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[00:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:12] <exec> 08└─Find a friend who has a 4K TV and grab along a good quality HDMI cable - test.
[00:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:13] <exec> 08└─Seems it would be cheaper and more effective to buy a couple smaller monitors along with a machine to drive them. Me? My left monitor has my email, web browser, PDF reader, etc. My right monitor shows various files I'm working on, usually source code but it's not uncommon to have Word or Excel files...
[00:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:16] <exec> 08└─If you get a smart tv it will spy on you while giving you nothing in return, so if you are concerned about that don't get one. Maybe that doesn't need to be said, but it seemed like a flaw in your plan to me.
[00:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:18] <exec> 08└─T221, look it up, yo. None of this 2160p crap, I'm talking 3840x2400. Since I needed my other outputs for other monitors (including a wicked 2048x1536 medical display fed from 2 inputs -- unlike the T221, it couldn't run at reduced refresh from a single link), I only had the T221 connected with one...
[00:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:20] <exec> 08└─I will second this suggestion. I have a 3 generations old Nvidia 730 card driving two 1080-p monitors. The left monitor is actually a Vizio television, the right monitor is an older LG monitor. I won't go into how I use my screen space, except for gaming. I multibox ten spaceships on The Infinite Bl...
[00:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:22] <exec> 08└─Seems it would be cheaper and more effective to buy a couple smaller monitors along with a machine to drive them. Me? My left monitor has my email, web browser, PDF reader, etc. My right monitor shows various files I'm working on, usually source code but it's not uncommon to have Word or Excel files...
[00:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:24] <exec> 08└─Not available for shipping, but in store only... for $250; a 48.5 inch 4k Polaroid TV [microcenter.com], not smart... but does come with Chromecast integrated. I had to get one because a recent lightning storm fried my 10 year old 47" Vizio. I have not hooked my computer up to it, but TV looks fine....
[00:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 2147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:27] <exec> 08└─First, to be clear, I've done this with a LG 48" 4k screen. This screen actually supports 4096x2160. It's price was approximately what you're planning on spending. Pros: 1. 3d gaming becomes super sharp. So sharp you can turn off the anti-aliasing and not notice the jaggies. This, in my opinion, is...
[00:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 2792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:29] <exec> 08└─I've used a 4K TV as a monitor for a couple of years, and used HDTV's as monitors prior to that. Fortunately for me, I crossed the age that my eyes were no longer able to focus at monitor distance after HDTV's got cheap. I hate wearing my glasses, so instead I bought 32" HDTVs. Black Friday a couple...
[00:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:31] <exec> 08└─T221? Yowza! I remember reading about them when they came out. I recall they were a bit... pricey. =) I go back to when the original IBM PC first came out and struggled under the flicker of sub-60Hz CRTs; was hoping to avoid a repeat. I take it that LCDs don't have the same issue? As for the rest of...
[00:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:33] <exec> 08└─Google the title. I've used a Seiki 39" like that for a few years and like it. Only drawback is that I'm limited to 30 Hz at 4k, which is a bit laggy. You need HDMI 2 for 60 Hz.
[00:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:35] <exec> 08└─Would that I could... the nearest Microcenter to me is about a 2+ hour drive, each way. :( I considered maybe getting a larger than 43-inch display, but then I run into a different problem. The distance from my eyes to the centermost pixel on the screen versus the distance to a pixel in one of the c...
[00:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:38] <exec> 08└─Now, anything larger than a 43-inch monitor, there starts getting to be significant differences in distance from my eyes to the center-most pixel versus from my eyes to a pixel in the corner. At a large enough screen size, multiple monitors would be preferable. I don't think this size screen gets me...
[00:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:40] <exec> 08└─That's a *brilliant* idea, except I don't have a 4K-capable laptop to bring along with the cable. :(
[00:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:42] <exec> 08└─HDMI 2 for 60 Hz
[00:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:55] <exec> 08└─Something got crossed up, that should read, Harvesting the left organs of millions of children (the right organs are sacred, dontcha know?)
[00:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:57] <exec> 08└─Does the deep state or whatever really care about Cody Wilson? Any competent court would rule that sharing gun files is a First Amendment protected activity. And even if they didn't, it's impossible to stop it if you can't even stop tv/movie/music "piracy". Of course, Wilson is also involved with so...
[00:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:59] <exec> 08└─Either: the kind of men who do the sorts of things Cody does (lets call it "pushing boundaries" as a simple catch-all) will also be the sort of driven, narcissistic asshole who gets his jollies in "unconventional" ways. Additionally, ego-driven people often get away with things others wouldn't , jus...
[00:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:01] <exec> 08└─Trump, me, TMB, all "literally Hitler".
[00:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:03] <exec> 08└─Honey trap is so common we have a word for it. I don't have any trouble believing there are some cops who'd do almost anything - after all there are over a million cops in the U.S. The idea that one or two might want to nail this guy badly enough to cook something up isn't that far fetched. And yes,...
[00:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:05] <exec> 08└─The man is as much anti-government as anything.
[00:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:08] <exec> 08└─Free distribution of information. If that information is used to 3D print or mill a working gun, so be it. If it's used to fill a bit of hard drive space or to print a poster of a 3D gun model, that's fine too.
[00:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:10] <exec> 08└─These statutory rape cases where someone is caught on a stupid technicality are an injustice.
[00:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:12] <exec> 08└─I really don't know if they have discovered a cure for hoplophobia, which isn't worse than the disease itself. Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Red China, and others have attempted to find cures for hoplophobia, but they have all ended poorly.
[00:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Considering Opening Up to 3,000 New Cashierless "Amazon Go" Stores - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:52] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that the best way to make it work is to make damn sure that the people who get in have an Amazon account, right at the door. This is done by detecting the Amazon Go smartphone app. If someone tries to sneak in along with an account holder, there should be an immediate alert.
[00:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Searching for Errors in the Quantum World - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:28] <exec> 08└─Saw this over on /. too good not to share. In the world's most famous thought experiment, physicist Erwin Schrodinger described how a cat in a box could be in an uncertain predicament. Compared to the second most famous, but ironically similar: "Does this dress make me look fat?" Where your relation...
[00:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Searching for Errors in the Quantum World - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:29] <exec> 08└─Who really believed QM was consistent to begin with? Even if the math seems to work, the system is unsustainable. How similar it will be when fixed is an interesting question.
[00:49:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Senate Passes Copyright Bill to End 140-Year Protection for Old Songs - 599 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:31] <exec> 08└─The new bill also brings older recordings into the public domain sooner. Recordings made before 1923 will exit from all copyright protection after a 3-year grace period. Recordings made from 1923 to 1956 will enter the public domain over the next several decades. And recordings from 1957 onward will...
[00:49:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Senate Passes Copyright Bill to End 140-Year Protection for Old Songs - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:35] <exec> 08└─Gee, I wish I could write software just once and get paid for it forever and ever and ever.
[00:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Passes Copyright Bill to End 140-Year Protection for Old Songs - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:45] <exec> 08└─Consider assessing property tax. I own property too, and I pay it. If they want to claim rights as property, tax it as such.
[00:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Passes Copyright Bill to End 140-Year Protection for Old Songs - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:47] <exec> 08└─You make some good points.
[00:51:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Trips May Involve Less Radiation Exposure Than Previously Thought - 2483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:12] <exec> 08└─Midflight fuel tankers still have the problem that you're accelerating all that fuel up to speed regardless - so why not just include it with the original ship and avoid accelerating the additional mass of a second ship up to the same speed? (not to mention presumably then stopping the tanker and re...
[00:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Trips May Involve Less Radiation Exposure Than Previously Thought - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:13] <exec> 08└─Theory of Relativity Quantum Mechanical Theory the two most thoroughly tested and broadly accepeted models ever conceived They also use theory a lot in less well established contexts, but probably shouldn't when laymen can hear them. Or should come up with a better term for "theories most everyone b...
[00:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Times Newer Roman Font Makes Academic Papers Look Longer - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:02] <exec> 08└─It's really hard to meaningfully count words in a paper packed with formulas from integral calculus.
[00:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PSA: Newegg Hacked, Credit Cards Skimmed for Over a Month - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:19] <exec> 08└─"Guess I'll have to start utilizing the single use numbers now" See my post a couple of posts above about this. It makes this super easy.
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[01:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:11] <exec> 08└─Your experience with a 28-inch monitor confirms my suspicions. I already have a 24-inch monitor that I am running (maxed out) at 1920x1200; going to 28 inches wouldn't buy me what I am looking for. I want a larger 'desk', not more legible 'documents' on the desk. I just checked and my cmd.exe window...
[01:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:13] <exec> 08└─I've not had multiple monitors on a single system before
[01:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:15] <exec> 08└─I got the T221 used, long after they came out -- under $2k. But that was still a bit pricey for a grad student. Yeah, I won't be that guy who says "LCDs don't flicker", but the ones that do are generally due to a PWMed backlight, and will flicker exactly the same no matter what refresh rate you feed...
[01:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:17] <exec> 08└─You discovered the problem with trying to use a TV as a monitor. Unless you can get the very latest HDMI port on both monitor and PC you can't really display 4K on it. They had to cheat, you have to give something up to stay inside the bandwidth limit. Usually what goes is full RGB in favor of 4:1:1...
[01:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:19] <exec> 08└─It would be even cheaper and much easier to simply not cover so much of the display area with a single web browser window. A 16:9 [1] 24 inch monitor is 20.9 inches wide. With a 2" left and right margin, that makes for a 16.9 inch wide browser window. The monitor I am presently viewing the browser...
[01:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 2943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:21] <exec> 08└─Chroma 4:4:4 above (almost) all else. Viewing angle is also important. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else, so I'll chime in. Chroma 4:4:4 support is extremely important if you ever what to be able to read colored text, or text on a colored background (icon names on your desktop for example, o...
[01:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jinuq [5497] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:23] <exec> 08└─Been using an Vizio M43-C1 for almost 4 years(2015-05) and it has been great. A monitor might be better and I am looking at the Dell 43", but for the price I can knock it.
[01:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:26] <exec> 08└─I will third this: the last time one of my dual monitors goooshed on me and I had to go back to ONE monitor? Ah feck, just shoot me! Dual monitors aaaallllllllll the way, baby!
[01:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 1519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:28] <exec> 08└─Wow! Thanks for all of that! Yes, I had already concluded that anything larger than 43 inches would be problematic for me; thanks for confirming that. I'd not thought of the issues with different colors having different 'visibility' -- thanks! My current system with a 1920x1200, 24-inch monitor is s...
[01:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:30] <exec> 08└─You don't stream; You don't game; You use DVD and won't use BluRay; You tether LTE for Internet access; Your use case is... IRC. You know what? Forget about 4k, 2k or even 1080p. Try a $30 720p 19". Get a 5$ "usb vga adapter" off ebay or something if you can't find an empty port... 4k IRC... *RamiK...
[01:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:32] <exec> 08└─I'd take your old desktop but the shipping would probably kill. Seriously.
[01:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:34] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you were in the exact same boat I am now, just a couple years ahead of me... can't thank you enough for sharing your experiences! I'll watch for "smoothed" pixels vs clear text... thanks! Glasses-free viewing is one of my goals, as well. No problem with a sub-60Hz refresh rate? I find th...
