:28] <exec> 08└─If (skincolor != white) {nobail_for_njiggers();}
[22:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:29] <exec> 08└─Bail money provides an incentive for the person who is charged to appear in court. This move to no bail money is going to really mess up the court process. California : if there is a way to fuck something up, they will find it and implement it.
[22:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:31] <exec> 08└─No bail so they will keep everyone in jail now? That should be fun!
[22:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:33] <exec> 08└─Bail money provides a way for the rich to pay enough to disappear quietly and the poor to rot in jail for the lack of it or spend far more than they have paying a bondsman (you know you don't get that back even if you're not guilty, right?). An ankle bracelet can accomplish the same thing for a hell...
[22:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:58] <exec> 08└─$89 Linux laptop. Not for big compiles, but 2GB RAM is fine for client tasks.
[22:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:00] <exec> 08└─Wait, you mean you *don't* like being "mainstreamed" with all the non-learning-disabled kids, Timmeh? We're only trying to help you function in society...
[22:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:02] <exec> 08└─The interface is just fine, its virtually the same as it's always been since Win95.
[22:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:04] <exec> 08└─> The interface is just fine, its virtually the same as it's always been since Win95 Uh, no, it bloody well is not. From Win95 to Win7 it was more or less the same, but Win8 came by and flushed 15 years of UI muscle memory down the porcelain pedestal and Win10's start menu is the exact same thing ex...
[22:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:06] <exec> 08└─I wrote about this before, but it seems worth bringing up again. Google is playing the long game and they already won the future. By taking over education, the new generation of kids will be familiar with Chrome OS and will demand it over Windows and possibly OSX (Apple is more a status symbol than...
[22:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:31] <exec> 08└─Charcoal ice cream, liquid nitrogen, avocado toast, placentas... it's clear that the only way to #MAGA is to send the millennials somewhere else.
[22:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:33] <exec> 08└─You just want them to die! Yikes, I didn't realize the show [wikipedia.org] is still running, in some form.
[22:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:35] <exec> 08└─Or combine all of the ingredients into a last meal.
[22:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:37] <exec> 08└─I've seen the chefs on some cooking shows use Liquid Nitrogen to do some things. I never thought about possible problems for the person actually consuming the thing. Not that I've ever been to a place that offered that as an option, but that's definitely something to chew on. I'll just put that on t...
[22:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:39] <exec> 08└─"Caution: this beverage is extremely cold. Like, really fucking cold. You have no idea how cold this is. No, not like, 'Wow, this is really fucking cold' cold, but more like, 'Gee, I don't feel anything. Oh, that's because my tongue fell off.' cold. Handle with protective gear and measure the intern...
[22:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:41] <exec> 08└─...Jew vaccine manufarturers...
[22:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:42] <exec> 08└─That was my thought also. If the Chinese media is reporting 38,000 culled, I'm going to assume it was actually 500,000 and another 1,000,000 pigs that should have been culled have been trucked off somewhere out of sight. It is entirely possible that this disease is in China to stay now.
[22:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:44] <exec> 08└─U.S. Cattlemen's Association Wants an Official Definition of "Meat" [soylentnews.org] Regulation Coming to Lab-Grown Meat [soylentnews.org] Missouri Regulates Use of the Word "Meat" by Food Producers [soylentnews.org] Perhaps predictably, the industry resistance is starting to creep up. Given that t...
[22:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:15] <exec> 08└─Not that hard to fix really. Bangkok (or greater part of Thailand for that matter) is surrounded by a nice U-shaped set of mountain ridges, the only open part is a 225mi/360km stretch. This is well within what can be built today (the dutch covered about half that in 50 years) and should only cost th...
[22:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:15] <exec> 08└─I call this active laziness; I will work damn hard to prevent me having to do boring shit again in the future
[22:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:53] <exec> 08└─I've never verified this, but I was told once (by someone who should have knowledge about this) that many water testing protocols require you to run the tap for a long time first before taking a sample for testing. Which perhaps explains why contaminated water can go undetected in many cases. When I...
[22:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CPU Security Mitigations - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:27] <exec> 08└─If you don't trust the processor, then worrying about malicious code taking advantage of processor design flaws is a non-issue. Fix the first issue before worrying about the second, i.e. make sure you can trust your processor before worrying whether it has unintended security issues.
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[23:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:11] <exec> 08└─Bail money may provide an incentive for the rich people who can pay it. In all but the most trivial cases, bail is set far higher than a normal person can pay. Yes, it is supposedly unconstitutional, but courts usually don't care. You can try to sue them, but since you can't afford bail, you won't b...
[23:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:13] <exec> 08└─Instead, local courts will decide who to keep in custody and whom to release while they await trial. Those decisions will be based on an algorithm created by the courts in each jurisdiction.
[23:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 1974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:15] <exec> 08└─There are other incentives, too, like not getting arrested or tracked down by bounty hunters and being denied bail the second time around. Presumably, the algorithm will include "failure to appear" in its calculations, and the more serious crimes will not allow for any bail at all. One thing this wi...
[23:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:17] <exec> 08└─One thing this will definitely do is put an end to the following prosecutor tactic
[23:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:19] <exec> 08└─I specifically described a tactic used by prosecutors across America to get innocent people to plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit. How is that related to a scenario I specifically acknowledged existed under current law of rich people successfully using their money to avoid trial?
