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[00:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversy Over ISS Leak Continues, Spacewalk Planned for November - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:25] <exec> 08└─DeathMonkey finds evidence of collusion at last.
[00:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:57] <exec> 08└─I remember the exact same thing thirty years ago. Somebody needs to create a new language to solve these problems. I suggest Ada. 1. PC name 2. Reuse 3. Proven design 4. Extra money to be made from #2
[00:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:58] <exec> 08└─I use .com to write all of my documents.
[00:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:00] <exec> 08└─That should be mail.google.com. OTOH, firefox requires about 1000x more memory than an entire QNX install.
[00:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:02] <exec> 08└─QNX offered that 20 years ago. It fit on a 1.2MB floppy drive and due to its real-time design was very fast on a 486.
[00:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:05] <exec> 08└─I remember back in the 80's it was said Russian programmers were so much better than the west because they had to do the same thing with antiquated hardware.
[00:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:07] <exec> 08└─Amen brother I started "programming" on a VIC-20 with fucking 8 KB (yes, KB) of RAM. So I learned to count bytes and strive for efficiency. Then I was off to dumb terminal world and of course, every byte counts, every instruction counts and one looks with a magnifying glass at everything to make it...
[00:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mainframe Bloke [1665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Secretive EU Copyright Negotiations Started Tuesday: Here’s Where We Stand - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:20] <exec> 08└─In spite of all its faults, the ABC here in Oz is still a trusted source: witness the public display of anger at the recent turmoil, including some claims of government interference up to the point of "demanding" the firing troublesome journalists, that were roundly condemned. Of course, it has faul...
[00:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secretive EU Copyright Negotiations Started Tuesday: Here’s Where We Stand - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:22] <exec> 08└─The most respected news source here in New Zealand, is Radio NZ, funded by taxpayers. They're so good in fact that the two private news networks demanded (and got) access to their stories at a price of almost free. Kind of like Reuters, but using taxpayer's money to prop up two horribly managed pri...
[00:45:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:35] <exec> 08└─Open URL in browser. Open source file in editor. Edit file. Save File. Reload page. WYSIWYG.
[00:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:12] <exec> 08└─Only if his 1) boss 2) IT dept let him...
[00:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah sorry,modern web development using things like WebComponents are a javascript based specification, there isn't a way to make that degrade gracefully because you're not creating a static document, you're building an application by composing elements together. What this tool does is to allow you...
[00:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Requires Women on the Boards of Companies Headquartered in the State - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:01] <exec> 08└─why flamebait?
[00:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Requires Women on the Boards of Companies Headquartered in the State - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:02] <exec> 08└─from the actual link op posted • Quotas still matter. All the Balanced Parity countries (except South Africa and Slovenia) have some type of quotas with legal sanctions for non-compliance. Quotas still appear to signal a genuine commitment to improving representation.
[00:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Requires Women on the Boards of Companies Headquartered in the State - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:04] <exec> 08└─You're being trolled by someone who wants to mock your serious approach to this topic. Thanks for your points Azuma, spot on as usual.
[00:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Requires Women on the Boards of Companies Headquartered in the State - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:07] <exec> 08└─Damn you're stupid. Like really dumb. Just smart enough to read and type, but too stupid to say anything useful.
[00:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Requires Women on the Boards of Companies Headquartered in the State - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:09] <exec> 08└─Is the state government assuming their gender?
[00:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Requires Women on the Boards of Companies Headquartered in the State - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:11] <exec> 08└─They're trying to conceal symptoms rather than fighting the actual disease...
[00:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ricin Found in Mail Addressed to the U.S. Secretary of Defense and the Chief of Naval Operations - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:07] <exec> 08└─LOLZ. They didn't even bother to send ricin, they just sent castor beans... [twitter.com] Laziest terrorist ever! They should have at least included a note that said "Eat me!"
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[01:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Short-Lived MASCOT Lander Reaches Asteroid Ryugu - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:19] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the Aggies who were going to fly a rocket to the sun, to explore. Someone told them they would burn up before they ever reached the sun. The Aggies responded that they were going to fly at night.
[01:44:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 3024 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:00] <exec> 08└─Seriously, the bloat is out of hand. Compare Lotus SmartSuite on Win 3.1 to LibreOffice now. Both are full GUI programs with embedding, truetype fonts, bitmap and vector images, etc. Both have word processor, spreadsheet, presentaions, and the usual things one expects. Either would would be perfectl...
[01:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:12] <exec> 08└─Jeez.. some of the stuff on that blog reeks of naivety. As a general trend, we’re not getting faster software with more features. We’re getting faster hardware that runs slower software with the same features.
[01:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:13] <exec> 08└─This is more about software development than software per se. But it relates anyway... Much of what is done is about re-doing the same thing over and over again, just for the sake of it. New framework? Redo what you already implemented with it! And on, and on. I am not a software developer anymore b...
[01:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:15] <exec> 08└─There is a price to do it 'right'. Most customers dont want to hear that, nor do they care as they have business to do. " Now, and cheap so i can get back to making money. " Tomorrow can wait, until tomorrow.
[01:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:18] <exec> 08└─Folks just should have stuck with "Hello World!" Although I'm sure there are many who could screw that up. : )
[01:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secretive EU Copyright Negotiations Started Tuesday: Here’s Where We Stand - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:34] <exec> 08└─Calling EU a government is totally disengenous towards governments aroudn the world who work very hard to maitain high level of corruption under the radar of their citizenry. EU is maniacally evil, with no effort to hide it because they are not accountable to anyone. All it will accomplish during it...
[01:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:27] <exec> 08└─Open URL in browser. Open source file in editor. Edit file. Save File. Reload page.
[01:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:28] <exec> 08└─went to grapedrop in Firefox, couldn't read the faint/disconnected-stroke font, useless
[01:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Requires Women on the Boards of Companies Headquartered in the State - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:23] <exec> 08└─Besides, why do you blame the factory owners who are providing a job for a poor family, rather than the dubmfuck poor people who just won't quit making more of themselves?
[01:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Requires Women on the Boards of Companies Headquartered in the State - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:24] <exec> 08└─"Stick to your own kind" and then eventually "Kill the Bourgeoisie! Hang them in their Sunday best with their own neckties!" You know what's a serious approach? Think wealthy! Act like that which you want to become. There is NOTHING respectable about being poor.
[01:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What to Expect From the U.S. Wireless Emergency Alert Test Today - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:54] <exec> 08└─That would be my best guess. The alert probably has an ID number on it.
[01:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What to Expect From the U.S. Wireless Emergency Alert Test Today - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:55] <exec> 08└─From your link: Each page of such a CB message will have the same message identifier (indicating the source of the message), and the same serial number. Using this information, the mobile telephone is able to identify and ignore broadcasts of already received messages.
[01:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Didn’t Speed Up the Drying of the Sahara, and in Fact They May Have Delayed It - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:22] <exec> 08└─We should all be aware that the flooding was real. Maybe the myths haven't accurately detailed the flooding, but it was real. At the end of the ice age, the sea level rose by tens of feet. I don't recall how much the seas rose, but up they went. I vaguely recall an article about fishing sites and a...
[01:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Didn’t Speed Up the Drying of the Sahara, and in Fact They May Have Delayed It - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:23] <exec> 08└─From what I understand, the left's narrative about the enclosure acts (or inclosure) is not necessarily wrong, but is way too simplistic. The strip fields used since medieval times was inefficient, and enclosing land enabled agriculture to feed many more people, while employing fewer. br. The peopl...
[01:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Programming Your Own Job Out of Existence - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:36] <exec> 08└─Note that the study you linked to tracks "average" pay and "average" productivity...so if ten people do ten hours of work and each get one dollar of pay, or one person does ten hours of work and gets ten dollars of pay while the other nine people do nothing and earn nothing...in that study, those tw...
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[02:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:12] <exec> 08└─And if you want to get a job done, avoid C++.
[02:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:14] <exec> 08└─I had one young guy flip his sh*t because he had to write some code because "OMG, you mean there isn't already a library for that in the language?!!"
[02:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:16] <exec> 08└─I'll have to try Javelin 3 (or 2, I have an older system), thanks for the tip. Meanwhile, you might enjoy Sumatra -- https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org [sumatrapdfreader.org] As well as pdf files, it also opens several ebook formats. Two versions for Windows, one runs standalone w...
[02:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:18] <exec> 08└─If you can't think of a way to change big industry wide problems, look smaller and find a business or project you can work at that does things right. The market for your product isn't the world, its just your customers who want something done your way.
[02:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 2406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:20] <exec> 08└─So, it's been obvious for well over a decade that stuff goes downhill, particularly after what I like to call "peak desktop" in 2010. Just a few days ago, on the topic of the recent Haiku release, I lamented that the base os will run in 192MB, but once modern web technology gets started up, it wants...
[02:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's AIST Construction Robot Can Install Drywall - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:52] <exec> 08└─One word: Gojira!
[02:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's AIST Construction Robot Can Install Drywall - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:53] <exec> 08└─Sniff, sniff....yes, subtle. And fishy! :)
[02:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: October 2018 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:56] <exec> 08└─William Burroughs Heir to the Burroughs mechanical calculator company (at one time a serious rival to IBM).
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[03:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Wi-Fi Standards - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:11] <exec> 08└─does this mean the product naming person from apple has changed employers?
[03:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Wi-Fi Standards - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:13] <exec> 08└─Think Wi-Fi 5!
[03:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Wi-Fi Standards - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:15] <exec> 08└─Alternate between maintenance versions, starting with W, and feature/performance improvements, starting with F: Wifi Walrus, Wifi Falcon, Wifi Weasel, Wifi Fennec ...
[03:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Wi-Fi Standards - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:17] <exec> 08└─"...Wi-Fi standards that have long served as a source of potential confusion for users...the current 802.11ac standard will be known as Wi-Fi 5, while its successor 802.11ax will be known as Wi-Fi 6, establishing a generational terminology that — like Bluetooth 3, 4, and 5 — will be easier for c...
[03:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Wi-Fi Standards - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:19] <exec> 08└─I remain puzzled as to what it is about 802.11xx that has anything to do with Fidelity. TCP is lossless but TCP audio streams can stutter if packet retransmission is required. UDP doesn't require retransmission but the audio is sometimes corrupted.
[03:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Short-Lived MASCOT Lander Reaches Asteroid Ryugu - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:30] <exec> 08└─I read that as "Japanese spacecraft drops short-lived robot on asteroid's surface". My dyslexia didn't give me a learning disability because the way I see entirely different words leads the sentences their in not to make any sense at all. But not always - this particular time I felt bad for the miss...
[03:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Short-Lived MASCOT Lander Reaches Asteroid Ryugu - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:33] <exec> 08└─Icarus wanted to fly to the sun too, but the sun's heat melted the wax that stuck his wings' feathers to his arm so he fell into the sea and drowned.
[03:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversy Over ISS Leak Continues, Spacewalk Planned for November - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:46] <exec> 08└─What use could such a tool be in an environment where the fillings would be floating around messing up the air recycling systems and all the electrical systems on board?
[03:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversy Over ISS Leak Continues, Spacewalk Planned for November - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:48] <exec> 08└─ofc the secret and tiny no-reaction-mass test device was only a manoverable sucess because of this hole...
[03:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversy Over ISS Leak Continues, Spacewalk Planned for November - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:50] <exec> 08└─The ISS always keeps enough reentry capsules around so that the entire crew can escape if there is an emergency. But the placement of that hole, or the damage it did to the capsule's structure may have rendered that capsule unsuitable for reentry. If so, they're going to have to launch an extra one...
[03:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversy Over ISS Leak Continues, Spacewalk Planned for November - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:52] <exec> 08└─You can use a vacuum hose near the drill to catch most of the debris. Perhaps they even have a special tool where a suction pipe surrounds the drill bit.
[03:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversy Over ISS Leak Continues, Spacewalk Planned for November - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:54] <exec> 08└─NASA thinks of everything: there is a pair of fingernail clippers on board. But a YouTube I saw once had the astronaut who demonstrated the clippers pointing out that it was important to clip one's fingernails right next to an air intake.
[03:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:39] <exec> 08└─I thought code bloat was out of hand in 1995, but I digress. A friend of mine does stuff like high-end PhotoShop, Premier, Solidworks, etc., and 32 GB RAM is typical for him and his wife. Do they need all of that functionality loaded in RAM? Couldn't they modularize the software? With today's SSD sp...
[03:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Humans Didn’t Speed Up the Drying of the Sahara, and in Fact They May Have Delayed It - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:45] <exec> 08└─I just noticed that you wrote "It's been explained to you before." Where has this been "explained" before? Googling for past discussion on the matter, I see only one such debate. Here [soylentnews.org]. We have the vague mention of flood myths, stoneworking, and arguments that there was a lot of tim...
[03:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Agent Injured by Shotgun Attached to Booby-Trapped Wheelchair in an Oregon Home - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:51] <exec> 08└─To some people, their home is their castle, and the last thing they want is somebody bashing down their door, EMT or not. Other people would leave the door unlocked, if not for burglars.
[03:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Programming Your Own Job Out of Existence - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:01] <exec> 08└─Zactly. You reward talent and initiative not punish them. Unless you're an idiot, of course.
[03:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Perihelion Trans-Neptunian Object Added to Cluster of "Planet Nine" Influenced Orbits - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:29] <exec> 08└─"push" gravity [vixra.org]
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[04:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Evidence Supports Existence of Neptune-Sized Exomoon Orbiting Kepler-1625b - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:43] <exec> 08└─That's no moon...
[04:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Evidence Supports Existence of Neptune-Sized Exomoon Orbiting Kepler-1625b - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:45] <exec> 08└─It's a dwarf planet.
[04:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Wi-Fi Standards - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:00] <exec> 08└─If you're really that confused, and really that old, then you can break out your number line. It will help you determine which one is newer, better and more advanced.
[04:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Wi-Fi Standards - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:01] <exec> 08└─The "Fi" isn't for "fidelity", it's for "fiddling", as in "wireless fiddling". Anyone with WiFi experience can tell you it takes a bunch of fiddling with settings to make it work well in any given location and with any given set of devices.
