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[03:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:33] <exec> 08└─This whole "emerging from medival thought" thing in the summary I mean. I hope my society can do that someday.
[03:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:35] <exec> 08└─I hope my society can do that someday.
[03:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:37] <exec> 08└─The first Nova didn't roll off the line until almost three hundred years after 1670.
[03:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:39] <exec> 08└─Latin: nova, as in English "novel", new, unique. Spanish: nova, more properly, no va, as in "doesn't go". See: General Motors products. (The proper Spanish for the Latin would be "nuevo", as in "nuevos rancheros". )
[03:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Calls for Retraction of Dozens of Studies by Noted Cardiologist - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:09] <exec> 08└─Probably another thing placing the wealth of society under democratic control would help with. Instead of $700 some odd billion for killing people, why not $700 some odd billion for getting the work of replication underway?
[03:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cumulative Sub-Concussive Impacts in a Single Season of Youth Football - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:36] <exec> 08└─Problem is the study’s time period is too short. Cognative problems can take a long time to develop, where damage to the brain may have occurred, but has yet to show symptoms. Hmm, scanning the article, this does appear to be part of a four year study. I wonder why they bothered to publish stuff n...
[03:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cumulative Sub-Concussive Impacts in a Single Season of Youth Football - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:37] <exec> 08└─Ah, well now you're on my turf talking about rugby, because I am born and raised in the only country in the world that actually takes rugby seriously.
[03:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cumulative Sub-Concussive Impacts in a Single Season of Youth Football - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:39] <exec> 08└─We still know almost nothing more than we did, and we won't. We do know that a lot of really successful folk played various contact sports back in the age before we all became snowflakes. And the science is pretty much useless since agendas have invaded it. See the next Soylent article for an exampl...
[03:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:33] <exec> 08└─When comments were being accepted, I submitted my own comment. And, of course, my comment was unique. Among other things, I noted that Ajit Pai was a Verizon shill, and that he shouldn't even have the job, let alone decide anything in favor of Verizon. My comment was probably among the first to be t...
[03:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:34] <exec> 08└─Well im not gonna clue you in, self awareness is earned not handed out on a silver platter. Now go get a job!
[03:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:36] <exec> 08└─Ha, i just hope you are trolling, dunno if i can handle you being serious about that stupidity.
[03:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:38] <exec> 08└─Sounds Familiar. They set our comments asside since we are obviously part of the Soylent Troll Farm. They want everyone's opinion, as long as it's the correct opinion. In other news, you can get your Model T in any color, as long as it's black.
[03:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06News From M.I.T. - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:56] <exec> 08└─One has to star _somewhere_.
[03:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Says Hurricane Michael Victims in Florida Deserve a Month of Free Cell Service - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:24] <exec> 08└─Kind of my point. I think its kind of unfair to put fault on the President for issues that are ignored by local government. Puerto Rico, Louisiana, the rest, should have been way better prepared than they actually were for these disasters.
[03:18:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Blymie [4020] 02 - 06Palm Rises From the Dead as a Zombie Brand, Launches Tiny Smartphone - 1082 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:47] <exec> 08└─Yes.. but... I have a Treo 650... the last Palm before it was sold off. At least, as I recall. Anyhow, it has an arrow/navigation button. I can move up/down/left/right, with an OK button in the middle. Icons are SMALL, and have mostly text. Yet, I have more info on that 3" screen, than my modern sma...
[03:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palm Rises From the Dead as a Zombie Brand, Launches Tiny Smartphone - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:01] <exec> 08└─Precisely why I use a retard flipphone, with actual buttons. Pocket durable, just does its damn job, and as a bonus, outright purchase price was 12 bucks.
[03:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:34] <exec> 08└─Every time you give tax breaks to the rich, oppose minimum wage laws, loosen corporate regulations, you're giving the type of people who will *use this to enslave us* a bit more power and bringing them closer.
[03:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:36] <exec> 08└─He's had 50 years of sitting in a wheelchair with his body suffering atrophy to ponder what it means to be on the wrong side of the genetic lottery, and he's had intimate experience in what it means to live and be treated in a "normal" society while being in that condition.
[03:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:38] <exec> 08└─You know what's interesting? There are people out there who have a good career, go to the office a couple of days a week, work out, hang out with other interesting successful people. They all look much more attractive than you, have a calm life they enjoy, travel, just go through a peaceful day. The...
[03:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:21] <exec> 08└─Eh? So there's no death and destruction in the bible at all? Sure, maybe one is more violent than the other, but lets be fair.. just ban the lot of em. Its about time.
[03:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:23] <exec> 08└─I believe we call it Blood Diamond? We should call it Death Oil... conflict is too tame.
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[04:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:16] <exec> 08└─For hence forth, the country will be known as Cannabia and its citizens will be called Cannabians! Recreationally so. The adjustment of the country's flag is trivial but the issue of anthem change is still pending; and it may remain so for a long time, can't sing well while giggling.
[04:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:18] <exec> 08└─There's even a dude in the linked CNN article holding up a modified version of the Canadian flag. Gotta love it!
[04:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:29] <exec> 08└─You can read,
[04:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:31] <exec> 08└─Was it owned by a brown dwarf?
[04:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:33] <exec> 08└─And the semantics and spelling in different languages is relevant exactly how? Not saying that the Buzz'es post makes a relevant or on-topic comment, but... really... do we need to continue a lame pun with irrelevant etymological considerations when we could have instead a nice aristarchus' story to...
[04:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:35] <exec> 08└─No, by a white (electron degenerated) one.
[04:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:37] <exec> 08└─Strictly speaking, he kan reed!
[04:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Calls for Retraction of Dozens of Studies by Noted Cardiologist - 1626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:04] <exec> 08└─A researcher might get away with falsifying obscure stuff that few care about. But the big findings, no way. Those will be built upon, and that serves as the ultimate check. In this case, sounds like a whole lab was set up to do deeper and further exploration of the findings. It was only a matter of...
[04:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Calls for Retraction of Dozens of Studies by Noted Cardiologist - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:05] <exec> 08└─This guy had 31 bogus papers published. They all made it through peer review. And entire businesses were created and funded based on his fraud. A couple of weeks ago the fact that 3 PhDs deliberately set out to defraud the peer review process in another discipline and had something like half of th...
[04:14:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 1268 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:05] <exec> 08└─Let's see what Uncle Sam fucking himself says [sss.gov]: Penalties for Failing to Register Failing to register or comply with the Military Selective Service Act is a felony punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 or a prison term of up to five years, or a combination of both. Also, a person who knowi...
[04:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:31] <exec> 08└─Felony => You cannot vote. Women don't suffer this warped logic. It's preposterous that HALF of the goddamn population doesn't face this terror, and yet has the same vote on whether we go to war, or whether we spend more on welfare, etc. Democracy is a STUPID idea.
[04:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:33] <exec> 08└─And, you're not gonna like it.
[04:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Fans Up in Arms as Mathematica Disappears From Raspbian Downloads - 1663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:16] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure Wolfram isn't going to let you even *see* the source. But, if you aren't using a broken OS, setting up a cross build environment should be pretty easy. A basic armhf cross build environment is as simple to setup on Debian Stretch and above as: apt-get install crossbuild-essential-armhf (...
[04:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jaguar Considers Transformation to EV-Only Brand - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:49] <exec> 08└─You've got me pegged there. Everything I know about British cars I learned from Top Gear/Grand Tour.
[04:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jaguar Considers Transformation to EV-Only Brand - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:51] <exec> 08└─You can't learn anything of importance from Top Gear, it's all entertainment and ego. Yes, it's funny, but if you want to learn about classic British motor vehicles you need to own a few (including motorcycles).
[04:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palm Rises From the Dead as a Zombie Brand, Launches Tiny Smartphone - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:58] <exec> 08└─I'm pining for my old phone so bad. I kept it working till there were no more towers it could talk to. It's in a box somewhere. I looked at the newer dumb phones. Really didn't find anything impressive. I don't like flip phones, but I'd take one if only I could find one with good knobby buttons - bu...
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[04:18:59] <exec> 08└─Text in a rectangle is the bestest button. And the bestest GUI was called XTree Gold.
[04:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palm Rises From the Dead as a Zombie Brand, Launches Tiny Smartphone - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:01] <exec> 08└─"Doesn't make the apps themselves less shit, but it's a start." That's just not historically accurate. It's not a start, it's the opposite. The boat you perceive to be coming towards you - is going away. Google took a free system and crippled it with slaveware, turned it into an extension of their s...
[04:19:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Two Degrees Decimated Puerto Rico's Insect Populations - 1596 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:20] <exec> 08└─From The Real Article, http://www.pnas.org [pnas.org] Other studies have also documented declines in arthropod abundance across a broad range of geography, habitats, and taxa (10⇓–12, 54, 55, 56⇓–58). Research on causal factors has focused on anthropogenic...