[01:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:36] <exec> 08└─Bingo! That's the kind of thing (4:4:4) I would not have thought of and which would kick me in the butt in short order. Thanks for the heads up! Yes, there are two highly-rated 43-inch TCL monitors on rtings.com; I was looking not at the cheapest budget model, but the next step up. "PC" or "Computer...
[01:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:38] <exec> 08└─I gotta admit you had me chuckling all along with that one, culminating with a guffaw! You did happen to omit mentioning the browser window, though, which takes up about 75% of my screen real estate. As for getting another 1080p, I currently run a 1920x1200 TYVM. I wouldn't mind using m current moni...
[01:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:41] <exec> 08└─https://www.amazon.com/AOC-C4008VH8-Class-Curved-Monitor/dp/B07BSSMNPF [amazon.com] You're welcome.
[01:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:43] <exec> 08└─I'd take your old desktop but the shipping would probably kill.
[01:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:45] <exec> 08└─sorry, wrong link. Appears to be out of stock :( I meant this model: https://www.newegg.com [newegg.com] Used to be USD $700-ish on amazon, no idea why they no longer have it... :(
[01:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:47] <exec> 08└─You're most welcome! If you go for one of the TCLs let me know what you think - I may not be far behind.
[01:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:09] <exec> 08└─I find it hard to believe she was a slave. No slave master would have set her free with a mental health because of the high likelihood that the counselor would alert authorities, as happened here. The affidavit said a counselor called Austin police on Aug. 22 to report that a girl under the age of 1...
[01:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:10] <exec> 08└─No master would let a slave engage in private counseling sessions. This all started when a counselor the girl saw reported the incident to police. Given that it is well known that counselors are mandatory reporters, any reasonably qualified slave-master would expect to counseling sessions to get him...
[01:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, What-a-Burger. It's a chain of burger places in Texas. IMO, they make pretty good burgers, but Texans overhype them some. Like most things Texas, Texans are partial to them. On a scale where McDonald's rates a 1, Burger King rates a 1.5 or 2.0, Wendy's rates 2.5 or 3, and many local custard st...
[01:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:14] <exec> 08└─I heard that too but have seen no footage. Till then, only a media noob would take it at face value.
[01:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, he created hatreon. I clicked enough links this evening to have that verified. Wilson claims it was mostly a joke, which went further than he expected, or some such nonsense. I'm still undecided whether hatreon is all bad, or some good and some bad. I haven't clicked that many links yet.
[01:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:19] <exec> 08└─They care about Cody because he had a credible ability through his warchest, of creating Supreme Court precedent to that effect. While the issue remains murky however, they can bully people into submission because so few have the half million or more that it takes to get a definitive ruling.
[01:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:21] <exec> 08└─Found the idiot. She was 16, and thus it does not even remotely qualify as pedophilia.
[01:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo: Companies Working in China May Have to Install Local Backdoors - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:25] <exec> 08└─> If you want good software, make it expensive to produce not-good software. You won't be able to afford any software if that happens. How is that better?
[01:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Trips May Involve Less Radiation Exposure Than Previously Thought - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:20] <exec> 08└─I don't know about QM, but general relativity predicts the wrong thing all the time. They came up with the ad hoc theory of "dark matter" and "dark energy" to save it, and now 90% (or whatever) of the universe is made of stuff that can only be "detected" as deviations from the predictions of GR. So,...
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[02:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Migrates New Chipsets to "22nm" Node From "14nm" - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:49] <exec> 08└─Again. 10 years ago AMD was knocking on Intel's door with power efficiency, and it looks like this might be happening again but from every sub 14nm foundry in the world that Intel doesn't control (which is, virtually all of them.) Seems like a good time for a long-term short-play on INTC.
[02:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:43] <exec> 08└─This old blog post inspired me. [tsotech.com] But I never was that impressed. I'm still on 1080p. My main takeaway from the blog today is that HDMI 1.4 will give you 4K. At 30Hz and no higher.
[02:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:45] <exec> 08└─40"(40.0 Viewable) Curved VA Panel, 1920 x 1080 Resolution, 300cd/m2 Brightness, 5ms response time
[02:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:47] <exec> 08└─With a big 39" screen you can be farther away to reduce eye strain while still having more usable screen space.
[02:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:49] <exec> 08└─Don't worry about flickering from low refresh rate - the technology in flat screens is vastly different than CRTs, and there's no flicker. There are USB->HDMI dongles (like https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] ) that'd work fine for an HDMI secon...
[02:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:51] <exec> 08└─I screwed up the link, for a while they used to sell a 4k 40" curved panel, I have it, love it, but now apparently it's out of stock: https://www.newegg.com [newegg.com] I write code and wrangle VMs most of the time, when I don't make slides and write docume...
[02:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:53] <exec> 08└─Make sure your HDMI cable doesn't support ethernet-over-hdmi either.
[02:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:55] <exec> 08└─The only problem is that there is no longer such a thing as a "dumb" television.
[02:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:57] <exec> 08└─You can simply refuse to ever connect it to your network - that'll obviously cost you the "smart" features, but it (probably) doesn't have cellular network access. I did run into a Samsung recently though that seemingly required the TV be connected to the network to establish communications with the...
[02:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:00] <exec> 08└─It would be even cheaper and much easier to simply not cover so much of the display area with a single web browser window. A 16:9 [1] 24 inch monitor is 20.9 inches wide. With a 2" left and right margin, that makes for a 16.9 inch wide browser window. The monitor I am presently viewing the browser...
[02:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:30] <exec> 08└─Yes. Exactly. He is happy for creeps to have sex with OTHER PEOPLE's minor children.
[02:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:16] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's not typical but it's more common in men. At least in men that don't know how to control themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Testosterone produces aggression by activating subcortical areas in the brain, which may also be inhibited or suppressed by so...
[02:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Times Newer Roman Font Makes Academic Papers Look Longer - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:17] <exec> 08└─The issue I am talking about is with requiring a student to use Times New Roman (the Microsoft-provided nonfree proprietary font) in preparing academic research when equivalent or higher-quality free fonts are available. Times Newer Roman does indeed seem to be GPL and is not a problem in this respe...
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[03:43:50] <exec> 08└─I'd heard bits and pieces of that (HDMI / DisplayPort) over the years, but never put together as clearly as this; thanks! Overscan? With an LCD? Really??!!? I thought that was a holdover from the old CRT days were they needed to have some "fudge factor" so the image would fit "properly" within the b...
[03:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:51] <exec> 08└─You're most welcome! If you go for one of the TCLs let me know what you think - I may not be far behind.
[03:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jinuq [5497] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:53] <exec> 08└─can't*
[03:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:55] <exec> 08└─That is one sweet looking monitor. Thanks for tracking down the link! At $700 that's outside my budget as I've been looking at 4K TVs in the $~350 range, but man that looks really nice. I better stop now, or I'll start coming up with a pleasant enough rationalization to purchase something that I can...
[03:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:58] <exec> 08└─:) My son who is starting on the IT road recently wanted a 2nd screen, so we dug up an unused monitor and he is happy - no new laptop required. Using Mint 18.3 with plans to upgrade to 19 / 19.1 next year.
[03:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:00] <exec> 08└─Don't worry about flickering from low refresh rate - the technology in flat screens is vastly different than CRTs, and there's no flicker.
[03:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:02] <exec> 08└─Make sure your HDMI cable doesn't support ethernet-over-hdmi either.
[03:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:34] <exec> 08└─Free to be put in prison if we make the govt mad. Yes, Cody was targetted. Jeez, I think the only difference between our govt and that of dictatorial shitholes is one of DEGREE, not of KIND. So many similarities.
[03:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:35] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering if they just re-enacted the Assange 'sexual assault.whatever' with this guy.
[03:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:37] <exec> 08└─but what Defense Distributed has been doing is critically important defense of our rights. Unless you want 3D printers to start having big brother inspect every STL file before it does anything, you should also.
[03:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Searching for Errors in the Quantum World - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:52] <exec> 08└─Probably because it's so damned counter-intuitive. If it were intuitive, many experiments probably would never have happened, because theoreticians wouldn't be groping blind in the dark. What I mean is that the way things fall to the ground on Earth is intuitive. If I drop a bowling ball and a feath...
[03:47:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:25] <exec> 08└─"You should have been aborted" is a not something anyone would debate on whether it is offensive or not.
[03:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:25] <exec> 08└─Linux got too big, too famous. It was inevitable that the unqualified would start insisting they be given a prominent spot at that party so they could show all their friends (potential employers/clients) that they were there. That's all it is. There's money to be had, and the people who can't contri...
[03:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Trips May Involve Less Radiation Exposure Than Previously Thought - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:28] <exec> 08└─Another way to do it is to use solar (light) sails, and then use powerful lasers to push the craft around. This has the advantage of the craft not having to carry fuel to propel the craft, and not having to carry the fuel to propel the fuel that propels the craft, and not having to carry the fuel th...
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[04:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:21] <exec> 08└─I want a larger 'desk', not more legible 'documents' on the desk.
[04:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:22] <exec> 08└─First off, in the original story I mentioned that I have a 1920x1200 monitor.
[04:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:24] <exec> 08└─Overscan? With an LCD? Really??!!?
[04:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:27] <exec> 08└─My Raspberry Pi has overscan settings [stackexchange.com] in its config to compensate for this. I've had to use them on my HDMI LCD.
[04:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Migrates New Chipsets to "22nm" Node From "14nm" - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not personally a big fan of either AMD or Intel. My question is what nm could a fully open source open hardware model produce? Assuming we could reasonably create a maker of some kind capable of creating the chips. For security reasons I've been increasingly looking toward binary/blob free offer...
[04:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Introducing the Cloudflare Onion Service - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:45] <exec> 08└─Which is it?
[04:44:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 329 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:12] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering if they just re-enacted the Assange 'sexual assault.whatever' with this guy. Are they getting lazy with their charges? "Meh, let's just say he ordered the same 'pizza' as Assange and Bob's your uncle: he can be arrested if we can get him extradited... if not, we just ruin his life...fo...
[04:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:16] <exec> 08└─Well, where else would you draw the line? Clearly having sex with a 4 year old isn't OK and having sex with a 30 year old seems alright. There is no point in between that couldn't be fudged a bit one way or the other without the world falling a part. 18 is typically the age chose for a good number o...
[04:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:17] <exec> 08└─Libertarian.... alt right? Put down the happy drugs aristarchus, the alt right are very much into state authoritarianism, where as libertarians at most begrudgingly accept small governments as a necessity when they aren't going full ancap.
[04:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assisted Reproductive Technologies May Cause Premature Vascular Aging in Conceived Children - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:30] <exec> 08└─Turns out that yes, our biology cares a substantial amount about our morality. Which is why we had Stephen Hawking for 76 years instead of 26 years. That's the thing about a society, it turns ideas into effects.
[04:46:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 696 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:54] <exec> 08└─One poster to github commented "Funny there was no "vote" on this change. Funny how anti-democratic stuff becomes when the minority want things a certain way most likely from corporate interests.", yet noone has profferred an explanation what is taking place, why the democratic nature of the Bazaar...
[04:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:04] <exec> 08└─Had crossed my mind (and would be reasonable enough, if true), but got swiftly negated by all the drama from other angles.
