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[00:37:46] <exec> 08└─Due to high turnout many states have instituted special procedures for the 2018 election. Unaffiliated and independant voters are voting on Tuesday the 6th, while registered democrats and republicans will be voting on Wednesday the 7th.
[00:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:48] <exec> 08└─Is this the hot new voter misinformation meme?
[00:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:50] <exec> 08└─"Hot" is the key word. The last hope to save the climate is for the democrats to step aside this election so the green party can take control of congress.
[00:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:52] <exec> 08└─Are we surprised with attempts at voter suppression? [nymag.com]
[00:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:54] <exec> 08└─Not in Georgia. I imagine the other racist southern states will be looking on with interest. The bit that caught my eye is: ...who have discrepancies in their official identifying documents and may be non-citizens.
[00:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:56] <exec> 08└─But they've just made it easier to get approved to vote. Just show up with a bottle of Aunt Jemima syrup and say that's your ID.
[00:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:58] <exec> 08└─You mean like this: https://observer.com [observer.com] Or this: https://heavy.com [h...
[00:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:00] <exec> 08└─This year, in response to the Democrat's attempts to reignite the cold war and increase the chance of global thermonuclear armageddon with their #RussiaRussiaRussia tantrum -- I went ahead and voted a straight GOP ticket out pure unadulterated spite. I mean yeah, the GOP sucks, and I normally either...
[00:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:21] <exec> 08└─It's included in the "Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores" link, but I also alluded to it in this story: AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel [soylentnews.org] And another thing out of Computex: AMD Offers Threadripper Trade-in for Winners of Intel Core i7-...
[00:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:22] <exec> 08└─And if so, will it be able to exfiltrate your data to NSA four times faster or will it just provide 4x the attack surface for hackers?
[00:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:25] <exec> 08└─Intel is doing what? Sorry! I can't hear you over this AMD HYPE TRAIN about to pull into the station!
[00:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:27] <exec> 08└─It's not like the pr0n can get any nakeder.
[00:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Llama Blood May Contain Key Ingredient to Universal Flu Vaccine - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:49] <exec> 08└─No, really. Mind you, llama bites can be pretty nasty.
[00:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Llama Blood May Contain Key Ingredient to Universal Flu Vaccine - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:51] <exec> 08└─in totally unrelated news, congress is about to pass a law that makes it legal to patent llamas and all their content, for unspecified intellectual property protection.
[00:39:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 552 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:41] <exec> 08└─How about instead of punishing those that you've hired, you give them a medal, and thank them for their service? Any Civilian organization that tried to cover up the fact that they knew people got killed due to this kind of thing and didn't report it. Would be crucified in the media and would have i...
[00:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:24] <exec> 08└─Sheit! It's right there! "Managers and Supervisors: To lower morale and production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work." "Promote useless, stupid people in the CIA! Gotcha, boss-man, Mr. Gorm...
[00:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Ajit Pai has been great for us...
[00:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:29] <exec> 08└─You know, it is! And yet I know someone who would use 'their' even while pregnant. Mercifully they weren't obnoxious about it. It *was* interesting.
[00:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:31] <exec> 08└─Excuse me, your views on that film are problematic. Please learn to think correctly and have the right opinion about such brave films.
[00:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fidelity Just Made It Easier for Hedge Funds and Other Pros to Invest in Cryptocurrencies - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:49] <exec> 08└─There's a big difference between cryptocurrency and startup investing: Where is the value of the investment coming from? - If you invest in a startup, you either lose your money (99% of the time), or you make money (1% of the time) because the startup creates a product that sells well enough to keep...
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[00:44:15] <exec> 08└─Without the US in there it is pretty much DOA. Trump saw it for what it was. A shit deal to steal money.
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[01:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:47] <exec> 08└─You'll be slapping yourself in 20 years when the Russia stuff is declassified.
[01:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:48] <exec> 08└─Yea, I almost deviated and voted rnc as well. I just couldnt shake the thought the dnc was throwing the election on purpose though. The behavior was just too disgusting and incompetent to be believed, at least for me.
[01:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:50] <exec> 08└─As opposed to Republicans who are the very essence of class? /sarcasm Jesus, you'll take the devil you know over the devil you fear MIGHT exist? Droll
[01:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, the behavior of the DNC really has been so bad in the eyes of non-rabid people that it makes them consider voting for republicans. Whatever, I warned about it for the last two years and was called all sorts of names on this site for it. Its like nothing was learned from what happened with Trump...
[01:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:54] <exec> 08└─migrated away from the company that used to do our office internet, as they split in two, to the company that does our home internet. Bills would be merged for convenience. A few weeks later, two bills arrive - one for Wayne Tammy Kim Fatphil, another for Kim Wayne Tammy Fatphil. I *know* I correcte...
[01:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:57] <exec> 08└─No he won't. Nobody who makes these kind of decisions out of spite ever feels regret. It's not in their makeup. He already blamed HRC for his voting anti-democrat again this time because it's always somebody else's fault (no matter what).
[01:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:20] <exec> 08└─YES, they are still trying to catchup with IBM Power series. We been multiple cored for years, with up to 16 "chips" on a single motherboard with 1TB per 4 chips/// that was 2002!
[01:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:21] <exec> 08└─Shit, didn't you have a pile of dead tree prawn?
[01:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:19] <exec> 08└─Assuming for a second this is true... then why is it true? I mean both the Democrats as well as the Republicans have significant levers of power. They've each controlled at least one of the houses of congress, if not the presidency as well. If there was systemic rigging in favor of one party over th...
[01:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:50] <exec> 08└─Why would he stop now? Exactly! If he did, he would be fired post haste. I really don't understand why people are complaining about him. He's just following orders.
[01:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:18] <exec> 08└─so the up --> down for in-n-out. And down --> up for Sonic.
[01:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:19] <exec> 08└─I am not sure how this applies to some genres like mystery, or adventure. Although in many free e-book mysteries I have read, there is enough of a pattern that I can say, "There ought to be a shocking development right about... here."
[01:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:03] <exec> 08└─The Australian government just shows what scum they are again. A mere reflection of the people that vote for them. Don't blame the politician that finds lying,stealing, and cheating to be a rewarding career. You people need to look in an entirely different direction to discover why that happens.
[01:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:18] <exec> 08└─You are trying to be funny, but we must defeat the ISP and work to make censorship technically impossible. Discussing whether we should develop this tech is truly stupid. We simply must do it. The people that take your postings seriously are nuts. That's why I never will :-)
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[02:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:31] <exec> 08└─Who do you think is behind the change? Bwahahahahaha!
[02:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:33] <exec> 08└─I have managed to maintain my weight at 75 kilograms. The kilograms are a lot bigger than they used to be though.
[02:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:35] <exec> 08└─Was the mystery about why all the cylinder's weights were no longer matching ever solved? Or was that the impetus for the move?
[02:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:37] <exec> 08└─Vegetarians? Vegans? What about the electicity needed to now create a reference? Unless it is only from renewable energy, climate change will ill the animals anyway!
[02:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:39] <exec> 08└─I guess I can confess now. That was me. I snuck in and did things with le grand K. Terrible things. Unspeakable things. Things that just wouldn't wash off. It's good that it is being replaced. Good for all of mankind.
[02:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:41] <exec> 08└─If they have shed mass, one suggestion is that it is because atmospheric pollutants, incorporated into the cylinders when they were forged, have escaped. If they have gained mass it could be because the platinum based ingots have absorbed mercury from the atmosphere or hydrogen from the solvents use...
[02:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Walzmyn [987] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:43] <exec> 08└─I'm really suprised this hasn't already been done. the others are all based on something that can be calculated anywhere. Mass was compared to one object, like wheat sellers in a bazaar with a balance scale.
[02:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:06] <exec> 08└─Some years ago, when applying for citizenship, I found that the "A" number on my green card was not correct. Another person in our small office found that his date of birth was wrong. Differences in names are more prevalent in non-english names. The purpose of the exact match rule was vote suppressi...
[02:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:08] <exec> 08└─Another person in our small office found that his date of birth was wrong.
[02:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:10] <exec> 08└─So? My friend had a drivers license that got his sex wrong. We all had a good laugh and then he got one without the error. Is it difficult to correct errors on a green card? Dont they ask you to inspect it for errors before accepting it?
[02:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:12] <exec> 08└─don't forget: this is the *most* *importantest* *election* *evar*! also, the next election will be the most important ever. thank you for reading.
[02:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:14] <exec> 08└─Republicans keep Senate, Democrats take House.
[02:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:16] <exec> 08└─I really think its republicans both. None of the people who are now considering voting republican due to disgust with the DNC are going to answer polls accurately, if at all.
[02:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:18] <exec> 08└─I still roll with 538: https://fivethirtyeight.com [fivethirtyeight.com] Article helpfully defends their 2016 forecast. Winning the House is almost certainly less important than winning the Se...
[02:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:44] <exec> 08└─I distinctly remember a 2006 Intel press blitz about "80 core processors... coming soon!"
[02:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:45] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Larrabee [wikipedia.org]?
[02:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:45] <exec> 08└─I wonder why Putin does not kill American agents by dozens...
[02:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:49] <exec> 08└─Simpler to understand: n^42 where n is one of infinite primes. There are also infinite non-repeating prime factors: take 41 primes and multiply them together. If there are infinite primes then for each prime, make it the 42nd factor of the composite number. Therefore infinite primes implies infinite...
[02:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:20] <exec> 08└─If Dems lose big time this time around, it's because they fucked over their constituency too badly to be forgiven in just two years.
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[03:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:12] <exec> 08└─Nor can it be explained with stress: Although farmers do show more stress before harvest, that does not account for diminished cognitive performance. Instead, it appears that poverty itself reduces cognitive capacity. We suggest that this is because poverty-related concerns consume mental resources
[03:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:14] <exec> 08└─It's not hard to understand. If you're busy trying to figure out how to keep things going when there isn't really enough money to make ends meet (or if you're not sure there's enough), you're not using those cognitive resources for other things.