[04:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:35] <exec> 08└─!!! KHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Spock: "Curious, his maneuvers suggest 2-dimensional thinking." (Translation: arrogant genetically modified super human not too bright. Word to the wise.)
[04:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:36] <exec> 08└─>studies >posts link to Faux News lol
[04:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Essay Warns of Gene Editing; Final Hawking Research Paper Published - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:38] <exec> 08└─I read the beginning of Mein Kampf, I hated it. I hated his entire ideology and world view. My dad would not be pleased at my reaction.
[04:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:21] <exec> 08└─This is complete bullshit. Were you in Istanbul old town? That's a special little tourist area designed just for you. Cross a little water where all the population lives. Burger King is cardboard with ketchup - there is no meat in it. Those kabobs - they take garbage bags off the street after the ni...
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[05:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:08] <exec> 08└─The jokes will get old fast, but this is their moment.
[05:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:10] <exec> 08└─This is a hardy North American plant that looks like nice greenery. I want it under my front windows. It's sort of toxic, but less so than oleander, and I still have some of that. Four plants won't make much of a hedge.
[05:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03cwadge [3324] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:12] <exec> 08└─I guess it's about time Canadian law began catching up. Unfortunately, Canada is a lot more regressive than a lot of folks seem to think. I guess that's the power of PR.
[05:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:14] <exec> 08└─then I got high. And I thought about Trudeau and concluded "Why even try". So I rolled up a fatty as I started to cry, and then I got high, then I got high, then I got high.
[05:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:17] <exec> 08└─Of course you can't take your weed with you going south, not even into Washington State, because customs enforces Federal law. That's not the issue I'm here to tell you about. Legal use may get you barred from entering the US. https://www.mensjournal.com
[05:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:19] <exec> 08└─2006-2007. On 4/20/2007 there was a smokeout in the small park behind the Vancouver Art Museum. Hemp is not only legal to grow in Canada but the Federal agriculture department actively encourages it, for example by performing studies on how to cultivate it more effectively. In may US cities can be f...
[05:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:21] <exec> 08└─It was more about their rather aggressive neighbor who demanded everyone else make the same dumb laws.
[05:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:38] <exec> 08└─I reckon the Novaember is more on the topic of the present story. But... let's not anticipate.
[05:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:40] <exec> 08└─This whole "emerging from medival thought" thing in the summary I mean.
[05:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:43] <exec> 08└─PREFERENTIAL VOTING. Solves so many two-party problems. You can vote for a third party, and not throw away your vote! I think that this one simple tricktm would greatly help US politics. It's not a panacea, but at least it helps to reduce the situation where you vote Kodos only because Kang is worse...
[05:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:44] <exec> 08└─Better than Voluntary Incel Mastication, amirite?
[05:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Introduces a Memory Card That Fits into a Nano SIM Slot - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:08] <exec> 08└─-lash? I mean like at least 256 GB. I don't want to have to fuck around with memory cards, and I have a Jesus Big music collection.
[05:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Introduces a Memory Card That Fits into a Nano SIM Slot - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:09] <exec> 08└─I listed all their African locations at Soggy Jobs. I'm going to list all their locations sometime but have put it off because they're so huge.
[05:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Scientists Had Trouble Predicting Hurricane Michael’s Rapid Intensification - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:43] <exec> 08└─Sorry to feed the troll, They missed the rapid growth of Michael this time, but by the time they get done updating the model(s) there is a very good chance that they will get it right the next time.
[05:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 0635 Million Voter Records For Sale on Popular Hacking Forum - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:15] <exec> 08└─Both Judge Kavanaugh and Dr. Ford were getting death threats.
[05:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 0635 Million Voter Records For Sale on Popular Hacking Forum - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:16] <exec> 08└─... for those who are concerned about stalkers, one has to visit a certain web page. But by default one's registration info is all public record.
[05:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palm Rises From the Dead as a Zombie Brand, Launches Tiny Smartphone - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:22] <exec> 08└─Samsung Gusto 3. You could probably find a dumber one, but you'd have to hit it with a hammer a few times to catch up. Locked to Verizon, but for the price I didn't care, and that's the best deal and carrier here anyway. Had it about 5 years and the battery is finally getting tired, but a new one wa...
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[05:21:00] <exec> 08└─So what? Are you saying because "Faux News" reported it, then the study must not have happened?
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[13:05:34] <exec> 08└─# telnet myserver.tld 22 Connected to myserver.tld. Escape character is '^]'. SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.5 FreeBSD-20170903 If your implementation relies on libssh then you should see it listed in the bold line. Using telnet to check your ssh server for the latest CVE... ironic.
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[13:05:35] <exec> 08└─only vulnerable versions [...] are vulnerable
[13:05:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:44] <exec> 08└─It seems that no matter how over the top Dilbert [dilbert.com] gets, reality wants to catch up with it...
[13:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:47] <exec> 08└─Back in my day we just had to get ADHD so nothing going on around us short of a fire or someone repeatedly poking us in the head could distract us. The hyper-focus aspect of it absolutely does come in handy once you learn not to choke a bitch for managing to distract you.
[13:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:50] <exec> 08└─But if you use the goggles, you could cram the employees in like sardines. Like a virtual Japanese capsule hotel. with who knows what long term health ramifications
[13:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:52] <exec> 08└─I can only imagine that it would screw up someone's vision
[13:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:54] <exec> 08└─I had to stop wearing contact lenses because I'd forget to blink and they'd dry up ad fall out. (True story) Also https://m5.paperblog.com [paperblog.com]
[13:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:56] <exec> 08└─In my office, I just close the door. I work as a software dev. Bye, from Germany
[13:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:58] <exec> 08└─You'll be set if that noise cancellation works both ways. I'd never be able to work with those blinders. I always buy my glasses with the narrowest possible temples. I need to stay aware of my surroundings, learned that from friends with PTSD, although I don't suffer from that myself.
[13:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:01] <exec> 08└─We have a guy who just openly falls asleep at his desk. Nothing stops employees from sleeping, reading the news, or just goofing off at work. Open plan offices are a lot of crock.
[13:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:03] <exec> 08└─There's nothing like closing the door. With a supermodel in your office. Germany, used to be a great Country. You have Heidi Klum. Used to be a 10. Sadly, she's no longer a 10. Never settle!!!
[13:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:35] <exec> 08└─They are making a profit. $1B in first 9 months this year. $500m last year.
[13:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:36] <exec> 08└─And on the hind leg... they're keeping that one free of any bear trap the Hollywood trash may keep open for them.
[13:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:38] <exec> 08└─YouTube is said to be profitable, although it wasn't for a very long time. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they weren't running ads at all for a long time. That is obviously no longer the case, although they have yet to restrict adblock users for some strange reason. Google parent Alphabet rakes in pro...
[13:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:40] <exec> 08└─VPNs of various kinds work. No extra cost here because of the local pollies who really want to know which porn sites people visit except them of course.
[13:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:34] <exec> 08└─Congratulations, you offered the laziest and most predictable jokes ever.
[13:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:36] <exec> 08└─( o Y o ) I love big-uns best.
[13:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medtronic Locks Out Vulnerable Pacemaker Programmer Kit - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:45] <exec> 08└─File this in your complaint handling system: -?
[13:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:53] <exec> 08└─Oh, DO expand on this. Come on, you made a threat, back it up, little boy. This should be funny...
[13:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Fans Up in Arms as Mathematica Disappears From Raspbian Downloads - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:43] <exec> 08└─I think that's rather debatable, depending on whose marketing you're looking at. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is still largely pushing these things as an educational device, which is exactly why they include all of this software in the first place. And pretty much by definition, if it's being used to...
[13:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Says Hurricane Michael Victims in Florida Deserve a Month of Free Cell Service - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:50] <exec> 08└─The problem with Puerto Rico is their electric grid and their electric generating plant was dead before the storms ever hit. It was in very bad shape. It was in bankruptcy, had no money. Zero -- in fact, LESS THAN ZERO!!!
[13:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Says Hurricane Michael Victims in Florida Deserve a Month of Free Cell Service - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:51] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you, we love NASCAR. We partnered with NASCAR. And we're going to build a beautiful race track in NYC. With 300,000 seats -- biggest race track by far in the entire history of New York. We call it Trump Super Speedway. Because, tremendous speed, super speed -- the likes of which New York d...
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[14:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:29] <exec> 08└─" the transition has been successful"
[14:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:31] <exec> 08└─On a more serious note - thank you for your tireless efforts to the site. This place has been a labour of love (and other emotions!) since inception. We were the spirit of the green site, and Soylent News remains the people who shaped it and gave it life. Best of luck!