[04:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sea [86] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mars Trips May Involve Less Radiation Exposure Than Previously Thought - 1492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:14] <exec> 08└─You put a gun in space, and use that gun to launch the spaceship, without fuel onboard. Then, you use the gun to fire (at a slightly greater speed) packets of fuel towards the spaceship. They'll eventually catch up to it and can be attached, accelerating the ship a bit each time. Provided you've don...
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[05:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:41] <exec> 08└─Lack of DPMS is common. No idea why. Even signage displays often lack it. Had to use the serial port to control power on some LG screens.
[05:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:42] <exec> 08└─"Note, on some models you may have to name the input source "PC" or "Computer" to turn off all the image-mangling "enhancements" - a fact mentioned nowhere in the documentation for mine." one monster gold nugget of information right there! it is curious that a switch like this is made difficult cons...
[05:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:44] <exec> 08└─Regarding the *other* pixel ratio, I have questions I haven't been able to find authoritative source for answers to, when considering mounting a TV in portrait mode: Based on some discussions I've had, I got the sense that HD didn't guarantee square pixels, but that 4k (televisions or monitors) migh...
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[05:44:01] <exec> 08└─Anagrams for: goodevil 43 found. Displaying all: Doge Viol Devil Goo Lived Goo Video Log Dive Logo Vied Logo God Olive God Voile Dog Olive Dog Voile Good Veil Good Vile Good Evil Good Live Ovoid Leg Ovoid Gel Void Loge Void Ogle Ed Go Viol Dive Go Lo Vied Go Lo Loved Go I Veld Goo I Dove Log I God V...
[05:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:36] <exec> 08└─I met a reporter who was instrumental to blowing open the Weiner case. He is now jobless, houseless, living on the street.
[05:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:38] <exec> 08└─My apologies! But in my defense, I did not know what else to call right-wing racist pro-gun pedophiles, besides just "Republican".
[05:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:40] <exec> 08└─Lifetime subscriber to "Not Even Barely Legal", are we, Mr. Pedobear?
[05:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:42] <exec> 08└─Modded up for funny
[05:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Considering Opening Up to 3,000 New Cashierless "Amazon Go" Stores - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:23] <exec> 08└─You would have "flash mobs" of "urban youths" pillaging and looting the entire store. They organize themselves through Facebook, but Facebook ignore the law-abiding public's tipoffs of imminent plunder and destruction because Facebook are too busy policing wrongthink and protecting America's electio...
[05:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Searching for Errors in the Quantum World - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:01] <exec> 08└─some might think its curious how humans evolved over thousands of years without understanding quantum mechanics. one might wonder, what is the meaning of a human? i could argue that we are but a physical calculation mechanism by a "higher entity" that "invented" us to solve a question because ... to...
[05:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:36] <exec> 08└─Losing sleep faster than a cat on monday. PS that means you cant use Linux now.
[05:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:37] <exec> 08└─Wow, snowflake meltdown!!!
[05:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Stop Making its Classic Beetle Next Year - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:30] <exec> 08└─Who are you and where the fuck did you live, I'm from Saginaw and when I went to school in the 80s we weren't allowed to drive to school, you had to either walk or take the school bus, they wouldn't let you bring a bike to school either.
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[06:42:51] <exec> 08└─Something like video processing. Oh, sorry that's actually unimaginable, because no one is willing to go to the trouble to learn how to write concurrent code. There are other ways than multithreading, for example Apple's Open Source Grand Central Dispatch [apple.com]. I expect it has the Apple Publi...
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[06:42:52] <exec> 08└─The man's - Yuipson's - eyes opened wide in shock. That was too fast. Sure, he knew how fragile these were, but still, that was much too fast. Frustrated, Yuipson grabbed the next one and began angrily pumping. This process of moving from one to the next was known as 'The Shuffling'. And shuffle he...
[06:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:01] <exec> 08└─Now, anything larger than a 43-inch monitor, there starts getting to be significant differences in distance from my eyes to the center-most pixel versus from my eyes to a pixel in the corner.
[06:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:03] <exec> 08└─-s? Retina Displays have more than one physical pixel per logical pixel - Cocoa and Cocoa Touch refer to logical pixels as "points". The number of physical pixels is often not an integer. To have a Retina Display on my MacBook Pro makes a world of difference as compared to my Mac mini's conventional...
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[06:44:05] <exec> 08└─With a CRT, it lights up and thus colors the pixels at the refresh rate. Low rates give flicker. With an LCD, the light is separate from coloring the pixels. The refresh rate only refers to coloring the pixels, which is done by switching a polarizer on and off. That switching is naturally too slow t...
[06:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:07] <exec> 08└─When 8K Augmented/Virtual Reality glasses arrive you can have as many huge screens as your hardware and wetware can cope with. Assuming people still know how to write "desktop" GUIs and don't force some stupid tablet UI on you.
[06:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:09] <exec> 08└─How am I supposed to make sure my HDMI cable doesn't support ethernet (aka: HEC) when it has been part of the standard since v1.4? Even the super cheap AmazonBasics cables support it. So everyone who thought they were protected because they didn't let their smart TV connect the WiFi but still connec...
[06:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Introducing the Cloudflare Onion Service - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:28] <exec> 08└─I reported two domains to the FBI a while back; both domains have since disappeared, however kiddieporn sites never last very long. I found one cloudflare site that made Safari go totally bananas; I had to kill the process, but I never did report that one. There must be all kinds of ways that CloudF...
[06:45:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 589 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:27] <exec> 08└─No, but I did mention Kavanaugh. Seems Republicans and other insane right these days equate rape with all other sexual harassment. I have even heard a Faux News operative refer to Kavanaugh's action as "attempted sexual assault". Hmmm, you know, attempted sexual assault is almost always actual sexua...
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[06:46:08] <exec> 08└─He is now jobless, houseless, living on the street.
[06:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tyler Blevins ("Ninja"): The First Gamer on the Cover of ESPN Magazine - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:36] <exec> 08└─The only thing I meant is that a lot of people pay a lot of attention to YouTubers and Streamers, who display as much intelligence as an artichoke. I know a lot of people aren't very intelligent, not to bring up Carlin, but let's think how stupid an average person is and realize half of them are stu...
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[07:42:52] <exec> 08└─Intel dominates about 99 percent of the server chip market with its x86-based processors
[07:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:06] <exec> 08└─I better stop now, or I'll start coming up with a pleasant enough rationalization to purchase something that I can't rightly afford.
[07:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:08] <exec> 08└─so, maybe I'm the dumb one this time and missing something. you have 43-50" TVs out there for like $100 less than what you're looking at. Even a different 43" 2018 model TCL brand, still w/ the precious Roku whatever that is, is $259. PS, I have 3 of those cheapo dumb-tv sceptres, different models o...
[07:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:04] <exec> 08└─Another point that no-one's mentioned so far: Isn't it convenient that a major PITA for the government, that they can't seem to silence or get rid of, is caught doing something that makes it very easy to get rid of him? I'm not saying it was a setup or not, but it is remarkably convenient for the go...
[07:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:00] <exec> 08└─Well, it's not a technical requirement, but it's *my* project. If I'm a douche, well, then *my* project is gonna have roughly that much douchiness in it, because it's, well, *mine*. Musk can't do that because his project is a public company, so the shareholders and board of directors get to vote on...
[07:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Trips May Involve Less Radiation Exposure Than Previously Thought - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:13] <exec> 08└─Midflight fuel tankers still have the problem that you're accelerating all that fuel up to speed regardless - so why not just include it with the original ship and avoid accelerating the additional mass of a second ship up to the same speed?
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[08:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:58] <exec> 08└─Legalizing plants is one thing. Hey, they seem like nice landscaping plants. Lifestyle marketing is another thing. Just like how tobacco companies segment the market to separately prey upon women (Virginia Slims) and blacks (Newport), and all the same sort of stuff with alcohol, we'll see the full e...
[08:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:59] <exec> 08└─> no doubt due to the mimetic transfusion of young non-gay blood So I know of the trashy "Thiel is a vampire" attacks, but what's with the "non-gay"?
[08:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hedleyroos [4974] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:27] <exec> 08└─I use a 43 inch Samsung 4K TV as monitor for a workstation. Things to note: 1. 43 is very large. In retrospect I may have bought a curved version but I've adapted to it. 2. Turn the sharpness down to zero to avoid ringing around fonts. 3. Don't connect it to the internet. In fact, the Samsung requir...
[08:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:28] <exec> 08└─Don't connect it to the internet, ever. At least all the intel gathered won't reach 'home'. A separate media center is anyway orders of magnitude more useful. Even a $40 Raspberry or even better an Odroid C2 is a smarter choice most of the time for anyone nerd enough to understand how to copy an ima...
[08:45:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 339 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:11] <exec> 08└─Nothing in this guy's history makes me think he "would be smarter than that" His list of acheivements are: designing a gun that's likely to injure you the third or fourth time you fire it, jumping deep into bitcoin just before the giant-ass crash, and making a knock-off of a popular website but for...
[08:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:30] <exec> 08└─Under normal circumstances no names are exchanged, preferably no phone number and payment is in cash. Guess why.
[08:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:31] <exec> 08└─That is the proof she lied and will get him off the hook from pedobear accusations It's an adult site for adults only. Any claims of pedo will be tossed out in court. The paying for sex part is different. Good luck with that.
[08:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:33] <exec> 08└─Mind if I browse your bank records? Tax evasion results in starving children, so it’s something I’m against. All my friends agree that tax evasion is bad and they support anyone going through their records because they have nothing to hide.
[08:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:35] <exec> 08└─Don’t apply my rules against me!!!! Otherwise you become me!!11!
[08:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Passes Copyright Bill to End 140-Year Protection for Old Songs - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:23] <exec> 08└─The system is totally broken. No one cares about it anymore. If the law is violated every day without penalty does it matter what it says.
[08:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo: Companies Working in China May Have to Install Local Backdoors - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:56] <exec> 08└─Everything we do is on a VM in a protected environment. The local machine doesn't even have email. No net access. Can't save files. Can only open a VM. Good luck.
[08:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Times Newer Roman Font Makes Academic Papers Look Longer - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:46] <exec> 08└─"Scale Width" distorts the characters, so the reader may notice that you are using different characters from the standard characters of the font. "Character Spacing", from the same tab, adds extra space between characters instead, so that the characters retain their shape. Oh, and the reputedly feat...
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[09:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Shows Cargo/Work Version of Battery-Powered Microbus - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:12] <exec> 08└─If I were a contractor or had a repair company, an electric van to lug my tools and parts around would be nice.
[09:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:25] <exec> 08└─Pot is the new crypo-coins. So everyone is now into pot. Chasing money. And more money has been spent chasing profits than for any other reason in history. So no, I would not invest in any pot stock, since all it is is massive speculation and no profits. Might as well invest in "blockchained cloud p...
[09:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:26] <exec> 08└─Not sure myself, but maybe it is that gay blood is attracted to the same blood, and so promotes clotting, or to put it differently, the blood would tend to hulk up and hogan to sue a new publication until it was dead. Like that. Alternatively, maybe it is just that you want virgin blood, and everyo...
[09:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:28] <exec> 08└─Worth More Than Twitter
[09:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:30] <exec> 08└─Weed is the new blockchain [yahoo.com] One of the headlines I forgot to toss in TFS.