[03:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:32] <exec> 08└─Could you elaborate on that, please?
[03:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:33] <exec> 08└─I for one hope they keep a few backup kilo standards around. Never know when civilization might collapse and take down the ability to use sophisticated methods. Keep some of the antique beam balances too, they work just fine (for any common application) and don't need any electricity/computers/PhDs...
[03:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:35] <exec> 08└─The problem was the proposals for replacing it with something defined in fundamental constants is that the constants necessary (e.g. Planck's constant, or perhaps the number of atoms in a kilogram of some substance) could not be determined with precision greater than these physical kilogram objects...
[03:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:37] <exec> 08└─Best to keep a physical backup because: constants aren't, variables don't. You never know if next week the LHC won't redefine another constant in physics. But now with the kilogram going virtual, we need it to be blockchained so people's virtual weightloss can be tracked and verified. I'm not fat, t...
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[03:38:07] <exec> 08└─https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=k8hdO_1541288582 [liveleak.com]
[03:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:08] <exec> 08└─Why? Are you suggesting that its somehow stupid to ignore someone who claims something but says they cant show you any evidence because its classified?
[03:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:11] <exec> 08└─Actually, the fun one I heard (On Real Time with Bill Maher, no less) is that this election is too important to vote Green Party. Fuck the independents and vote Democrats all the way down the line.
[03:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:13] <exec> 08└─It might be referencing Trump Jr.'s tweet from last Wednesday, which encouraged all "patriots" to vote "in 7 days." (I didn't see the tweet itself, but I saw it mentioned in a few places online.)
[03:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:15] <exec> 08└─There is no question of the devils we fear. Far left Dems are batshit insane.
[03:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:17] <exec> 08└─It isn't only the people who would vote Dem, now voting R. There are also a lot of people who _just_won't_vote_. There is little to point to that indicates any R's are disenchanted with their party. They will continue to vote, just as they always have.
[03:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:19] <exec> 08└─I saw that video on Youtube, I believe. When I click it on liveleaks, it tells me "video not available". Odd . . . If wikileaks doesn't give you the video, try this - https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Clearly, liberals are racist.
[03:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Llama Blood May Contain Key Ingredient to Universal Flu Vaccine - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:12] <exec> 08└─But inquiring minds want to know--after your sister was bitten, does she still catch the flu when it's going around?
[03:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:49] <exec> 08└─Ahahahahahahaha "It's not rigged, you are just losing." Get fucked Democrats. Tomorrow will be one hellova salt mine
[03:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:50] <exec> 08└─It's like the fucking techno-babble on TV. "I'll create a GUI Interface using Visual Basic. See if I can track an IP address." "Got it: 127.0.0.1" "That's LOCAL HOST! GET OUT, THE KILLER IS IN THE LAN!"
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[03:45:51] <exec> 08└─That's why I never will :-)
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[04:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:57] <exec> 08└─It took me decades to realize that many people don't do simple and reasonable tasks because they don't have mental capacity for them at the moment. Let me give an example of what I mean. Say a teacher has a very reasonable request for a student: listen for me and don't pick up you nose. With some it...
[04:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:58] <exec> 08└─Poor people almost universally vote Democrat.
[04:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:00] <exec> 08└─From the link, which points to the abstract: Science 30 Aug 2013: Vol. 341, Issue 6149, pp. 976-980 DOI: 10.1126/science.1238041
[04:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:02] <exec> 08└─The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate poverty.
[04:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:04] <exec> 08└─citation needed. I thought that poor people are less likely to vote than other higher-income groups.
[04:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:06] <exec> 08└─Poor people almost universally vote Democrat.
[04:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:09] <exec> 08└─Nonsense, I know people with middle class incomes who are depressed and constantly in debt because they take 12 vacations a year. In same breath they complain about the Credit Card bill and tell me about their trip to LA next weekend. People who go with me to a nice restaurant, complain about how th...
[04:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:11] <exec> 08└─Been dead since 2009. Creditors took a lot of my stuff, kids took the rest. I'm destitute no. No on is poorer than us dead people. And, I've voted Democrat in every election since then.
[04:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:13] <exec> 08└─Turn the other cheek bud, turn the other cheek.
[04:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:15] <exec> 08└─You should encourage these people to keep on spending, wildly, in particular on clothes and other high quality consumer small goods. I call it the shopaholic tax. Eventually they have too much and they (or their heirs?) donate to resale shops (Goodwill, Savers, etc). Often clothes have the original...
[04:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:17] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder. Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us. I know the guys at Goldman Sachs. They have total, total control over Senator Cruz. Over Lyin' Ted Cruz. And over so many of our politicians. So somebody asked me, "why did you appoint a rich pe...
[04:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:38] <exec> 08└─All the other base units don't have a prefix!
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[04:38:40] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the French have an MKS sort of culture?
[04:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:17] <exec> 08└─Nah, the Dems will take both houses, abolish ICE, restore ACA, impeach Mike Pence for being such a putz, and arrest Shawn Handily for Crimes against Nature. I am very optimistic.
[04:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:18] <exec> 08└─I was thinking that people who wouldnt vote or would vote 3rd party are being tempted to vote republican. At least that describes my own mindset.
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[04:39:20] <exec> 08└─Video works fine here. The youtube one does appear to be the same thing, best to use google alternatives when possible though.
[04:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:23] <exec> 08└─But Q promised that if the Reps win Trump will release the tesla free energy patents and 50 classified cancer cures. That sounds even better.
[04:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:25] <exec> 08└─Third party voter here. I would *never* vote for a Republican. Party of the Great Satan, smell of sulfur when one of them passes, and all that. Seriously, these are some of the evilest people to ever walk the earth. But, I have only voted for a couple Democrats, and with nearly zero expectations was...
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[04:39:37] <exec> 08└─...OLD THING...IN A DIFFERENT BOX! Is anyone else almost pitying how pathetic Intel is looking this past year? Yes, of course, they still are by far the dominant player compared to AMD, but as far as optics go, it seems to have been failure, after security disclosure, after failure, after disclosure...
[04:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:02] <exec> 08└─The spies that died were just assets, not field personnel.* *I have no inside knowledge about any of this.
[04:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:06] <exec> 08└─Story of Clinton: Rise, fall, fall, rise, fall, fall, fall Story of Trump: Rise, Rise, Rise, Rise, Rise, Rise, Rise, Rise, Rise, Rise BIGLY
[04:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time for an Official MIME Type for Patches? - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:23] <exec> 08└─ed scripts are abhorrent and a security vulnerability. diff -u a/b is the de facto standard used by everyone. Git didn't make it the standard, Git used it because it was the standard. http://rachelbythebay.com [rachelbythebay.com]
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[05:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Amazon Faces Growing Competition, and More - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:36] <exec> 08└─Hungry. So, so hungry! The man, Rickson, ran to his storage closet to get some consumables. He used his key to open the door, grabbed a consumable item, and then went into his bedroom to feast upon it. It screamed. The little boy's screams were so loud and obnoxious that even people living several h...
[05:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Faces Growing Competition, and More - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:37] <exec> 08└─Regulation by the State is the best way for Big Business to raise the barrier to entry for disruptive competition. As always, Big Government corrupts business, not the other way around.
[05:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:01] <exec> 08└─Stop trying to absolve these people from the responsiblity of their actions.
[05:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:02] <exec> 08└─a concern thought can consume a sizable chunk of metal capacity..
[05:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:04] <exec> 08└─There is a time and a place, Mr. Not-actually-Donald-Trump. This is not that time. This is not that place. I've seen too many friends suffer and die, or worse, because of what poverty did to them, and may narrowly have escaped the same fate myself, *did* narrowly escape it several years ago. Just......
[05:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:06] <exec> 08└─Hungry. So, so hungry! The man, Rickson, ran to his storage closet to get some consumables. He used his key to open the door, grabbed a consumable item, and then went into his bedroom to feast upon it. It screamed. The little boy's screams were so loud and obnoxious that even people living several h...
[05:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:08] <exec> 08└─Do you honestly think that the average person is good at financial planning? Whatever your political ideology, if you reach the point of scoffing at the notion of spending one's money wisely, then you're being an idiot. It's true that people aren't poor because of poor financial planning alone, but...
[05:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03agr [7134] (Score: 1) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:32] <exec> 08└─Standard masses will still be kept for day to day use in measuresment, but they can now be tested against the new definition in terms of Plank’s Constant, h = 6.626 070 15 × 10^−34 J s, when needed.
[05:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:33] <exec> 08└─It's already being done now with a Watt balance, which measures the mass of an object using a precisely-defined current and voltage, that being the amount required to move a one kilogram mass a certain distance. Then you have Watt balances all the way down to define your base unit.
[05:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:35] <exec> 08└─All these years and it never got out of beta? It's still a damn prototype!?
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[05:39:20] <exec> 08└─As mentioned above I still didnt do it. But the fixing a primary against sanders, trying to collude with to set up trump but instead getting trolled by russia, taking advantage of abused women by having lawyers mess with their memories, literal shrieking at the kavanaugh and strozk hearings, etc rea...
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[05:39:21] <exec> 08└─https://imgur.com/UO8TSUQ [imgur.com] #NoMenMidterm
[05:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:55] <exec> 08└─The purple goose is flying backwards. Put the baby in the bath and and feed it mayonnaise. Do NOT go down to the woods today. The eiderdown is inflated. Repeat. The eiderdown is inflated.
[05:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:59] <exec> 08└─While n^42 definitely proves the set of 42-factor numbers is infinite because the set of primes is infinite, this proof feels a bit sterile since it only refers to raising primes to the 42nd power. The original poster who asked me to imagine infinite tapes was actually more appealing, except that it...
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[05:43:28] <exec> 08└─Those aren't mutually exclusive. The Democrats have been snatching defeat from the jaws of victory for at least 40 years, and since the Clinton era they've seemingly been doing everything they can to become the second wing of the GOP. They're still the better option at this point in time though, if...