[04:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:18] <exec> 08└─The ZooLib C++ Application Framework [github.com] has the MIT License, specifically to encourage both open source and proprietary use. Andy Green [em.net] write its first version on top of Mac OS so as to insulate himself from Bedrock, which Apple shouted from the rooftops would enable cross-platfor...
[04:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:19] <exec> 08└─there is just too much source, and not enough eyeballs that actually lift a finger - or rather, an eyelid - to inspect that source. Instead we have my experience with gedit on Slackware a while back, where all the text that was below the visible part of the window simply disappeared into the ether....
[04:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:21] <exec> 08└─your secure software will never be used if you do not place quite a high priority on user experience. Consider that the Central Intelligence Agency, upon realizing that the President and his cabinet weren't reading their daily intelligence summaries, created a very special cable TV show for a very s...
[04:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:23] <exec> 08└─You forgot that FOSS has gone into "greedy shortsighted" mode with companies taking over. They are not interested in "done" software, but recurrent income. Thus the "we can't fix that, let's restart" trend. Which of course leads to restarts of huge, complex, messes, which warranty they will never en...
[04:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 1330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:26] <exec> 08└─When I worked at Apple in the mid-nineties they were generally doing a good job at shipping quality software. I won't say on time or on budget, but what actually got into end-users' hands generally worked well. I credit some of this to Apple's requirement that all new projects have enthusiastic ERS...
[04:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:28] <exec> 08└─I Am Absolutely Serious, it's not just my paranoia about being tracked. It's not the tracking pixel itself, but all the HTTP headers as well as all the name lookups and redirects, combined with the query parameters on the tracking pixel URLs being used to defeat caching. Anyone in their right mind w...
[04:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:30] <exec> 08└─Forum on Risks to the Public in Computer and Related Systems [ncl.ac.uk]. For a while now I've been intending to post to RISKS that RISKS does no one any good if the people who create those risks don't read RISKS themselves. I first learned of the RISKS Forum when I read a Scientific American articl...
[04:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 1284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:32] <exec> 08└─Consider security software. If I want to be well-paid to write secure code for a customer that is happy to permit me all the time I required, I'll do so for the CIA. But that doesn't do anything to prevent the next Federal Office Of Personnel Management hack. The OPM hack, thought to have been perpe...
[04:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secretive EU Copyright Negotiations Started Tuesday: Here’s Where We Stand - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:49] <exec> 08└─laws dont make people better but people can make better laws...or not.
[04:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secretive EU Copyright Negotiations Started Tuesday: Here’s Where We Stand - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:50] <exec> 08└─Sports were dieing in America, that's so true. No more. I'm making them great again. Starting with our NFL. Fans were staying away in DROVES. Because of disrespect for Flag, Anthem & Country. I said, force the players to stand for Anthem. With a BIG penalty. They did National Anthem Policy, the fans...
[04:46:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 360 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:08] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, but for proper modern web design, the necessary functions are: - automated white space insertion - automated tracking code insertion - automated social media trackers insertion - automated ad provider linking - automated deletion of technical data, with optional automated replacement by u...
[04:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:44] <exec> 08└─"And I'll add in a general question, what is your preferred method of dealing with either HTML or CSS or both?" HTML: An editor. CSS: Nukes from orbit.
[04:47:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06California Law Requires Women on the Boards of Companies Headquartered in the State - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:04] <exec> 08└─Not that this is a particularly helpful law for all but the smallest, most privileged minority of women, but how do you think board seats are chosen now?
[04:47:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06California Law Requires Women on the Boards of Companies Headquartered in the State - 963 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:49] <exec> 08└─That's too simplistic. The fact that there is some biological basis to gender expression is why I'm not a TERF; I see transgender conditions as birth defects, same as homosexuality likely is, and yes, that means I consider myself a defect in that sense. Gender identity is weird in that it has some b...
[04:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's AIST Construction Robot Can Install Drywall - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:06] <exec> 08└─robots are cool. now i havent mounted drywall panels (yet?) but rendering a brick wall and then painting it is massive upper body strength exercise ... and seems to lend itself more to be robotized?
[04:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's AIST Construction Robot Can Install Drywall - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:07] <exec> 08└─Yes...and hanging the drywall is only about 1/5 of the task. The hung rock has to be taped and then feathered smooth, and textured, all before being ready for paint. Also notice that the drywall is supposed to be hung horizontally, not vertically (it makes for a stronger wall). and the ceiling rock...
[04:51:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GeoCities Dies in March 2019, and with it a Piece of Internet History - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:12] <exec> 08└─Considering how most software and websites function, I'm pretty sure they have maximum standards of competency. It used to be that the user getting work done was at least somewhere on the list of consideration, but these days the UI designs of most software products seem designed to ensure that you...
[04:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Announces $15 Minimum Wage for All of its U.S. Employees - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:14] <exec> 08└─You're confusing the chicken with the egg. It's part of my ideology because of its practical utility and my ability to reason my way out of a paper bag best two out of three, not part of my business practices because of my ideology.
[04:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Announces $15 Minimum Wage for All of its U.S. Employees - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:15] <exec> 08└─Did you miss the bit where that leads to all their employees becoming suddenly unemployed and the impact that has on the community? Also, I would rather not see the economy fall any farther than necessary before it finds itself a bottom if it's all the same to you.
[04:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Agent Injured by Shotgun Attached to Booby-Trapped Wheelchair in an Oregon Home - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:49] <exec> 08└─Still not a conservative, dipshit.
[04:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Agent Injured by Shotgun Attached to Booby-Trapped Wheelchair in an Oregon Home - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:50] <exec> 08└─The FBI has no authority to interact in most purely local matters because the entire federal government itself does not have that authority. The FBI derives their authority from Congress and Congress derives their authority from the Constitution. If the Constitution fails to give Congress authority...
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[05:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Evidence Supports Existence of Neptune-Sized Exomoon Orbiting Kepler-1625b - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:47] <exec> 08└─What do the high priests see? What shall be our fate?
[05:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Evidence Supports Existence of Neptune-Sized Exomoon Orbiting Kepler-1625b - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:48] <exec> 08└─Our people will live on an Earth-sized exomoon.
[05:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Controversy Over ISS Leak Continues, Spacewalk Planned for November - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:29] <exec> 08└─What I want to know is if there's a protrusion (bolt end, threaded rod?) of matching dimension on any piece of equipment that ever passed through that hatch.
[05:44:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 961 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:45] <exec> 08└─He (or at least TFS) missed another. OS vendors are rotting perfectly good software — from the outside — by breaking APIs. They're also not fixing bugs X,Y... in the OS's they've already published, preferring instead to create new OS versions that often leave older machines un-upgradable with ne...
[05:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:27] <exec> 08└─... created a very special cable TV show for a very special, very limited audience
[05:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:29] <exec> 08└─My CADCAM box has 64GB. It's mostly for the data, not the code.
[05:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:31] <exec> 08└─That, and the fact that all those fancy coders must have the latest, fastest hardware to play with
[05:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kai_h [1524] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:44] <exec> 08└─Web pages today, almost without exception, are not static HTML and CSS. Your browser is ultimately handed a bunch of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, but the HTML your browser receives was most likely not coded by hand and never existed as one chunk of HTML until it was dynamically generated. The vast majo...
[05:47:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06California Law Requires Women on the Boards of Companies Headquartered in the State - 952 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:53] <exec> 08└─On the contrary, dear friend, it's not moving the goalposts at ALL. It's pointing out the roots of what is called "the patriarchy" are as much or more based on class than on sex or gender. Your "reading of history" is also beside the point: nothing says wealth accumulation has to help everyone, and...
[05:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most of Waymo's LIDAR Patent Rejected by USPTO Following Challenge - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, Uber probably felt guilty - probably at the behest of their highly paid lawyers sowing FUD because its a lowly engineers word so they can't be trusted. Enough to not bother throwing some cheap engineering resource, relative to the lawyers, at doing a quick pass at the patents... fucking lawyers...
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[06:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:38] <exec> 08└─Serial killers immobilize their helpless victims as they travel.
[06:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:40] <exec> 08└─and criminals onl;y target older vehicles, the ones without the kill switch. This is a bad idea (like it needs to be explained?).
[06:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:42] <exec> 08└─but if I ever buy one, it's going to be a 1974 Dodge Challenger.
[06:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe if those fucking pigs didn't set up road spikes and disable the handling of that car, it wouldn't have veered out of control and wasted that worthless piece of fascist flotsam. This is why we have insurance. Just let the car go.
[06:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:46] <exec> 08└─What is with all these bizarre submission from the nether world down under? Shirley everyone knows that Nude Zealand and the Former Penis Colony of Austrailing just a bit, do not form a normal data set for anything normal. There is always the post-Imperial British Derangement Syndrome to consider....
[06:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:48] <exec> 08└─Word to the wise: Never buy any motor vehicle produced in the USA during the 1970's. Citation: K cars! jmorris's K cars! Maladaptive! Disfunctional! Prone to degradation and incidents of dis-repair! A Republican dream era in Detroit!
[06:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:51] <exec> 08└─And remember, The War on Drugs. Who wouldn't want a world where the bad guys couldn't get away and hurt people in the process. Guffaw I say!!! I wouldn't want such a world. Especially if it meant giving up my privacy, my control of my fucking life, etc. I'm getting tired of this stuff. Same old if y...
[06:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah because it won't become a shady industry in itself - the disabling of killswitches. At which point police will only need to chase criminals. Oh wait!
[06:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:55] <exec> 08└─In fact we're nearly there now. Automakers have bulk agreements which allow them to fit cars with connections to cellular networks without incurring a per-car fee or data charges. These connections will allow for software updates and enable vehicles to communicate with each other; theoretically pavi...
[06:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:57] <exec> 08└─On 2012, Washington resident Michael David Crawford, while wearing home-made body armor and a helmet with metal plates taped to it, stole a car then led the Lakewood police on a high speed chase. After crashing the car, he fired a pistol at one of the officers, who returned fire thereby killing Mr....
[06:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Wi-Fi Standards - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:24] <exec> 08└─In which case, the conclusion is, it is not. 3G? 4Glte, not quite 4G, but with the lte? And now 5G! With full Chinese spying, or it is just 5Glte, which is only 4Glte, with a modicum of throughput improvement. Old timers are a valuable resource to you Millennials, and you should cherish them. When...
[06:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Controversy Over ISS Leak Continues, Spacewalk Planned for November - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:53] <exec> 08└─It's still a perfectly good lifeboat. The hole is in the habitation module (aka orbital module) which is jettisoned just before reentry and burns up in the atmosphere (by design). The re-entry module below it is the one that needs to be in good condition for a safe return.
[06:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:55] <exec> 08└─Agreed. People were roughly 4x more productive producing desktop software for regular office CRUD apps. The Web screwed the pooch. Deployment & updating was an early problem with desktop apps, but it was growing better over time. CRUD may not be glamorous, but it is common and needed. Some are switc...
[06:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:57] <exec> 08└─Yeap. And you forgot the high-order bit of the IP fragment offset field [ietf.org]
[06:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:59] <exec> 08└─But you brought a smile to my weary eyes.
[06:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:01] <exec> 08└─Personally I favour regular expressions
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[07:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:53] <exec> 08└─I, for one, have had enough of ignorant and incompetent academics sticking their nose into things they do not understand to make some political point about how smart people are biased against conservatives! Of course they are! They are "smart people", and conservatives, by definition, can only stick...
[07:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:54] <exec> 08└─I used to post unattributed Hitler quotes on reddit to see how many upvotes I could get (quite a few). He was quite the progressive for the day. "When I gave up meat, I began to sweat much less, and within a week hardly at all. My thirst decreased considerably, and an occasional sip of water was all...
[07:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:56] <exec> 08└─Kurt Vonnegut wrote of a society that was so very egalitarian that physically-fit people had to tote around heavy sandbags so they could be as slow and awkward as fat guys like me.
[07:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:59] <exec> 08└─Ferking AC Nazi vegetarian! See? It's all true!
[07:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 1745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:01] <exec> 08└─Eric Manheim's 1943 English translation. Hitler wrote it during his five-year imprisonment for having led the Münschen Puscht - more commonly known as the Beer Hall Puscht, it was a failed attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic. There are excellent reasons to believe that the Judge who sentenced...
[07:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:19] <exec> 08└─It's really odd that police helicopters in most countries seem to be unarmed. Firing at a vehicle is much safer if done from above, and we've been able to do this for ages. You fire a 50 caliber machine gun vertically down into the engine. It's at least safer than spike strips, horizontal gunfire, a...
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[07:45:20] <exec> 08└─Either that story is fake news or you're not the real MDC... Which is it?
[07:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:22] <exec> 08└─what? a 24 yo gets hurt trying to catch a 16 and a 15 yo and you want to do what? .... idiots, send grown-ups next time!@#
[07:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:25] <exec> 08└─Sounds like good jobs for the boys who get bored after coming back from Afghanistan. Get the police an attack chopper. I think I saw an old documentary about it. There's no way it could be problematic to blow a car to pieces at high speed with ordinance that will mostly go through/around and create...
[07:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:27] <exec> 08└─0) Machine gun? The cops are supposed to arrest their suspects where possible not execute them. It's called due process. 1) A helicopter isn't actually a great platform for shooting at stuff accurately. There aren't that many top snipers in the world: https://coastguardnews.com
[07:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 1827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:29] <exec> 08└─You should always question when a technology for this kind of thing turns into presumption of guilt. If a cop car has road spikes (a "stinger" in the UK), then they are presuming that most cars won't ever need to be stopped, just the ones they put it in front of. If they have handcuffs, or batons, o...
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[07:45:31] <exec> 08└─Used to own 2 early 70's Detroit cars. Not the greatest on fuel economy (nothing was), but maintenance was super cheap. There were something like 16 bolts in the whole engine compartment and you could fit 1-2 people in all the open space.
[07:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:33] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that just a little training about the use of road spikes would have helped... Straight anywhere near them after deployment, or deploying them without enough time to get clear is... Irrational? Foolish? But no.. We all need immobilisers controlled by the government.. Yes.. that's much...
[07:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:36] <exec> 08└─>A helicopter isn't actually a great platform for shooting at stuff accurately. For a human, maybe. I would find it hard to believe if a computer stabilized gun couldn't hit a target the size of an engine, given modern gun stabilization on tanks and naval ships. My question is, how the hell was the...