[09:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:32] <exec> 08└─Before it was Schedule 1'd, Marijuana was a common weed, sometimes under the nom de weed of "pigweed". Much like fireweed and some other opportunists, it would grow like crazy all on its own in any disturbed patch of soil (thus the name, where pigs do root, pot will grow). So the idea that somehow c...
[09:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Launches its First ARM-Based Server Processors in Challenge to Intel - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:43] <exec> 08└─With itanium.
[09:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Launches its First ARM-Based Server Processors in Challenge to Intel - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:46] <exec> 08└─I thought AMD was doing a lot better with Epyc. I guess Intel execs are sipping scotch right now. Intel CEO Bracing For EPYC Impact, Aims to Keep AMD Under 20% of Server Market Share [tomshardware.com] Shah relates that Krzanich "was very matter-of-fact in saying that Intel would lose server share t...
[09:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:06] <exec> 08└─That is a whole new level of creepy. Just like a remote I fixed for a friend that needed this 'silverlight' crap to first be installed and then tried to connect to the internet. Fun times!
[09:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:07] <exec> 08└─I've never tried DP What's your experience?
[09:46:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 565 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:43] <exec> 08└─Either: the kind of men who do the sorts of things Cody does (lets call it "pushing boundaries" as a simple catch-all) will also be the sort of driven, narcissistic asshole who gets his jollies in "unconventional" ways. Additionally, ego-driven people often get away with things others wouldn't , jus...
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[09:47:13] <exec> 08└─Now I want you to mill the upper receiver, from a billet; the barrel, with proper chambering, headspace, rifling and muzzle chamfering, again from raw stock. Now I want you to case-harden and heat treat all the parts that need it, hone to tolerance all that parts that need that, and I want you to pe...
[09:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Searching for Errors in the Quantum World - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:37] <exec> 08└─Nah, you just wake up in your living room and find you've been banned from the game for cheating.
[09:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 2367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:18] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you an old story. It happened in an Eastern block country, with communism. No, not a 1970s or 80s socialism, it was a harsh communism of 1950s, with National Seurity Office terror still going on. So, there was a factory. Once upon a time a new worker shown up, nobody knew from where, but...
[09:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 1983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:19] <exec> 08└─With regard to communications styles, other commentators have noted that cultural norms are different in different parts of the world, including places that appear to share a common language. If you are participating in a project with participants from all around the world, it is quickly apparent th...
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[09:52:08] <exec> 08└─186 pages for something that needs one paragraph at worst. Something is broken, captain.
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[10:50:01] <exec> 08└─I think "race to mediocrity" is only the start, the end game is a vicious circle winding up in the supremacy of stupid. The tipping point will be when stupidity becomes a protected characteristic (after all, why shouldn't it be, it's just a mental disability isn't it?). After that you cannot discrim...
[10:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:02] <exec> 08└─Pretend to be stupid? We already see this in the workplace. Maybe not all of us, but when your boss is a mental midget, but he wants all the glory, you see people coaxing him into having the most obvious of ideas. I'm not even talking about myself here. Women are especially good at this, though some...
[10:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:04] <exec> 08└─Toxicity ain't a bad thing. The goal is to find something toxic to unwanted organisms but harmless to those you want around. You know, like Purell. Linus's behavior has accomplished that goal pretty well up until now.
[10:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:06] <exec> 08└─Pretty much all men in the workplace know how to control themselves. You can tell by the lack of them shooting up the place on a regular basis or even fighting. Men are not the problem. Women entering environments with the codes of behavior already sorted out and wanting to change them to their liki...
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[11:42:42] <exec> 08└─six percent of cash reserve. https://www.cnbc.com [cnbc.com]
[11:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Pays Off its $15.4 Billion Irish Tax Bill - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:43] <exec> 08└─WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
[11:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:08] <exec> 08└─In some areas of the US, it still *is* a common weed. I saw roadside verges and banks of creeks practically overgrown of the stuff when I was out in the mid-west a few years back (also stumbled across a grow-op in an abandonned rural school house, but that's another matter). I doubt that the native...
[11:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:09] <exec> 08└─I share your concern, but I think it should all be legalized, regulated, and taxed. Marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, heroin, LSD, everything. Marketing all this terrible stuff as good is undesirable. But what's worse is all the additional criminal activity that supports the illegal substance market...
[11:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:11] <exec> 08└─>LSD ... terrible stuff Don't drink the kool-aid. Or do?
[11:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Launches its First ARM-Based Server Processors in Challenge to Intel - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:24] <exec> 08└─I suspect Intel is still worried. Even if AMD only gets 2% of the server market by the end of the year vs 0.5% a few years ago, it starts to force Intel away from "price our server processors any way we want".
[11:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:48] <exec> 08└─Happy to amuse :) But I was sorta serious recommending dual monitors. One for the IRC and stuff and the other for the browser is quite a lot. I admit I'm not sure about cards and can't recommend a specific monitor though... Still, it's a fairly common setup. No? Just my 2cents really.
[11:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 2100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:49] <exec> 08└─The image of you lugging such a screen around (portability++) is hilarious. ;) There are a variety of 4K laptops out there, and any of them should be able to support an external screen. I've heard good things about the Lenovo Y50's (nVidia 1080 card inside), but no matter which one you pick, you'r...
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[11:45:42] <exec> 08└─What makes you think Taiwan will let him stay? Also, funny how people who have been annoyances to the government end up being accused of sexcrime.
[11:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:56] <exec> 08└─I haven't followed the guy's activities at all. I just find it suspect that Julian Assange and now him challenge the people in power and then get hit with charges like this. Don't get me wrong, if the charges are accurate then they should burn for it. And I'm not declaring Assange or this guy to be...
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[11:46:57] <exec> 08└─All that "evidence" you mention doesn't fit an assault crime / rape. It's "sexual" assault, so there probably doesn't have to be much assault to get labelled that way, but with all the evidence you mention, it seems it was consensual. The only problem is her age. I myself suck hard at guessing ages...
[11:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:06] <exec> 08└─It's not out of the ordinary is why. Your boss being a dick is par for the course. Mine is and I'm self-employed.
[11:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:08] <exec> 08└─Ni!
[11:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:10] <exec> 08└─it's okay he forked it
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[12:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Pays Off its $15.4 Billion Irish Tax Bill - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:53] <exec> 08└─Did they pay it off in pennies? Because I would have paid it off in pennies.
[12:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Pays Off its $15.4 Billion Irish Tax Bill - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:55] <exec> 08└─When it comes to creative accounting, who knows how much cash they really have. Keep in mind that they've already played games to avoid paying taxes in both the EU and the US. Who knows what that entry on the form is really worth?
[12:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Pays Off its $15.4 Billion Irish Tax Bill - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:57] <exec> 08└─Scotch whiskey is from Scotland, not Ireland. "Scotch Whisky Regulations require anything bearing the label "Scotch" to be distilled in Scotland and matured for a minimum of three years in oak casks, among other, more specific criteria"
[12:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Pays Off its $15.4 Billion Irish Tax Bill - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, I should have put "declared" in front of the word "cash". Likely the real number means this payment will barely show as a rounding error in the real balance sheet.
[12:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Pays Off its $15.4 Billion Irish Tax Bill - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:01] <exec> 08└─Sure, this is why it took them so long.
[12:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Pays Off its $15.4 Billion Irish Tax Bill - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah - he knows that - what he's trying to imply is that now, with several thou per head coming into the country, they'll finally be able to afford the good stuff! (Trolling aside, Connemara's a beautiful peated whiskey, it easily stands shoulder to shoulder with the finest Islays.)
[12:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Shows Cargo/Work Version of Battery-Powered Microbus - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:14] <exec> 08└─at least, as an EV, it would be tax exempt in London, and get free parking in Westminster [westminster.gov.uk]
[12:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Shows Cargo/Work Version of Battery-Powered Microbus - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:16] <exec> 08└─There are other potential advantages. In many places you can take EVs on HOV lanes with a single occupant. That saves you time in traffic so your van can make more stops, answer more service calls, what have you. Also, there is less volatility in electricity costs than fuel, so it's easier to plan o...
[12:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:34] <exec> 08└─OTOH, I don't share your concern. They aren't going to find a population of people who are susceptible to marijuana marketing, but not the other sorts of marketing. It'll be the same people who were the problem before. And at least, it's no more harmful than what's already out there.
[12:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:11] <exec> 08└─The smart TV won't and can't spy on you if you are using it as a dumb TV. HDMI does not spy on your files! Also you don't need to use the full resolution in most cases, and the TV will down-sample accordingly. Barely used high quality monitors are available second hand for hardly any money and will...
[12:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:13] <exec> 08└─My girlfriend absolutely loves it, but it does take a bit of the spontaneity out of it when you have to work around a third person's schedule.
[12:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:15] <exec> 08└─I have bought Dell P4317Q hoping to get a decent amount of space for VIM and C++ code development. But I must send it back. This crappy LCD screen has two problems: 1. the edge of the LCD screen is not properly lit. The background LED light is exactly the same size as the LCD matrix, but about 5mm b...
[12:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:17] <exec> 08└─PS: if you decide to buy anything please let me know. I will look more closely at it. At present I am pondering Sony FW-43XE8001, but I am still not convinced.
[12:46:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:27] <exec> 08└─And with underage prostitution, a lot(but obviously, given the nature of the crime, it's impossible to assess exactly how much) of it comes from young girls ...
[12:46:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:56] <exec> 08└─The man is as much anti-government as anything.
[12:47:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 654 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:01] <exec> 08└─No master would let a slave engage in private counseling sessions. This all started when a counselor the girl saw reported the incident to police. Given that it is well known that counselors are mandatory reporters, any reasonably qualified slave-master would expect to counseling sessions to get him...
[12:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:26] <exec> 08└─Definitely sounds like a setup. Look, the guy is an idiot for hiring a prostitute, especially since he knows that he has a lot of political enemies. That said, consider: What prostitute recounts her business transactions to a counselor? If she did that, every single client would get busted, seeing a...
[12:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Searching for Errors in the Quantum World - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:47] <exec> 08└─There's is actually a short story written by Stanisław Lem exactly about this. IIRC it was in the adventures of Ion Tichy. He visited a crazy scientists who simulated a scientist inside a computer, and this simulated scientists was performing experiments inside his simulated reality and was slowly...
[12:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:34] <exec> 08└─This is a long-winded way of saying that as the head of the project has moved from one culture to another, it is unsurprising that the project will move too, from being one where (Northern) European norms apply, to one where American norms apply, including having a Code of Conduct and taking notice...
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[13:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:07] <exec> 08└─First, the farmers should fire their lobbyists and stop payment on their most recent checks. Second, it's against this kind of thing that geeks ought to form a real Resistance. Open Hardware and Software are already movements within our computing universe, so perhaps it can be extended to farm equip...
[13:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:09] <exec> 08└─This actually sounds like a great business opportunity. Start a rival company that doesn't use DRM bullshit and lets people buy spare parts. With John Deere's pricing you could sell it for half their prices and still turn a profit.
[13:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:11] <exec> 08└─This is the sort of thing that brings out the pitchforks and drives people to vote for the likes of Trump with an attitude of ‘burn it all down.’ You have people just trying to live and run a farm, paying their dues. And the people who are supposed to be working for them, who have one job to do,...