[05:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:02] <exec> 08└─Where does Kafka stand? https://www.nybooks.com [nybooks.com]
[05:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:48] <exec> 08└─You want to punish them, pick the greenies (bonus: pro-Internet privacy position)
[05:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween - 1415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:49] <exec> 08└─The only reason that Canada maybe broke even under NAFTA was because we lost so much under the original Canada USA free trade agreement. That is what wiped out Canada's manufacturing, sending it all to the States. My Dad for example, a machinist who took pride in his work and made about $25 an hour...
[05:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:51] <exec> 08└─Things did improve after America dropped out, at Canada's insistence. Unluckily we got the shit that was fixed added to NAFTA2.
[05:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:04] <exec> 08└─So if no one is armed, you get maximum politeness? And if people are unequally armed you get minimum politeness?
[05:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:05] <exec> 08└─Er, no. YOU are the hypocrite here, not me. Hypocrisy, projection, and willful ignorance are the gibbertarian Holy Trinity and you're one of the single most pathological examples I've ever met. Catch a fucking clue, asshole: power goes to power, money goes to money, wealth goes to wealth, and the ac...
[05:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:07] <exec> 08└─No, he's trying to hide his own insecurity behind tough-sounding talk. It says a lot about people who say "an armed society is a polite society," because what that implies is that 1) they only reason they're "polite" is they're afraid of injury or death, and 2) if that threat weren't there, they'd b...
[05:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think You're Bad at Math? You May Suffer From 'Math Trauma' - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:27] <exec> 08└─I ignore her. She is like a leaking trumpet.
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[05:48:29] <exec> 08└─Knowing your 10x10 times table isn't a deep skill it's routinely done by grade school students. If you haven't done it by 4th grade there's something wrong. People all over the world routinely learn and use basic arithmetic on a daily basis. I'm sorry that you're suffering from such an obvious intel...
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[06:38:05] <exec> 08└─The Democrats have a well documented history of doing more for the poor, and less to the poor
[06:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:07] <exec> 08└─What specific policy positions do you disagree with?
[06:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:09] <exec> 08└─OTOH, they don't have to think very hard about it if they need to save some bux one month. They're not poor, they're just foolish with money. The people who don't spend like that and still have to come up with some way to put the landlord off dor 3 days so they vcan pay rent and feed their kids have...
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[06:38:11] <exec> 08└─Wealth, particularly inherited wealth, spoils people. Allows them to be lazy thinkers, and no-good layabouts. Many succumb to the temptation. Your brain will not stay sharp it if isn't exercised, and a totally stress free and carefree life makes people slack.
[06:38:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 541 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:57] <exec> 08└─Some years ago, when applying for citizenship, I found that the "A" number on my green card was not correct. Another person in our small office found that his date of birth was wrong. Differences in names are more prevalent in non-english names. The purpose of the exact match rule was vote suppressi...
[06:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:18] <exec> 08└─It's a good meme but I don't see any (soy) men falling for it.
[06:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:20] <exec> 08└─Cancer is the cure for cancer. It was staring us in the face all along.
[06:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:48] <exec> 08└─Is anyone else almost pitying how pathetic Intel is looking this past year?
[06:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:49] <exec> 08└─The media wanted Trump. CNN by itself gave how many billions in free advertising? If Trump was unwanted, the same thing would have been done to him as to Ron Paul, silence. Trump is great for the media companies.
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[06:43:26] <exec> 08└─Not that it will stop you all from blaming everybody/thing else, everybody but the one in the mirror.
[06:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this is like saying that all living things are just collections of atoms and molecules. If some combination of "rise" and "fall" is all there is to stories, what would be the point of reading them? The whys and the details matter. This "every stories is a combination of 0 or more rises and fal...
[06:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:59] <exec> 08└─There was a show, movie, or some youtube video I saw where it turns out that one of the kids has a literal "magic reset button." Whenever something crazy happens and the kid is done having his fun, he went into the closet, pulled out the box, and pressed it. Magically everything got reset to wheneve...
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[06:47:03] <exec> 08└─True, but your bluntness will never make people think. Probably nothing will but coming from an unarmed society, I'm polite. (Of course there are also impolite unarmed societies)
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[07:40:02] <exec> 08└─This is the second time in the last few months that Intel has frantically tried to divert attention from AMD's own product announcements: Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores [soylentnews.org] Competition is fine, but what we've gotten from Intel are expensive,...
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[07:46:29] <exec> 08└─Aus Lib Dems, a party of pricks, just like the leader. I'll take that back. It is actually a party of proud to be pricks.
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[08:38:55] <exec> 08└─They often make themselves debt slaves by being foolish with money. Just because you make a decent amount of money doesn't mean you're not poor. Also, thinking about how you need to start saving money isn't going to help you much in an emergency if you've been wasting all of your money since then.
[08:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:57] <exec> 08└─What policies do you support that could have been implemented to avoid the situations in Detroit and Baltimore?
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[08:46:06] <exec> 08└─Gaelic is just fine. Only one of the vowels in "shillelagh" is different from its phonetic representation. English on the other hand...
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[08:46:08] <exec> 08└─It always stops working after the multiple rapes and murders.
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[09:38:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 245 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:10] <exec> 08└─It's not hard to understand. If you're busy trying to figure out how to keep things going when there isn't really enough money to make ends meet (or if you're not sure there's enough), you're not using those cognitive resources for other things.
[09:38:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:14] <exec> 08└─The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate poverty.
[09:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:34] <exec> 08└─You know the result? You did visit an alternative reality where different policies were tried, and got better results?
[09:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:36] <exec> 08└─I was with my wife in a poor country recently - the Philippines. And one thing you notice immediately is people don't plan ahead much. If something happens, it's always an "emergency" that no one really planned for. It's day-to-day living, always at the edge of disaster. There are many things that c...
[09:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:03] <exec> 08└─I for one hope they keep a few backup kilo standards around. Never know when civilization might collapse and take down the ability to use sophisticated methods.
[09:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:52] <exec> 08└─Many people are saying the Dems have badly hacked our Voting Cyber in Georgia. Tried to hack and hopefully failed badly. Very very serious Crime against our Country. Can we call that one Treason? But, I will totally accept the results if BRIAN KEMP wins!!! sos.ga.gov/index.php/general/after_failed_h...
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[09:39:53] <exec> 08└─This year, in response to the Democrat's attempts to reignite the cold war and increase the chance of global thermonuclear armageddon with their #RussiaRussiaRussia tantrum -- I went ahead and voted a straight GOP ticket out pure unadulterated spite.
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[09:39:55] <exec> 08└─Another @donlemon [twitter.com] number. Another BAWLFACED LIE from his CNN anchor chair. Who could expect any more? CNN (Clinton News Network) will soon be the least trusted name in news. People believe CNN these days almost as little as they believe Hillary......that's really saying something!. Don...
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[09:40:23] <exec> 08└─If there are 5000 roads, are there also 5000 cops? Or maybe there is a higher "undocumented" speed limit.
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[10:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:46] <exec> 08└─> and expect to work in the remote location on a long-term basis The chief of the local soccer team did exactly the opposite. Combed for new talent kept it for 1,2 seasons and then resell. Result, most profitable team of Serie A 2012-13 and players being motivated to do their best. They should look...
[10:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:47] <exec> 08└─Remote mountains sounds like paradise to me. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Looks great. If only I could speak Chinese, knew a bit more astrophysics and didn't have a family :-)
[10:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:49] <exec> 08└─2 out of 3 of your concerns are shared by the foreign scientists they scouted for the chief position. Boring or paradise, it seems this thingy will not be staffed.
[10:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:52] <exec> 08└─Why not have a skeleton crew of researchers work at the site of the telescope, and the rest remotely? They could even cycle them out, 1 month field trips.
[10:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:54] <exec> 08└─Have you ever tried to operate a research facility like that? I have. It does not work.
[10:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medicare Fraud and Machine Detection - 1847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:05] <exec> 08└─Serious question - I'm neither for nor against - why would fraud be better under single payer? TFA is analyzing Medicare fraud, so in the context of the study, it already is effectively single-payer data. AFAIK, the biggest sources of fraud, or just waste, in this context are: - Incorrectly billed p...
[10:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:01] <exec> 08└─This is something that's annoyed me for a long time. I typically buy almost all non-perishable staples at a big discount when they're on offer and I can do this because I have some disposable income and storage space. I end up paying around half as much as someone who doesn't have this. Terry Prat...
[10:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:02] <exec> 08└─> Poor people almost universally vote Democrat. Most people (poor or otherwise) in the Universe don't live in america, and therefore don't have the opportunity to vote for american political parties. Therefore, your statement is incorrect.
[10:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:31] <exec> 08└─climate change will ill the animals anyway!
[10:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:32] <exec> 08└─It's okay, the kilogram is a French unit. I pity the poor Republicans who are *forced* at school to study a *socialist* unit of mass. Something must be done!
[10:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:24] <exec> 08└─> Far left Looking with bemusement from Europe. Far left? Haha.
[10:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:41] <exec> 08└─women resented being told to vote for a uterus.
[10:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrkaos [997] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:22] <exec> 08└─All of these factors are exactly the same thing, these stories are a journey up and down Maslow's hierarchy of needs. [wikipedia.org] New modern stories are about uncovering people with personality disorders and how they manipulate us.
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[11:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:07] <exec> 08└─Compensation for the job is meager, at least by Western standards—about 100,000 yuan, or $14,400 annually.
[11:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:08] <exec> 08└─Read the article. Whatever they are doing right now does not work for them. Why do they need 24 researchers there for maintenance? Why not 2 or 5, with technicians called in when needed? Why do they anybody there at all for data analysis? There aren't any researchers visiting Hubble for data analysi...
[11:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Faces Growing Competition, and More - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:36] <exec> 08└─but have found I can very often buy some cheap knockoff of the same thing for one third the price on ebay. Quality is horrendous, but for a great many things, it does not matter much like cooking utensils or a lot of garage tools.
[11:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Faces Growing Competition, and More - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:37] <exec> 08└─Cheap plastic or nonstick cookware could be cancerous crap. For tools I agree, except for whenever you demand quality or longevity for certain tools.