[14:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:33] <exec> 08└─I can hear the cheering from some in our community
[14:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:35] <exec> 08└─I trust that you will give Martyb and the team the same support in the future that I have been fortunate enough to enjoy over the past couple of years.
[14:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:37] <exec> 08└─Don't worry Buzzy, we're behind you all the way! (interpret as you see fit)
[14:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trivial Authentication Bypass in Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:47] <exec> 08└─https://www.libssh.org/features/ [libssh.org] Does anyone use the server side code? Perhaps they censored the web page to only list client side code users when they learned about the bug, or maybe its code nobody uses so it had a huge hole for a long time. I've not been successful at finding anythin...
[14:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:06] <exec> 08└─We should check our remote worker privileges as my house also has doors.
[14:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 2598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:07] <exec> 08└─I was thinking maybe that is more mental health than anything else. If I knew I worked at a place that issued me blinders because they decided to make an open office environment to foster creativity due to the more easily promoted interactions with my peers, co-workers, and loud mouth on speakerphon...
[14:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:09] <exec> 08└─More proof that you didn't work for your money.
[14:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:12] <exec> 08└─I'd expect it to be kinda similar to putting on a pair of glasses. If you only wear contacts for a long time, then put on a pair of glasses with *exactly the same prescription*...you'll pretty quickly feel nauseous or vaguely sea-sick, and it might take several days or even a couple weeks to get use...
[14:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06BepiColombo Mission to Mercury Set for Launch on October 20 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:21] <exec> 08└─For those wondering, the launch time is 01:45:28 (OCT. 20) GMT according to arianespace [arianespace.com].
[14:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 802.11ay Wi-Fi Chips that Can Transmit 10 Gbps Within Line-of-Sight - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:32] <exec> 08└─Soon there will be 60 GHz light fixtures that you run fiber to.
[14:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:50] <exec> 08└─They've been saving money by making their DVD-by-mail service shittier by the day.
[14:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:52] <exec> 08└─a business model that almost seems designed to never turn a profit, which prevents any need to pay tax. FTFY
[14:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:54] <exec> 08└─I didn't know they still had one. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It says they are keeping it around until at least 2022.
[14:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:56] <exec> 08└─FYI: This stock has gone from 334 to 405 to 360 since October 16.
[14:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:58] <exec> 08└─Does this number matter? Don't people look at the free cash flow because netflix has a crapload of expenses they are pushing into the future?
[14:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:01] <exec> 08└─From the Q3 financial statement cashflow tab it shows they spent 1,704,169 more than they made (1,077,308) so far in 2018. https://ir.netflix.com [netflix.com]
[14:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:03] <exec> 08└─Streaming services can't even come close to the DVD-by-mail service for selection.
[14:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:21] <exec> 08└─Do not roll a joint with flash paper. Do not use flash paper in an origami project to make an ash tray.
[14:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:23] <exec> 08└─for winning the War on Drugs! Me? At my age I don't need drugs. All I have to do is stand up fast.
[14:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:25] <exec> 08└─Adults of at least 18 years old
[14:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:27] <exec> 08└─I had problems with glaucoma, but then I got high Smelled the cannabis aroma, and I got high Glaucoma getting better and I know why Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high I used to smoke cigarettes, but then I got high Getting tired and call it quits, but them I got high I'm play...
[14:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:05] <exec> 08└─Still waiting for one about the white one killing the brown one for reasons. I'd offer one up but can't think of one. I'll just wait until Fark gets ahold of this news.
[14:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:06] <exec> 08└─✦⃝Y✦⃝
[14:10:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Fans Up in Arms as Mathematica Disappears From Raspbian Downloads - 509 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:52] <exec> 08└─...so it's something you can download and install for free later if you choose to do so? Exactly as it should have been from the beginning? What exactly is the problem here? This is an image designed to fit on a four gig SD card "hard drive". It is not designed for desktop PCs with terrabyte drives....
[14:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Fans Up in Arms as Mathematica Disappears From Raspbian Downloads - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:11] <exec> 08└─So what is the complaint here?
[14:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Fans Up in Arms as Mathematica Disappears From Raspbian Downloads - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:12] <exec> 08└─This makes it sound all doom, manipulative, evil capitalist twisting mustaches when planning on plotting on how to foreclose on the orphanage. But think about what the alternative is. "You need to spend $335 [wolfram.com] to buy software, untested and sight unseen. Hopefully it works on your compute...
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[15:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppeteer Caroll Spinney Announces Retirement from Sesame Street - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:18] <exec> 08└─Did Sesame Street unionize? Two people doing what one guy did.... yup...union.
[15:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Puppeteer Caroll Spinney Announces Retirement from Sesame Street - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:20] <exec> 08└─You are such a Grouch.
[15:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:33] <exec> 08└─Wishing you and your wife nothing but the best. Medical situations are never easy, and they can become all consuming. Hopefully everything works out the way you want it to.
[15:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:34] <exec> 08└─"Enclosed please find my company's year 2000 form 1120 as you requested. The reason I am mailing this from Canada is that my wife has a chronic medical condition. As a citizen of Canada, she is entitled to free medical care. Sincerely, Michael D. Crawford" "Dear Mr. Crawford, Thank you for filing yo...
[15:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:36] <exec> 08└─No... I'm not going, but being E-in-C gave us so much! I really hope you have a good care team (professional and family) supporting you to help you work through the practical challenges you're now facing. And you continue to get the best outcomes you can have as conditions change - it can be so hard...
[15:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:39] <exec> 08└─Jayne Cobb : Ten percent of nothing is, let me do the math here, nothing into nothing, carry the nothin'... You all do a great job... sorry about your wife, JanrinROCKS! I'm hoping MY wife doesn't get bad: hoping it's all going to amount to your raise, lol. Again, thanks to everyone for the job they...
[15:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trivial Authentication Bypass in Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:50] <exec> 08└─Shodan reported 6000+ matches. https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] But if there is only one and it happens to be the nuclear launch system or the internet fridge holding my lunch, then it is t...
[15:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trivial Authentication Bypass in Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:51] <exec> 08└─https://www.shodan.io/search?query=libssh-0.6.0 [shodan.io] At least a few servers out there using it...
[15:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:16] <exec> 08└─Did they test it Congress?
[15:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:18] <exec> 08└─I spent most of my shift yesterday with one or two people standing behind my desk telling me to work on one task; someone sending me IMs asking me to immediately work on another task, and my phone constantly ringing with someone else asking for ANOTHER task. All expected to be done right this second...
[15:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:20] <exec> 08└─They need to combine this with integrated Ankle Bracelets and Tasers.
[15:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:22] <exec> 08└─September 1996. Lol, the month I started college. Truly, nothing ever changes.
[15:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:24] <exec> 08└─After reading Dune as a kid, these words have stuck with me all my life: "Never sit with your back to a door."
[15:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:26] <exec> 08└─Nothing stops them from reading SoylentNews, either. Get back to work, folks!
[15:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BepiColombo Mission to Mercury Set for Launch on October 20 - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:37] <exec> 08└─Mercury: 1 flyby (Mariner 10 in 1975), 1 orbiter (MESSENGER) Venus: 6 successful flybys (3 for gravity assists) with observations, 19 successful orbiters and/or landers and/or atmospheric probes. The Soviet Union was especially prolific here. Mars: a shitload of orbiters, landers, rovers, and flybys...
[15:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BepiColombo Mission to Mercury Set for Launch on October 20 - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:39] <exec> 08└─Uranus and Neptune Are Potential Targets for 2030s Missions [soylentnews.org] NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before [soylentnews.org] They are more expensive to reach, and missions to them take much longer. Saturn's Enceladus and Titan are high-priority moons. Jupiter's Europa is a...
[15:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BepiColombo Mission to Mercury Set for Launch on October 20 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:41] <exec> 08└─Verify Einstein's theory of general relativity by measuring the parameters gamma and beta of the parameterized post-Newtonian formalism with high accuracy.
[15:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 802.11ay Wi-Fi Chips that Can Transmit 10 Gbps Within Line-of-Sight - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:54] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure it can also bounce off walls. It just won't be penetrating walls.
[15:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:42] <exec> 08└─There are two laws. Federal law, and Provincial. In some cases, in Canada -- one has full jurisdiction, and in others... the other. For alcohol, it isn't 19. It's "19 for whatever province decides that". In this case, Federal law is stipulating the minimum age. Provinces can, and many havel mandated...
[15:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:43] <exec> 08└─You can't sing the new National Anthem "Oh Cannabis"?
[15:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:45] <exec> 08└─Does this mean Canada will have to build "The Wall" to keep illegals from the south out?
[15:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:48] <exec> 08└─You aren't paying much attention to environmental issues -- tar sands, Atlantic Salmon pens, or mining.