[13:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Pays Off its $15.4 Billion Irish Tax Bill - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:28] <exec> 08└─Likely the real number means this payment will barely show as a rounding error in the real balance sheet.
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[13:43:29] <exec> 08└─they'll finally be able to afford the good stuff!
[13:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Pays Off its $15.4 Billion Irish Tax Bill - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:31] <exec> 08└─Hm, according to a quick duck search a 1 cent euro weighs 2.30 grams. So that's 3 million ton of cents. (at 457000 m³). I wish them good luck with that.
[13:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich26189 [1377] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VW Shows Cargo/Work Version of Battery-Powered Microbus - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:42] <exec> 08└─one of these https://workhorse.com [workhorse.com] but they'e being offered only to fleet owners/utility companies at this time. I've owned two Tacomas over the last ~20 years, the first one rusted out from underneath me so Toyota bought it back from me. I was happy with that so bought anoth...
[13:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:03] <exec> 08└─Can we get some of that cash over here in Michigan to support Proposal 1? The disinformation campaign has the finest bullshit, lies, damned lies, and statistics money can buy plastered all over town. I am fully expecting Proposal 1 to fail. There was a poll of 600 someodd people in the Detroit area...
[13:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:04] <exec> 08└─They aren't going to find a population of people who are susceptible to marijuana marketing, but not the other sorts of marketing. It'll be the same people who were the problem before.
[13:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:06] <exec> 08└─I mean it's pretty different to buy maryjane from your buddy's friend in some back alley than to see an ad for it on the front page of a news paper and to buy it in a supermarket.
[13:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Launches its First ARM-Based Server Processors in Challenge to Intel - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:21] <exec> 08└─Necromancy, ha? Wait, wasn't Bob Rau cremated as a Hindu? *grabs shovel* More seriously, I think they were sampling Microsoft's E2 EDGE processors in a partnership not too unlike from how Intel and HP worked on the Itanium but something went off schedule. Regardless, hopefully this time they won't h...
[13:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Launches its First ARM-Based Server Processors in Challenge to Intel - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:23] <exec> 08└─Imagine Using All 32 Cores In A Desktop App Something like video processing. Oh, sorry... concurrent code... There are other ways [like] Apple's Open Source Grand Central Dispatch.
[13:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Launches its First ARM-Based Server Processors in Challenge to Intel - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:25] <exec> 08└─Intel fights back ...With itanium.
[13:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Launches its First ARM-Based Server Processors in Challenge to Intel - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:27] <exec> 08└─And how are these processors going to rate on the simplicity/vulnerability trade-off? Are they going to fall for the speculative-execution information leaks? -- hendrik
[13:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Launches its First ARM-Based Server Processors in Challenge to Intel - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:29] <exec> 08└─Venturebeat, being a business-source and not a tech-source, seems to be pretty accepting of Ampere's claims, though to be fair, I suppose there's no reason not to be. Ampere designed its cores, which feature... 125W TDP for maximum power efficiency
[13:45:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 1267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:03] <exec> 08└─You discovered the problem with trying to use a TV as a monitor. Unless you can get the very latest HDMI port on both monitor and PC you can't really display 4K on it. They had to cheat, you have to give something up to stay inside the bandwidth limit. Usually what goes is full RGB in favor of 4:1:1...
[13:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:59] <exec> 08└─No argument on always wanting more display space! "If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!” ― Mae West [goodreads.com]. =) Hence my desk analogy. Why do we even entertain the idea that a 24-inch monitor, say, is an equivalent to having a 3-foot by 6-foot...
[13:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:00] <exec> 08└─This. I have yet to encounter any situation where more pixels helps much at all. The real benefits you only get with two or more separate monitors and their corresponding Super ultra wide aspect ratio.
[13:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:02] <exec> 08└─You will probably encounter readability problems. TVs are designed to viewed from far away, so they make them big. Yes, the resolution goes up, but I believe you are still going to have trouble reading the tiny computer text at any distance that will feel comfortable with a TV screen. It is also a p...
[13:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:04] <exec> 08└─Second, I have frequently needed [soylentnews.org] to view a story submission and the original source article at the same time. ... I use TileView to view the source and the submission in side-by-side tiles within a single browser window...
[13:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:07] <exec> 08└─This, so much this. I use a 4K TV (40") and 4:4:4 @ 30hz to make the text not look like wet hairy ass. As for gaming, I swap it over to 60hz if I feel like it. But on a laptop he won't be doing any serious gaming at 4K. Only a handful of laptops can come close to handling it. For everything else int...
[13:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:15] <exec> 08└─Why yes, I am an amateur gunsmith. You've missed the hard part of building a homemade firearm, rifling the barrel. The other things you describe are fairly easy lathe and hand tool operations. The chambering work specifically is only hard until you learn how to make (or buy) a chamber reamer. All of...
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[14:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:48] <exec> 08└─Just like indie authors no longer need the big publishers: why should musicians need the big labels? Aside from a few carefully created exceptions, most musicians are poorly served, and would be better off if they could sell their music directly.
[14:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:50] <exec> 08└─The artist gets the copyright as soon as they create the work! So, there's very little reason for them not to open this up pretty damned quick to *every* artist that isn't locked into a contract with one of the labels. Sure, some of the artists will be making a few pennies a month. Some will make en...
[14:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 1655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:52] <exec> 08└─Anything that unseats the powerful RIAA leech industry is a good thing. They harm tech. They are behind DRM. The DMCA, which is now accepted as normal, is a travesty of corruption and special interest. An IP address is not a person. How the RIAA hurts artists is well documented. All of these and mor...
[14:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:54] <exec> 08└─From what I've read on TechDirt in years past, the real money is from touring and selling merchandise.
[14:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:56] <exec> 08└─This is a welcome move. Making it easier for artists to create, find collaborators, and new audiences, will help creativity flourish. I am of the opinion that MBAs, lawyers, accountants, and PR flacks are antithetical to human ingenuity, the soul, and all things wholesome and good in the universe, s...
[14:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:58] <exec> 08└─Didn't Douglas Adams put that group into a space ship and send them to some remote undesirable planet (called Earth) where they would no longer bother the other 2/3 of the population, who were later to join them in 2 more space ships, but never did once they realized that they had rid themselves of...
[14:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:00] <exec> 08└─...? It isn't clear that spotify have musicians interests at heart. What happens to musicians' leverage when the record labels are no longer negotiating bulk licensing contracts?
[14:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:02] <exec> 08└─There is no label anymore ... or is there? Are artists allowed to upload their music elsewhere too? If not, then Spotify _is_ a label now. And even if it is still allowed for now, you can bet your ass that it will change in 5-10 years max, as soon as they have bullied the other labels out of the mar...
[14:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:14] <exec> 08└─Presumably John Deere is patented up to its eyeballs ...
[14:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:15] <exec> 08└─Under the agreement, maintenance, diagnostic and repair information not already available will be made available for tractors and combines put into service beginning Jan. 1, 2021.
[14:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:17] <exec> 08└─DRM, Hollywood, and intellectual property is the area I'm most at odds with the Democrats. But let's not kid ourselves that Republicans are any better on this issue. One of Lessig's complaints is that even on these intellectual property expansions which are opposed by over 90% of the public, the pol...
[14:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 1) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:20] <exec> 08└─I just don't have that kind of cash lying around... But I was wondering: does John Deere's competition follow the same practice? Looking at the Wikipedia page [wikipedia.org], there are literally hundreds of tractor manufacturers globally.
[14:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 1284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:22] <exec> 08└─Even if you could pick through the patents and spin up the company, I don't think it's that simple, unfortunately. If you think Apple/MS/Google lock you into an ecosystem through their OS, that hasn't got anything on what John Deere, New Holland, et al, do with their hitches - no equivalents of VMs,...
[14:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:24] <exec> 08└─This is the sort of thing that brings out the pitchforks and drives people to vote for the likes of Trump with an attitude of ‘burn it all down.’
[14:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:26] <exec> 08└─Definitely do not buy J. Deere stuff at all. I fear all farm equipment manufacturers will follow suit though. Being resourceful, farmers quickly found help: https://motherboard.vice.com [vice.com] and https:...
[14:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Pays Off its $15.4 Billion Irish Tax Bill - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:46] <exec> 08└─six percent of cash reserve.
[14:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Pays Off its $15.4 Billion Irish Tax Bill - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:48] <exec> 08└─Did they pay it off in pennies? Because I would have paid it off in pennies.
[14:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Launches its First ARM-Based Server Processors in Challenge to Intel - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:41] <exec> 08└─because no one is willing to go to the trouble to learn how to write concurrent code
[14:45:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 2943 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:17] <exec> 08└─Chroma 4:4:4 above (almost) all else. Viewing angle is also important. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else, so I'll chime in. Chroma 4:4:4 support is extremely important if you ever what to be able to read colored text, or text on a colored background (icon names on your desktop for example, o...
[14:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:15] <exec> 08└─Oh, speaking about resolution and frequency. I learned that it is very important to get a proper cable. First things first: only HDMI 2.0 and higher and only DisplayPort 1.2 and higher support 3840x2160@60Hz. If you calculate this you will see that it is 3840*2160*60Hz*24bits = 11.9 Gbit/sec = 1.5 G...
[14:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:17] <exec> 08└─I was researching going 4k for my hackintosh. Further research is required but apparently there is a problem with 4K on HDMI for them since there are no actual macs that push 4K over HDMI. Or so the thing said. I thought the trash can pro did but I havent checked. Apple is pushing thunderbolt for th...
[14:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:19] <exec> 08└─Well, with internet streaming you're still watching video - which means the image enhancements work about as well as they do for TV - it's only when you get into detailed static images (or fine text) that they become a problem. But yeah - if you have a feature like that, you'd think you'd actually m...
[14:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:21] <exec> 08└─Well, they have the *power* to do 4K 2D fine - do they necessarily support the resolution though? Probably anything made in the last few years does, but older stuff might not even know 4k exists (though I would *hope* a driver update could fix that)
[14:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:23] <exec> 08└─FWIW, my starting point is this best of page on rtings.com: The 6 Best 40-42-43 inch TVs - September 2018 [rtings.com]. I was strongly leaning towards the TCL Model 43S517 [rtings.com] (which Best Buy lists as Model 43S515 currently on sale at $319.99)... but am now giving a long look at the TCL Mo...
[14:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:25] <exec> 08└─I've been using a 40" 1080p Samsung TV for years, and had probably the same "font halo" issue - have you renamed the source to say "PC" when you switch to it? Seems irrelevant, but apparently that's the only way to disables a lot of image "enhancements" - including one that causes horrible font-halo...
[14:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:27] <exec> 08└─Did 4k screens even exist when the trash can came out?
[14:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:30] <exec> 08└─You will probably encounter readability problems.
[14:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:32] <exec> 08└─Sorry to hear about your issues with the Dell! From what I'd read, they have been, generally, a top-rated provider of monitors. This seems uncharacteristic of them.
[14:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:34] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I'll have to do that more: I got an old desktop with 4GB ram running s a Plex server and a general hackaday machine, and my laptop is always plugged n due to battery dying; I have enquiries out for better.....hoping one day I'll be able to just plunk down a plonk of bills for a kit and have...