[11:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:16] <exec> 08└─To compound this, the poor person is less likely to own a second freezer / large freezer / any freezer. They will have a smaller home and no spare space to hoard a two-year supply of bargain tampons and bog roll.
[11:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:17] <exec> 08└─I make just over $20k/year, support 4 people, very comfortably, still take vacations and can't think of much I'm lacking. Not worried at all about expenses. My monthly budget is $1400 (half of which goes to insurance) that leaves me about $500/month of fun money. Our only frivolous expense is the in...
[11:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:20] <exec> 08└─I've experienced this...anybody who shops at harbor freight has. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do, but its not difficult to get out of.
[11:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:37] <exec> 08└─> the private sector, something that lives and dies on being more efficient Is that really true? Or do they live or die based on inertia and marketing?
[11:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:39] <exec> 08└─Looking with bemusement from sanity. Republicans are not batshit insane? Haha.
[11:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Llama Blood May Contain Key Ingredient to Universal Flu Vaccine - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:38] <exec> 08└─This does not surprise me. I've know that Llamas were kickass since the mid 90s: https://classicreload.com [classicreload.com] - Strobe warning. - For best experience, turn out the lights, turn up the volume and then plug in a pair of quickshot II turbos (securely suckered to desk) an...
[11:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 1626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:24] <exec> 08└─It does seem a bit low considering their line of business. Just from the link you gave one can extrapolate some data. 1947 * (CIA started, so 0?) 1974 31 stars 1987 50 stars 2009 90 stars 2017 129 stars So in the first 30 something years they lost 31 people, or about one per year. This is during the...
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[11:43:25] <exec> 08└─Apparently the russian station used a different comms technique. According to El Reg at least.
[11:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:27] <exec> 08└─Sometimes +5 insightful just isn't enough.
[11:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:48] <exec> 08└─Need to add some Zen, then.
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[11:46:49] <exec> 08└─"Do you usually smoke after sex, or did we do something wrong?"
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[12:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Neutral Solution for Desalination: Tapping into Geothermal Sources - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:07] <exec> 08└─You have to balance the cost of desal with the cost of moving the people away from a desert and toward somewhere there's too much fresh water to use, vs the third option of passive devices like pipelines to abundant freshwater vs fourth option of merely decreasing consumption via efficiency. So... t...
[12:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:22] <exec> 08└─No, it isn't. China pay is ~ 35% to 40% of USA pay in many technical and scientific fields. It's not like India or the shittier places in Africa. Average pay stats don't give you an accurate estimate of the pay for trained engineers,technicians, and scientists. They need to pay 2-3x what they are of...
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[12:37:23] <exec> 08└─$14,400 annually
[12:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medicare Fraud and Machine Detection - 2651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:34] <exec> 08└─Actually a compelling argument for single payer. I see you've never experienced real single payer like workers comp or the VA - or you just hate people. With workers comp, the only place effective care happens is on paper - unless you mean things to deliberately hurt you in order to coerce you to cl...
[12:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Faces Growing Competition, and More - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:56] <exec> 08└─What in the world are you talking about? What a strange and "motivated" view. Which way does the money flow? That is all you have to ask to determine who is applying the corruptive force and literally paying money to destroy society and civilization.
[12:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:08] <exec> 08└─ChamWoW!
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[12:46:02] <exec> 08└─Yes.
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[13:37:33] <exec> 08└─I have the gemini. It would be nice, if there was any non-community effort being put into the software. Planet has consistently disappointed me at every turn. There are still backers waiting on perks for the gemini to be shipped. Linux support is laughable, although mainline kernel support looks to...
[13:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medicare Fraud and Machine Detection - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:05] <exec> 08└─Nobody cares about the kinds of fraud you've mentioned in your last couple paragraphs, as they're fraud committed against the patient. The only kind of fraud Medicare cares about, and by extension the government, industry, and elected officials, is fraud against Medicare. The point at the end of the...
[13:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skin Gel Allows Wounds to Heal Without Leaving a Scar - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:13] <exec> 08└─Why is mutilating children permitted in so-called progressive countries? Why is it so popular in America?
[13:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Faces Growing Competition, and More - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:28] <exec> 08└─Amazon is temporarily removing the $25 minimum order requirement for free shipping.
[13:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:09] <exec> 08└─I really think a significant portion of education needs to be in life coaching for the modern world. Cooking, cleaning, budgeting, shopping, basic maintenance (change light bulb, check smoke alarm, oil door hinge, check for leaky faucet,...), behavioral modification, coping skills, etc. Nobody needs...
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[13:39:11] <exec> 08└─Easy! They are actually extreme savers. That's well before fake news, so it must be true: the more you spend, the more you save. (grin)
[13:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:13] <exec> 08└─There's the classic boot story where you can buy $100 boots annually if you're poor but that costs you $1K/decade but if you're "rich" you buy one $300 pair of boots every decade and only spend $300/decade and that savings is why they're rich to begin with. I myself am pretty well off but I can't af...
[13:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:15] <exec> 08└─Lets try an experiment and compare IQ of college students who don't have enough money to buy beer vs recent grads who mere years later are buying houses with software dev pay. Or even more fun, look at the majors that massively overproduce, my state graduates twice as many education degree kids as t...
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[13:39:17] <exec> 08└─If you correct for the rise of identity politics and race, it becomes much less straightforward. Also with the black folks leaving the democratic plantation, its less of a correlation than used to be.
[13:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:19] <exec> 08└─The real problem with #1 for poor people is the electricity bill, I'm not sure I run a net profit off my basement freezer even with aggressive Costco shopping. WRT #2 (Oh the pun) even as a starving student in a small apartment I had no trouble buying and storing a years supply of toilet paper in th...
[13:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:21] <exec> 08└─If you're homeless, and jealous that I have a house, you will certainly feel better trash talking my home ownership then burning my house down. However, not only would you still be homeless, but now there's two homeless people instead of one.
[13:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:24] <exec> 08└─debt slaves
[13:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:53] <exec> 08└─A gram would be more sensitive to measuring errors and the impact of degradation I guess.
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[13:40:46] <exec> 08└─I got in hot water with a girl I was hooking up with for sharing my opinions on him and his frothing attitude. And I say this as a relative liberal. Maher is as bad as the far right pundits and just as much a problem for the left's perception as some of those whackjobs like Beck, O'Reilly, etc were...
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[13:43:33] <exec> 08└─>> "At the very fucking least Trump hired appropriate people to appropriate positions" > "hahahah wtf???" Here are some choice picks. Rex Tillerson. A civil engineer and businessman. Elevated to one of the highest political offices in the country with ZERO experience of foreign policy, or of politic...
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[13:45:11] <exec> 08└─The Democrats have been snatching defeat from the jaws of victory... Only on the surface, in front of the cameras. It's an act! Behind the scenes it's all lovey-dovey between the GOP and DNC. They 'share' the power to keep the power, and the voters play along thinking they'll get a piece of the acti...
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[14:37:49] <exec> 08└─Looks like the Mercury Computer [fandom.com]. I'm certain that all pretty sailor suited soldiers run Linux or BSD instead of an OS from Redmond the Dark Kingdom, so if this doesn't support Linux I'll have to keep looking for a Mercury Computer. I've also been looking at getting a battery for my Pi a...
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[14:37:50] <exec> 08└─Does that mean it plugs in to a PROPER landline instead of some lame cell phone that makes everyone sound like a robot trying to rape my ear, makes me stand outside to get good reception, and still craps out every time an airplane flies over or the wind blows? Yea, I thought not. You kids have a fun...
[14:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Computers Straps Proper Phone to its next Psion Scion, Cosmo - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:52] <exec> 08└─Does that mean it plugs in to a PROPER landline Dunno about the U.S, but POTS (and ISDN) are deprecated in the UK and will stop being available in the next few years. Aside from the last mile it's all converted to IP anyway. My own "landline" is a BS 6312 socket which goes into a battery powered fib...
[14:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:21] <exec> 08└─The 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, ... failed to attract a chief scientist ... [and] is also struggling to attract two dozen researchers to work onsite
[14:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Faces Growing Competition, and More - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:58] <exec> 08└─You were paying via higher item costs for Prime-eligible items for the past decade or so. Not a ton on big stuff, but on a bottle of shampoo, the Prime eligible bottle has been as much as a buck more than the one which isn’t eligible for Prime. For me, the killer was when they started using Amazon...
[14:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Faces Growing Competition, and More - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:00] <exec> 08└─That is all you have to ask to determine who is applying the corruptive force and literally paying money to destroy society and civilization.
[14:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Faces Growing Competition, and More - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:02] <exec> 08└─I think its more graymarket than ripoff. Here's the same pc board that Adafruit.com sells, but instead of paying for the research (little as it may be), and adafruit marketing and expensive california lifestyle, its shipped from a pile of random letters company name in China for a quarter the price....
[14:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Faces Growing Competition, and More - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:04] <exec> 08└─Cheap plastic or nonstick cookware could be cancerous crap.
[14:40:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:06] <exec> 08└─I have managed to maintain my weight at 75 kilograms. The kilograms are a lot bigger than they used to be though.
[14:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:22] <exec> 08└─I voted for Trump last election but this election I'm voting for democrartic due to the sharemarket plunge.
[14:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:52] <exec> 08└─The roads will crumble if you drive over the speed limit without proper preperation.
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[15:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:23] <exec> 08└─It was an awesome computer and lasted her six years until she accidentally set a chair on it.
[15:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:24] <exec> 08└─Companies that have been specializing in Linux boxes for a while, like System76, are saying "Whaddaya mean, we don't have Linux on a desktop?" Heck, the desktop I'm writing this on was purchased retail from a local shop with Ubuntu on it. The main reasons non-Android Linux doesn't dominate the marke...
[15:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:26] <exec> 08└─I bought an EEEPC soon after it became available. No, not the first model. Its screen was tiny and its built-in linux had a proprietary driver for, I think, the wifi chip. The one I bought was the first EEEPC that did not require any proprietary drivers. It looked like a respectable laptop with a sl...