[15:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:50] <exec> 08└─In this case, Federal law is stipulating the minimum age. Provinces can, and many havel mandated different ages for pot. Quebec, I hear tell it's 21 for example.
[15:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:52] <exec> 08└─FYI, there is no law against visiting the US if you are a documented smoker. You can be denied entry arbitrarily based upon that fact, and there after need a request a VISA to get back in. That's not the same thing, for the VISA process has additional background checks.. and isn't realistically unre...
[15:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:31] <exec> 08└─See, magister? On this site even the hunting for the snark is considered redundant. Oh, the agony in a fyte.
[15:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:32] <exec> 08└─Goddammit I hate unicode!
[15:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:34] <exec> 08└─Only because Poe's Law applies to such a high percentage of statements these days.
[15:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cumulative Sub-Concussive Impacts in a Single Season of Youth Football - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:40] <exec> 08└─parent-reported
[15:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cumulative Sub-Concussive Impacts in a Single Season of Youth Football - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:41] <exec> 08└─head the ball.
[15:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:49] <exec> 08└─Unique content is actually probably a better indicator than actual count. People who sling other peoples letters are being partisan. "partisan" now being oxymoron since the DNC/RNC are indestinguishable from one another. We should say perhaps, people who sling other peoples letters are bots, whether...
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[16:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppeteer Caroll Spinney Announces Retirement from Sesame Street - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:28] <exec> 08└─Two people doing what one guy did.... yup...union.
[16:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:46] <exec> 08└─Thanks, janrinok. You have built a good thing here, I hope we all can keep it. Well, I hope everyone else can keep it--I try my best to keep it weird, and to remind the young people that you can never insert too many geek references into a conversation. May your medical challenges mend!
[16:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:47] <exec> 08└─What Kell said ^^^
[16:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:49] <exec> 08└─Me too!
[16:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:51] <exec> 08└─her full-time carer for over a decade now. . . . . and also receive considerable personal satisfaction,
[16:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:54] <exec> 08└─Ooops - clicked the wrong "reply" button, and didn't notice until after clicking "submit". Janrinock will find the comment, though, however out of place it might seem.
[16:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:56] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry to hear about your wife. You are a good man to step up and take care of her. She is fortunate to have someone that loves her as much as you do.
[16:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:58] <exec> 08└─I originally read that as "I have been her full-time career", and spent way too long trying to understand it. :) Good luck and I hope everything goes good for you, man.
[16:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trivial Authentication Bypass in Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:12] <exec> 08└─The advisory from the libssh folks can be found here: https://www.libssh.org [libssh.org] From the advisory: libssh versions 0.6 and above have an authentication bypass vulnerability in the server code. By presenting the server an SSH2_MSG_USERAUTH_SUCCESS mess...
[16:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trivial Authentication Bypass in Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:13] <exec> 08└─and the TARDIS is bigger on the inside. --Wait... what are we doing here? :) Re-watching Doctor Who: LOVE the first doctor!
[16:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:44] <exec> 08└─Ha, i once had a job with 4 people DIRECTLY over me: 4 bosses. I lasted 2.5 months and then gave .5 month notice. 4 people off-loading ALL their work onto me ALL at the same time, ALL day, EVERY day.... FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU......
[16:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:46] <exec> 08└─We are unlikely to see any vice presidents at a company wearing blinders.
[16:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:48] <exec> 08└─" I need to stay aware of my surroundings" This is why i feel people should have to get their motorcycle license and drive it for a year before they can get their car license: being vulnerable on a motorcycle makes you aware of everything going on around you. Forces shoulder checks, surrounding chec...
[16:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:50] <exec> 08└─I could have used these in High School: that or gone to an all boys school. I still have whip-lash from checking out the girls, lol. Like watching a tennis match.
[16:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:52] <exec> 08└─Panasonic has designed a pair of high-tech blinkers* that block out your peripheral vision to help you concentrate on the job at hand.
[16:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:55] <exec> 08└─yesterday nedspace's management asked me to stop sleeping in my office. The problem is that I like to work really, really late, well after the transit stops running. But then around five in the morning I get sleepy. I expect I'll pitch a tent under a bridge somewhere then sleep there instead.
[16:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:57] <exec> 08└─being vulnerable on a motorcycle makes you aware of everything going on around you. Forces shoulder checks, surrounding checks, idiot checks...
[16:08:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:03] <exec> 08└─for winning the War on Drugs! Me? At my age I don't need drugs. All I have to do is stand up fast.
[16:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:12] <exec> 08└─Except that Dandelions don't get you high. Dandelions are edible, except, I think the roots, but generally no one eats them. Because, they're bitter. They don't have much else going for them. Cannabis on the other hand would have a certain amount of value to a group of people who like to use it. No...
[16:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:56] <exec> 08└─Or we were always this stupid and we are now just learning to live with out stupidity?
[16:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:58] <exec> 08└─like khallow saying he is not sure that Anthropogenic Global Warming is real
[16:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:00] <exec> 08└─"Innocence lost", you say. It is one possible outcome, but there are many others and not all of them as pleasant [twitter.com]
[16:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Calls for Retraction of Dozens of Studies by Noted Cardiologist - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:34] <exec> 08└─Your solution is to give the same people who have been skipping replications more money? You are rewarding incompetence.
[16:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Calls for Retraction of Dozens of Studies by Noted Cardiologist - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:36] <exec> 08└─All you have to do is require independent replications. The reason the papers were wrong is irrelevant, the replications will catch the problem either way. This was figured out centuries ago and its only recently that people started trying to skip this crucial step of the scientific method.
[16:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jaguar Considers Transformation to EV-Only Brand - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:48] <exec> 08└─Cost of lithium extraction from seawater is about double the current cost of mining, and is effectively unlimited. That sets a pretty hard upper limit on the cost.
[16:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jaguar Considers Transformation to EV-Only Brand - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:50] <exec> 08└─There are rare earth deposits are all over the planet. Most of the rare earth mines are in China, (and they are trying to buy the rest) but that's because it is a dirty toxic business, and they can undercut anywhere that has any environmental standards.
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[17:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:44] <exec> 08└─and a domestic abundance of gas
[17:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:46] <exec> 08└─The funniest thing is that tariffs on china, using the cheapest available fuel sources, etc are actually the most effective ways to reduce pollution. Now if he can somehow get the US using a non-inflating currency that encourages people to save instead of waste it will be perfect. Interesting how th...
[17:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:48] <exec> 08└─And here I was thinking the "temporary domestic abundance of gas" to have something to do with the various gasbags running this country!
[17:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:50] <exec> 08└─The good news about fracking is the production rate increasing slope is higher than anything ever seen before, the bad news about fracking is the decline rate slope is higher than anything ever seen before, so in at most a couple decades when everything that can be fracked has been fracked and extra...
[17:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:53] <exec> 08└─In the real world coal to syngas and syngas to gasoline is more "fun". The good guys used that tech in WWII. I suspect we'll burn most of our centuries worth of coal in our cars, not our power plants.
[17:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:55] <exec> 08└─the bad news about fracking is the decline rate slope is higher than anything ever seen before
[17:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puppeteer Caroll Spinney Announces Retirement from Sesame Street - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:06] <exec> 08└─I remember thinking as a kid that SS was kinda pozzed back in the early 80s, I can only imagine what its like now. I predict big bird sexually identifies as an apache attack helicopter since they're both into flying, and oscar the grouch probably shits on the sidewalk just like a homeless junkie liv...
[17:06:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:16] <exec> 08└─I trust that you will give Martyb and the team the same support in the future that I have been fortunate enough to enjoy over the past couple of years.
[17:06:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:25] <exec> 08└─her full-time carer for over a decade now. . . . . and also receive considerable personal satisfaction,
[17:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:30] <exec> 08└─My best to Mrs & Mrs Janirock regardless.
[17:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:33] <exec> 08└─No need for further questions. He already knows he will solve all his health problems with a mutually agreed contract, rather than a Violently Imposed Monopoly. Being in France, the most abusive clauses might be hard to enforce, and he'll still have to pay 40% tax on them.
[17:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:35] <exec> 08└─Being in France, the most abusive clauses might be hard to enforce...
[17:06:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 548 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:57] <exec> 08└─The ability to get some semblance of work done in modern open environments is what we are going for here. Rather than spending $300 on a set of goggles, with who knows what long term health ramifications, designed to make the environment work like it did when there were even flimsy carpeted half-hei...
[17:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 2074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:25] <exec> 08└─Only four? Let's see...in some cases the same person manages multiple things (the initials in parenthesis are to ensure I count this correctly), but I'm working on two (technically three, but only barely) releases each with their own project manager (AV, PG, and barely RK), three other non-release p...