[07:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:38] <exec> 08└─Great.. Now you are dead, I assume you will stop posting? Please?
[07:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:40] <exec> 08└─Constable was punched in the nose after turning over a wheelbarrow to try and stop two teenagers with an allegedly stolen sack of apples. A 16-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl have been charged after Constable was rushed to the nearest first aid kit with mild head injuries and heavily bruised ego....
[07:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:42] <exec> 08└─I get email intended for all manner of Michael David Crawfords. I'm quite diligent about replying to the email intended for the Australian transplant surgeon named Michael David Crawford. Get This: there is a _Psychiatrist_ named Michael David Crawford. But the guy I wrote about: that was the Gospel...
[07:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Wi-Fi Standards - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:12] <exec> 08└─This is really awesome. I have no idea who decided coming up with random combinations of letters for versions of a standard was a good idea. So there's 802.11-1997 released in 1997. The next one released in 1999 is 802.11-1999 right? Nope, it's 802.11a. Next is 802.11b. So the next one is 802.11c? N...
[07:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:50] <exec> 08└─If you're working close to the metal, use C. C++ adds little to no value, makes your code bloated and unreadable, ties you to a particular version of a particular compiler, has exceptions welded in, the standard libraries are atrocious and no two people can agree on how to write it. It takes all day...
[07:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:52] <exec> 08└─After a couple decades of "just throw more hardware at it" because "developer cycles are more expensive", is it any wonder that Hello World is several megs and could just as easily mine a bitcoin when you run it?
[07:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:07] <exec> 08└─Open URL in browser. Hit 12. Make changes to the HTML and CSS. Fiddle with it until it looks like what is needed. Copy/paste the code into your program/ide/editor/notepad++/VSC/whatever. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
[07:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:08] <exec> 08└─They have the right idea though. Forgive them for their screwed up design. Perhaps it is incentive to fix it and send them a pull request.
[07:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:10] <exec> 08└─It's called "Dreamweaver 2" or NVU if that floats your boat. They work.
[07:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:12] <exec> 08└─I still extract data from systems and produce HTML reports that are made pretty by CSS. What should I use? Right now I load the result in the web browser and play with it there with dev tools
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[08:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:47] <exec> 08└─I am pleased you understand that you are an entity seperate from all intelligent soylentils, however you are incorrect in assuming it is more than you that this embarrasses. Casting a bright light on the filth that such areas of academia have become is worthy of all possible support.
[08:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 2631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:48] <exec> 08└─It is all too common for people to be divided by superficial qualities such as class or race. The poor congregate and struggle to attain food and shelter. The vanishing middle class faces a heavy tax burden and a dying job market, often blaming the poor for their issues. The various races squabble a...
[08:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:50] <exec> 08└─All _manner_ of Dietary Extremists are to be found there. In my actual experience, those who are the most dedicated to their diet are also the least-strongly connected with reality. There are many good reasons for vegetarian diets - my personal argument is that vegetable protein production puts far...
[08:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:52] <exec> 08└─As did Eva Braun. I have no actual evidence for that, but to me its intuitively obvious.
[08:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:55] <exec> 08└─Murray is one of my very best friends. He was a brilliant math student at UCSC, now he's a Civil Service Software Engineer for the US Navy. So I will grant you: there is at least one.
[08:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:57] <exec> 08└─I, for one, have had enough of ignorant and incompetent academics sticking their nose into things they do not understand
[08:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:59] <exec> 08└─So you're saying they carried their weight better than you do?
[08:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:01] <exec> 08└─OK, granted. One.
[08:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:03] <exec> 08└─So, are you claiming to actually know what the Cellular companies are putting out there as com standards? Please enlighten us, unless you think that such tech/science acumen would erode your conservative credentials.
[08:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:06] <exec> 08└─sixteen men who fell for him
[08:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:36] <exec> 08└─And why would you need to stuff a couple people into your engine compartment, unless you were trafficking? "ICE Officer! Pullover that K-car! Stat!"
[08:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:38] <exec> 08└─They are the _QUEENSLAND_ Police*, so you do have to make allowances. *The best that money can buy.
[08:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:40] <exec> 08└─A helicopter isn't actually a great platform for shooting at stuff accurately.
[08:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:42] <exec> 08└─Just get to the end game. You get out of line, POOF your head comes off. Government wont ever stop taking things from you.
[08:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:44] <exec> 08└─Come, now! jmorris has been brain-dead for much longer then MDC has been allegedly dead, are you going to insist the jmorris stop posting as well? Actually, that is not all that bad of an idea. Now about this PartTimeZombie character . . . .
[08:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:46] <exec> 08└─Helicopters are fine shooting platforms, I saw it on that documentary "S.W.A.T." on the TV. The shooter just has to remember to say to the pilot "Hold her steady now" and then any shot (not matter what the distance) is possible. Kinda makes you wonder why the pilot's don't just keep the helicopter s...
[08:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 2633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:49] <exec> 08└─It is all too common for people to be divided by superficial qualities such as class or race. The poor congregate and struggle to attain food and shelter. The vanishing middle class faces a heavy tax burden and a dying job market, often blaming the poor for their issues. The various races squabble a...
[08:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:51] <exec> 08└─I've tested computer simulators for this type of scenario. While the helicopter makes a good shooting platform, I've found it more effective to jump from said helicopter and pull a parachute out of your ass immediately before landing on the roof of the vehicle.
[08:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:53] <exec> 08└─The Silicon anti-defamation league and the Fresh Start Club reject your anti-living sentiments!
[08:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:55] <exec> 08└─This is racism against helicopters. I sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of soaring over the oilfields dropping hot sticky loads on disgusting foreigners. People say to me that a person being a helicopter is Impossible and I'm fucking retarded but I don't car...
[08:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:57] <exec> 08└─Great plan! Let's hook a frogbot up to a helicopter, allow a human to choose the target and let her rip. What could possibly go wrong? For every better convenience link the bot up to the net so the footage can be posted real time to friendface and youtube (youbot?) and allow the internet to vote on...
[08:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:59] <exec> 08└─> "I started in 2012. I have written to three successive prime ministers but it is now time for action, bipartisan support. With remote engine immobilisers there will never be a need for a police pursuit," Mr Leavers told Today. "The primary situation is to protect lives and property. It can improve...
[08:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:02] <exec> 08└─Now that's not nice. Australian cops are not serial killers. Perhaps you are thinking of a different country.
[08:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah the world is going to suck in 10 to 20 years when everything is tracked and everything is recorded. The generation after will not appreciate how nice life used to be.
[08:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:06] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone be anywhere near an object that is going to be hit by a car? Is this Darwinism?
[08:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Wi-Fi Standards - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:38] <exec> 08└─Old timers are a valuable resource to you Millennials, and you should cherish them.
[08:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:14] <exec> 08└─The author is stupid. He provides this quote, as if it were wrong: >I have a Python program I run every day, it takes 1.5 seconds. I spent six hours re-writing it in rust, now it takes 0.06 seconds. That efficiency improvement means I’ll make my time back in 41 years, 24 days :-) Except that quote...
[08:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:16] <exec> 08└─> I just need to open .PDF files, nothing more. > I want a simple OS that I control with simple applications that do their tasks fast and without trying to "help" me. I'd add simple networking. But that's not what they want.
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[09:45:19] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_hoaxes [wikipedia.org] And the reason is obvious, journals are corporations. Corporations exist to make money. You must pay to get published.
[09:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:20] <exec> 08└─I didn't quite get your point about sixteen so I went over to Wikipedia and noticed this discrepancy: Approximately three thousand Nazis were marching to the Feldherrnhalle, in the city center, when they were confronted by a police cordon, which resulted in the death of 14 Nazis and four police offi...
[09:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:22] <exec> 08└─I regard her as my very closest friend, however I pissed her off so she's not speaking to me just now. What Ricky Martin sings of - a woman who makes a man feel truly alive - she's just like that: she burns the candle at both ends 24/7/365. But she is a very troubled woman; it is her very pain that...
[09:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:24] <exec> 08└─> They are "smart people" And they are also totalitarians (differing from nazis only in their choice of victims, as it has been documented here, again), they write books to educate your children and exert political pressure disregarding the outdated notion of objective truth. Really a good match for...
[09:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:27] <exec> 08└─To honor the memory of sixteen dead men, Hitler went on to start a war that by some estimates killed eighty million, most of them civilians. Of those civilian deaths, 19 to 28 million are estimated to have resulted from war-related diseases and famine. The German invasion at first of Ukraine then Ru...
[09:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:29] <exec> 08└─there is a "Translator's Notes" at the very beginning. There are several distinctly different German dialects. As an Austrian, Hitler spoke Hochdeutsch - "High German" - which is the dialect of the mountainous south. I was taught Hochdeutsch in high school; as with Castellano - Iberian or European S...
[09:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:17] <exec> 08└─This has to be the most sensible answer. Don't chase cars/bikes. Tag them, identify them, and track them. They have to stop somewhere, sometime. By all means, fence them in, form a net around them, but understand that they can and will stop eventually. Do we have the tech yet to tag a car at speed t...
[09:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:19] <exec> 08└─Soylentils! We have found the Cereal Killer!
[09:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:21] <exec> 08└─Well put! Anonmodding you +1 Police advocate for a police state, news at 11.
[09:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Wi-Fi Standards - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:55] <exec> 08└─I can see that you tried for humour here, but this cuts too close to the truth. It's just the sad reality of hardware IT.
[09:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Wi-Fi Standards - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:57] <exec> 08└─Because the letters are other technologies: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] (Bridging on APs) https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] (Additional regulatory domains https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] (QoS on Wireless LAN) https://...
[09:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:39] <exec> 08└─Open source SW can be insulated against API changes
[09:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:40] <exec> 08└─That's the problem of electing Presidents who can't or can barely read... You should be able to read faster than most TV presenters present their garbage/poison. TV shows are mostly[1] for entertainment or influencing/brainwashing idiots. That said, the US and the world would probably have been bett...
[09:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:43] <exec> 08└─The dev time ROI might end up being a bit less than 41 years with a smiley after it. For instance, what if that program has 100,000 users and not just one?
[09:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:45] <exec> 08└─Written as someone who hasn't used C++ on the metal for some time, I see. Though if you'd asked me last year, I would have agreed with many of your points. By now I've seen first-hand that careful C++ on a micro is perfectly doable and can add a lot of clarity to the code. If you're feeling locked t...
[09:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:47] <exec> 08└─If you're working close to the metal use ASM. Stuff like GCC too often gets in the way - suboptimal, plain wrong, etc. Example from someone who works close to the metal: https://www.facebook.com [facebook.com] So, having tired of tr...
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[10:44:54] <exec> 08└─Are you actually insane? I, for one, have had enough of ignorant and incompetent academics sticking their nose into things they do not understand
[10:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:45] <exec> 08└─I used to do work on the engine while sitting on a front mudguard (US = fender) facing inwards with my legs inside. I also kept a spare 5l can of oil in there, toolboxes, tow rope etc.
[10:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 1577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:06] <exec> 08└─Consider the effort that goes into the CIA World Fact Book. Quite a lot of CIA publications are unclassified and are posted openly on their website. Several of them - including the transcript of an address to the staff by a former CIA director - are concerned with ways to avoid letting personal bias...
[10:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:07] <exec> 08└─It's possible to screw it up. Ever tried to install and configure node.js using npm just to get Hello World out?
[10:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 1629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:10] <exec> 08└─Free Software and Open Source Software are _completely_ different things. Whenever I point this out I'm met by confident jackasses who point out that they both have the same licenses. That does _not_ make Free Software the same as Open Source Software. The difference between the two is not the choic...
[10:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:28] <exec> 08└─I opened https://telepathic-elements.github.io [github.io] in firefox. It's a blank page. Is that right? I can't see what it's meant to do from the HTML. Same for https://telepathic-elements.github.io [github.io] Tried in Firefox and Palemoon on Linux....
[10:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: October 2018 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:09] <exec> 08└─Thank you so much. I've been meaning to go back over that again. I'm halfway through the Wheel of Time right now. Perhaps after.
[10:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: October 2018 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:10] <exec> 08└─Good suggestion. Seconded.
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[11:44:14] <exec> 08└─Or is it? https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com]
[11:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:16] <exec> 08└─I thought it was Tide Pods that target kids.
[11:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:57] <exec> 08└─Just another bunch of kids gaming academia. Nothing to see here, other than these kids are alt-wrong. (Quillette?! Come ooooon... they can't even convincingly edit their own wikipedia entry.)
[11:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:59] <exec> 08└─I got halfway through before I realized it was another one. He's getting better at this.
[11:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:01] <exec> 08└─They are "smart people", and conservatives, by definition, can only stick to the ways of their forefathers because they are not capable of comprehending the same, not rationally criticizing traditional practice, and what follows from these two, proposing any changes the might be better than the trad...
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[11:45:03] <exec> 08└─Peter Boghossian is not a "kid", neither are his views right wing. He objects to the unsubstantiated dogma and cult like thinking that was once prevalent in Christian conservatism and have now found a new home in left wing academia via social sciences. Before throwing degenerative labels at others,...
[11:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:05] <exec> 08└─Mein kampf was a hard book to get hold of (this is 30ish years ago...don't know about now): the one book store owner I talked to said it's the most stolen book he knew of. Finally got a copy and tried to read it. " In reality he was a _very_ thoughtful, careful and methodical writer." No, in reality...
[11:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:07] <exec> 08└─Your plants need carbondioxide dude!
[11:47:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:34] <exec> 08└─Actively developed SW can be insulated against API changes
[11:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:22] <exec> 08└─And I write solid code. The rest is Python. It's not C++'s fault. It's the fault of the people who have the idea that they can write C++ the same way they right C, but with Classes 'N Stuff. Whenever a recruiter solicits me for "C/C++" work I instantly reply to point out that "C and C++ are two _com...
[11:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:23] <exec> 08└─Here, let's list some ways to make your desktop leaner and meaner. 1) Self configured and compiled Linux kernel 2) If you have a beefy computer, maybe compile your entire stack, i.e. use Gentoo. Notice the possibility to cross compile targeting weaker machine. 3) Openbox window manager
[11:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:26] <exec> 08└─Your statement of the problem is far more general than just software: For quite a long time now it has been fashionable for politicians to act like idiots even when they're intelligent and educated. For quite a long time the Republicans have been steadily working to eliminate the teaching of Critica...