[15:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:28] <exec> 08└─I got a couple back then... a 9" and a 10" version. They were pretty much impossible to get with the local keyboard, or even at all here in local shops - had to order them from abroad. Also, there were *no* Linux versions available. I had to order the Windows version (yes, I know - hated forking mon...
[15:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:31] <exec> 08└─There was a time when the preinstalled-Linux desktop computers cost slightly less than the preinstalled-Windows ones. That came to an end because people buying a computer would see that they looked the same and the Linux one was cheaper. Then once they tried it they brought it back because it turne...
[15:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:33] <exec> 08└─[...] and the supply chain problems mean that Joe is now thinking "Why pay more for something harder to use? Plus it can't run $GAME!"
[15:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:35] <exec> 08└─I disagree but no longer have the supporting citations to back up the claim. The !@#$% search engines do poorly with old news, that the odds of refinding the relevant articles is poor to non-existent, especially once M$ started a misinformation campaign on the topics in the trade press to bury news...
[15:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 1741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:37] <exec> 08└─I remember them well. The first one was cheap, but just too small in every way. Internal storage was too limited. But the biggest limiting factor was the screen resolution. The second one was usable. IIRC it has 16 GB which was enough. Screen was something like 640 x 1024 which was just usable. It w...
[15:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 1314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:39] <exec> 08└─IMO: Chrome OS / Chromebooks are the best shot at mass market "year of the Linux desktop". New Chromebooks with the latest Chrome OS are in the process of getting the ability to securely run Linux apps. (That means the Linux app cannot compromise the Chrome OS, and thus your Google account.) Making...
[15:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Computers Straps Proper Phone to its next Psion Scion, Cosmo - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:52] <exec> 08└─Oh, get over yourself you Luddite! Progress is all about increasing suffering while decreasing functionality. What do you want, to go back to the dark ages when computers felt blazing fast and could do everything you wanted without any problems? You probably also don't like the way Windows 10 spies...
[15:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medicare Fraud and Machine Detection - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:33] <exec> 08└─Guess they're screwed then, since healthcare fraud is the rule rather the exception. All you have to look at to know that, is the only "affordable" plans have a 50% copay on a service that is marked up 1000%. Or did you really think the ER charging you $200 per stitch to do what any seamstress or sa...
[15:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medicare Fraud and Machine Detection - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:34] <exec> 08└─I've never heard of anyone having problems like that, and know quite a few people who consider VA to be far and away the best provider they've ever worked with.
[15:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medicare Fraud and Machine Detection - 4865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but (always a yeah, but).... Your question on "borderline fraud" triggered something for me. The government did a clever little trick in labeling these things "fraud." Generally speaking fraud means that there is an intentional act to deceive. However, in looking-glass healthcare world the ac...
[15:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medicare Fraud and Machine Detection - 2219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:38] <exec> 08└─Worth noting that if you look up false claims act suites, something like 60% of them in recent history are against insurers. In regards to overbilling, there is a simple way to evaluate this. Devide the number of doctors by the number of billing clerks. A typical doctors office has a ratio of four b...
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[15:38:41] <exec> 08└─VA has it's issues. At the risk of "no true Scotsman," though, VA and Work Comp are definitely NOT single-payer. VA alone is a horrid mess of Tricare, military employed staff, and The US has never experienced anything close to a single payer system. Medicare/Medicaid might have been the closest unti...
[15:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skin Gel Allows Wounds to Heal Without Leaving a Scar - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:50] <exec> 08└─Not sure. There seems to be an issue of balance with regards to the state vs parents. I.e. how much right does a parent have over their kids before they are of the age of consent. The mutilation of genitals is one such example. Should parents be allowed to make permanent body alterations to their ki...
[15:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skin Gel Allows Wounds to Heal Without Leaving a Scar - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:52] <exec> 08└─When I was very young, my sister and I were fighting in the car about something. I don't really remember much about it, but she took a swipe at my face and left a 2" scar beneath one of my eyes. Somehow it never went away as my face grew, just got a bit distorted. It would be a shame if they just er...
[15:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skin Gel Allows Wounds to Heal Without Leaving a Scar - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:55] <exec> 08└─I don't know why it started, but the reason now is that dad got snipped and he wants to avoid that whole conversation with his son.
[15:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:01] <exec> 08└─The troll modded my post down. Real trolls have no sense of humor.
[15:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:03] <exec> 08└─I don't believe there is a pair of boots that will last me a decade. Navy boondockers, maybe, but they're so damned uncomfortable, NO ONE is going to wear them for a year, let alone ten years. Rich people who sit in offices, sit in country clubs, and sit around the pool all the time - yeah, I can se...
[15:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:05] <exec> 08└─Misery loves company.
[15:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:07] <exec> 08└─Try Djibouti, next time. Or some of the bush people in the rest of Africa. Almost any African refugee camp. The Philippines are a lot poorer than the US, but, they've a long way down to hit bottom, from what I hear.
[15:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:09] <exec> 08└─> but its not difficult to get out of. That depends entirely on your available income stream. Before you can start getting out of the hole, you need to accumulate enough savings to start being able to buy the better-investment products. And when you're already doing most of your durable goods shoppi...
[15:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:11] <exec> 08└─Or you could look at actual income statistics, and realize that social mobility has fallen steadily and dramatically, from 1950 when 70+% of Americans people were making more than their parents had, to well under 50% today. Let that sink in for a moment - despite a soaring GDP over most of that time...
[15:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:13] <exec> 08└─It's a trivial factor. Rent is basically uncontrollable(unless you can get a mortgage which depends on not being poor), and income can be very uncontrollable. The things you can control by budgetting are dwarfed by those two factors. Lots of people spending over half their household income on having...
[15:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:42] <exec> 08└─also, the next election will be the most important ever.
[15:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:12] <exec> 08└─Could have been, although a lot of the 2006 press flak made it sound like they were 80 parallel GPCPUs, not GPGPUs.
[15:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:06] <exec> 08└─Well, I may not be around to see all of that happen. Women voters, especially younger women voters, who resented Hillary? I won't be around to see their granddaughters all grown up. Maybe you can drop me a postcard, or an email, and tell me about it when it happens. I'll state plainly what MOST cons...
[15:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we were taught this crap in my highschool English classes. What's new, the fact that someone has made some vague "graph" which encodes at most half a byte worth of binary data? Or is it the typical "...but with a COMPUTER!" story? Didn't the basic idea here come from the friggin' ancient Greek...
[15:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Ratifies the TPP on Halloween - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:42] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the point of view. Yeah, what you say goes hand-in-glove with businesses moving from the "rust belt" in the states, to the "sunbelt". That preceded offshoring, so places like Pittsburgh and Youngstown were already hit fairly hard when the steel mills started going overseas.
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[16:37:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 1110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:20] <exec> 08└─I disagree but no longer have the supporting citations to back up the claim. The !@#$% search engines do poorly with old news, that the odds of refinding the relevant articles is poor to non-existent, especially once M$ started a misinformation campaign on the topics in the trade press to bury news...
[16:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:23] <exec> 08└─The company I worked for from 2000 to 2002 gave us Linux Desktops as workstations from a company that only produced Linux desktops (I think it was RedHat, but it could have been someone else). They worked wonderfully for us. And this was well before the 2008 timeframe this article references.
[16:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:25] <exec> 08└─Tragically, customization is not a thing any more. It is one of the FOSS desktops' strengths but not one that can be mareted any more due to the public being so subdued into accepting the defaults.
[16:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:28] <exec> 08└─There is also the "Telikin" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] marketed to older folks.
[16:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:30] <exec> 08└─That much weight must have compressed it into pure diamond, sell it and buy another.
[16:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:32] <exec> 08└─It's an ASUS EEE 900A. The Xandros desktop it came with the single most atrocious linux desktop I've ever seen. It was slow as a dog, and felt horribly unintuitive to use. I would think if anything chased casual users away from the linux verison of the EEE, it would have been the default desktop. I'...
[16:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:34] <exec> 08└─One of the takeaways from the case between M$ and Netscape, even back then, was that over 60% of people kept the defaults exactly as they are. I have a lot of anecdotes that convince me that the percentage is much higher nowadays. However, those are only anecdotes. It is past time for another proper...
[16:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:36] <exec> 08└─I miss that little trooper. It was back in 2009 and 2010 I think. It ran Linux, I think Arch, like a champ. I would even downclock it to 100 MHz (yes, that was possible) and stay in console, no X, using it as just a music player and text reader for very long bus trips.
[16:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:38] <exec> 08└─I had an early model for a year or two before selling it to a friend. I already ran linux 100% on all my desktops at that time so the linux part was not a novelty -- instead I turned it into a hackintosh. It worked just fine and getting it set up was fun but minor puzzle -- other than installing OSX...
[16:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:40] <exec> 08└─New Chromebooks with the latest Chrome OS are in the process of getting the ability to securely run Linux apps.
[16:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:42] <exec> 08└─They were aiming at same niche as smartphones/phablets currently have taken over.
[16:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:45] <exec> 08└─That's sad if it's true, because it suggests we're breeding nations of compliant drones that do not wish to question what is put in front of them or think critically. I'm extrapolating a lot from your example, but if I'm right, that's very bad for democracy. I do have to wonder how they got that 60%...
[16:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:47] <exec> 08└─I tried Red Hat at home around that time. At first it seemed to work great. Then for some reason the internet connection stopped working. I spent hours checking all the settings and even tried a full reinstall. Nothing fixed it. It wasn't a hardware issue, because putting Windows on made it work. I...
[16:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skin Gel Allows Wounds to Heal Without Leaving a Scar - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:56] <exec> 08└─Religion occasionally drives some very strange behaviors in otherwise apparently rational people. This tradition comes from that cultural baggage of "things we do, because that's just how it is." (We saw this very briefly with the nuclear family movement, but we're finding out conclusively that it t...