[17:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:27] <exec> 08└─...they were all people I liked, I wanted to murder them.
[17:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:29] <exec> 08└─Oh, I'm sure "to save our brainz" they'll help out by having the corporate overlords sell advertising on the inside of the blinders. So you'll get to stare at "drink pepsi" ads all day long. I wonder how many simultaneous video banner ads they'd have to force employees to look at to break even on la...
[17:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:31] <exec> 08└─Clarify, please: do you still get whiplash from checking out the girls or do you still have the original high school whiplash? Or both? I did not get whiplash. I occasionally bonked my head on the desk bending to pick up a dropped pencil. Because ... stockingtop.
[17:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:33] <exec> 08└─Surely this [youtube.com] is next.
[17:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:35] <exec> 08└─You really should have used to new cover for the TPS report...
[17:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:38] <exec> 08└─I commandeered a 4K 40" screen about 30 months ago. We are a startup with 5-6 people per room, until we finally move to get more space. I put my back to a corner, and set the screen as a mock cubicle wall. The first week, people were laughing at my giant screen. Now half the engineers have copied th...
[17:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:40] <exec> 08└─The relentless march of productivity benefits for the few: Mandatory Foley catheters for all (below middle management).
[17:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BepiColombo Mission to Mercury Set for Launch on October 20 - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:53] <exec> 08└─On top of being harder to reach, and being reached long after their sponsors can take election credit for, we don't know how to land on a gas planet. The inner planets, and the various moons up to Saturn, fit the "Explorer with flag standing on piece of conquered land" imagery a lot better. Studying...
[17:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BepiColombo Mission to Mercury Set for Launch on October 20 - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:54] <exec> 08└─I have some difficulty crediting that the mere distance to Uranus and Neptune are that big a problem. They're further, but not that much further than Saturn. But perhaps I underestimate the problems of traversing that relatively modest bit of extra distance? Maybe it's that the much smaller mass of...
[17:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 802.11ay Wi-Fi Chips that Can Transmit 10 Gbps Within Line-of-Sight - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:09] <exec> 08└─Do you have to smack your router like the Fonz when it starts acting up? 802.11 ayyy!
[17:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 802.11ay Wi-Fi Chips that Can Transmit 10 Gbps Within Line-of-Sight - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:11] <exec> 08└─I don't think that phrase means what you think it means. "Line of Sight" can be many miles in some instances. I have rural fixed WiFi (2.4GHz) with a panel antenna 25' up a tree, with line-of-sight access to a tower on a ridge 2.5miles away. See cavenet.com. The problem with 60GHz isn't just that it...
[17:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:38] <exec> 08└─That's not necessarily up to Netflix, but the studios who own the content they are licensing. Not that I know what Netflix's position is/would be, if they had the choice. So long as they're afraid of "pirating," there will be geoblocking. Also, certain things are legal in some countries and not othe...
[17:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Harvard Calls for Retraction of Dozens of Studies by Noted Cardiologist - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:34] <exec> 08└─There are a few examples here [arxiv.org] that show cheating will be a problem from the very beginning.
[17:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Harvard Calls for Retraction of Dozens of Studies by Noted Cardiologist - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:36] <exec> 08└─It's always interesting to see what the end state is going to be. One person started by innocuously questioning the existing theories of gravity and ended up espousing a conspiracy theory involving a fake Moon (I guess it's actually a giant billboard?), NASA, Freemasons, and Satan. I guess Satan had...
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[18:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:58] <exec> 08└─...so in at most a couple decades when everything that can be fracked has been fracked and extracted, we'll be making methane out of coal... Nine decades, according to the eia. How much natural gas does the United States have, and how long will it last? [eia.gov]
[18:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:00] <exec> 08└─The "hydrogen economy" is a con, perpetuated by the fossil fuel industry for the benefit of the weak minded and uninformed.
[18:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:02] <exec> 08└─And here I was thinking that the bad news about fracking was the earthquakes and water supply contamination. Earthquakes are caused by wastewater injection, not fracking. Although, they are related because the injection is used to displace and extract extra gas out of the frack site. You could stop...
[18:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:04] <exec> 08└─Trump has incidentally green policies No he doesn't. The failure of his policy to bring back coal is the only reason this reduction occurred.
[18:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:06] <exec> 08└─If you listen to fake news for long enough eventually everything you believe will be wrong... Trump writes, "The natural gas reserves we have in the United States could power America's energy needs for the next 110 years," and there is enough crude oil to last for decades. He supports a dramatic esc...
[18:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:09] <exec> 08└─They could be replaced by traditional fission reactors within 5-7 years of construction approval and the US would be out in front in-terms of per-capita and total greenhouse gas emissions without tortured subsidy programs and endless debate. But the body politic chooses to ignore that because reason...
[18:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:11] <exec> 08└─The good guys used that tech in WWII. I suspect we'll burn most of our centuries worth of coal in our cars, not our power plants.
[18:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:14] <exec> 08└─The "hydrogen economy" is a con
[18:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:17] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, “We’ve ended the war on beautiful, clean coal, and it’s just been announced that a second, brand-new coal mine, where they’re going to take out clean coal – meaning, they’re taking out coal, they’re going to clean it – is opening in the state of Pennsylvania.”
[18:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:19] <exec> 08└─Any idea on the numbers for percentage increase for gas output from injecting wastewater?
[18:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:23] <exec> 08└─[The U.S. could reduce greenhouse gases with] traditional fission reactors... But the body politic chooses to ignore that because reasons the failure mode of traditional fission reactors is "meltdown" [ieee.org].
[18:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 1204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:26] <exec> 08└─Trump didn't give a shit about the coal economy, what he cared about was getting a good economy and you don't do that by disenfranchising workers. Democrats have been telling those coal workers for decades that what we need to do is ban their business because we don't need it, but not give any sort...
[18:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:28] <exec> 08└─So true, they were having big problems with the British -- who have always been very aggressive. And later with the Russians and, unfortunately, America (FDR made a big mistake). But, they had a way to get a lot of their fuel from beautiful clean coal. And some that maybe wasn't so clean. For the ca...
[18:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:30] <exec> 08└─Trump gets to sell a product that nobody wants to buy and get none of the downsides of saying it (increased pollution) and all of the upsides of saying it (less disenfranchised workers).
[18:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:32] <exec> 08└─Scientifically, he's an idiot in the first place, scumbag in the second (maybe as a consequence of the first). Synthetic fuel comes with a high energy cost, reducing the overall efficiency of directly burning that coal. On top of that, large coal electrical plants will be able to squeeze more effici...
[18:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:10] <exec> 08└─The way I look at it, there's nothing like a good marriage. One man. And one woman. We need to repeal the lesbian, the gay marriage. Something that, hopefully, my Judges are going to make happen very soon. And George Takei -- great guy, one of our most magnificent gays -- said to me "marrying multip...
[18:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:11] <exec> 08└─Us ACs voted at our last meeting to wish you and yours the best, and to give anonymous thanks.
[18:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trivial Authentication Bypass in Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:26] <exec> 08└─> left with a small handful of random sftp servers or IoT devices and little else Only a few hundred thousand zombie Furby and irrigation controllers forever primed for botnet harvesting ! When do we get a law imposing penalties on unmaintained IoT junk ?
[18:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:11] <exec> 08└─Or you could do what they did in the olden days and build walls and a fucking DOOR instead of treating humans like farm animals.
[18:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BepiColombo Mission to Mercury Set for Launch on October 20 - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:26] <exec> 08└─Uranus has decent-sized moons, and Neptune has Triton. All should be visited. But none of these moons are considered as important as Europa, Callisto, Enceladus, and Titan.
[18:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BepiColombo Mission to Mercury Set for Launch on October 20 - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:29] <exec> 08└─No question that we could do with a few less weapons around the world and a few more space probes instead. Budget priorities... Explore ALL the moons !! But the Jupiter/Saturn moons are exposed to more interesting forces and energies, and are much easier to reach and study with current tech, so it's...
[18:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BepiColombo Mission to Mercury Set for Launch on October 20 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:31] <exec> 08└─They're further, but not that much further than Saturn.
[18:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:13] <exec> 08└─"It would be a shame if someone were to pirate or illicitly stream that content." No, it wouldn't.
[18:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:15] <exec> 08└─> given the intense competition that Netflix faces now and what is looming around the corner, I think they need to spend a lot of money to survive. Won't change the end result. They are facing competitors who are now allowed to block them from reaching their customers. The Big ISPs, having achieved...
[18:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:17] <exec> 08└─Well, it CAN, but it wont. They could stream everything on the face of the earth if they wanted to pay for the storage and licensing costs.