[14:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:37] <exec> 08└─TIL! Thanks so much for the clear explanation of the history and cause for the overscan. Makes perfect sense the way you explained it. It's replies like this which make all the time I put in posting stories and doing QA worthwhile. Thank you!
[14:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:39] <exec> 08└─Good to know! Thanks for that... The more I'm learning about this, the more I'm learning how much I did not know. =)
[14:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:42] <exec> 08└─I understand that you will have more pixels. But a TV is designed to be viewed from far away, and is just too big (the pixels are spread out). I would not recommend using a movie theater as a computer screen, for what I think are obvious reasons. I think the TV would turn out OK, but not ideal. It i...
[14:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:44] <exec> 08└─otherworldcomputing hooked up 3 of them to a trashcan mac just to see if it could and a few more monitors and there was HDMI left over. https://blog.macsales.com [macsales.com]
[14:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:46] <exec> 08└─Oh, multiple virtual terminals that I can dynamically position and resize? It's one of the first things I thought of when VR first started coming out. Price was WAY beyond my wallet, but I figured it was only a matter of time for the capabilities to go up and the price to come down. Add Foveated ren...
[14:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:48] <exec> 08└─Now that you put it that way... it makes perfect sense! Thanks a bunch for not just answering the question, but for also explaining the why behind it! Oh, and I use an animated cursor (wagtail) to make it easier to find my cursor on the screen. I'm *extremely* sensitive to motion, so it works out pe...
[14:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Migrates New Chipsets to "22nm" Node From "14nm" - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:58] <exec> 08└─Everything is negotiable - the price of advanced foundries are in Billions, so royalties are just a way of financing the investment. If you've got the cash up front, you can purchase somebody's excess capacity without a licensing component, but if you go not even too far back in tech (to foundry cap...
[14:47:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 452 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:35] <exec> 08└─I'd think that rather than a setup, Wilson has been monitored and tracked by Federal intelligence agencies since they became aware of him. Once they see something damning enough to get rid of him with, they approach the girl, threaten her with prison/and or bribe her with cash, and destroy their tar...
[14:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:55] <exec> 08└─1. Tax evasion mostly results in slightly higher interest rates for US treasury bonds. It doesn't actually lead to starving children. 2. Sure, as long as you don't get the account and routing numbers. You'd find that I earn what the IRS thinks I earn, that I pay the taxes owed promptly, and the expe...
[14:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:57] <exec> 08└─I did read it from a major news outlet which in my view gives it a bit more credibility than "I read it on the internet so it MUST be true!"
[14:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:59] <exec> 08└─Can you sign this contract and I'll pay you $130,000.00.
[14:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assisted Reproductive Technologies May Cause Premature Vascular Aging in Conceived Children - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:14] <exec> 08└─well, if you're going to bring facts into the conversation...
[14:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:13] <exec> 08└─You are free to fork the project and go all nerd-rage
[14:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Trips May Involve Less Radiation Exposure Than Previously Thought - 3582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:32] <exec> 08└─Either way you have to accelerate the fuel to the same speed as the main rocket anyway - so why accelerate it separately? What's the advantage? Unlike on Earth, there's no cost associated with distance traveled - it doesn't matter if the fuel travels a thousand miles or ten million - it takes exactl...
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[15:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:35] <exec> 08└─My first day working a register drawer, the cash count came back $4.87 high. I do not remember shorting anyone $5, manager: "this is serious stuff, you need to get that count exactly right, every time." Me, thinking to myself: "can you be more obvious with your test? You took over my drawer for 10 m...
[15:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:36] <exec> 08└─I've had my package stolen by someone in UPS's or Amazon's chain. Happened about a month ago. Got the box directly from UPS guy (never was waiting outside on porch). I opened it up and my items were taken out and the box was resealed from the bottom with generic clear packing tape. Had to file a pol...
[15:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:52] <exec> 08└─Soon to come: legislation saying this is illegal (if the RIAA/MIAA/DRM-people have their way).
[15:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:54] <exec> 08└─Sure, some of the artists will be making a few pennies a month. Some will make enough to get a meal or two out of it. Some, however, might start making real money - money not being funneled into the Spotify's pockets to be skimmed off before it ever gets to the artists. Hopefully, the royalty collec...
[15:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:56] <exec> 08└─The artist gets the copyright as soon as they create the work!
[15:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's been the trend since so many artists signed away too many rights to their own work and the label / distribution companies make the profits. Of course artists have been self recording, producing, distributing for many years, but only a few get much attention. Without the big labels' marke...
[15:43:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 460 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:06] <exec> 08└─First, the farmers should fire their lobbyists and stop payment on their most recent checks. Second, it's against this kind of thing that geeks ought to form a real Resistance. Open Hardware and Software are already movements within our computing universe, so perhaps it can be extended to farm equip...
[15:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:17] <exec> 08└─It's interesting that you think that capitalism and socialism are incompatible, despite the fact that every non-failed socialist state in the world is also capitalist.
[15:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:20] <exec> 08└─Farmers being completely screwed by suppliers, distributors, and high finance is a story that goes back to at least the 19th century. The period where one could actually get ahead as a farm family was basically a fluke of post-war America.
[15:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:22] <exec> 08└─I'd vote for the Pirate Party candidates if there were any.
[15:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheCastro [4449] (Score: 1) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:25] <exec> 08└─So build universal hitches that connect to their hitches.
[15:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheCastro [4449] (Score: 1) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:27] <exec> 08└─If you create states where the state won't enforce those federal rules they might as well not even exist.
[15:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:30] <exec> 08└─State capitalism != Socialism
[15:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheCastro [4449] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:21] <exec> 08└─Halting of Trading due to volatility or computer errors from a trader always seemed like bullshit to me. Can I get my money back because I bought the wrong stock? Doubtful. If the market or a company starts to crash fine, they don't seem to stop it when it goes up and up and up.
[15:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that comment was completely inappropriate and out-of-place. If Soylent wants good discussions they need to not have troll comments in the submissions. Editors: Get rid of that garbage.
[15:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ampere Launches its First ARM-Based Server Processors in Challenge to Intel - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:46] <exec> 08└─Are these processors going to have "Intel management engines" to spy on your and ensure you don't actually own your hardware?
[15:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:39] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what you're asking. It's a port. You plug cables in. Signals flow through cables. Graphics appear.
[15:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:41] <exec> 08└─Curved displays are available.
[15:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using a 4K (3840x2160) Television as a Computer Monitor and What do I Need to Drive it? [Updated] - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:43] <exec> 08└─Orly? Sense No Makes. Well, actually, anything to save a few pennies and make it look less expensive than the competition and thereby win a sale. Caveat emptor, once again! Thanks for the warning!
[15:47:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe your footnote could have explained why you think the underage girl was enslaved.
[15:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:13] <exec> 08└─Also, Linus himself said this isn't him looking to exit stage right. 'Torvalds, who is forty-eight and lives with his family outside Portland, Oregon, made clear that he wasn’t burned out. “I very much do want to continue to do this project that I’ve been working on for almost three decades,...
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[16:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:26] <exec> 08└─Now if only a courier would allow me to select the day they first try to deliver, and heaven forbid a TIME, so they don't drop by on a random day at a random time when I am not home.
[16:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:27] <exec> 08└─Well I, for one, am shocked that Amazon traps have unexpected packages.
[16:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:29] <exec> 08└─And this scare tactic news story was all they ever did to address the issue.
[16:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:32] <exec> 08└─When they do drone delivery this will be possible.
[16:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:34] <exec> 08└─Do it only a few times, but make sure that absolutely everyone knows it could happen anytime. SOP in quality control.
[16:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:54] <exec> 08└─The MAFFIA lawyers will take them down right smart
[16:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, and it would have worked brilliantly if they hadn't been wiped out by a disease spread by unsanitized telephones.
[16:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:58] <exec> 08└─Have you seen the number of YouTube channels that post somebody else's copyrighted material? Just because you have a copy of the music and claim to be its author, doesn't mean you own its copyright.
[16:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:00] <exec> 08└─I really think that's more a problem with the legal system. Just listened to each, as well as a "Beetle's Minute" video on YouTube comparing the two, and... Seriously, those are considered the same song? I'm not hearing it. This strikes me, at best, as a "a donut and a coffee cup are the same shape"...
[16:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:02] <exec> 08└─That's an interesting point, and I was wondering that too. It's a lot like a workplace that has both union and non-union employees. I wonder how this will play out. Will payments to independent musicians be governed by the same contracts as for signed musicians? If so, certainly we should expect to...
[16:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:28] <exec> 08└─These are probably the same farmers that voted GOP in exchange for subsidies. Surprise, politicians don't give a shit about you and are happy to sell your digital rights.
[16:43:30] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03dwilson [2599] 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:30] <exec> 08└─that hasn't got anything on what John Deere, New Holland, et al, do with their hitches - no equivalents of VMs, application porting, or emulation here!
[16:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, when it comes to copyright, digital rights, online free speech, etc; this is a place where both parties are exactly the same. Sure, they might favor one group over another in order to pander for votes (especially when it comes to determining who gets "free speech"); but make no mistake, no pol...
[16:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:34] <exec> 08└─It looks like John Deer determined that the farmer lobbyists were cheaper to pay off than the politicians. Should we call this Deer John DRM from now on?
[16:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:36] <exec> 08└─proprietary software locks that are designed to prevent repair.
[16:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:31] <exec> 08└─User name checks out.
[16:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:33] <exec> 08└─Worse than that. A stock buy-back from a pot company could at least be taken out in trade since they have an actual, physical product. Personally, I'd take a quarter bag over Twitter's continued existence and I don't even like the smell of pot.
[16:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Launches its First ARM-Based Server Processors in Challenge to Intel - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:56] <exec> 08└─That site has a loud, obnoxious ad.
[16:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can the Coffee Industry in Puerto Rico be Saved? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:32] <exec> 08└─Robusta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffea_canephora) beans are what they should be growing. Cheap, hardy, & enough caffeine content to wake the dead.
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[17:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Blocks Twitch Game-Streaming Service - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:47] <exec> 08└─We need to recognize.... the Untwitchables. Thanks. Be sure to tip SN, 'cause I can't afford to at the moment.
[17:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:02] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't remember having messed it up. If you remember it, you'd probably not have made the mistake. I used to manage a cash drawer at a previous job and it's easy to accidentally slip somebody the wrong change if you're not careful about it. Sure, it could be that the till got messed up during...
[17:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:03] <exec> 08└─I haven't tried locker delivery because I work at home, mostly, but its available every time I check out. I think from what I read, locker delivery is what you're asking for.
[17:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:05] <exec> 08└─I'd contact the credit card issuer and see what they have to say if Amazon refuses to issue the refund in cases like that. The CC company might also want a police report, but it's amazing how company's attitudes towards these things change when facing the possibility of a charge back.
[17:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:08] <exec> 08└─Recently they've also started including pictures of my deliveries. My flowers look awful. That doesn't really prove they didn't put the package in place, take pix, THEN steal the package, but I guess it does rule out that the package at least made it thru the logistics chain to reach my house at lea...