[16:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Faces Growing Competition, and More - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:15] <exec> 08└─For me I frequent Banggood and the local dollar store for similar items. Sometimes quality really isn't an issue (beyond basics like safety). Perhaps I need a proof-of-concept and plan on making a more informed top dollar purchase in the future. Or more often I run into super cheap nick-nacks like t...
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[16:39:16] <exec> 08└─Amazon Faces
[16:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:18] <exec> 08└─I think education should focus on skills like full attention and persistence. The best way to achieve this is to make children to learn a totally useless and hard subject, say ancient Greek language or Talmud.
[16:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:20] <exec> 08└─Parents (and other family members) used to teach all of that. What happened that we need to teach basic fundamentals like that in schools?
[16:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:22] <exec> 08└─Nonsense, I know people with middle class incomes who are depressed and constantly in debt because they take 12 vacations a year
[16:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:24] <exec> 08└─Except that is not what is actually happening when you look at the demographic data. Analysis of a USAToday study shows differently. “Poorest states have Republican legislatures, and richest have Democratic ones.” https://www.breitbart.com
[16:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:26] <exec> 08└─I truly hope you end up homeless. You have no understanding of what those people face. I *was* homeless, thankfully only for a brief period, in 2010 when my ex went batshit. And you know what? I didn't begrudge people who had homes their homes. My every thought was on 1) survival and 2) getting a pl...
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[16:40:28] <exec> 08└─He doesn't know, or care, about any of that. Please understand he's not here to discuss in good faith; his post history shows he's basically just here to stir shit up.
[16:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, true. And a short version of why is that democrats royally screwed poor many times.
[16:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:32] <exec> 08└─Even so, it's still not necessary to take expensive vacations that put you in debt. There are cheaper ways to enjoy time off.
[16:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:03] <exec> 08└─No, now they're out of beta and releasing on time. Nobody thought to ask what computer system the master copy of the new standard will be archived to. Let's just say you'll be glad to be Still Alive.
[16:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:05] <exec> 08└─If I go to the electric chair, tell them I want 12kg of electricity put through me.
[16:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:07] <exec> 08└─Um, where you use X or 1/1000 of X, your error is the same.
[16:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:09] <exec> 08└─There was the Avogadro project that decided to normalise h and N_A, and then determine the kilo in terms of the mass of a ball of pure silicon whose size and crystal structure could be measured (hence number of moles calculated) very accurately: https://www.nist.gov
[16:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:11] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't you have ended that with #MAGA, Donald?
[16:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:09] <exec> 08└─You would think the spanking the DNC got in the HRC/Trump debacle would have been enough to clue them in. Clearly it was not and so the beatings must continue until the party fades and is replaced or reforms. Rewarding bad behavior though is the surest way to get more of it. I heard a joke recently:...
[16:44:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:32] <exec> 08└─But it seems nobody wanted Clinton either. Wish they'd dumped her ass and gone with Sanders after they discovered her team stole from Bernie.
[16:44:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:35] <exec> 08└─> causing some morons to promote a fascist dictatorship over democracy. Yeah, luckily Trump won, instead. *ducks*
[16:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insecure CIA Web System Led to the Deaths of Many Agents in Iran, China, Middle East - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:56] <exec> 08└─In other words, someone wasn't totally incompetent.
[16:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:33] <exec> 08└─One party has been inviting the religious nutbars in since the late 70s and early 80s, and arming *another* group of religious nutbars who think the first group is going to spend eternity on fire, and vice versa. It's not the Democrats. One party has been threatening to get rid of Medicare and Socia...
[16:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:21] <exec> 08└─1. Rags to riches – a steady rise from bad to good fortune 2. Riches to rags – a fall from good to bad, a tragedy 3. Icarus – a rise then a fall in fortune 4. Oedipus – a fall, a rise then a fall again 5. Cinderella – rise, fall, rise 6. Man in a hole – fall, rise
[16:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:22] <exec> 08└─So...clearly it's possible to write a story that's just like Cinderella, except at the end the prince dies, Cinderella goes back to live with the evil stepmother, then the prince's brother finds out and comes to rescue her: rise, fall, rise, fall, rise. Since that pattern isn't mentioned, and these...
[16:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Story in the World Has One of These Six Basic Plots - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:24] <exec> 08└─Only one of the vowels in "shillelagh" is different from its phonetic representation.
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[17:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:19] <exec> 08└─... vulnerable to the "withdrawing copyright" exploit to which the linux kernel seems to be vulnerable?
[17:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03pD-brane [6728] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:20] <exec> 08└─Misinformation. To compare with, maybe Debian GNU/Linux is the system distribution with the highest number of packages available. OpenBSD has fewer packages (and ports), but from my experience there is less redundancy and packages tend to be current.
[17:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:23] <exec> 08└─I tried 6.3 on an old Thinkpad, figuring a) it is OpenBSD so it is lean enough to work and b) the hardware is old enough it should work. A proved correct, B did not, no working power management == no laptop. But yeah, If I could get OpenBSD to run on either real or virtual hardware I'd be learning i...
[17:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:25] <exec> 08└─How can you "withdraw copyright" when no copyright was ever granted? You make a contribution to Linux, you retain full copyright. What you give is a perpetual, transferable, and I think irrevocable license to your contribution. (haven't read the GPL2 recently, so I could be a bit off) Exactly what l...
[17:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:55] <exec> 08└─I have a close friend who opted for a Chromebook after being 1000% fed up with his previous Windows laptop. He couldn't be happier with it. As little as I think of Google I at least have to give them credit for bucking the trend of operating systems that use all the resources you can throw at them b...
[17:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:57] <exec> 08└─I still have a couple around. They make great devices for controlling guitar effects, music equipment, as a media centre extension (MPD controller, etc). Quiet, low power, and cheap. Really the only complaint I had about them was the crappy screen resolutions ... which really were not much worse tha...
[17:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:59] <exec> 08└─The default OS it came with was slow...replaced it with EasyPeasy OS...and it worked as a charm for what it was supposed to be. Editing documents, web browsing, emails, watching a movie and reasonable battery life. It was the precursor of chromebook.
[17:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:01] <exec> 08└─The netbook, were it to be made thin and efficient, is a vastly superior form factor to a tablet. The entire problem was software...Microsoft literally drove the entire market away (and to tablets) with their anticompetitive tactics to make sure everything ran Windows. And now because of them we are...
[17:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:03] <exec> 08└─accidental powerwash?
[17:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:05] <exec> 08└─Then you either have Linux on the desktop, or BSD on the desktop.
[17:38:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Planet Computers Straps Proper Phone to its next Psion Scion, Cosmo - 613 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:18] <exec> 08└─Oh, get over yourself you Luddite! Progress is all about increasing suffering while decreasing functionality. What do you want, to go back to the dark ages when computers felt blazing fast and could do everything you wanted without any problems? You probably also don't like the way Windows 10 spies...
[17:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Neutral Solution for Desalination: Tapping into Geothermal Sources - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:30] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. Desalination requires energy. One form of energy is geothermal therefore geothermal can be used for desalination. This isn't revolutionary. The real problem is suitable geothermal fields are relatively rare and finding one near where you need to desalinate water is even rarer. You wa...
[17:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Neutral Solution for Desalination: Tapping into Geothermal Sources - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, TFA pretty much just says that geothermal energy sources (specifically "dry rock geothermal") are not currently being used for desalination. Then the authors propose that this would be a reasonable approach in several areas, specifically mentioning southern California, northern Africa and the R...
[17:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:51] <exec> 08└─For $800 he better be turning more than the other cheek!
[17:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:31] <exec> 08└─"One kilogram is what my little friend M1A1 and I say it is."
[17:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:32] <exec> 08└─You gotta applaud the fact that some manager said "it's good enough, just keep it like that", and that stood for two hundred years (over a hundred for the copy, the IPK). They fired the marketing guy who kept trying to add more features. Can I hire that team?
[17:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:34] <exec> 08└─In theory. In practice, humans are not ant-sized, so our tools favor handling and measuring a kilogram easier than a gram or a ton.
[17:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:20] <exec> 08└─It's simpler because it doesn't need an exception to be specified.
[17:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:55] <exec> 08└─They both work together to the same ends, otherwise we would see real opposition and much less 'compromise'. You still only describe two sides of one coin. You're taking their theatrics as gospel. They just aren't playing the game you think they are.
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[18:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:24] <exec> 08└─uBlock Origin, uMatrix, and half a dozen other script blockers work perfectly well. They will even block Google's own prying into your life! Add in the MVPS hosts file, http://winhelp2002.mvps.org [mvps.org] and you're already miles ahead of what Google is offering with this updated browse...
[18:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:26] <exec> 08└─* To read the content of this post, you must switch to a browser that does not block our malware, you must disable your ad blocker, turn off your firewall, uninstall your virus scanner, and take off your pants so we can rape you whenever we want. [YES] [YES]
[18:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:28] <exec> 08└─All of the above actually doesn't sound half bad for the consumer-level browsing public. It would be a wonderful gift if Google themselves weren't in the business of selling ad space. But since they do, this is monopolistic behavior which should be stopped even if the service is both beneficial in i...
[18:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:30] <exec> 08└─Do as we say, not as we do!
[18:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:42] <exec> 08└─I'm not really a BSD guy, but I'll agree with your post. With Debian, pretty much every file manager ever built for *nix is available. BSD and Arch, a few others, don't offer _every_single_file_manager_ever_created. But, if you need a feature, you can find it, all the same. Maybe it's alright to rei...
[18:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:43] <exec> 08└─Exactly what legal foundation is there for canceling such a license for a licensee who has flawlessly adhered to their part of the contract,
[18:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 1912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:21] <exec> 08└─It isn't any of those things, it is just Microsoft. EEE proved that, put ANY non-Windows unit in stores that has minimal fit and finish work and they will sell. The only reason the EEE project was even allowed to occur was as a research project based on the success of OLPC, Asus and Intel were tryin...
[18:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:22] <exec> 08└─Hendrikboom was talking about desktops, not notebooks. I remember a time when an effort was made to sell desktops with Linux in the high street, and Hendrikboom described exactly what happened - customers returned them as soon as they got home, switched on, and said "WTF is happening? I can't see Wi...