[11:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:28] <exec> 08└─It's not even funny..
[11:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:30] <exec> 08└─The - proprietary - BeOS of which Haiku is an open source clone would install on 8 MB and work _really_ well on 32. The very most memory I ever owned during my time as a Be developer was 160 MB.
[11:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secretive EU Copyright Negotiations Started Tuesday: Here’s Where We Stand - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:50] <exec> 08└─Clearly you agree with me, having provided no factual data nor google-able leads to follow up upon, but graphs of average age of consumers of those legacy products is ... dismal to say the least. Those products are dying. Weird legal wrangling is unlikely to help, and by the time the current legal d...
[11:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: October 2018 - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:29] <exec> 08└─Preface: I don't read fiction of any kind for its underlying societal commentary. I read it for recreation. If any unstated societal commentary exists and is so poorly done as to cause me to notice it, I won't finish reading the book. If it's an upfront part of the plot, that's fine as long as it do...
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[12:43:55] <exec> 08└─A perfect model for effects of penetrating radiation on a 80-kg human being, sure. If the FUD mongers cannot even be bothered to buy a few pigs for the experiment, what use is their bullshit "research"?
[12:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:06] <exec> 08└─Their products are a lot more addictive than e-cigarettes, and they specifically target kids to turn them into junk food addicted adults - potentially leading to a lifetime of obesity and cardiovascular problems.
[12:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:07] <exec> 08└─No, that's kids targetting youtube.
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[12:44:10] <exec> 08└─I hate when things like this happen. Are we a country of laws? Either something is legal or it isn't. If vape pens are legal, leave these people alone. I hate govt harrassment of people they don't like. Freedom, what a concept!
[12:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:12] <exec> 08└─"Sorry, I don't smoke." "Don't apologize for not smoking." I took one single puff on a cigarette, just once. Damn near knocked me on my ass. That leads me to speculate that quite a lot of effort is required to become a regular cigarette smoker. But e-cigarettes are highly customizable; you can even...
[12:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:14] <exec> 08└─Soda companies Breakfast cereal companies (>30% sugar, for breakfast) Etc etc..
[12:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:16] <exec> 08└─It's been well over twenty years since cigarettes could legally be sold to minors. It's unlawful to cell e-cigarettes and their juice to minors. That law is _quite_ clear in that respect. So don't criticize the FDA for hassling a company that they have good reason to believe targets minors. If you w...
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[12:44:18] <exec> 08└─What don't you get? They are legal for purchase and use by anyone above 18. There are separate laws that prohibit marketing such things to minors. If you're not old enough to use it, my advertising shouldn't be aimed at you. See Joe Camel.
[12:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:21] <exec> 08└─Its all about the bribery and re-election fund raising. I assume Juul spends $0 on bribes. As for McD as per google results: https://www.opensecrets.org [opensecrets.org] The numbers seem low, maybe $603,333 is in thousands. Or thats just the legal donatio...
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[12:44:23] <exec> 08└─> smoker Vaper, to be precise. And depending on the stuff you put it can be harmless or right out illegal. I don't mind vapers, they (possibly) hurt themselves but it's their choice. There is no tar in the air for others.
[12:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:25] <exec> 08└─It's unlawful to cell e-cigarettes and their juice to minors.
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[12:44:27] <exec> 08└─There is no tar in the air for others.
[12:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 1707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:29] <exec> 08└─Among the reasons that children are not permitted certain things is that they are presumed to be incapable of making rational decisions. Whether they really can or can't be rational is a different argument; that's why things are forbidden to children, because that's the assumption. Among the rights...
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[12:44:32] <exec> 08└─No. Marketing to minors is NOT a clear thing. How do you distinguish ads that appeal to 18 year olds from those that appeal to 16 year olds? Unless they are putting ads in Boy's Life magazine (read by Cub and Boy Scouts, for those who don't know), leave them the fuck alone.
[12:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:34] <exec> 08└─I think the govt should leave vape pen manufacturers alone until cigarette smoking is basically extinct. Vaping is less harmful.
[12:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:36] <exec> 08└─-ly: My parents subscribed me to it the whole time I was a cub scout and a boy scout. On the back page of _every_ single issue was a full-page ad for Daisy Rifles, along with the advice that one should handle guns responsibly. It happens that I have an Idaho Gun Safety Card, and my sister - still an...
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[12:44:38] <exec> 08└─The F.D.A. said it was particularly interested in whether Juul deliberately targeted minors as consumers.
[12:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:40] <exec> 08└─-bs". That sounds like fun.
[12:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honda Will Invest $2.75 Billion in GM's Self-Driving Car Subsidiary - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:50] <exec> 08└─The whole idea that autonomous cars will dominate the market is not based in reality. Yes, there will be city centers that have self-driving taxis (in good weather) and almost certainly hands-off freeway driving when conditions are suitable. But the complexity and variety of ordinary driving will re...
[12:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:30] <exec> 08└─It is not just their forefathers and tradition that "conservatives" might want to follow, it is themselves when younger, or the dominant friends they knew in student days and adopted as role models. Thus ageing socialists (like Corbyn, the current UK opposition leader) can become conservative in the...
[12:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:31] <exec> 08└─Just three pages or so, which were well-written.
[12:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:33] <exec> 08└─You are assuming that conservatives accept what they're told uncritically, and that the "smart people" don't.
[12:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:36] <exec> 08└─And yourself? You said you died in 2013.
[12:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:39] <exec> 08└─Not all of those were Hitlers fault. Stalin took the opportunity to kill millions, hoping to blame Hitler (looks like that worked with some people), and the Japanese killed millions in China and elsewhere. The western allies allowed quite a few German civillians to starve to death under their admini...
[12:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:41] <exec> 08└─I figured: I hauled out my copy and looked at the intro. Read the rest and you'll see. He states facts that support what he wants, ignoring what he dislikes, and then gibbers his way along in a meandering way, one sentence having no connection with the next. I got about 1/3 to half way through and j...
[12:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:43] <exec> 08└─Sokal produced a passable undergraduate paper on post-modernism, but he did not understand it, since he was only mimicking patterns
[12:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:45] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine moved into a house near London that transpired to have been occupied by a German spy and agent provocateur in the 1930s. Under the floorboards he found hundreds of original copies of Mein Kampf. The fool (my friend that is) panicked and promptly dumped them all at the council rubbis...
[12:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:47] <exec> 08└─He preferred to be called "Matt" but really his name was "Matthias". Without it even occurring to me that Matt was German, I showed him my brand-spanking-new copy of Mein Kampf: "Cool. I read it both in English and in German". Matt was quite a well-educated guy. He could not have read the German in...
[12:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 3122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:50] <exec> 08└─I always did accept the story that Hitler was a raving lunatic. Didn't question it. Later, I learned German as a foreign exchange student there in high school. They didn't cover Hitler's speeches or Mein Kampf in the gymnasium (that's an academic, college-bound high school) where I was, but they did...
[12:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:41] <exec> 08└─"Shirley everyone knows that Nude Zealand and the Former Penis Colony of Austrailing" I read for insight and I got this. Sigh. .... And don't call me Shirley.
[12:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:42] <exec> 08└─Fraaaaank! NOOOOooooooooooo.......
[12:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:44] <exec> 08└─You are now ApaChe.
[12:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:47] <exec> 08└─Just make it so the cops have to go to the judges house, wake him up or pull him off his wife or whatever, present all the evidence, let the judge have time to assess all the evidence, weigh the pros and cons, get the judge to type up the warrant and sign it and I say, "Hey....go for it. Shut that v...
[12:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:49] <exec> 08└─The proposed neck-worn electro-shock person immobilisers. . .
[12:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:51] <exec> 08└─My money is on the crooks who have a device to immobilize the cop cars...
[12:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Wi-Fi Standards - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:25] <exec> 08└─What a waste of electrons. Shut up if you have nothing to contribute, asshole.
[12:48:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 629 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:12] <exec> 08└─And that sort of elitist attitude is just as much part of the problem. You were young and fresh out of education (self or formal) at some point. You had no clue but didn't know it. We all were. And slowly or quickly we all got better. Rather than being the guy who knows a lot but doesn't share and l...
[12:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:17] <exec> 08└─So this all boils down to, "you can write Java in any language" With a side dish of the only difference in poor performance between the software devs and, say, the VP of diversity, is you can trivially measure the job performance of the software devs. So the accounting woman who takes 3x longer than...
[12:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 3011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:19] <exec> 08└─For years now I've been advocating for the refactoring of source code in such a way that its execution uses less electrical energy. For reasons I don't fully understand, many of my fellow Kuro5hin members regarded my idea as ludicrous, despite that I pointed out that surely there is _some_ reason wh...
[12:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:21] <exec> 08└─measured any way you want you see hundred of times more resources producing little improvement.
[12:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:23] <exec> 08└─in less than 20 mins - parallel compilation - on my dev desktop. The Jenkins slave machine that we use for building manages to do it in under 10 mins
[12:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:41] <exec> 08└─directly editing the HTML and CSS is about the best solution. Sad...
[12:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:43] <exec> 08└─CSS: Nukes from orbit.
[12:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What to Expect From the U.S. Wireless Emergency Alert Test Today - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:08] <exec> 08└─They're hoping for a two-for-one deal to impeach both of them and put the Speaker of the House into the Oval Office. That would be Nancy Pelosi.
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[13:44:20] <exec> 08└─"Study in Mice Suggests Microwave Radiation Exposure Could Cause Them to Explode"
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[13:44:22] <exec> 08└─deep space bombardment by galactic cosmic radiation (GCR) could significantly damage gastrointestinal (GI) tissue leading to long-term functional alterations.
[13:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:53] <exec> 08└─What you didn't have those as a kid? You can get them on amazon even today, pretty cheap. Little glass vials of smelly liquid designed to easily crack. They're designed to crack if you throw them hard so my coworker threw them in the metal trash can and they stink up the place pretty well for five m...
[13:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:54] <exec> 08└─Juul must make Tide Pod flavored vape juice.
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[13:44:56] <exec> 08└─Jean is a librarian; she carries a gun in her purse to the fucking _library_.
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[13:44:59] <exec> 08└─I switched to vaping except at work a while back, and I don't get gobs of phlegm in my throat any more. No more hacking and wheezing either. Other than a SMOK mod that went up in flames on me the second I plugged it into my computer, it's been pretty good. I'm using a Fuchai mod these days with a Cl...
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[13:45:53] <exec> 08└─Hitler wrote it during his one-year imprisonment
[13:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:55] <exec> 08└─If peer review did anything of value, people would be testing their hypotheses rather than those default null hypotheses that act as a strawman. All it does is institutionalize prevailing beliefs and practices whether right or wrong. Ie, correctness is totally irrelevant to peer review. If you still...
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[13:46:26] <exec> 08└─Constable was punched in the nose after turning over a wheelbarrow to try and stop two teenagers with an allegedly stolen sack of apples. A 16-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl have been charged after Constable was rushed to the nearest first aid kit with mild head injuries and heavily bruised ego....
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[13:46:53] <exec> 08└─I heard Kavanaugh lovingly caressed the canopy of a helicopter in a non-consensual manner 35 years ago, the helo said it was OK but she was consuming huge quantities of ethanol gasoline at the time thus too intoxicated to legally consent #BelieveAllRotaryWingAircraft
[13:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:55] <exec> 08└─If we're just trying to fill a DnD or Pathfinder sourcebook with magical trinkets that won't realistically work in the real world, why not a magic wand that when waved de-authorizes bullets from firing? I mean, if you give up on requiring technical feasibility for your demands, you may as well ask f...
[13:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:57] <exec> 08└─Why are police chases even needed? If you have really done something wrong, there is no escape. Around here you can't drive on any of the major roads without your car being scanned, IDed and recorded at multiple points. You can't use a credit card or cell phone without instantly giving away your loc...
[13:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Evidence Supports Existence of Neptune-Sized Exomoon Orbiting Kepler-1625b - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:12] <exec> 08└─Whats the term for a moon of a moon? Hypermoon? It could even have an earth sized moon which in turn has its own moon.
[13:48:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arslan [3462] 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:42] <exec> 08└─Jeez.. some of the stuff on that blog reeks of naivety. As a general trend, we’re not getting faster software with more features. We’re getting faster hardware that runs slower software with the same features.
[13:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:31] <exec> 08└─an absolute monstrosity of a build farm in vmware.
[13:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:33] <exec> 08└─Open source SW can be insulated against API changes FTFY. Let's not forget the obvious.
[13:50:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:33] <exec> 08└─what is your preferred method of dealing with either HTML or CSS or both?
[13:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:56] <exec> 08└─Well, technically Notepad++ isn't officially approved either, but half the company uses it...thankfully it doesn't require being actually installed since we don't have admin rights. I do actually prefer Notepad++ over Brackets anyway though. Brackets is more or less the least bad text editor I've fo...
[13:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What to Expect From the U.S. Wireless Emergency Alert Test Today - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:23] <exec> 08└─I expect this system will be how the news of the declaration of martial law will be delivered. This is how democracy dies, to ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-tinkle.
[13:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What to Expect From the U.S. Wireless Emergency Alert Test Today - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:25] <exec> 08└─Uh, Pelosi is minority leader. Paul Ryan is the current Speaker.
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[14:44:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:19] <exec> 08└─No, that's kids targetting youtube.
[14:44:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 382 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:23] <exec> 08└─It's been well over twenty years since cigarettes could legally be sold to minors. It's unlawful to cell e-cigarettes and their juice to minors. That law is _quite_ clear in that respect. So don't criticize the FDA for hassling a company that they have good reason to believe targets minors. If you w...
[14:44:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:33] <exec> 08└─The F.D.A. said it was particularly interested in whether Juul deliberately targeted minors as consumers.
[14:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:40] <exec> 08└─The goal is to waste fda resources on this crap so they cant make sure the food and water and medicine contains what its supposed to, and only that.
[14:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:42] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. Color me in contempt. As GP stated, either a substance is legal, or it is not legal. I'm certainly not affected today, but I remember when I was good enough, mature enough, to carry weapons, and to hold lives in my hands, but I wasn't good or mature enough to buy a legal fucking beer. The ag...