[17:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:10] <exec> 08└─Lockers are somewhat limited in size and number and location. But, yeah, that's what I usually do. In urban areas there's also sometimes a drop off point that you can visit where they transfer the packages from Amazon to those independent contractors that deliver the packages at weird times. Amazon...
[17:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:12] <exec> 08└─It will also be possible when Amazon does Star Trek transporter style delivery. But will it be possible before then?
[17:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:14] <exec> 08└─When they do drone delivery this will be possible.
[17:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:16] <exec> 08└─Well, this is cheaper than properly addressing the issue. Sort of like the ambulances that Amazon pays to be at the warehouses rather than pay for AC during the summer. Paying the delivery drivers more money and then doing a better job of screening them would probably do a fair amount to address the...
[17:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:18] <exec> 08└─Amazon is also adding the ability to have things delivered directly to peoples' cars, but that kind of scares me personally.
[17:43:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 246 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:27] <exec> 08└─Just like indie authors no longer need the big publishers: why should musicians need the big labels? Aside from a few carefully created exceptions, most musicians are poorly served, and would be better off if they could sell their music directly.
[17:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:43] <exec> 08└─Actually, Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and the like are not really that bad over all, save when they start going for exclusive contracts (and even that is more something I blame on the idiots who give it to them - see the idiots in the early computer industry that gave MS their near-monopoly by agreeing...
[17:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:45] <exec> 08└─I've seen that as well - and in part, that's because the labels rip them over. I'm not sure it's so true among the unsigned artists/groups, unless you count CD/MP3 sales as merchandise.
[17:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:47] <exec> 08└─Agree that the biggest thing that needs to happen is to break the stranglehold of the RIAA and their labels.
[17:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:50] <exec> 08└─Would be nice if that would happen. They just need to remember that when Kim Dotcom was about to launch an independent new worlwide service with that exact same idea after the negotioation with the labels failed, he got swatted, confiscated, shut down, and until today... you guess the rest.
[17:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:20] <exec> 08└─For tractors? Equipment that has been around for decades?
[17:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:22] <exec> 08└─but it's now done "with a computer".
[17:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:24] <exec> 08└─Municipal broadband, get rid of ref light cameras if they exist, stop using the police as funding and probably cut the size of the force, cut out unnecessary bureaucracy where it exists, and other stuff that sensible people would do if they were in local government.
[17:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:26] <exec> 08└─Like in the old Wild West when the little guys hired a hitman to face some deep-pocket thug's abuse they always risked to get outbid and double abused. That pretty much resumes what seems to have happened.
[17:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:28] <exec> 08└─The farmers shoud have hired the A-Team.
[17:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:30] <exec> 08└─I'd vote for the Pirate Party candidates if there were any.
[17:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Pays Off its $15.4 Billion Irish Tax Bill - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:53] <exec> 08└─Way to answer completely off the mark. The payment comes off Apple's cash, the same way that back taxes in Thailand would come off Apple's cash too. The important part of Apple paying, is the impact on all the other tech companies hiding their revenues using tax-friendly Ireland and double-Dutch san...
[17:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Pays Off its $15.4 Billion Irish Tax Bill - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:54] <exec> 08└─Normally it's one rule for the corps and a different rule for the less favored folk... Corporations can get away with publicly and officially saying in the USA (and elsewhere) "Last year I earned X billions" and maybe even borrowing and spending in the USA based on those "declared earnings" but also...
[17:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Shows Cargo/Work Version of Battery-Powered Microbus - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:07] <exec> 08└─But unless VW has located a secret source of cheap lithium batteries, the first cost of this version will be much higher than an equivalent ICE-powered commercial van. Will contractors or service companies buy these instead of, for example, a Ford Transit?
[17:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Shows Cargo/Work Version of Battery-Powered Microbus - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:08] <exec> 08└─I just want a small, light duty pick up to
[17:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Launches its First ARM-Based Server Processors in Challenge to Intel - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:58] <exec> 08└─Gentoo. Nuff said.
[17:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Launches its First ARM-Based Server Processors in Challenge to Intel - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:00] <exec> 08└─Even if they cost more and have lower performance, it may still be worth buying them if they are more secure, without backdoors or overengineered complexity, But are they more secure? -- hendrik
[17:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Launches its First ARM-Based Server Processors in Challenge to Intel - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:02] <exec> 08└─That site has a loud, obnoxious ad.
[17:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Launches its First ARM-Based Server Processors in Challenge to Intel - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:04] <exec> 08└─Even if they cost more and have lower performance
[17:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:29] <exec> 08└─It isnt "yours", there is no hostile takeover, you are being a total baby throwing a tantrum. Identity politics is your thing? Ok then Mr. Persecution complex.
[17:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:31] <exec> 08└─Some real serious identity politics going on in here. How dare someone post something relevant and directly from the main person?? Continue being adsholes, just do not complain if you aren't able to keep a job because people don't like working with you, might need to move out of the "right to work"...
[17:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Passes Copyright Bill to End 140-Year Protection for Old Songs - 1492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:19] <exec> 08└─Both you and the Zombified one make good points. The other reality is that having mandated that water shall flow uphill anyone who allows gravity plumbing can now be ostracized and prevented from obtaining direct access as a rulemaker. If the political opponents of such person want to make a big dea...
[17:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Passes Copyright Bill to End 140-Year Protection for Old Songs - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:20] <exec> 08└─Depends. Do you want to have a chance at actively controlling part of that system? Do you want some of the action by joining the industry? If so then whether you followed it or not may become very relevant indeed. If you're always going to be a burger flipper and eke out what you can from the system...
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[18:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Blocks Twitch Game-Streaming Service - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:44] <exec> 08└─"Not a fan of Twitch myself..." How so? 1. it is interesting to see pro players players, one can learn a lot... 2. it can be run in the background like a random radio show, there are some interesting streamer-viewer interaction on certain channels, at least...
[18:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Blocks Twitch Game-Streaming Service - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:45] <exec> 08└─Rumor has it that "Armored Warfare" and "World of Tanks" specifically don't include infantry because they didn't want 4chan and friends stirring up stuff with the Chinese along the lines of streaming and screenshotting re-enactments and parodies of "Tienanmen Square tank guy" (Only gen-X will rememb...
[18:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Blocks Twitch Game-Streaming Service - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:47] <exec> 08└─Could be more fun to watch Twitch compilations on YouTube, where someone has gone and screened out the hours upon hours of boring parts. Or Mr. Beast donating thousands of dollars to streamers [youtube.com]. That said, I agree with #2, there is enough content on YouTube (autoplay on), online live ne...
[18:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Blocks Twitch Game-Streaming Service - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:49] <exec> 08└─none of that explains the reason for stating explicitly in your summary: "Not a fan of Twitch myself..." am interested in the proportions here...
[18:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Blocks Twitch Game-Streaming Service - 1714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:51] <exec> 08└─Its a weirdly censored BBC story, even by politically active BBC story standards, that they didn't mention Sina Weibo, Ifeng, and AcFun. China's been censoring live streaming in general for almost two years now. The only interesting aspect of the story is how twitch avoided the category-wide ban for...
[18:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Blocks Twitch Game-Streaming Service - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:53] <exec> 08└─I can't speak for him, but some streams are "semi-professional" like Direwolf20s modded minecraft feed, and thats OK. But, merely 99% of the remaining streams are cringe parody of a low quality PBS fundraising drive complete with ridiculous fundraising sound effects. You may as well rename the entir...
[18:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Blocks Twitch Game-Streaming Service - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:56] <exec> 08└─Sounds like /pol/ or /v/ making shit up.
[18:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Blocks Twitch Game-Streaming Service - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:58] <exec> 08└─Western services don't tend to be nearly as popular in China, especially new ones. Google seems to want to re-insert themselves into China with a new censored search engine, but I don't think it will go well for them.
[18:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Blocks Twitch Game-Streaming Service - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:00] <exec> 08└─#NotMySummary Probably a lot of people here see watching people play video games as a huge waste of time. And are they wrong? Depends on what you care about.
[18:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Blocks Twitch Game-Streaming Service - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:02] <exec> 08└─I'm not disagreeing. Still, its probably the most "NPC-compatible" explanation provided of why nobody releases combined arms games anymore.
[18:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:55] <exec> 08└─Get your acronyms right... it's called the MAFIAA (Music And Film Industry Association of America)* * This public service announcement was brought to you by the NMAAA (No More Acronyms Association of America)
[18:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:56] <exec> 08└─Not to steal mostcynical's thunder, but my fear now is that Spotify will become the big green monster... but not likely, since it's too easy to compete... I think and hope.
[18:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:34] <exec> 08└─There is no Pirate Party in America, but there is an urgent need for something like it. I would vote for it, too. Last year I read the platform for the Pirate Party in Iceland, and at long last it sounded like somebody on Planet Earth had finally understood that we live in the 21st century now. It s...
[18:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:36] <exec> 08└─> I suspect farm equipment contributes a negligible amount to total air pollution problems. Just an AC here without any hard data. But, current car engines (gasoline) with closed loop control and catalysts run amazingly clean. One old uncontrolled car makes the same amount of the regulated pollutan...
[18:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Shows Cargo/Work Version of Battery-Powered Microbus - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:14] <exec> 08└─With a nice big cargo space and the ability to park right in front, the MPs will be able to bang their mistress or random street lady in more style than usual.
[18:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:40] <exec> 08└─Pot is the new crypo-coins. ... So no, I would not invest in any pot stock, since all it is is massive speculation and no profits. Colorado Sold Over $1.5 Billion of Legal Marijuana in 2017 [westword.com] One of these things is not like the other...
[18:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:42] <exec> 08└─There's a reason most of Europe prohibits advertising of medications, alcohol and tobacco (and by extension, pot). It drives me nuts that every 5 minutes during any US sports broadcast (or two minutes for football), kids are reminded that cool happy people drink $alcoholic_juice and/or caffeine-lade...
[18:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:44] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, often it is useful to know about the other investments of someone behind a stock bubble. Pot-focused private equity fund Privateer Holdings, in which Thiel is a big investor,
[18:48:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 729 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:38] <exec> 08└─Uh. Let's be more explicit. He is charged with hiring a goddamn child prostitute, who has likely been enslaved into that lifestyle*. And his "activism" isn't limited to 3d printable handguns that will backfire the tenth time you fire them, injuring you horribly. He's also responsible for the site ca...
[18:49:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 370 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:04] <exec> 08└─But it is funny, isn't it, how all these libertarian alt-right "free speech" types end up in trouble over sex. The downfall of the Traditionalist Worker's Party (TWerPs?) in an orgy of hillbilly incest [vice.com] is a case in point. Not to mention Milo on pederasty and Anglin hiding out in Thailand....
[18:49:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 742 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:26] <exec> 08└─A news article I read about it yesterday seemed pretty damning. The hotel the girl claimed to go to had surveillance footage of Wilson and the girl arriving, getting in the elevator, and getting off at the {I forgot} floor -- the same floor on which Willson was the exclusive renter of a room. They a...
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[19:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:12] <exec> 08└─Was about 10-20 bucks a pill (quality ones, not fake-ass speed pills) back in the 90s. A pill contains about 20mg. Capsules were bit cheaper.
[19:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:14] <exec> 08└─I've linked it before and I'll do it again. See Jerry Lettvin's octopus story here, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It's the last paragraph in this section. Without knowing more than what is in tfa, this experiment seems unethical (and makes me sad)--...