[18:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:24] <exec> 08└─My work computer from that time frame came from VALinux Systems [channelfutures.com].
[18:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:11] <exec> 08└─China still has trouble staffing the world's largest telescope even after two rounds of free advertising on multiple science websites Where's my tiny violin?
[18:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Faces Growing Competition, and More - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:03] <exec> 08└─Sure, if all you need to do is hang a picture you don't need a quality hammer. Otherwise, it's a good idea to have a few basic, Good Quality tools. At least have a good hammer, power drill with screwdriver bits, and a Dremel. You can get by with those for a lot of things. I might recommend a good qu...
[18:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:12] <exec> 08└─I really think a significant portion of education needs to be in life coaching for the modern world. Cooking, cleaning, budgeting, shopping, basic maintenance... Your parents are supposed to teach you those things.
[18:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:13] <exec> 08└─Lol, 700 a month for rent/food for 4 people? Plus vacations and a worry free life? I smell internet level bullshit.
[18:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:15] <exec> 08└─Youre such a piece of crap you gotta project your racism too? Youre the worst
[18:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:17] <exec> 08└─Very telling in how these types reacted to winning the election. Rhe last one they lost exploded with racism, going so far as to hang and burn effigies of obama. When they win? Still hateful pricks acting like they are being oppressed becausenpeople say mean things about "their guy". Not to mention...
[18:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:57] <exec> 08└─Why should I care about what a vegan cares about? Which reminds me, it's lunchtime and there are ribs waiting for me. S.E.P.
[18:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:59] <exec> 08└─It's no mystery. Every time you touch it a few molecules come off. Over a century it adds up.
[18:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:01] <exec> 08└─When society collapses, the simple approximation "one kilogram is the weight of one liter of water" will be sufficient.
[18:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:03] <exec> 08└─"The Origins of Precision" https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[18:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:05] <exec> 08└─Um, where you use X or 1/1000 of X, your error is the same.
[18:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:07] <exec> 08└─A spanking? Clinton WON the popular vote despite her unpopularity. Trump squeaked by in a very narrow margin in the Electoral College. Why are you Republicans allergic to facts these days? Your party has gone batshit insane. I've voted split ticket all my life, but there are simply no qualified Repu...
[18:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:08] <exec> 08└─Voter suppression. It's just another form of voter fraud.
[18:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:10] <exec> 08└─The only one I've heard of that's saying that is Georgia's Secretary of State, a Republican, and he's saying so without showing any proof whatever.
[18:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:12] <exec> 08└─I've voted split ticket all my life
[18:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 48-core Xeons Using Multiple Dies, Ahead of AMD Announcement - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:46] <exec> 08└─Since, I've purchased my own machines, I've only bought AMD. What's more is, I've only built my own PCs. Except the obvious Samsung Tablet, LG Smartphone, and multiple versions of the Raspberry Pi. Though, I did snag a couple of IBM A21m Thinkpads when they were being retired from my library.
[18:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experience High-Res Science in First 8K Footage from Space - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:38] <exec> 08└─I have a 55 inch 4k TV, and the difference between 1080 and 4K is tiny. I don;t think 8K on that size screen would look any better. Maybe with a theater sized screen, but not a normal sized TV.
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[19:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, so what, as long as most of them keep paying. This is just one of those times when they need to seek out alternatives, because with the increased market share, what incentive would there be to produce what 'western' fans want? Eh, whatever, try voting with your wallets, and hope that enough pe...
[19:37:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:26] <exec> 08└─* To read the content of this post, you must switch to a browser that does not block our malware, you must disable your ad blocker, turn off your firewall, uninstall your virus scanner, and take off your pants so we can rape you whenever we want. [YES] [YES]
[19:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:30] <exec> 08└─that, even is you pause them, follow you down the page as you scroll.
[19:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:32] <exec> 08└─Using /etc/hosts as a means of content filtering is effective for some sources but not others. In particular, if the source randomizes the subdomain (such as 192bd0.badsite.example vs. a9f78a.badsite.example), the most widely supported syntax for /etc/hosts cannot cover all possibilities because it...
[19:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:34] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[19:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:36] <exec> 08└─It's not the actual video but the sound. It interrupts the dulcet harmonies of David Bowie's "I'm Afraid Of Americans".
[19:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:39] <exec> 08└─Look, it just so happens the only non-abusive ad network is adsense. It's just a coincidence.
[19:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:41] <exec> 08└─Use https://pi-hole.net [pi-hole.net], a much better solution.
[19:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:43] <exec> 08└─I doubt that it's practical to accurately block floating paused advertisements without site-specific blocking lists. I suspect that detecting whether a floating element is an essential user interface element or an advertisement is AI-complete.
[19:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:45] <exec> 08└─"No one needs anyone; they don't even just pretend." On sites that don't have high media engagement, Chrome already blocks autoplaying audio and autoplaying video that lacks the muted attribute. One way for website operators to work around this is a so-called "pivot to video": provide more articles...
[19:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:47] <exec> 08└─If it cuts down on the amount of fake Office 365 login pages that users can access, I am all for it. We need to be cutting those things off at every layer we possibly can.
[19:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:49] <exec> 08└─it just so happens the only non-abusive ad network is adsense
[19:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:51] <exec> 08└─As I hate floating ads, and can't imagine a use them them in a decent GUI, I'm ok with flat out blocking the damned things.
[19:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:53] <exec> 08└─No, but seriously, even if they do this well, and with nothing but the best interests of their end users, they're still wide open for an anti-trust beatdown.
[19:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:56] <exec> 08└─Do you mean Chrome, or Chromium? There isn't much choice these days I'm afraid. Firefox still runs like shit, and there is no IE on Ubuntu :) I've tried other browsers but they are not as good. So what information is Chromium leaking? I thought that was the open source version that I could compile i...
[19:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:11] <exec> 08└─Look, picking on BSD is a time honored tech tradition and I'm not about to stop now because of things like "truth" or "facts"
[19:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:13] <exec> 08└─It's even stuff that matters. Is Soylent News Beta next?
[19:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:15] <exec> 08└─from some reading i was doing... Both crashdumps and suspend to disk use swap space for their storage needs, so if you care about any of these, you will need to allocate at least as much space as the amount of physical RAM installed in the system
[19:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:56] <exec> 08└─I agree that nothing's perfect about Chromebooks. Here are some more edge cases where their limits are prominent: I keep good physical control of my device.
[19:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:58] <exec> 08└─A netbook was like a real laptop, but with the cheapest, lowest-performance Intel CPU/chipset/video available, and 25% of the screen chopped off.
[19:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03BeaverCleaver [5841] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Planet Computers Straps Proper Phone to its next Psion Scion, Cosmo - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:14] <exec> 08└─I still have high hopes for the dragonbox Pyra. Built-in 4G/LTE, nice screen, nice keyboard. It's being developed with heavy community consultation and openness in mind (so it is taking a long time!) and the forums seem positive. Not cheap, but I for one would love a pocket computer to replace my ph...
[19:39:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope - 16 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:43] <exec> 08└─$14,400 annually
[19:39:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:44] <exec> 08└─The 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, ... failed to attract a chief scientist ... [and] is also struggling to attract two dozen researchers to work onsite
[19:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:47] <exec> 08└─Scientists (and even technicians working on real science projects) are not a commodity like coders currently are. Note that I don't believe coders are commodity either, but business did not learn the lesson just yet. Business will learn it at some point and in a very very hard way.
[19:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skin Gel Allows Wounds to Heal Without Leaving a Scar - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:15] <exec> 08└─I wonder how your sister feels about your "teasing". Every time she sees you or looks at a picture with you in it she would be reminded that you still haven't forgiven her for that event. If you really have forgiven her then stop bringing it up. If you haven't maybe it is time you did.
[19:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Faces Growing Competition, and More - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:36] <exec> 08└─I think its more graymarket than ripoff. Here's the same pc board that Adafruit.com sells, but instead of paying for the research (little as it may be), and adafruit marketing and expensive california lifestyle, its shipped from a pile of random letters company name in China for a quarter the price.
[19:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:50] <exec> 08└─Next Up: How Bigotry Affects Critical Thinking
[19:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:51] <exec> 08└─Just...shut up. NO! You, just... tune out! You have no right to shut anybody up, no matter how offensive you find them. Just turn off your damn TV. If you gotta a problem with Trump, then look to his followers, not him. They are the foot soldiers, remember?
[19:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:53] <exec> 08└─???? You're taking this as some first amendment attack? crazy bastards round'ere
[19:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:41] <exec> 08└─It's no mystery. Every time you touch it a few molecules come off. Over a century it adds up.
[19:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:44] <exec> 08└─Clinton did her best to campaign for extra votes in places it didn't matter -- she could have taken a shit on the sidewalk with the stars embedded it in at won CA -- and ignored states that mattered. The EC is no secret and if a candidate can't use it for guidance, that tells us a lot about the cand...
[19:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Won’t Speed Up 5G Buildout Despite FCC Preempting Local Fees - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:17] <exec> 08└─They object to PAYING FOR abortion on demand. Damn right! Pregnancy is a temporary condition. Elective abortion is a cosmetic procedure. We should be pushing that message hard. Free abortions, but no dental/eye care( the way most employee insurance was given)?? WTF??!!
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[20:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:53] <exec> 08└─Cutting out softcore porn environmental elements: 2018 pointless whiney incel gamer concern Cutting out getting your team killed by not building a perfect 30 step pre-mission plan: 2003 cool awesome person who likes good things concern
[20:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:54] <exec> 08└─They're cutting cosmetic stuff to make a few people happy, since those people are the gateway to a lot of customers. Those are a marginal part of the experience. One day you'll have to fight only with guns legal in China, or strive to save the world from evil Uighur terrorists.
[20:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 1778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:56] <exec> 08└─Ubisoft, and their ilk, ruined gaming for me long ago. I refused to continue to fight bullshit DRM, and I wasn't impressed with all the online bullshit. Evercrack put the writing on the wall for me, illustrating that it was no longer going to be possible for multiplayer to escape paid walled-gardens...