[14:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:45] <exec> 08└─They were. As a rural kid, when fair came to town the carnies would be selling cool things, including these stink bombs. That was really the only place we could get them. They weren't supposed to sell them to kids, but obviously most of them did anyway if they thought they could get away with it. So...
[14:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:47] <exec> 08└─That same line struck me as well. Which amendment authorizes fishing expeditions?
[14:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:49] <exec> 08└─Psychologists have proven that the fart spray you mention makes people hate guys who run their bare genitals on kittens, even if the kitten likes it: Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions differing in the level of disgusting odor present. The conditions were identical except...
[14:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Will Invest $2.75 Billion in GM's Self-Driving Car Subsidiary - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:00] <exec> 08└─Originally I wrote "mass-market autonomous car" instead of "mass-produced autonomous car" in the summary. But I think the goal here is to make some kind of autonomous car only intended for Uber-like trips rather than selling dedicated ones to customers. The "space-efficient" design could refer to a...
[14:45:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 3122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:47] <exec> 08└─I always did accept the story that Hitler was a raving lunatic. Didn't question it. Later, I learned German as a foreign exchange student there in high school. They didn't cover Hitler's speeches or Mein Kampf in the gymnasium (that's an academic, college-bound high school) where I was, but they did...
[14:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:50] <exec> 08└─Does it make it wrong just because hitler, et al, said it? Is water dry if hitler said water is wet?
[14:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:52] <exec> 08└─Read Henry Ford's The International Jew and you'll reportedly have read half of Mein Kampf.
[14:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:54] <exec> 08└─Enjoy your alt-right echo chamber of idiots.
[14:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:57] <exec> 08└─... And by writer, I know it was written down as he spoke by someone else...can't remember who ...
[14:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:59] <exec> 08└─I don't think Hitler was a raving loony. Heck, until the end of his life I don't think he was a loony at all. What he was was an evil bastard. Because any ideology that suggests that the right thing to do is commit genocide is evil, whether you're talking about the Nazis, the Russian Commies, the Ch...
[14:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hellcat [2832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:02] <exec> 08└─Don't get sidetracked talking about crazy guys wielding power indiscriminately. The subject at hand is how easy it is to fool "academic" journals with garbage. Check out this link. Some academics are already trying to address the problem, though I think they are still too soft. Pun intended. https:/...
[14:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:04] <exec> 08└─I'd like to read these articles especially "Our Struggle is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism" -- anyone have links to the actual content?
[14:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:07] <exec> 08└─Jordan Peterson is a charlatan that realized he could make a fortune by spouting word salad to the alt-right. He might actually believe some of the things he says, but that isn't why he says them.
[14:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:09] <exec> 08└─Sokal produced a passable undergraduate paper on post-modernism, but he did not understand it
[14:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:09] <exec> 08└─bobby really liked jennifer. he knew she was trailer trash but she was pretty with her blond hair and skinny like himself. somedays they would talk to each during lunch break. not often but sometimes and he would hear stories about how her father got drunk again and kicked the dog. but bobby was mos...
[14:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:10] <exec> 08└─We call them fenders because they are there to fend off damage to the main car structure, and also, because they don't do a single thing to guard against mud, so calling them mudguards would be... silly. Same reason we call the storage area in the rear of the vehicle a trunk; because it's a box with...
[14:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:13] <exec> 08└─They have a serious problem in the UK with people stealing motorbikes and scooters, especially from delivery people, and then using the vehicle to commit crimes especially for stealing phones and other items of value from people on the street. This is prompting people to invent better ways to protec...
[14:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:15] <exec> 08└─Only to find out the license plate was stolen from another car.
[14:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:18] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_(film) [wikipedia.org]
[14:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:21] <exec> 08└─Not only did we get that ^ but it was posted by someone who actually claims to be something of a philosopher. You'll find equal or better philosophy over at stormfront, which was discussed here very recently.
[14:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:24] <exec> 08└─The idiot cop deployed a spike strip, and was then stupid enough to position himself where he could get hit by the car (after it went out of control post hitting the spike strip) Give that idiot a darwin award if he dies, and some common sense training if he doesn't. There's no reason for high-speed...
[14:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Evidence Supports Existence of Neptune-Sized Exomoon Orbiting Kepler-1625b - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:37] <exec> 08└─Possibly "sub-satellite". If anything, I would expect a tiny rock orbiting a satellite. http://archive.is [archive.is]
[14:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Evidence Supports Existence of Neptune-Sized Exomoon Orbiting Kepler-1625b - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:38] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I don't read any Ethan Segal crap after what he did to people researching MOND: https://darkmattercrisis.wordpress.com [wordpress.com] That guy is like the catholic church, trying to shut d...
[14:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:00] <exec> 08└─Wrong. It's very clear you have no idea whatsoever of the magnitude of such a task.
[14:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 2294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:23] <exec> 08└─I run it through WINE, set to some old Windows, 2000 was the last one which could run this obsolete shareware stuff. I use it mostly to write simple instructions for my software I publish on GPL. Its only feature not present in SeaMonkey Composer's is that it has a scriptable buttons, so I can e.g....
[14:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What to Expect From the U.S. Wireless Emergency Alert Test Today - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the scenario we're talking about is one where Trump and Pence have been impeached, which can only happen if the Democrats have taken back the House of Representatives. If that happens, Nancy Pelosi will be the Speaker of the House again. There have been challengers to her in the Democratic...
[14:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What to Expect From the U.S. Wireless Emergency Alert Test Today - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:51] <exec> 08└─Missed that bit, thanks!
[14:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most of Waymo's LIDAR Patent Rejected by USPTO Following Challenge - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:10] <exec> 08└─In the cases of tech exfiltration that I have had contact with, the perps were amazingly sloppy about leaving a clear evidence trail back to the stolen code - like, usually a massive import of code which still contains copyright and other text, then a source control repository showing how they modif...
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[15:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:47] <exec> 08└─I presume that the companies named are about as competent as anyone, when it come to securing their networks. If servers were phoning home to China, no one would notice? No one at all? Maybe not on public-facing machines, but how about those not serving the public? No one ever looked at logs? Strang...
[15:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:48] <exec> 08└─Apple knew there was an issue with SuperMicro servers back in 2016 and removed SuperMicro servers [soylentnews.org] from their data centers. I doubt other data center operators ignored Apple's actions, so they all probably knew something was amiss.
[15:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:50] <exec> 08└─From Bloomberg: The chips at issue were not part of the design. They were there to facilitate other malware. I'm really laughing that bypassing the management engines security was mentioned. That's secure enough you'd need a special attack?
[15:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:52] <exec> 08└─It's a tiny hardware hack. It wasn't phoning home to anyone. It would have done something to enable the sort of attack used with a buffer overflow, without needing the overflow to write into program storage so you could bypass password protection or the like. i.e. make the server vulnerable to an in...
[15:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study in Mice Suggests Cosmic Radiation Exposure Could Harm Gut Health - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:04] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure cosmic radiation exposure turns you super stretchy, invisible, on fire, or into rock. They've remade the same documentary about it like 4 times now.
[15:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study in Mice Suggests Cosmic Radiation Exposure Could Harm Gut Health - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:06] <exec> 08└─This means mice won't be making the trip to Mars. Ships have rat guards to keep rats from coming aboard, but those European rats came to the Americas all the same. Seasickness didn't kill them before they got here. Cosmic radiation may accomplish what the rat guards couldn't!! Some of you have no id...
[15:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study in Mice Suggests Cosmic Radiation Exposure Could Harm Gut Health - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:08] <exec> 08└─Have anal retentive people already been probed?
[15:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:49] <exec> 08└─One time I was forced to submit to Zyprexa injection. After pointing out that I would happily permit them to inject me with anything _other_ than Zyprexa, I fought like a wildcat, because Zyprexa is well-documented to cause diabetes,
[15:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:51] <exec> 08└─Here's the thing though, back when I was growing up they banned Bidi's for the same reasoning as here. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] If they can ban those, they should ban these. At least, that's the reasoning. However, as long as they just plain don't allow advertising for the...
[15:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:53] <exec> 08└─If only that were true. Anyone stupid enough to eat laundry soap should be culled from the herd.
[15:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:55] <exec> 08└─The idea that vaping is harmless isn't supported. It is almost certainly less harmful than smoking, yet there are people who question even that statement, and I will listen to them when they can put some science behind their concerns. Nicotine addiction, even assuming no other consequences, might be...
[15:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Will Invest $2.75 Billion in GM's Self-Driving Car Subsidiary - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:06] <exec> 08└─Vogt didn't elaborate what this next-generation autonomous vehicle might look like. . . . he used words like "innovative," "space-efficient" and "multi-purpose."
[15:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:09] <exec> 08└─Peter Boghossian is not a "kid", neither are his views right wing. I've got bigger pigeons to play chess with.
[15:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:10] <exec> 08└─Going in Through the Back Door: Challenging Straight Male Homohysteria, Transhysteria, and Transphobia Through Receptive Penetrative Sex Toy Use [springer.com] Here's some more: https://drive.google.com [google.com] (as found here [...
[15:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:12] <exec> 08└─This is what transference looks like: Jordan Peterson is a charlatan that realized he could make a fortune by spouting word salad to the alt-right. He might actually believe some of the things he says, but that isn't why he says them.
[15:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:14] <exec> 08└─So, are you claiming to actually know what the Cellular companies are putting out there as com standards?
[15:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:17] <exec> 08└─Peter Boghossian is not a "kid", neither are his views right wing.
[15:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:19] <exec> 08└─Then spam mod his ass whenever he shows up. If that moderation were made for anything it's for this...
[15:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:27] <exec> 08└─Manna by Marshall Brain includes spinal column interrupters as a key component of Utopia.
[15:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:28] <exec> 08└─We once were moving in that direction. Between about 1998, and 2001, there were some highly publicized incidents, in which innocents were killed during police chases. There was talk about stopping police chases. Or, high speed chases. Sure, chase down the car doing 60 in a 40 mph zone. It's just som...
[15:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:30] <exec> 08└─So you're saying that imobilizing the car before it crashed would have prevented him from firing at the cops?
[15:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:33] <exec> 08└─In the US if they're pulling you over for a taillight out they walk up with one hand on their sidearm, shine a million candlepower light right in your eyes, and ask you where you've been drinking tonight.
[15:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:35] <exec> 08└─Fuck you gestapo Ian Leavers. EU already has mandatory crash reporting for new cars, which enables automatic surveillance. Yeah sure, sure it'll never be used. No new car for me. I don't understand this bullshit these people have of micromanaging everything. Shit happens, does not mean everyone has...
[15:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:37] <exec> 08└─"Firing at a vehicle is much safer if done from above" Er. No. Moving shooter, moving target, variable distance, variable windspeed, variable angle of gravity, variable G loading on the shooter, not to mention turbulence. Even expert marksmen have difficulty with these shots. It is a very rare skill...
[15:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:39] <exec> 08└─> read Kava's diary for the day > "instructions unclear, hand stuck in the tail rotor" BUSTED!
[15:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:41] <exec> 08└─I will start by acknowledging my pedantry. We call it a trunk not because they are a box with a lid, but because they initially were literally trunks strapped to the back of vehicles, such a useful idea it became standard to simply built into the bodywork. Here is an example you can still buy new...
[15:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Evidence Supports Existence of Neptune-Sized Exomoon Orbiting Kepler-1625b - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:57] <exec> 08└─One tweet is all it took? Blame the host. Find your own link if you want. There's not too much, and maybe nothing discussing the sub-satellite implications of Neptune-sized moons.
[15:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Wi-Fi Standards - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:22] <exec> 08└─Surely the AC's post contributed more to the conversation than your post, which contributed less than nothing.
[15:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Wi-Fi Standards - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:23] <exec> 08└─99% of people will continue to call it simply "Wi-Fi" and will have no clue that there is, or has ever been, confusion over the naming of the underlying network standards. True, these same people will also refer to their cellular radio service as "Wi-Fi" too but let's leave them in their happy ignor...
[15:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversy Over ISS Leak Continues, Spacewalk Planned for November - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:55] <exec> 08└─So if it wasn't a manufacturing defect, then what was it? As Rogozin did not say, this re-fueled speculation in some media reports that the hole was intentionally drilled by NASA astronauts in space. This theory is nonsensical, but it appears to play well to Russian audiences.
[15:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversy Over ISS Leak Continues, Spacewalk Planned for November - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:57] <exec> 08└─They make drills with magnetic drill bits/heads, and I'm sure they have containers around for storing the others.
[15:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversy Over ISS Leak Continues, Spacewalk Planned for November - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:59] <exec> 08└─Oh, the filings. Disregard
[15:49:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 937 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:13] <exec> 08└─... were what I was complaining about 15 years ago. His happy memories of efficient well-designed code are to me still relative annoyances. I'm (re)writing back-end stuff for a webby thing, which I have deliberately decided to host the dev version of on a 700MHz 32-bit Model B RasPi, so that I do no...
[15:49:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 1155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:19] <exec> 08└─Oh God! Been around software development for many years, since '87 or thereabouts. Seen a lot in that time, in no particular order: HP-UX, Xenix, AS/400, CPM, MS-DOS, OS/2, Windows. And the more I see, the crappier things seem. My particular beef is with software updates being mostly messing around...
[15:49:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:34] <exec> 08└─QNX offered that 20 years ago. It fit on a 1.2MB floppy drive and due to its real-time design was very fast on a 486.
[15:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:30] <exec> 08└─You're one of those 'eh? https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[15:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:31] <exec> 08└─I've toyed with Tiny Core for a while now, but it's never taken hold of me. I love the tiny size, including resource usage, but getting Wi-Fi to work on that thing is stupid hard. Then, when I do get Wi-Fi working, it only wants to use PSK instead of a user/pass. I recently tried AntiX and that seem...
[15:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:33] <exec> 08└─Personally, I've liked Puppy Linux for the OS control part. They have a nice remastering tool that you can use to make your own custom installs. http://www.murga-linux.com [murga-linux.com] It's also relatively easy to hack a Puppy Linux install with JWM into an Internet...
[15:51:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:42] <exec> 08└─Open URL in browser. Open source file in editor. Edit file. Save File. Reload page.