[19:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:16] <exec> 08└─Administering a little MDMA is far from the worst thing that can be done to your (essentially enslaved) mollusc friend.
[19:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:18] <exec> 08└─Yep, they could be eaten alive, instead. https://video.nationalgeographic.com [nationalgeographic.com]
[19:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Blocks Twitch Game-Streaming Service - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:38] <exec> 08└─honestly, its not that bad... as educated man, it is now evident that with the declining jobs and lack of actual wars with great casualties, it is not the wisest thing to remove entertaining stuff from peoples life... or, they will end up occupied with who believes best in God, and who is thinking l...
[19:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Blocks Twitch Game-Streaming Service - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:39] <exec> 08└─the "little people" are as they are... let them have their fun, and u have yours... =)
[19:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:05] <exec> 08└─"Maybe its the managers back at the warehouse who are stealing returned packages and trying to catch them with this honeypot is the real story." Well, this story was broke by a former manager for DeliverOL so who knows.
[19:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:07] <exec> 08└─Don't use Amazon (reasons). I've come to like ordering online from Walmart with free ship-to-store (conveniently, less than a mile away). Walk in the door, the online pickup is right in front. Scan the bar code from the email and someone walks out of the storage room with my box in a minute or two (...
[19:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:40] <exec> 08└─Basically the biggest music streaming service wants to take on the role that SoundCloud has played... you may have heard of the phrase "SoundCloud rappers" [afr.com]. They have been exploding in popularity lately. Lil Pump recently did a wacky video [youtube.com] with Kanye West.
[19:44:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 429 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:54] <exec> 08└─DRM, Hollywood, and intellectual property is the area I'm most at odds with the Democrats. But let's not kid ourselves that Republicans are any better on this issue. One of Lessig's complaints is that even on these intellectual property expansions which are opposed by over 90% of the public, the pol...
[19:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:20] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you don't understand patent law. My understanding: 1. Patent some obscure technique that is barely unique 2. Drive your competition to bankruptcy in court. It does not matter if you are right; you just need more money and lawyers
[19:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:21] <exec> 08└─From the article: Earlier this year, Assembly Member Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton, introduced legislation known as the Right to Repair Act that would have ensured consumers of a wide array of electronic products would receive access to manufacturers’ diagnostic and repair information. “Al...
[19:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:30] <exec> 08└─If you think 'Don't drink the koolaid' had anything to do with LSD then you need to learn some history. Start with the Jonestown massacre.
[19:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ampere Launches its First ARM-Based Server Processors in Challenge to Intel - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:59] <exec> 08└─Exherbo!
[19:53:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:14] <exec> 08└─Then someone starts a new fork and everyone goes there and the existing one dies. That's not a bug, it's a feature.
[19:53:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 644 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:36] <exec> 08└─Some people have appointed themselves as the ultimate authority on what constitutes good manners. They say that strict enforcement of their vision of good manners will save anyone from having to deal with "assholes." This is wrong, dumb, and contrary to the principle of freedom of association. There...
[19:53:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership - 1521 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:46] <exec> 08└─So they can kill Linux and wear its skin. Linux appearing from nowhere and upsetting the established order is not something that is going to be permitted to happen again. Close the device driver layers and close access to hardware information and Linux can stay out in a git repo forever and they won...
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[20:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:40] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUTNZ9JLj1E [youtube.com]
[20:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:42] <exec> 08└─...it became a cuddlefish.
[20:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:44] <exec> 08└─Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus
[20:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:46] <exec> 08└─^ "Commenter"
[20:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:48] <exec> 08└─Shhh. This is how we encourage the young'uns to become "scientists".
[20:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:50] <exec> 08└─If you give the drug to leftists and neo-liberals, shouldn't they become more social and friendly? I think I've found the cure for extreme leftism...
[20:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:52] <exec> 08└─Nah, they'll just be smiling and hugging you trying to convince you to be less hateful. Like, we're all just one big family bro =) XOXO
[20:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:54] <exec> 08└─Careful. If you give too much, they might become a socialist.
[20:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Blocks Twitch Game-Streaming Service - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:16] <exec> 08└─This may have something to do with China's current video game freeze [gamesindustry.biz], in order to "protect the children's eyesight." A freeze on new video games being approved for release in China has slowed the country's gaming market considerably, and it seems that the end may not be in sight...
[20:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:44] <exec> 08└─Wal-Mart isn't glitch free either, of course. Last time we got a package that way, the Wal-Mart employee refused to let me have our package. Said my name was not on their list. She obviously didn't want to check any further, was not bothered by or seemingly cognizant of the question of how could I e...
[20:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:45] <exec> 08└─I couldn't just pick it up at work they had to ship it to me. After a couple weeks I called to inquire. No, nobody knows where it is. Eventually a UPS driver turned up, asked if I'd seen it. No. After about a month they sent a second Power Mac $$$$8500, which I did receive. From time to time a UPS d...
[20:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:47] <exec> 08└─This gives me hope, no, really. If I lose limbs or get Alzheimer's or a projectile through a lobe of my brain I can always get a job at Wal-mart (or McDs)
[20:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:21] <exec> 08└─my fear now is that Spotify will become the big green monster
[20:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:23] <exec> 08└─That's a shame, because concerts are awful. Between spending $$$ per ticket, then having every nearly every asshat in the audience stand up and hold his or her smartphone above his or her head the entire time to record the concert (like they'll actually go back to watch it), I stopped going to conce...
[20:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:25] <exec> 08└─That is according to Fortune: http://fortune.com [fortune.com]
[20:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:27] <exec> 08└─Of course the mpaa will end up pulling their license .. They are a cartel, and if you mess with them, Guido will come visit, in effect.
[20:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:12] <exec> 08└─User ID checks out.
[20:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:13] <exec> 08└─All these farmers, with their hitches and hoes!
[20:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:15] <exec> 08└─If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The A-Team.
[20:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:18] <exec> 08└─It looks like John Deer determined that the farmer lobbyists were cheaper to pay off than the politicians. Should we call this Deer John DRM from now on?
[20:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:28] <exec> 08└─You misinterpreted my comment.
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[21:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:14] <exec> 08└─Not judging the ethics of the situation: the law on animal experimentation draws a bright line at vertebrate vs non-vertebrate. Frogs have serious protection, whereas cuttlefish and octopi do not. As far as the ethics go, I believe octopi to be far more intelligent and deserving of protection than m...
[21:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:15] <exec> 08└─Not since my ex told me they are intelligent: "Octopuses can open jars".
[21:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:08] <exec> 08└─Off by 10 in total delta (sum(abs(delta))) or off by 10 in total (sum(deltas))?
[21:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:47] <exec> 08└─Doubt they can do it via the courts, but they can simply no longer grant spotify a license for 'their' music. Put them out of business overnight.
[21:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:49] <exec> 08└─Without money, how will record label execs buy hookers and blow?
[21:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:51] <exec> 08└─by suing their customers and paying for 'media taxes'
[21:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:38] <exec> 08└─Yep. The problem is our elected representatives in government are not representing citizens' concerns, and instead represent corporate concerns. That's where the money comes from. We have a real problem.
[21:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah. And take computers. They've been around for decades now. Nothing new to patent there, either.
[21:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:41] <exec> 08└─Does the farmer make more money faster with Deere equipment? (or lower personnel costs / less training? or gets some other compensation for using it?) It's easy to say "Hey, don't buy [lease] that!" if you're not the one managing the profit and loss. We might not like it, but last I checked walled g...
[21:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:43] <exec> 08└─This sort of shit you try to pull off is why the last tractor I bought was a Kioti.
[21:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Pays Off its $15.4 Billion Irish Tax Bill - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:08] <exec> 08└─That money belonged in America. It's your fault that the American potato industry is suffering.
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[22:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06"Robotic Skins" Turn Everyday Objects into Robots - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:21] <exec> 08└─You can all bring your waifus to life!
[22:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:43] <exec> 08└─If you want stuff that will get tested in front of you, expect 100-150/gram, and you will have to search for a dealer. The bullshit will be the same price usually. I was paying around 60-75/g when I used it regularly, but I had a good friend who got large quantities from Canada.
[22:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:44] <exec> 08└─Well... MDMA is known to make people friendly, and it does, but you don't want to argue with a person on it. It will intensify anger as well.
[22:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmimatt [5050] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:47] <exec> 08└─They should run the next test on the Washington critters, the whole lot of them. The results could be interesting,
[22:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:49] <exec> 08└─Unscrew the fucking lid then!
[22:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Plants Fake Packages in Delivery Trucks to 'Trap' Drivers Who Are Stealing - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:45] <exec> 08└─Every change of operator should come with a reconciliation- cash in drawer, register print report. At larger places, the cash drawer is swapped out, the report is clipped on top, walked to the office closed* (sometimes with a manager or cash supervisor) and the back office staff get the drawer to co...
[22:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:29] <exec> 08└─While hosting is less of an issue these days, and a web site and an app are relatively easy things to set up, exposure and content are still massive barriers. Why would an artist use your service, rather than spotify or soundcloud, or even myspace or tumblr, or whatever, if all they want is exposure...
[22:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:30] <exec> 08└─I think the RIAA will have something to say if MPAA tries muscling in on their racket.
[22:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify to Let Artists Post Music Without Labels - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:33] <exec> 08└─Ignore the accompaniment and lyrics and look at the basic melodic structure of both "HSF" and "MSL". They both have this structure: Repeat 4 times these quarter notes at 8-beat intervals, with nonsense words between: D B B~A Repeat 3 times these eighth notes at 8-beat intervals, with nonsense words...
[22:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:23] <exec> 08└─Walled gardens and digital restrictions management should not be legal, however. That is the point.
[22:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:25] <exec> 08└─Finding them is easy, these days.. Not sure they'll be much use. George Peppard, died 1994 Dirk Benedict, 73. Dwight Schultz, 70 Mr T, only 66 https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:27] <exec> 08└─At least one end of your hitch will infringe a patent.
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[23:44:36] <exec> 08└─You could grind glass for the rest of your life yet never run out of interesting problems to solve. And it's what got me accepted to Caltech. My first six inch mirror grinding kit came with two thick disks of glass, I think six grades of abrasive from very hard and coarse to very fine and soft, as w...
[23:45:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LaminatorX [14] 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 26 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:02] <exec> 08└─...it became a cuddlefish.
[23:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:15] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_in_the_Streets [wikipedia.org] Kinda similar.
[23:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:16] <exec> 08└─Can't do that! MDMA is a date rape drug. It has no other use. Anybody who wants MDMA is a date rapist.
[23:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Give MDMA to an Octopus - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:18] <exec> 08└─Hey, it knew when it swam into the tank hosting the Electric Eel Daisy Carnival, it was taking its chances. Cephalopod, right? It's no dummy.
[23:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel's Cannabis Company Was Briefly Worth More Than Twitter - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:11] <exec> 08└─You must be young to not get the reference. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:52:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:18] <exec> 08└─Watch out for the fickle sugar baby snitches.
[23:53:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 063D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan - 1372 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:12] <exec> 08└─That is true, but there are some notable exceptions, some of them being big states [wikipedia.org]: States where the age of consent is 16 (31): Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,...
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