[23:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:21] <exec> 08└─I specifically described a tactic used by prosecutors across America to get innocent people to plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit.
[23:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:23] <exec> 08└─And it worked because the defendants couldn't pay for bail. Still works out that way.
[23:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:26] <exec> 08└─The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. - Anatole France
[23:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:28] <exec> 08└─I don't know why you can't or won't understand this, but he's obviously implying that the "algorithm" will deem everyone a flight risk, keeping them all in custody and releasing nobody. Rich people will be able to afford lawyers to fight the algorithm, but poor people, unable to afford baillawyers,...
[23:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:30] <exec> 08└─It is well documented that making an algorithm do it doesn't remove the prejudice. As an example using an address in the algorithm will tag poor and minority neighborhoods as more likely to reoffend. It is true because poor people have fewer resources to rebuild a legal life around a criminal record...
[23:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:32] <exec> 08└─If you have a habit of being an asshole, or your one criminal charge is being a major asshole, then you get to stay in jail. Out on "bail" and commit another crime? You get to stay in jail a while. Otherwise, go back to your life until the trial/plea bargain. Granted, this gives judges a whole lo...
[23:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:34] <exec> 08└─Bail bondsmen have little incentive to track people down. It's quite typical for the bail bondsman to only pay 5% of the bail amount for no-shows. The old system did 2 things: 1. Put money into the coffers of companies that provided bail bonds. 2. Extracted false guilty pleas from people who could a...
[23:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:36] <exec> 08└─Bail should be proportional to wealth and crime, but seems to be a hard concept for some. Traffic tickets should be calculated the same way, in some countries they do that already. Everyone fucked to the same level, but not the same plain amount. So they propose that now the one with the best legal...
[23:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:38] <exec> 08└─And I don't know why you are determined to misrepresent the situation, but the change in law provides specific rules on who should be denied parole and who should be held. It's not just up to the judge.
[23:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:11] <exec> 08└─Going to be hard to market an 'almost computer' at that price.
[23:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:12] <exec> 08└─They also seem to be doing the "cloud" (as it pertains to consumer hardware, like Chromebooks) much better than Microsoft, and have had free Google Docs on the table for a long time.
[23:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:14] <exec> 08└─Have you tried browsing the modern web with 2GB of RAM lately?
[23:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:17] <exec> 08└─It's not too bad, as long as you are like my mother and don't realize that you can open multiple tabs. She literally thinks that only certain websites can do that, despite numerous attempts to explain otherwise from multiple people.
[23:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 1770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:19] <exec> 08└─Gonna go with no on the very young thing - the first computer I worked on was an IBM 3033 mainframe. I've been in the IT field since before desktop computers even existed and I'm watching them die off now in the face of mobile systems and AI. From the days of Xenix, to DOS, to Win31, all the way to...
[23:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:21] <exec> 08└─It's widespread becase 1) It's exceptionally business enterprise friendly in ways Linux and OS X are not, 2) It's a better gaming platform than Linux or OS X (though that is rapidly changing with Metal and Vulkan), and 3) It has incredibly broad hardware support which OS X definitely does NOT. Prima...
[23:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:23] <exec> 08└─Wow, I guess you don't remember WinME, or Microsoft Bob, or WinNT. There have been plenty of misfires in Windows over the years, and Windows 8 is definitely one of them. Win10 however is not Win8. Metro is not forced on you anymore. Does having a text menu and a tile menu pop up really disorient y...
[23:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:52] <exec> 08└─The dynamic duo that made Mythbusters have moved on. "In October 2015, Hyneman and Savage confirmed that the season premiering in January 2016 would be their final season of MythBusters after over 13 years of the show.[2]" https://en.wikipedia.org(2016_season) [wikipedia.org] I've...
[23:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:54] <exec> 08└─Well, I remember that they were easing new hosts in by having the "B" team doing half of the experiments during episodes.
[23:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:56] <exec> 08└─What the hell is going on in people's mind to ingest any kind of mass at a temperature of 77Kelvin?
[23:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:58] <exec> 08└─Recommended font size? (that's quite a large amount of text there) (grin)
[23:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:00] <exec> 08└─Meh. They've had the "B team" doing that since the early seasons. (I usually just referred to the "B Team" as the "idiots," which is why I stopped paying attention to the show after the first season or so. Actually, Jamie was the only sensible and reasonably intelligent person on that show -- Adam h...
[23:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:02] <exec> 08└─Or combine all of the ingredients
[23:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:38] <exec> 08└─Flood plains are nutrient rich and great for farming, precisely because they flood regularly. They also tend to be flat, which is convenient for construction, and verdant, which is a nice bonus for living. I'm sure some proportion of building on flood plains happened before people were aware of floo...
[23:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:40] <exec> 08└─Bangkok is accustomed to a high water table. Khlongs (canals) criss-cross the city. You can take tour boats or water taxis all over the place. With terrestrial traffic atrocious and choking in a cloud of blue exhaust, it's often the fastest and best way around. So with a little hydro-engineering the...
[23:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:42] <exec> 08└─Taxes are theft
[23:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:44] <exec> 08└─Look, little twink, you live in civilization. That means you--yes, YOU--will have to pay for it, just like everybody else.
[23:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:46] <exec> 08└─is everything that someone says that right leaning people don't like a virtue signal?
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