[15:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What to Expect From the U.S. Wireless Emergency Alert Test Today - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:30] <exec> 08└─Meh, she couldn't be worse than Trump or Pence. Probably not good, but certainly no worse. I'd rather have Bernie or Warren. Impeachment is highly unlikely. I doubt very much that the Democrats are going to take both houses. Even if they did, there would be no real reason to do so.
[15:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What to Expect From the U.S. Wireless Emergency Alert Test Today - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:32] <exec> 08└─Every time a couple of trailer trash morons get in a custody dispute, we send out an alert calling it a "kidnapping" and suggesting the population turn out to track down the vehicle. If that's not "fake news", what is?
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[16:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:00] <exec> 08└─yes, yes but does it run crysis?
[16:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, multiple companies purged this hardware while doing nothing to alert the public. Probably at the behest of our intelligence apparati that have never seen information they thought the public should be aware of.
[16:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:03] <exec> 08└─Imagine a beowulf cluster of ....
[16:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 1152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:05] <exec> 08└─While an impressive little addition to the motherboards, and very hard to find. It still lags behind the Wests spy chips, which are nicely embedded in the processor itself, and hidden in plain view under names like "management engine" and somesuch. Then of course, you got the UEFI bondoogle, an enti...
[16:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:01] <exec> 08└─True, but on the other hand, it's only a *short* lifetime, so it's not as bad.
[16:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:02] <exec> 08└─In this very article you complained about being restrained against your will. But you support gun control because some people can't be trusted to handle guns responsibly. In both cases, I can't see any way of assuring that we don't have any false positives. And in both cases I am very worried about...
[16:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:04] <exec> 08└─The unwritten one: power corrupts. Or, might makes right, if you prefer. Or, the Golden Rule. Nobody has more (fake) gold than the government.
[16:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honda Will Invest $2.75 Billion in GM's Self-Driving Car Subsidiary - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:15] <exec> 08└─VW may have the right idea for this market space -- their new battery electric minivan, which is styled to look like the old VW Microbus. Objectively, it is a fairly boring box, but with all that fun subjective history (surfers, hippies, etc) behind it.
[16:45:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 313 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:50] <exec> 08└─They are "smart people", and conservatives, by definition, can only stick to the ways of their forefathers because they are not capable of comprehending the same, not rationally criticizing traditional practice, and what follows from these two, proposing any changes the might be better than the trad...
[16:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:24] <exec> 08└─According to the binomial distribution: Flip a fair coin 21 times, repeat this 1 million times, and about 20% (200k) sets will contain 13 or more heads. So we fail to reject the null hypothesis that psychology research is any better than having people just come up with ideas and flip a coin to test...
[16:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:26] <exec> 08└─Looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck.
[16:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:28] <exec> 08└─If you can produce a passable undergraduate paper on post-modernism without understanding it, that alone is a proof that this topic does not contain any useful information. I can plagiarize an Einstein paper without understanding it. Does that mean it contains no useful information?
[16:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:30] <exec> 08└─You can call fields of study Social Science or Political Science but that doesn't make them scientific fields of study. Dressing them up with "peer-reviewed" journals doesn't help. Ask any professor of these fields what the scientific method is. I dare you. They don't know, don't use it, and they kn...
[16:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:32] <exec> 08└─"Sokal just studied patterns but the true wisdom contained in the sacred scrolls remained beyond his understanding". "Our Struggle is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism" reworked, and substantially altered, part of Mein Kampf. No, Sokal plag...
[16:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:50] <exec> 08└─And they never will. This is plain laziness, and that's the most benign explanation I can come up with.
[16:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:51] <exec> 08└─This is a technological solution that would also be a problem. Considering how computerized cars are today, and how much they will be once self-driving cars go mainstream, GPS tracking of most vehicles is inevitable. The kill switch is trickier since it could be exploited by a third party. There may...
[16:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:53] <exec> 08└─Citizen, your liberty is making my enforcement duties unsafe. Therefore we demand that you willingly give up your liberties so that I may enforce my will upon you and your family without fear or consequences.
[16:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:42] <exec> 08└─I'll excuse you, considering your issues, for not knowing what is going on there. You are confusing "Critical Theory" with "Critical Thinking." Like all Marxist terminology it uses English sounding words but assigns meanings almost entirely opposite to them. But lets not get off on a political tange...
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[17:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:53] <exec> 08└─realDonaldTrump writes:
[17:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:54] <exec> 08└─These are just new short-lived combinations of particles: The first, named Σb(6097)+, is made up of one bottom quark and two up quarks, while the second, named Σb(6097)-, is made up of one bottom quark and two down quarks.
[17:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:56] <exec> 08└─You see, we used to crash the two cars at 50MPH and observe the radiator/bumper hybrid element. Now we crash the cars at 100MPH, so we've discovered a new turbo/piston hybrid element. We're hoping to ramp up to 200MPH, where the fabled crankshaft/injector is rumored to exist.
[17:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:59] <exec> 08└─He read "Large Hard-on Collider" and wanted to make it clear that hand size and penis size are in no way correlated and that he had no problems with either, nope, nosirre, ignore that lying skank Stormy Daniels...
[17:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:14] <exec> 08└─I doubt that matters. Since the chip packages are standardized, and the only thing that can be visually distinguished between two chips in the same package, is the printing on the face of it, inserting counterfeits is probably as simple as bribing a truck driver. At this point I think it is fair to...
[17:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:15] <exec> 08└─you people are really dumb if you can't discern USA's ruling class war propaganda
[17:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe bring some of these manufacturing jobs back 'home' to the UK & US? I mean, that wouldn't completely prevent this type of secret-chip-embedded in hardware problem, but it sounds like that would go a long way toward's helping-out.
[17:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 1824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:20] <exec> 08└─"If servers were phoning home to China, no one would notice?" This is a needle in haystack problem that is created partly by the CDN's. They don't have to phone home to China, they only have to phone home to a CDN, which can then proxy the data back to China. The content looks like any other SSL enc...
[17:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:22] <exec> 08└─Or maybe use a well known design and verify it by destructively auditing samples, read: ESM analysis versus known matrices or dies? They designed the chips themselves, didn't they? Oh, but then USA backdoors may come into the light. Let's not do it and answer all questions in this matter with intell...
[17:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:24] <exec> 08└─At the same time, there was hysteria about Huawei equipment being bugged...
[17:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:26] <exec> 08└─There is such thing as "trusted factories", specifically designed to avoid this kind of surprises for classified and sensitive payloads.
[17:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study in Mice Suggests Cosmic Radiation Exposure Could Harm Gut Health - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:41] <exec> 08└─Not even a rat. A 20-gram mouse. Mice are much more similar to humans than rats are, which is why they're commonly used in pre-human trials. How can studies on mice apply to humans? [howstuffworks.com] But the researchers of the world aren't just choosing mice because they're a cheap date that you c...
[17:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:26] <exec> 08└─Imagine some brewery invented star trek synthehol with no negative effects of alcohol, no liver damage no cancer no drunk driving not even fattening. Then Big Brother bans it because "hurr-durr beer is bad 4 U causes cancer and makes the frogs gay"
[17:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:53] <exec> 08└─I can plagiarize an Einstein paper without understanding it. Does that mean it contains no useful information?
[17:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:55] <exec> 08└─Now try submitting it to a journal as original work. We'll wait! It would probably be accepted because it does contain useful information. That's kind of my point...
[17:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:57] <exec> 08└─Story selection does seem a bit biased lately. A nominee for the Supreme Court is caught lying about warrant-less wiretapping and Iraq torture and it's rejected. But, this nonsense makes the front page?
[17:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:59] <exec> 08└─They are "smart people"
[17:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:01] <exec> 08└─Fair enough if you submit that journal to the catholic church of the yonder. You can't accept plagiarized Mein Kampf in a journal that's fighting nazism.
[17:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:03] <exec> 08└─Another example of why argumentem ad Hitlerum is fallacious: Adolf Hitler really loved playing with his dogs. Ergo, all people who play with their dogs are evil mass-murdering bastards.
[17:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:06] <exec> 08└─What he was was a guy whose sense of morals was so twisted by his circumstances that he thought mass murder was a righteous act
[17:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:08] <exec> 08└─No, Sokal plagiarized one of the most convincing authors of all time. He was an evil fuck but you've got to admit he was good at his job.
[17:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:10] <exec> 08└─This is not nonsense. https://www.sciencealert.com [sciencealert.com] https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com] https://www.chronicle.com
[17:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:12] <exec> 08└─Well said indeed!
[17:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:14] <exec> 08└─Only when the ethnic extermination of the Jews became common knowledge did they begin to object.
[17:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:35] <exec> 08└─> Shirley everyone knows that Nude Zealand and the Former Penis Colony of Austrailing just a bit > My point? We could have been much better served, as a community, with an aristarchus submission. The evidence points to "no".
[17:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:36] <exec> 08└─> once self-driving cars go mainstream Bad assumption. I don't think this will be happening, there are just too many edge cases where it won't work correctly/will cause accidents.
[17:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:39] <exec> 08└─I don't trust this stuff at all. You KNOW it's gonna be implemented completely half-assed and some cracker's going to steal whatever master keys are used for this and use it to cause utter havoc. Ever play Rockman.exe/Megaman Battle Network? Imagine that except with no helpful Navi avatars to actual...
[17:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:41] <exec> 08└─prevent situations such as we saw in the Original"Mad Max" movie, where the bad guys force the good guys to become the bad guys, and then the entire world is nuked, or some such, to give us Mad Max 2, or, The Road Warrior.
[17:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversy Over ISS Leak Continues, Spacewalk Planned for November - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:59] <exec> 08└─disregard that, I suck cocks
[17:51:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 340 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:07] <exec> 08└─If you're working close to the metal, use C. C++ adds little to no value, makes your code bloated and unreadable, ties you to a particular version of a particular compiler, has exceptions welded in, the standard libraries are atrocious and no two people can agree on how to write it. It takes all day...
[17:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:36] <exec> 08└─Now that is a dank take on the world. Everything sucks. And probably accurate. May SMOD relieve our suffering!
[17:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:38] <exec> 08└─Guess what champ, you juts became part of the problem when you do that. What is the word you would use to describe your "abstraction layer"? Yup, you just created yet another API / Framework that, being a one off for your product, will be buggy and poorly maintained and likely have inadequate docume...
[17:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:40] <exec> 08└─“Ruby on Rails” Is that some porn series about a girl with a train fetish?
[17:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 1392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:42] <exec> 08└─The problem is not realizing when programmers are more expensive than throwing hardware at a problem and when they aren't. The example in the article was a bad one. A script a single person runs daily and gets a correct answer from in a second or two is not a candidate for any further optimization....
[17:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:44] <exec> 08└─I use the term “BIOYA” model. Pronounced boy-ya. Stands for, “Blow it out your ass,” since that is where most project time estimates come from.
[17:51:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Secretive EU Copyright Negotiations Started Tuesday: Here’s Where We Stand - 704 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:54] <exec> 08└─Not to give too much credence to a media industry that's full of totally avoidable shammery, but isn't a major part of what investigative journalism so dead because of the difficulty cultivating a paying audience in the internet era? Opinion is cheap, and gets enough clicks to pay for itself. Real n...
[17:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:08] <exec> 08└─That is why you have the UI designer role separate from the UI implementor role. The designer can specify look-n-feel, layout, etc via mockups and/illustrations. The implementor is then tasked to do it in real code for the target platform. And on good teams, both roles work together so the implement...
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[18:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Email Compromise Easy for Cybercriminals: Inboxes and Credentials Openly Accessible on Web - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:07] <exec> 08└─We're paying a coked out crazy man who killed his neighbor $10,000 a week to scan every activity you do all the time. This will somehow protect us!
[18:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:22] <exec> 08└─No, that's just looking at fragments of the originals. If you want a proper analogy, you crash two Chevys at high speed and you get out two Chevys and a Prius.
[18:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:23] <exec> 08└─New exhibits for the particle zoo.
[18:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:25] <exec> 08└─That was my first thought as well - but those are specifically *elementary* particles - not even protons and neutrons are included. And those are definitely particles in their own right - just not elementary ones. Those elementary particles can be combined in*many* different ways, and the resulting...
[18:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:28] <exec> 08└─People with parody accounts but no real accounts are the real criminals.
[18:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:30] <exec> 08└─Those elementary particles can be combined in*many* different ways, and the resulting particles will have different properties than the paltry two we're accustomed to. Actually producing such particles and studying their properties is a challenge in its own right
[18:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:32] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraquark [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:34] <exec> 08└─Fine 680 + 2380 + 6188 = 9248 combinations. Have a computer "write them down".
[18:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:36] <exec> 08└─The question is does this help answer fundamental questions? Does it lead towards a grand unified theory, or deeper understanding of gravity that could help? (for example) We might not know the answer until we're looking back having figured those things out.
[18:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:39] <exec> 08└─There are 131, 071 possible combinations of 17 particles in sets of 1:17. So I just discovered more particles than anyone else in history.
[18:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:01] <exec> 08└─1) Victims claim it's fake news: https://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com] 2) Adding an _additional_ tiny chip to do all of what is claimed sounds rather implausible: the malicious chips were thin enough that they’d...
[18:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:03] <exec> 08└─I am honestly surprised the Chinese bothered with their own little spy chips, might have been easier to try to find the existing backdoors already in place. Although I suspect these chips may predate the new "inbuilt" backdoors currently being toted about.
[18:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:05] <exec> 08└─This is actually plausible. Both Amazon and Apple have denied their hardware was effected. Of course they could be lying to save face though we don't (and most likely will never know). Other speculation includes the affected hardware being removed in secret in cooperation with the US government. One...
[18:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:07] <exec> 08└─The Chinks at it again. Why not do business instead with a friendlier commie govt? Like Vietnam? We're all friends now, right, united in our belief in a Higher Dollar? We can hand them all our knowledge and build them up.
[18:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study in Mice Suggests Cosmic Radiation Exposure Could Harm Gut Health - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:23] <exec> 08└─Nothing more to say.
[18:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study in Mice Suggests Cosmic Radiation Exposure Could Harm Gut Health - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:24] <exec> 08└─Consider that the mouse's DNA looks startlingly like ours
[18:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study in Mice Suggests Cosmic Radiation Exposure Could Harm Gut Health - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:26] <exec> 08└─I think how you define "similar" matters the most. Also I've looked into how they construct some of these genomes, and sometimes they use another species genome as a "scaffold" to fill in the blanks. So I wouldn't be so quick to accept these "similarities". In Jurassic park they used frog DNA instea...