[18:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:49] <exec> 08└─Does this mean Canada will have to build "The Wall" to keep illegals from the south out? Seems easier to just legalize it everywhere down here. Vote Democrat in 2018 if you want that to happen Schumer introduces bill to federally decriminalize marijuana [cnn.com]
[18:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:51] <exec> 08└─Dandelion wine might inebriate you. I just looked at some recipes for dandelion wine. Shocking. One recipe calls for a bottle of rum, or vodka, instead of allowing the wine to ferment fully. This recipe actually looks good: https://apothecarysgarden.com [apo...
[18:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:53] <exec> 08└─Documented smokers? WTF documents this stuff? And, WTF is admitting to the document makers that they smoke? I won't admit to any government creature that I even breathe, let alone doing something of questionable legal legitimacy.
[18:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:55] <exec> 08└─More propaganda? Thanks Mokey!
[18:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:00] <exec> 08└─Felony => You cannot vote. Women don't suffer this warped logic. It's preposterous that HALF of the goddamn population doesn't face this terror, and yet has the same vote on whether we go to war, or whether we spend more on welfare, etc. Democracy is a STUPID idea.
[18:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:01] <exec> 08└─Women of the West are the most privileged people in the world; to gain equality means women need to lose some privileges—their pedestal will need to be dismantled. You think they'll remove the draft for men? No. They'll add women to the draft, and to stop all the bitching and moaning about hypothe...
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[19:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Facebook, Public Funds Join Push to Remove Zuckerberg as Chairman - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:28] <exec> 08└─Isn't it true that your comments tend to induce *facepalm*ing?
[19:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Facebook, Public Funds Join Push to Remove Zuckerberg as Chairman - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:30] <exec> 08└─More profit larger sooner! is what these exact people asked for and got delivered. The fact that constantly squeezing every customer for every penny isn't actually sustainable and creates serious resentment? Definitely the front man's fault. Not that I mind if Zuck suffers.
[19:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Facebook, Public Funds Join Push to Remove Zuckerberg as Chairman - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:32] <exec> 08└─What part of Zuckerberg has about 60 percent voting rights
[19:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Facebook, Public Funds Join Push to Remove Zuckerberg as Chairman - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:34] <exec> 08└─In which case, they can't actually force him to do anything. Sure, they can pressure, but that doesn't mean Zuckerberg has to give in to what they want. So long as he wants to be the guy in charge, there's not much they can do.
[19:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Facebook, Public Funds Join Push to Remove Zuckerberg as Chairman - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:36] <exec> 08└─Just quit using facebook. Oh, I know, that's no solution at all for the stockholders. Works just fine for the rest of the world though.
[19:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:09] <exec> 08└─Listen, we need coal. It's very clean now, and you know maybe it's a little too clean. Obama said, do the scrubber. Put on the scrubber. And some of our wonderful coal companies got the scrubber for their plants. Very expensive -- $100 million or even more. I put an end to that. Repealed. And our co...
[19:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sure. The US and Britain had their own Einsatzgruppen [wikipedia.org]. Not. Yes, the US had relocation camps for Japanese-Americans [wikipedia.org], but AFAIK, none of them died due to deliberate maltreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork, or executed as unfit for labor. What's more, none...
[19:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sure. The US and Britain had their own Einsatzgruppen [wikipedia.org]. Not. Yes, the US had relocation camps for Japanese-Americans [wikipedia.org], but AFAIK, none of them died due to deliberate maltreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork, or executed as unfit for labor. What's more, none...
[19:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:14] <exec> 08└─Because *everyone* agrees that nuclear waste is an issue. Even without a risk of a meltdown, fission plants are difficult and dangerous to build and run, and there are zero good solutions for disposing of the waste. Fission has its place, but suggesting that it is a direct replacement for coal, or t...
[19:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:17] <exec> 08└─Any idea on the numbers for percentage increase for gas output from injecting wastewater? They're called enhanced recovery wells and they make up about 80% of the injection wells in the country. (20% of the injection wells in the country are disposal wells that don't recover any additional oil/gas)...
[19:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:19] <exec> 08└─Trump isnt emotionally attached to coal, he just wanted to remove as many political impediments as possible to people choosing the best energy source for their needs. If that isnt coal, who cares? People are projecting their emotional attachment to solar/wind onto him, like they literally cannot com...
[19:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:21] <exec> 08└─Democrats have been telling those coal workers for decades that what we need to do is ban their business because we don't need it, but not give any sort of suggestion on what they can do inst Coal is dying no matter what. It's all about cost. The Democrat plan is to train these folks to work in an i...
[19:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:23] <exec> 08└─If you listen to fake news for long enough eventually everything you believe will be wrong... Yes, the words coming directly out of that buffoon's mouth are fake news now.
[19:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:26] <exec> 08└─The Democrat plan is to train these folks to work in an industry that isn't dying. The Republican plan, per usual, is to deny reality and lie a bunch.
[19:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:28] <exec> 08└─> Earthquakes are caused by wastewater injection, not fracking. Although, they are related because the injection is used to displace > and extract extra gas out of the frack site. You could stop that practice without stopping fracking, though, you just get less gas. So, what you mean is that earthqu...
[19:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:30] <exec> 08└─That spot rapidly vanishing in the distance ? That was the point you missed.
[19:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:32] <exec> 08└─Nuclear waste = future nuclear fuel. Cant believe people are getting paid to store this stuff.
[19:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:35] <exec> 08└─Tell that to the French.
[19:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 1489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:37] <exec> 08└─I promised to BRING BACK COAL. As everybody knows. You say I'm a failure. I'm not a failure -- I'm highly successful. Look at the story -- it's a story about 2017. Last year. My first year. And unfortunately we had Obama for part of that one. For almost 3 weeks at the beginning. But we moved very st...
[19:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:39] <exec> 08└─But where does the hydrogen come from? How is it stored and transported? Whatever the answer to both of these questions is, it involves a lot of inefficiency. That's why the hydrogen economy is bullshit.
[19:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:19] <exec> 08└─Hey, Donny, love your work. BTW, did you bang ivanka?
[19:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cumulative Sub-Concussive Impacts in a Single Season of Youth Football - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:59] <exec> 08└─There are several countries with substantial rugby scenes, but it is a uniformly upper class sport everywhere, except Wales and New Zealand (also some of the English counties). Putting aside Wales for a moment, New Zealand is the only country in the world where you will find a Labourer playing alon...
[19:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:06] <exec> 08└─They'll add women to the draft, and to stop all the bitching and moaning about hypotheticals, they'll implement mandatory national service programs for young adults, so that such service becomes routine. This is the world you are actively seeking, and you'll get it.
[19:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:08] <exec> 08└─The Selective Service registration form states that failure to register is a felony punishable by up to five years imprisonment or a $250,000 fine.[80] In practice, no one has been prosecuted for failure to comply with draft registration since 1986,[81] in part because prosecutions of draft resister...
[19:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:10] <exec> 08└─Your post might have been halfway reasonable up until that final line. The entire idea of democracy is to be thrown away on the basis of the draft, a thing that hasn't been used in 46 years? And, y'know, your reposting it over and over because you refuse to admit that people may not agree with you....
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[20:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Flight of the Dandelion - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:31] <exec> 08└─Dandelion seeds fly using a method that researchers thought couldn't work in the real world
[20:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06At Facebook, Public Funds Join Push to Remove Zuckerberg as Chairman - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:45] <exec> 08└─And so many of the so-called scandals (Cambridge Anal.) are just, they're running their business. Doing what they do. Or, they made a mistake. And maybe it was an honest mistake, right? But if Zuckerberg runs for President -- a lot of people say he'll run in 2020 -- he's going to have some REAL scan...
[20:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Facebook, Public Funds Join Push to Remove Zuckerberg as Chairman - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:47] <exec> 08└─Not quite true. IANAL, state laws (the relevant corporate jurisdiction almost always) vary in addition to your mileage, and brush your teeth regularly. But someone who owns a supermajority in many jurisdictions must nevertheless act in the best interest of all shareholders and not just the largest m...
[20:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:35] <exec> 08└─Or, and hear me out, you're unbelievably naive and brainwashed. "Gubbmint is da one true evil evil" pfft, plenty to complain about but you choose a sound bite that just makes you look stupid?
[20:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:36] <exec> 08└─Nah, I used to think the US government was a force for good until I was employed by it for like 5 years. It is a force for wasting as many resources as people will let it get away with, good/evil is irrelevant to what it does.
[20:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:38] <exec> 08└─Whatever the answer to both of these questions is, it involves a lot of inefficiency.
[20:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:41] <exec> 08└─That spot rapidly vanishing in the distance ? That was the point you missed.
[20:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:43] <exec> 08└─*everyone* agrees that nuclear waste is an issue.