[18:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:14] <exec> 08└─A big problem is that humans all start out stupid (more precisely, "unwise"), and they only lose that gradually over a long number of years. It's not curable, it's something you have to deal with.
[18:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:16] <exec> 08└─There's expected lack of wisdom and then there's straight up Darwinian unfitness. Too many kids today are exhibiting the latter rather than the former because their parents had little to no wisdom to pass on. This is a big problem given that only a small portion of the wisdom you attempt to pass on...
[18:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:18] <exec> 08└─Man, I love the nick but you've so blindingly obviously not experienced the attempts to quit both of the above. Reducing your sugars intake will cause actual symptoms and going cold turkey on carbs can cause you an unpleasant week if you refuse to supplement your diet to avoid the symptoms but neith...
[18:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:20] <exec> 08└─"Fruit Medley. Peaches, grapes and berries with herbal notes." Yeah nothing teenage boys love more than fresh grapes with herbal notes.
[18:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:22] <exec> 08└─I don't disagree in principle but I absolutely do disagree with the state having any authority to legislate from a parental vector. They are most certainly neither my parent nor the parent of any children I may eventually have.
[18:46:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:35] <exec> 08└─Sokal produced a passable undergraduate paper on post-modernism, but he did not understand it
[18:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:01] <exec> 08└─How soul-sick has this country become that torture and warrantless wiretapping are considered partisan issues.
[18:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:03] <exec> 08└─And the open-access pay-to-publish journal standards are of course even lower, to the point where the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology published one of my favorite academic papers of all time: Get me off Your F***ing Mailing List [stanford.edu] I have to admit I've occasionally...
[18:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:05] <exec> 08└─Something like 80% of humanities papers and 35% of social science papers never receive a single citation. The actual point [wikipedia.org] is that soft sciences produce results that are frequently non-reproducible and postmodernist papers are routinely entirely untestable, subjective hypothesis.
[18:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:07] <exec> 08└─You realize you've just declared most of academia less self-aware, morally stalwart, and intellectually able than me, yes? I may on occasion be wrong about something but it's damned well my own wrongness rather than someone else's coming from my mouth.
[18:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:09] <exec> 08└─My impression, and this could be wrong, is that public opinion turned against the Nazis more because of the various Allied armies (particularly the Red Army) on their doorstep than any other factor, including knowledge of the Holocaust.
[18:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:11] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they are able to at least reply to the correct post?
[18:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:14] <exec> 08└─At least your brain is too tiny to feel its own pain, so you got that going for you which is nice.
[18:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:16] <exec> 08└─...and an expression of reactionary right-wing grievance wrapped in the window-dressings of science isn't partisan. Yeah, somebody's been socially engineered.
[18:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:42] <exec> 08└─There's what, $50-100 billion on the line at this point? I have another story here [techcrunch.com] about a SoftBank and Toyota partnership.
[18:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:43] <exec> 08└─I have zero doubt that you don't trust this stuff. But at some point, almost every car on the market will become a surveillance device and potential police informant. Maybe a decade later, and there will be a Cash for Clunkers 2.0 designed to remove older cars from the streets. Maybe another ten yea...
[18:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:45] <exec> 08└─Seriously, "variable windspeed"???? WTF. You're out of your mind. The shot is taken from the minimum safe helicopter height, aiming straight down. In an area with normal buildings and trees, that height is about 50 feet. Wind and turbulence will do nothing to 50 caliber at a distance of 50 feet. Nei...
[18:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:39] <exec> 08└─See my comment above about the size of the bluetooth stack on Fedora. That isn't being driven by rampant consumerism, it is driven by stupidity.
[18:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:41] <exec> 08└─Since the last election, the regex in the title text is irreparably broken: There's no way a regex at the same time both matches Clinton (last name of Bill Clinton) and doesn't match Clinton (last name of Hillary Clinton).
[18:57:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GeoCities Dies in March 2019, and with it a Piece of Internet History - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:37] <exec> 08└─I came here to say just this, I thought it was hanging out with the Dodo. ??
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[19:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Business Email Compromise Easy for Cybercriminals: Inboxes and Credentials Openly Accessible on Web - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:55] <exec> 08└─Diversity good!!
[19:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Email Compromise Easy for Cybercriminals: Inboxes and Credentials Openly Accessible on Web - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:56] <exec> 08└─Whattaya mean, "offtopic"? For the past decade or so, we've been taught that diversity is a good thing, in and of itself, and that we should all strive for diversity in all things. This story says that criminals are now into diversity. Is this not a desirable outcome?
[19:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:19] <exec> 08└─Your Nobel Peace Prize is in the mail.
[19:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:20] <exec> 08└─Also, isn't 17 the "Q-th" letter of the alphabet? Another Q-proof.
[19:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:22] <exec> 08└─No - because at that point they've only been predicted, not discovered. Much like the Uu... elements in the periodic table - their existence was predicted decades ago, but they're weren't considered "discovered" (nor properly named) until someone actually manages to synthesize one of them. Just beca...
[19:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:24] <exec> 08└─QAnon = John de Lancie
[19:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:27] <exec> 08└─Fuck Sigma Beta! Just sayin'
[19:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study in Mice Suggests Cosmic Radiation Exposure Could Harm Gut Health - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:09] <exec> 08└─Is that your gut reaction?
[19:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study in Mice Suggests Cosmic Radiation Exposure Could Harm Gut Health - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:11] <exec> 08└─In Jurassic park they used frog DNA instead of bird dna as the scaffold and look what happened.
[19:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study in Mice Suggests Cosmic Radiation Exposure Could Harm Gut Health - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:13] <exec> 08└─Yea, but the real T-rex didn't run, didn't stick out its tongue or lick anything, quacked instead of roaring, and had plumage instead of scales.
[19:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study in Mice Suggests Cosmic Radiation Exposure Could Harm Gut Health - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:15] <exec> 08└─I forgot was a "sensitive lover": https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com]
[19:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:07] <exec> 08└─Some day, I hope to perform the kind of research that scores government grants so I can study the attitudes among the American people of eating your dog after it was killed in a car crash. As for legalizing marriage among first cousins: Not long after my hot teenage first cousin kissed me smack on t...
[19:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 2534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:08] <exec> 08└─Even my staunch Republican father, who registered Libertarian when "Ronald Reagan betrayed the Republican ideal by raising taxes", when asked about the Un-American Activities Committee by my father quietly, quite sternly replied "It was unconstitutional". Eric was nine at the time - young enough not...
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[19:46:10] <exec> 08└─I have a cupboard filled with flavors and straight VG & PG for mixing up flavors, but 50% of the time I go with straight unflavored juice. THe rest of the time it's just light mint flavors, sometimes with a hint of tobacco or clove. I really don't understand the crazy shit people do.
[19:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe broaden your scope to "fuck authoritarians" instead of always saying "the left". I know, you like to play like Fox News. "Fair and balanced" laaaaawl
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[19:46:15] <exec> 08└─You can get unflavored VG/PG pretty cheaply online. ~$20/gallon is normal, and flavors are cheap as well. One gallon has lasted me over a year now. I'd also recommend building your own coils, even though it is a bit of a pain compared to just swapping them out. Once you know what kind of wire you wa...
[19:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:17] <exec> 08└─"Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh"
[19:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:19] <exec> 08└─I have come to regard my own caffeine addiction is incredibly harmful. A while back I kicked coffee cold turkey then was completely overcome with nausea and powerful headaches for a solid month, at which time I went to my monthly witch doctor appointment. Said witch doctor advised me to start drink...
[19:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:21] <exec> 08└─Oh, but wait a second. Just hold on. Righties in their tighty whiteys were happy to sell cigarettes to minors, thirty or forty years ago. Righties will sell you strychnine with which to commit suicide, so long as there is a profit in it. As far as I can see, it's the CTRL-Left whose panties are wadd...
[19:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:08] <exec> 08└─Those aren't partisan issues. Both parties are in favor.
[19:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:09] <exec> 08└─Sixth, there should be better ways of making these determinations without resorting to unethical fraud. Any other fields than law enforcement or politicians say, "Yes, we resorted to lying and deceit as part of bringing you these results but...." would promptly find themselves before an ethics commi...
[19:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:11] <exec> 08└─spare us your protofascist everybody is equally bad schtick.
[19:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:13] <exec> 08└─that was rabidly anti-semitic. While it's quite commonly said that no one knows who wrote "The Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Zion", I read somewhere that it was written by the editor of that same newspaper.
[19:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:44] <exec> 08└─Film at 11.
[19:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:45] <exec> 08└─I keep watching the submissions queue for your articles. They're fun to read! Plus, I'm wondering how long it will be before you've found a way to link World Socialist Web Site to the alt-right.
[19:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, but are you sure that, just in case, it might not be a good idea to instead use a radar-guided missile to disable the suspect's vehicle?
[19:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:47] <exec> 08└─What if a small town gets a lot of tourism in the future? Clearly, that is valid justification to spend millions to build a ten lane highway through the town now.
[19:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What to Expect From the U.S. Wireless Emergency Alert Test Today - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:48] <exec> 08└─In 2014 my dearest hope was that Warren would run for president. I would have bled for her. She was the only one then talking about taking on the Wall Street banks. Then she met with Hillary, who seems to have sucked the soul right out of her body. Now she's like a golem. So I switched my hopes to B...
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[20:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:15] <exec> 08└─I imagine this is the same with adults. In fact all of these behaviors seem to go together pretty often. It's all escapism.
[20:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:16] <exec> 08└─This was my first thought. That and it was an uncontrolled experiment. Personally, i was very sleep deprived growing up (we lived far from school, so it took a few hours each way) and didn't engage in any of their risky behaviors. Maybe they should study why some kids did while others did not and fi...
[20:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:18] <exec> 08└─If science has proven one thing, it's that humans are hard-wired to interpret correlation as causation. I do sincerely believe that the vast majority of people just cannot differentiate between these concepts, regardless of how much they are explained.
[20:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:21] <exec> 08└─Its not "people", its medical (in this case) researchers. Then the general population ("the people") is just using the argument from authority heuristic and not thinking much about the topic.
[20:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:23] <exec> 08└─I know I can tolerate less sleep, or wake up feeling more energetic after I've had a night of good sex. I imagine for many people it is similar with booze, partying, and other drugs. It is all about finding something that the day after left you feeling relaxed, even if you're not any more well reste...
[20:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:25] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Kids who stay up late, and/or all night, roaming the streets, or crashing parties aren't going to get a lot of sleep. It isn't the lack of sleep that causes drinking, smoking, and unsafe sex. These kids went out in search of excitement, and lost sleep as a consequence. I remember those days...
[20:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:27] <exec> 08└─I know I can tolerate less sleep, or wake up feeling more energetic after I've had a night of good sex.
[20:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:03] <exec> 08└─That was my thought: if these new quark combos are even meta-stable, they may well have some interesting characteristics not seen in our normal particle repertoire. For instance, if a stream of Σb(6097)+ directed into a main sequence hydrogen fusing star can rapidly accelerate the process of iron c...
[20:45:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 1152 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:18] <exec> 08└─While an impressive little addition to the motherboards, and very hard to find. It still lags behind the Wests spy chips, which are nicely embedded in the processor itself, and hidden in plain view under names like "management engine" and somesuch. Then of course, you got the UEFI bondoogle, an enti...
[20:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:30] <exec> 08└─That's racist. Also, you could build up Vietnam and it would never become the problem that China is given its current borders and population. But on the other hand China will just steal the trade secrets from Vietnam or wherever they are found. The correct response is to make things in the U.S.
[20:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:32] <exec> 08└─You move all Intel microprocessor manufacture to the illegitimate state of israel where the khazars insert their spyware and back doors into hardware you thought was secure. You keep worrying about software security, when the actual problem is the insane psychopathic communist criminal jew adding sp...
[20:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study in Mice Suggests Cosmic Radiation Exposure Could Harm Gut Health - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:54] <exec> 08└─Do you really need studies to say that X could lead to Y? Could cosmic radiation make your hair fall out?
[20:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study in Mice Suggests Cosmic Radiation Exposure Could Harm Gut Health - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:55] <exec> 08└─That's why you wrap them in electrical tape first.
[20:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 3534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:55] <exec> 08└─I support state-mandated parent for the very same reason I support gun control laws: I am very much in favor of responsible gun ownership, but actual experience quite clearly demonstrates that an abundance of gun owners are not so responsible, for example leaving loaded pistols out in plain sight so...
[20:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 1202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:56] <exec> 08└─When I was four years old - 1968 - my family lived on a Navy base. My parents never specifically said but I'm quite certain that was to keep the anti-war protestors from corrupting my innocent mind as well as that of my sister. My father _quite_ sternly instructed me never to cross the street. So di...
[20:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:58] <exec> 08└─The reason I'm so sternly opposed to Zyprexa is because a witch doctor spent an entire year discussing with me whether he should prescribed it. From the very start he warned me that it could cause diabetes. You are correct in a sense, in that it is common for the mentally ill to be diabetic: many ps...
[20:47:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 399 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:48] <exec> 08└─Peter Boghossian is not a "kid", neither are his views right wing. He objects to the unsubstantiated dogma and cult like thinking that was once prevalent in Christian conservatism and have now found a new home in left wing academia via social sciences. Before throwing degenerative labels at others,...
[20:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatOutdoors [6408] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:51] <exec> 08└─I don't often stir the political pot, but when I do, it's fun to watch it explode.. So yeah... Liberals, these are your "intellectual" peers allowing and encouraging this trash to spew from the system. It is your responsibility to deal with it too. From your opponents on the other side of the aisle,...
[20:49:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 1827 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:22] <exec> 08└─You should always question when a technology for this kind of thing turns into presumption of guilt. If a cop car has road spikes (a "stinger" in the UK), then they are presuming that most cars won't ever need to be stopped, just the ones they put it in front of. If they have handcuffs, or batons, o...
[20:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:26] <exec> 08└─Fun fact, that is why you are supposed to blur the license plate when you put pictures online of vehicles. Apparently, there are criminal organizations that slurp up pictures of cars from their state. They then use those photos to put fake license plates on their vehicle that copy the ones online th...
[20:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:28] <exec> 08└─What are we going to do about it? Oh right, we have to vote for the Republicrats because the Dempublicans are more evil! Or the other strategy sure to cause a revolution overnight: stick it to the man by not voting at all!
[20:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversy Over ISS Leak Continues, Spacewalk Planned for November - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:48] <exec> 08└─Who exactly made fools of themselves in this case? Neither NASA nor Roscosmos did because neither of them accused NASA astronauts of drilling holes. Once again that was the media in their pursuit of silly dramas.
[20:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversy Over ISS Leak Continues, Spacewalk Planned for November - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:49] <exec> 08└─Whichever Russians came up with this bullcrap "obviously it must've been an American astronaut sabotaging the ISS, Mother Russia is blameless, no you can't see the evidence for this, shut up and go away." But we've already established that apparently no Russians ever call Putin on his blatant grands...
[20:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:34] <exec> 08└─So your business plan is to sell a shoddy product, wait for it to become popular despite its shoddiness, and only then consider improving it? (If so, you may not be alone.)
[20:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:36] <exec> 08└─Is there a standard ABI now? Can you link modules compiled with one compiler to modules compiled with another? Or do you have to recompile all of your code? And what about templates? As soon as you start to use templates, you have to recompile everything, every single time...
[20:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:38] <exec> 08└─So being a Russian programmer with modern hardware, my code must be fucking awesome!
[20:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:03] <exec> 08└─Cool, thanks for making this tool available! I'll probably spin it up next time I have a >10pg technical doc.
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[21:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:42] <exec> 08└─Who is wasting their time doing these surveys? Let us be honest, most people doing surveys these days are the same people falling for Nigerian prince scams. Everyone else stopped answering any calls or emails or texts from anyone they don't know.
[21:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 1) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:43] <exec> 08└─Who cares if people know anything about Benjamin Franklin, if they can't agree on one set of facts from yesterday?
[21:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:46] <exec> 08└─I haven't thought of the 13 original states since Jr High school, some 50 years ago. You'll have to forgive me for forgetting them, I had to free up some brain cells for Brady Bunch trivia, which is a lot more useful in today's society. Then again, who the hell thought Ben invented the light bulb, o...
[21:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:48] <exec> 08└─Passing the test just shows that you, as an immigrant, might have picked up a little bit about what it means to be an American. Being born and raised in America (and frankly, being born to AMERICAN parents) results in a far more profound understanding, one that might not be captured by a test like t...
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[21:44:51] <exec> 08└─Perhaps?
[21:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:53] <exec> 08└─Someone does not understand their own country. You, it is you.
[21:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:13] <exec> 08└─Single obs may disprove physics, not so much other stats based “science”.
[21:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:15] <exec> 08└─This study is only about U.S high school students and may not apply to places where families are strong and not very liberal/retarded. Most of those students will not do much with their lives. As others mentioned, those activities (drinking, smoking, unsafe sex) are an escape from other problems the...
[21:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:17] <exec> 08└─Just be thankful Forrest Trump felt it fit to be concerned enough about you to force his emergency alert onto you. Radioactive rape, for your own good. If it wasn't for Forrest Trump you would be ignored.
[21:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:28] <exec> 08└─I know that Huawei cut through a few samples of every component they receive to check for bugs and if you're not on the paranoid scale it's probably also quality control. I won't bother reading through these articles because I assume I'm not going to find more technical details (aka. evidence), if t...
[21:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:29] <exec> 08└─I believe that is the entire purpose of this claim, but again that's just my claim.
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[21:48:01] <exec> 08└─I expect it was Ronald Reagan that originated the notion that it was cool for legislators and executives to be idiots. In reality, Ronald Reagan was quite a lot more educated and intelligent than he ever let on, it's just that it worked really well for him to pretend he was a simpleton. Lather rinse...
[21:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:03] <exec> 08└─It is easy to condemn it after the fact, that but is very much something that happened in living memory, and I have no reason to believe it couldn't happen again. So I would rather not have, say, an established secret court they can issue classified subpoenas, or any other process which would make i...
[21:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:05] <exec> 08└─In California specifically - which I am no longer a resident of - I have the idea of proposing a ballot proposition that will grant the right to vote in state and local elections to _anyone_ who has passed the California High School Proficiency Examination. I did so myself, so I could enroll at the...
[21:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Raided E-Cigarette Maker Juul to Look for Evidence That the Company Targets Minors - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:07] <exec> 08└─A while back some cluebot was awarded the Darwin for having attempted to shoot someone, then upon his round failing to discharge, looked straight down the barrel so as to ascertain why. While not an actual Darwin Laureate, some guy was using his gun's flashlight to illuminate the keyhole in his door...
[21:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:05] <exec> 08└─No one said that, try again.
[21:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:06] <exec> 08└─Most engineers that I've worked with are fairly conservative. And the valedictorian of my university (another math student) who went to wall street and retired a couple years later. He is very conservative, but dresses and acts like a hippie (his wife told me he was detained at the airport for being...
[21:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:08] <exec> 08└─How to Deconstruct Almost Anything--My Postmodern Adventure by Chip Morningstar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Morningstar) https://www.info.ucl.ac.be [ucl.ac.be]
[21:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:10] <exec> 08└─deliberately lexically and grammatically dumbed down
[21:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:44] <exec> 08└─Patience, my young Paduwan! Only Sith deal in absolutes.
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[21:54:59] <exec> 08└─To have been educated in Critical Thinking leads one to cry "Bullshit" when one sees, hears or reads bullshit. That's not always as easy as you might expect. Suppose just for the sake of argument that our _only_ only evidence for or against confirming Judge Kavanaugh was last Friday's hearing. Is he...
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[22:44:31] <exec> 08└─No, I'm afraid I'm going to have to side with our contrarian troll today. You're the one who doesn't understand America. The thing that's out of date is the citizenship test. Instead of a passing score being above some amount, passing scores should be scores below a certain amount. Ignorance: the #1...
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[22:44:33] <exec> 08└─What is the Jew-approved answer to cause of Cold War? Is it equally misleading as the Jew-approved answer to the cause of Civil War?
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[22:44:35] <exec> 08└─Bad education system perhaps?
[22:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:37] <exec> 08└─Can it be considered bad when it meets its objective?
[22:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:39] <exec> 08└─Only 2% thought the cold war was caused climate change, proof positive that common core has failed!
[22:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:42] <exec> 08└─A couple days ago I read of some politician's call for "civics to be taught in school again". They don't teach CIVICS anymore? Civics teaches stuff like what it is about America that leads us to believe we have freedom of speech or the God-given right to drive Heavy Armor down main street provided w...
[22:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:44] <exec> 08└─A couple of year ago one of my coworkers was trying to pass the citizenship test and was studying like crazy for it. She asked me to quiz her on the answers because she wanted to get a perfect score. In my experience folks that come into the US legally and sit for the citizenship test put greater va...
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[22:44:46] <exec> 08└─When I was going to school (in Oregon) back in the 90s we did not have a civics class in k-12. What little civics we discussed was mostly the modern Ginsburg style civics where you look to other model countries from Europe or post-apartheid South Africa. It isn't just that in some areas they are not...
[22:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:48] <exec> 08└─Because there is no practical use for civics and only education that Does Stuff (tm) is deemed worthwhile these days.
[22:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:50] <exec> 08└─The test prep documents for the citizenship test are far harder than the tests they actually use. For example. Test prep: name the original 13 colonies. Actual test: name 3 of the original 13 colonies.
[22:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:53] <exec> 08└─The press on a regular basis covers the ceremonies when newly-minted Americans actually become citizens, generally with quotes from a few of them. The very proudest and most ardently-American newly minted Americans are those who are overcome with joy because they were born and raised in countries wh...
[22:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:55] <exec> 08└─What did you eat for breakfast 64 days ago? It is quite simple stuff, you should be able to remember such an easy fact right?
[22:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:57] <exec> 08└─more importantly. I wonder
[22:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:59] <exec> 08└─I've posted this before but I'll leave this here [thedreyfussinitiative.org] too and a great interview. [youtube.com]
[22:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:01] <exec> 08└─If what you say is true than I say good. People shouldn't be judged on their ability to study or retain knowledge. However, trying is a very good quality and one that should make any American proud. So, we ask that they try and don't set them up for failure. At least I hope that's how it works. If n...
[22:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:04] <exec> 08└─Legal aliens.
[22:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:06] <exec> 08└─Looks to me like they used a pretty good strategy. I mean, the goal was obviously to come up with a good headline, which they did. I especially like how they turned similar to the citizenship exam
[22:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:08] <exec> 08└─If what you say is true than I say good.
[22:45:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:19] <exec> 08└─Headline is a head scratcher -- maybe it should read "kids who party get less sleep" -- to turn the equation the other way (getting less sleep makes kids party) seems like a bit of a leap.
[22:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:32] <exec> 08└─Good-ole causation/corellation snafu. For all we know gettign ass-fucked without a condom causes one to not sleep well.
[22:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:34] <exec> 08└─I [imagine that many people can] tolerate less sleep, or wake up feeling more energetic after... booze
[22:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:36] <exec> 08└─General who?
[22:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:38] <exec> 08└─Teens that drink, smoke and have unsafe sex are more apt to party every night and get sleep-deprived
[22:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:41] <exec> 08└─Corner cases are always the most interesting. Stick 100 identical plants in a dark room for a month and they all die. OK, plants die in the dark. Stick 100 identical plants in a dark room for a month and they all die except one which seems to thrive. You could learn a lot about what it takes to surv...
[22:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:43] <exec> 08└─Same thing, just reading it 'correlation is not causation' jumped out at me.
[22:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:57] <exec> 08└─I've seen many assembly lines. Nobody has a clue what the chips they put on the PCBs do. Put the tray/reel in, check the part is soldered. Run the test you go from ENG, move on to the next board. You need a guy or five in engineering, optionally an additional guy in Test Engineering. Purchasing guy...
[22:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Spy Chips Allegedly Inserted Into Amazon, Apple, etc. Datacenters by Super Micro - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:58] <exec> 08└─.... natalia portmans covered in hot grits, naked and petrified.
[22:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:35] <exec> 08└─If you're going to censor Aristarchus for his politically biased submissions then at least have the guts to apply the same rule to every submission. Oh wait, this one is more *palatable* to some.
[22:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:37] <exec> 08└─Right, nobody said that. They don't have to. Have you ever heard the term "dogwhistle"?
[22:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:39] <exec> 08└─Umm.. no. It's actually a very get standard part of police work. And local government enforcement. That is why they send underage looking kids in to bars to try and order alcohol, the police have undercover agents trying to buy drugs, etc. So no. You are completely wrong.
[22:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:17] <exec> 08└─Yyyyyyyup :/ Sure seems that way. Now, growing up poor in NYC means I never learned to drive, so I just walk or take the bus everywhere, but at some point I am going to need to learn, and at some later point will likely get a car. There's really no way around it in the US...
[22:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:18] <exec> 08└─Yep. It's like a trunk, and it's used like a trunk, and we used to carry trunks around just as you describe (and well before motor vehicles did it, too... check out stagecoaches, personal coaches, etc.) Perfectly apt description. Then there's shipment (sent by truck) and cargo (sent by ship.) Slim c...
[22:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:21] <exec> 08└─-10 humor impairment
[22:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bold" New Plan for Police Pursuits - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:23] <exec> 08└─Sophomoric humor from a philosopher? Yes, someone is impaired here.
[22:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:32] <exec> 08└─I simply sat and done[sic] it
[22:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:33] <exec> 08└─Sure. I'm sure there lots of example of true stupidity in code. I've seen em myself and dailyWTF and codinghorror has lots of em. The blog post talks about bloatware in browsers and our PCs getting beefier but still going slow. In general all these are because of adware and telemetry. That is not ju...
[22:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:35] <exec> 08└─Critical thinking applied to the current SCOTUS mess actually looks very different. Once you realize that arguing the merits of the he said, she said means you already lost the game you can arrive at the Truth. If there existed 8x10 color glossy photographs of this alleged drunken grope it still doe...
[22:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offline WYSIWYG in 2018 - A Dying Breed - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:04] <exec> 08└─Most welcome. :)
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[23:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Integrates LTE Modem Into Custom Multi-Chip Module for New HP Laptop - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:29] <exec> 08└─They named their computer the Spectre Folio, instead of the Meltdown Folio.
[23:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:03] <exec> 08└─Me too, 85%, me too, not even US citizen. BTW if you turn off javascript it shows all the options with their correct/incorrect mark.
[23:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:04] <exec> 08└─I thought the summary was clear. 81% of millennials believe that Benjamin Franklin invented the lightbulb, that Dwight Eisenhower beat Lincoln at Gettysburg, and that Ruby on Rails is a useful programming tool. And you wonder why companies want to hire H1Bs.
[23:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:06] <exec> 08└─Duterte, Kim, and Xi are all people that Trump needs to deal with. Getting cooperation means both carrot and stick. If it helps to make a foreign leader look good to his people, Trump does that. If an insulting tweet might be better ("Rocketman" eventually leading peace) then Trump does that. If you...
[23:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:08] <exec> 08└─Before applying for citizenship, you must be a legal alien. If you fail the test, you remain a legal alien.
[23:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:11] <exec> 08└─Who cares if people know anything about Benjamin Franklin
[23:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 061-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:13] <exec> 08└─name 3 of the original 13 colonies
[23:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:42] <exec> 08└─You haven't boofed yet, have you?
[23:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sleep-Deprived Teens More Apt to Drink, Smoke and Have Unsafe Sex - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:43] <exec> 08└─You guys really need to be more responsible in your headline editing. You're going to have every teenager on the planet trying to get by on three hours of sleep because they're dumbasses and don't understand which direction causality happens here.
[23:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:24] <exec> 08└─No. The only question it answers is "How many billion dollars does it take for a particle physicist to change a lightbulb?"
[23:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Scholars Dupe "Grievance Studies" Journals Into Publishing Hoax Papers - 1381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:37] <exec> 08└─The reason this is a problem is because as soon as anything is published in the humanities the existence of a citation is as good as a mathematical proof in the eyes of the many students who go to humanities because it's a subject you can pass by going through the motions. These are the sorts of pe...
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