[20:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:45] <exec> 08└─> Study a little history, you might learn something. I won't hold my breath. I do. Geography, too. We can compare one day, if you dare, dear AC. But I have studied humans too. So when someone makes a point via an obvious joke, I don't look like a fool for taking the words literally and out of contex...
[20:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:47] <exec> 08└─there are zero good solutions for disposing of the waste.
[20:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:49] <exec> 08└─But I have studied humans too. So when someone makes a point via an obvious joke, I don't look like a fool for taking the words literally and out of context.
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[20:07:02] <exec> 08└─I've modeled my life after Oscar.
[20:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:34] <exec> 08└─I wish you and your family good health and long life, janrinok.
[20:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:35] <exec> 08└─Us ACs voted at our last meeting
[20:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:37] <exec> 08└─I, for one, will miss janrinok. As E-in-C he made a valiant effort to be fair and even-handed, and never tired of telling me to put stuff into a journal entry. Bytram has large shoes to fill.
[20:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:39] <exec> 08└─That's majestic plural.
[20:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:42] <exec> 08└─Absolutely: get rid of the riders who can't drive and only let the riders who can drive ...uh... drive! Yeah, the motorcycle is like a mini Darwin effect: clears out the least likely to survive.
[20:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:44] <exec> 08└─How many of them can actually say "You're fired!", or are most of them just "I'm disappointed, but can't do fuck all about it" types?
[20:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:46] <exec> 08└─:) anymore, it's more respectable: can't appear to be sleazy. If you stare for more than (what was that quote from (Google?) that recent email?) 3 seconds? you'll come off as a harasser. Nah, today i'm more professional: the whip-lash is old.
[20:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grayson [5696] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 802.11ay Wi-Fi Chips that Can Transmit 10 Gbps Within Line-of-Sight - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:16] <exec> 08└─This requires literal line-of-sight. We messed around with some versions of it and it was bad enough that, moving around, walking through the line of sight, moving your hand in gestures, and even putting a piece of paper in the line of sight. All of these seriously degraded or completely blocked the...
[20:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:08] <exec> 08└─I hear others can even spell, but that is abserd.
[20:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cumulative Sub-Concussive Impacts in a Single Season of Youth Football - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:27] <exec> 08└─My understanding of that is that at one point rugby union was the upper-class version, whereas the labourers were playing rugby league because there was a chance of getting paid to play rugby league while rugby union was strictly amateur for most of its history. Here in the USA, the focus has been m...
[20:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cumulative Sub-Concussive Impacts in a Single Season of Youth Football - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:28] <exec> 08└─There's more of a concussion problem in rugby than you might think, at least according to this [brain-injury-law-center.com]. As for bleeding, the fact that there's a rule that you have to be subbed out if you're bleeding should be an indication of how common that is.
[20:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cumulative Sub-Concussive Impacts in a Single Season of Youth Football - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:31] <exec> 08└─The Rugby League/ Rugby Union split happened about 100 years ago in England. The northern clubs wanted to pay their players because they were working class lads, but the southern clubs were the gentry who didn't need the money, so the Rugby League was formed in Yorkshire and Lancashire. I suspect a...
[20:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cumulative Sub-Concussive Impacts in a Single Season of Youth Football - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:33] <exec> 08└─*Along class lines.
[20:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:43] <exec> 08└─If you censor a perfectly legitimate comment, then it's going to be reposted. That's the deal. Democracy gives an equal voice to unequal people. We have a better system: Capitalism. That's why Democracy should be thrown out—not only is there a better system, but Democracy is in conflict with that...
[20:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:44] <exec> 08└─What's your point? It doesn't matter that those laws were on the books? It's still a fact that women have a protected right to vote. men are allowed the privilege to vote in return for agreeing to military service. That's what the law implies. And, you know what? Voting should be a privilege; you s...
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[21:05:23] <exec> 08└─This is great news! Now how do we apply it to aircraft? Sincerely, MIC
[21:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06At Facebook, Public Funds Join Push to Remove Zuckerberg as Chairman - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:40] <exec> 08└─"These exact people" have no power over what the company did or does, it's all down to Zuck.
[21:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06At Facebook, Public Funds Join Push to Remove Zuckerberg as Chairman - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:41] <exec> 08└─Serious question. What good would this do? My best guess is that it would mean is there would be some fairly unknown rich person put in the CEO post, someone that Congress couldn't easily haul in front of them for a stock price killing Q&A session. Maybe make a lobbyist the new CEO. Senate subcommit...
[21:05:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:58] <exec> 08└─the bad news about fracking is the decline rate slope is higher than anything ever seen before
[21:06:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:33] <exec> 08└─*everyone* agrees that nuclear waste is an issue.
[21:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:38] <exec> 08└─> ... inverse midas touch. A good friend (sadly died a few years back) called this the "sadim touch" -- everything you touch turns to shit. Maybe it's time to start a new meme?
[21:06:39] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 678 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:40] <exec> 08└─But do we need "fuel"? Or perhaps better stated, how much "fuel" do we need? Wind turbines and solar panels generate electricity that can be used for almost all purposes that fuel is used for. Heating, transportation and of course traditional uses of electricity, etc.. We can largely bypass the need...
[21:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:42] <exec> 08└─There was no training. Back in the late 90s the Clinton's told these same folks that their jobs are going away, that it was a good thing, and that they should figure something else because this is the future. The Democrats never did anything to help these folks in PA (and elsewhere) to get any other...
[21:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:44] <exec> 08└─Sure sounds good. I think the more relevant question is why are people proposing to build them, if they are so much better? Turns out people are working on refining the molten salt reactor tech. Venture capital $ went into a US company in 2015, Federal $ in 2016, and into many places around the worl...
[21:07:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kell [292] 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:03] <exec> 08└─" the transition has been successful"
[21:07:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kell [292] 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 269 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:04] <exec> 08└─On a more serious note - thank you for your tireless efforts to the site. This place has been a labour of love (and other emotions!) since inception. We were the spirit of the green site, and Soylent News remains the people who shaped it and gave it life. Best of luck!
[21:07:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:18] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry to hear about your wife. You are a good man to step up and take care of her. She is fortunate to have someone that loves her as much as you do.
[21:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:30] <exec> 08└─Seriously, man. Thank you. I think you know as well as I that sometimes even when we're just lurkers in a given community that we get a lot out of them, and there must be hundreds of unspoken non-commenting people who have, indeed gotten something meaningful out of your efforts, here. Not to mention...
[21:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hellcat [2832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:32] <exec> 08└─Janirok, we salute you for the commitment and strength you've shown to the site, and now to your wife. Sending all the psychic help possible. Don't forget to reach out to us if there's something more tangible we might be able to for you. ------ And for those who haven't contributed $$$, it's time!
[21:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:37] <exec> 08└─Let us just say that using the quote "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room!" never got unfunny.
[21:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:38] <exec> 08└─My boss commandeered a good quality 70" tv screen from a conference room and put it in his area that is about the size of 2 large cubicles. It works great for group code review sessions. It does look funny with 4 people sitting about 7 feet away from it. It is actually very effective instead of crow...
[21:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:40] <exec> 08└─Netflix tries to block clients over VPN, though.
[21:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:17] <exec> 08└─All it takes is one person you know posting a picture of you having a pinner for dinner, and the CBP people have you bent over a barrel. Lying to customs officers is about as wise as snacking on strychnine.
[21:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:18] <exec> 08└─Canada will see this happening and do some economic sanctioning until that illegal behaviour stops
[21:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:20] <exec> 08└─Back in the day when weed had seeds, I used to gather a handful everytime I went grocery shopping. I would deposit several in the houseplants sold there so those lucky consumers could enjoy growing some for themselves!
[21:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe it was a BROWN [youtube.com] dwarf?
[21:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 061670 Nova May Have Been Caused by a Collision Between a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:08] <exec> 08└─I suppose they could dig the hole deeper. Let me know how that turns out.
[21:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cumulative Sub-Concussive Impacts in a Single Season of Youth Football - 1667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:30] <exec> 08└─Not to be too much of a curmudgeon, but: 1. Why sports? What exactly does football teach you that, say, being in the marching band or the Boy Scouts doesn't? How do sports compare to, say, working on a construction project where you have to work together to keep everyone safe and accomplish your goa...
[21:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:44] <exec> 08└─I never questioned her statement because my family has a similar heritage. Oklahoma Sooners. Like you said, Cherokees marrying whites wasn't all that unusual. So if you have family history going back at least 150 years in that area, claiming Native American ancestry isn't all that far of a stretch....
[21:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0699.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:45] <exec> 08└─Things get very weird very fast when the wealth disappears.
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[22:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rocket Lab to Build U.S. Launch Site at Wallops Island, Virginia - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:33] <exec> 08└─Everytime one of these billionaires launches a rocket, it releases more CO2 than 70,000 typical families will release in a whole year. Think about that next time Al Gore asks you to buy some carbon credits.
[22:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flight of the Dandelion - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:43] <exec> 08└─Lots of people with tweezers and super glue, but that's not important right now.
[22:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Facebook, Public Funds Join Push to Remove Zuckerberg as Chairman - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:01] <exec> 08└─INSTALLED 6 MONITORS TO MY MOTHERHEAD, DISPLAY PORTS ACTIVE, FACEBOOK IN ALL WINDOWS. AFTER TWO 2 WINDOWS VIRUS CRUSHED MY WINDOWS.
[22:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Facebook, Public Funds Join Push to Remove Zuckerberg as Chairman - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:02] <exec> 08└─FACEBOOK FRIEND CHECKED MY PC. IT CLICKED VIRUS FACEBOOK AND GUMMED MY DESK.
[22:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Facebook, Public Funds Join Push to Remove Zuckerberg as Chairman - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:04] <exec> 08└─GUMMED DESK?
[22:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06At Facebook, Public Funds Join Push to Remove Zuckerberg as Chairman - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:06] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind also that this particular minority has to show that they're acting on behalf of their own shareholders. I also see a lot of fluff here. The New York City Pension Funds owned about 4.5 million Facebook shares as of July 31, while Trillium held 53,000 shares. The Pennsylvania Treasury he...
[22:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:05] <exec> 08└─Even VLM occasionally deserves the benefit of the doubt, especially on a post that reads like a joke.
[22:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:06] <exec> 08└─Elon Musk's rockets emitted 20% more CO2 than these plants saved last year.
[22:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 2078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:08] <exec> 08└─There was no training. The Obama Idea to Save Coal Country [politico.com] As part of the 2016 budget, the Obama White House created something called the POWER Plus plan specifically to help Appalachian communities that were getting left behind because of the rapidly changing energy market. For Kentu...
[22:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 2228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:10] <exec> 08└─Which is it, are the fission products chemically separated out or are they kept in the reactor fuel loop until they are innocuous? This separation process, is that going to leave us with more dangerous materials from the handling of the fuel flow? Not all the products of fission are fissile (as far...
[22:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Puppeteer Caroll Spinney Announces Retirement from Sesame Street - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:22] <exec> 08└─Even as a kid, Oscar was my favorite. He told kids the hard, straight truth about life. Not like those other sickly sweet muppets.
[22:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Puppeteer Caroll Spinney Announces Retirement from Sesame Street - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:24] <exec> 08└─That was the year they revealed that Ernie and Bert were into snuff videos.
[22:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Puppeteer Caroll Spinney Announces Retirement from Sesame Street - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:26] <exec> 08└─Stop perpetrating the myth of homeless junkies shitting on the street in SFO. There is no proof. OTOH, there is a demonstrable correlation between levels of SFO street shit and H1B visa numbers.
[22:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Puppeteer Caroll Spinney Announces Retirement from Sesame Street - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:28] <exec> 08└─No, no, no... that's videos of Mr. Snuffleupagus.
[22:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:04] <exec> 08└─I trust that you will give Martyb and the team the same support in the future that I have been fortunate enough to enjoy over the past couple of years.
[22:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:05] <exec> 08└─Fleeing abroad for free healthcare is no better than tax evasion.
[22:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking a Back Seat - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:07] <exec> 08└─Not sure how much a mac with VIM will help but best of luck anyhow!
[22:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trivial Authentication Bypass in Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:23] <exec> 08└─Devuan ascii, and presumably Debian appear to use OpenSSH too instead of libssl.
[22:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:16] <exec> 08└─I rode a bike for about a year when I was a broke teenager. I finally gave up on it when I realized that is wasn't that drivers didn't see me, but in fact they saw me and actively wanted to kill me. Now that I'm surrounded by a ton of steel I look out for bikes, and get pissed off when some numbnuts...
[22:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:17] <exec> 08└─Moo.
[22:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:24] <exec> 08└─Except it Europe doesn't have enough movies, they'll have to restrict nonEuropean movies in order for Europe to get its 30% local content.
[22:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:25] <exec> 08└─Quite. Netflix may be helping the world slide towards a subscription based business model, maybe with more success than 1980s cable TV. Netflix is cable TV without the expense of maintaining a physical network. Cable TV companies meanwhile have morphed into ISPs with the content delivery relegated t...
[22:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:05] <exec> 08└─You should a seen the stuff we ran into in the 'Nam. 20ft high. And 20ft high.
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[23:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Letting the Sunshine in May Kill Dust-Dwelling Bacteria - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:40] <exec> 08└─Some of those bacteria must be vampire bacteria. Explains why they die in the sunlight. Hold some up to a mirror to double check :)
[23:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Letting the Sunshine in May Kill Dust-Dwelling Bacteria - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:41] <exec> 08└─The researchers played with Barbie houses and published a paper about it? Fucking millennial scientists.
[23:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Letting the Sunshine in May Kill Dust-Dwelling Bacteria - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:44] <exec> 08└─Use the term "researchers", they arent scientists.
[23:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Letting the Sunshine in May Kill Dust-Dwelling Bacteria - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:46] <exec> 08└─But vampires vanish into thin air when exposed to sunlight. The dust bacteria, dead or alive, are still filling the dust in all the corners (and all the other places). Can't those bacteria behave and be of the self clean strain?
[23:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Letting the Sunshine in May Kill Dust-Dwelling Bacteria - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:48] <exec> 08└─Time to install some periscopes to reflect real sunlight into your mother's basement!
[23:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab to Build U.S. Launch Site at Wallops Island, Virginia - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:57] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. I would put it at closer to 20 households, and even less for Rocket Lab.
[23:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rocket Lab to Build U.S. Launch Site at Wallops Island, Virginia - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:59] <exec> 08└─No Citation necessary. When you repeat something often enough, it becomes true. - Goebbels
[23:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rocket Lab to Build U.S. Launch Site at Wallops Island, Virginia - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:02] <exec> 08└─The mass of RP-1 in Falcon is 119.1 metric tons. Per this formula [scientificamerican.com] we can expect about 300-350 tons of CO2 . To compare a rocket to a single car we just need to figure out how much 119.1 m.tons of fuel would be in gallons (gasoline and kerosine are very similar.) It is 0.78...
[23:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flight of the Dandelion - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:13] <exec> 08└─Easy. A tornado will easily lift meat and bones up in the air.... but joking aside, reading the article it looks like they were able to mimic this using silicon discs simulating the spoke model of the dandy seeds. The model had to be very close, a difference of 10% or more and the vortex is not sust...
[23:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:38] <exec> 08└─Plans to make miners into javascript programmers and nurses 20 years too late? No one is going to hire these dudes as programmers because they wont play the pc games. Another plan designed to fail, just like obamacare.
[23:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:39] <exec> 08└─Wind turbines and solar panels generate electricity that can be used for almost all purposes that fuel is used for.
[23:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:42] <exec> 08└─Bill and the Dems kill the jobs, ruin the communities, then come back a decade later and say "hey we wanna help trust us". No wonder they didn't buy.
[23:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Fell in 2017 as Coal Plants Shut - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:44] <exec> 08└─> The Democrats never did anything to help these folks Neither did the Republicans. Doing nothing is better than the screwing over the Republicans did. Their Trickle Down Economics that they've been flogging for decades has always been a thinly veiled excuse to take from the poor and give to the ric...
[23:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Panasonic Shows Off Blinders for Humans - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:53] <exec> 08└─They need to market these to people that fly commercial airlines.
[23:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BepiColombo Mission to Mercury Set for Launch on October 20 - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:12] <exec> 08└─Also, Jupiter, which is by far the top outer solar system destination [wikipedia.org], is roughly 5.2 AU from the Sun. Two more missions are going to Jupiter soon, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer [wikipedia.org] and Europa Clipper [wikipedia.org]. In July 2019, we will find out if NASA will send a dr...
[23:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 802.11ay Wi-Fi Chips that Can Transmit 10 Gbps Within Line-of-Sight - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:30] <exec> 08└─It's what's needed for good untethered VR, i.e. a desktop PC communicating to a VR headset within a room. Otherwise, we have to ride the heck out of Moore's law in order to cram the best CPU, GPU, and perhaps more (neuromorphic component?) into a smartphone SoC. With tricks like foveated rendering [...
[23:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Burns More Cash, Set to Spend $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018 - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:06] <exec> 08└─Well lets compare. Valuations have fluctuated and right now they aren't worth quite as much as Disney. Disney's market cap is 172B vs 151B for Netflix. Disney owns ABC, ESPN, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and releases major motion pictures under the Disney and several other labels, their back catalog is...
[23:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannabis Becomes Legal in Canada - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:46] <exec> 08└─Vote Democrat in 2018 if you want that to happen
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