[20:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:58] <exec> 08└─More gaming submissions? Is this to slop the Windoze addicts? Chinese sensibilities? How is this news? Shouldn't we be waiting for the next mass murder episode in America?
[20:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:00] <exec> 08└─So all this proves is that as "bad/evil" as China is, they have MORAL STANDARDS, which America has lost. Problem comes when game-addicted Johnny can't tell the difference between game blood and shooting up a school or mall, then pleads via his squirming defense lawyer that he had a bad childhood and...
[20:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:02] <exec> 08└─they have MORAL STANDARDS No they don't. This is merely to preserve the existing power structure. It's thought control.
[20:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:30] <exec> 08└─Agreed. We need to be cutting off Office 365 logins as much as we can!
[20:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:31] <exec> 08└─I've seen that many many times, but appropriately. Some science articles, and other doc pages. The video is not an ad, but a presentation. That allows you to continue to scroll down and read, while the presenter is talking. I don't think that behavior is intrinsically bad or related to marketing (wh...
[20:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:33] <exec> 08└─Those floating UI's are even more cancerous than the ads because they steal vertical screen space. Site UI's belong in a side bar.
[20:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, you read the subject right. Last week I bought a £20 120GB SSD disk and managed (with a little help, due to a recent accident) to install it in my rather old ASUS EEE PC 1000H. It is the second update to the machine has had in its lifetime, the first being a new 2GB memory module (£5). The li...
[20:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:37] <exec> 08└─https://9to5google.com/2018/11/01/chromebooks-to-never-receive-linux-full-list/ [9to5google.com] This just came out. I'm not sure that it is complete, however. Still looking into it.
[20:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Computers Straps Proper Phone to its next Psion Scion, Cosmo - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:53] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if that device is really for me, but it's great to see people trying different things to see if there's a market. If I travelled for work more often I might want one.
[20:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Carbon Neutral Solution for Desalination: Tapping into Geothermal Sources - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:03] <exec> 08└─>You want carbon neutral desalination? Try nuclear, wind, or solar. Geothermal is as carbon neutral as any of those three. i.e. the carbon freed after the construction is completed is a rounding error. TFA's topic of note is they found a way to get utility out of waste heat. Good on them. Nuke plant...
[20:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Neutral Solution for Desalination: Tapping into Geothermal Sources - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:05] <exec> 08└─Usually, geothermally heated water from the ground is converted to steam, that steam powers a turbine to create electricity, then the heated water is vented to the atmosphere while it's still hot—still over 100 degrees Celcius[sic] in most cases. Instead of venting, the team wants to use that hot...
[20:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:25] <exec> 08└─You're insane, no one in their right mind would jump at $14k unless relocation is 100% paid for and they have zero student debt. Even then they wouldn't be "jumping" at the opportunity because any non-minimum wage job in the US will likely return more money over several years. Leave friends, family,...
[20:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skin Gel Allows Wounds to Heal Without Leaving a Scar - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:56] <exec> 08└─Scar tissue is weaker than the original. If this means that the healed tissue retains normal strength, that's pretty cool.
[20:42:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 893 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:21] <exec> 08└─I truly hope you end up homeless. You have no understanding of what those people face. I *was* homeless, thankfully only for a brief period, in 2010 when my ex went batshit. And you know what? I didn't begrudge people who had homes their homes. My every thought was on 1) survival and 2) getting a pl...
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[21:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:34] <exec> 08└─Just like alabama today.
[21:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:35] <exec> 08└─The genetic abnormalities suggest it must have been unusual to have to fuck your aunt to keep the tribe going. That suggests there must have been some kind of calamity that forced people into this decision.
[21:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:37] <exec> 08└─https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/22/163397584/how-human-beings-almost-vanished-from-earth-in-70-000-b-c [npr.org] https://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ht...
[21:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 1263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:39] <exec> 08└─Not really. There was a time when there wasn't even a half-billion people on the planet. Instead of being able to walk a few miles and literally have tens of thousands of fertile females around you, there was a caveman that could travel weeks and months without even a hint of other females. If he di...
[21:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:41] <exec> 08└─"The domestication of the dog probably helped quite a bit too, as the TFA plainly states these were people that had to deal with fucking sabre-toothed tigers." - Dogs still help today, because today we have to deal with ghetto scum who ride a bus to the suburbs in their attempts to rob, rape, and pi...
[21:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:44] <exec> 08└─The above comment is not informative, it's just an IDIOTIC smartass comment by a jerkoff who is so stupid he cannot even capitalize a proper noun.
[21:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:00] <exec> 08└─"then pleads via his squirming defense lawyer that he had a bad childhood and the judge lets him off with a paff on the hands, poor (28 y.o.) child." Fairly certain that the few shooters that survive their experience ever get off with a "paff on the hands". And even fewer still actually have any cre...
[21:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:01] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't we be waiting for the next mass murder episode in America?
[21:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:03] <exec> 08└─Killing okay, sex bad, mmmkay? ...and then people have the nerve to try to use "morality" as justification for bowdlerizing. I'd be laughing at the level of idiocy, but it's just too disturbing to watch the neurally-challenged wave their modern equivalent of pitchforks and torches.
[21:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:34] <exec> 08└─Google is promising to punish sites that offer what the company calls "abusive experiences."
[21:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:55] <exec> 08└─As usual, OpenBSD lives up to the do it well or not at all philosophy.
[21:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:56] <exec> 08└─Now *this* is news for nerds! It's even stuff that matters.
[21:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentnewsinator [7102] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:58] <exec> 08└─Can you call out any older Dell notebooks? I have an older dell that is running FreeBSD but suspend/resume doesn't work, and the general attitude I've picked up is: don't use FreeBSD on non-servers. Maybe most FreeBSD users use Mac for their preferred desktop OS?
[21:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:43] <exec> 08└─Most distros have been far easier to use than Windows since about the turn of the century.
[21:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:44] <exec> 08└─A netbook was like a real laptop, but with the cheapest, lowest-performance Intel CPU/chipset/video available, and 25% of the screen chopped off.
[21:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Computers Straps Proper Phone to its next Psion Scion, Cosmo - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:03] <exec> 08└─and maybe playing with some 3d printing so I can design an enclosure
[21:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Neutral Solution for Desalination: Tapping into Geothermal Sources - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:18] <exec> 08└─TFA's topic of note is they found a way to get utility out of waste heat. Good on them. Nuke plants have a lot of waste heat too*, they should look to see if the same methods will apply there. * The big concave funnel that people associate with nuke plants is a cooling tower, and they shed a bunch o...
[21:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Neutral Solution for Desalination: Tapping into Geothermal Sources - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:19] <exec> 08└─If you have geothermal turning heated ground water into steam vapor, wouldn't the easy way to produce desalinated water be to just cool down the steam vapor? A metal tube with cool air inside inserted into the flow of the hot steam vapor should allow water to condense on the outside and drip down in...
[21:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medicare Fraud and Machine Detection - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:56] <exec> 08└─Conservative fiscal responsibility should just LOVE single payer. Eliminate bureaucratic waste? Check. More efficient operating costs? Check. Better health outcomes? Check. Oh wait, some people might get healthcare they can't personally afford. BIG RUBBER STAMP OF NOPE! fookin trogs
[21:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skin Gel Allows Wounds to Heal Without Leaving a Scar - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:13] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your concern about my sister. If you're actually wondering how she feels about it, she thinks the whole incident was amusing. So do I. It really only comes up when we're reminiscing about when we were kids. She'll usually laugh (because I'm not "horribly disfigured", the scar is pretty...
[21:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Faces Growing Competition, and More - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:37] <exec> 08└─Invalid form key: Rc05hjteZR (From now on when a post of mine gets eaten, I'll just replace it with the Invalid form key. Maybe whatever it is will get fixed. Or maybe it's not broken...)
[21:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you don't tell people to shut up (unless the decibel level is excessive), you turn your back. That is the only proper response to any speech that offends you. I mean, there's always heckling, which can be funny...
[21:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:54] <exec> 08└─Have cheap house in an inexpensive area of the country. These are not hare to find on zillow. Eg, https://www.zillow.com [zillow.com] ...
[21:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:56] <exec> 08└─My go-to is always the hypcrisy of leftist science-denying regarding race being an objective determinant of IQ and the finger-pointing at climate-science deniers.
[21:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06International Prototype of the Kilogram Soon to Become Obsolete - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:45] <exec> 08└─One liter is the volume of a cube with a side length of 10 cm. And given the large amount of low-tech measurement instruments for measuring centimeters in reasonable accuracy, there's no danger of that going lost. Well, except maybe in America. But Americans don't care about the kilogram anyway. :-)
[21:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:49] <exec> 08└─What? There's no election today in America. Trump is a Nazi, and Nazis don't do the election thing. Now wait patiently by your door for the FBI Gestapo to collect you for transportation to your death camp. I'm sure the Nazis will get to you very soon; after all every other person in the US is a Nazi...
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[22:37:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 365 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/22/163397584/how-human-beings-almost-vanished-from-earth-in-70-000-b-c [npr.org] https://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ht...
[22:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:39] <exec> 08└─you should be robbed and raped
[22:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:41] <exec> 08└─If my aunt was a sabre-toothed tigers I wouldn't want to fuck her.
[22:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:43] <exec> 08└─Is it true that GP is an incel?
[22:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:45] <exec> 08└─Off topic ? FUCK YOU FAGGOTS. YOUR ENTIRE LIVES ARE OFF TOPIC.
[22:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:47] <exec> 08└─Only incels write naïve without a diaeresis.
[22:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:50] <exec> 08└─You can think whatever you like. Idiots usually do.
[22:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:52] <exec> 08└─It sure is ornery in here. Election rage containment zone in ~2 hours.
[22:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:54] <exec> 08└─what about a game of global thermonuclear war, professor? http://veda.wikidot.com [wikidot.com]
[22:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:56] <exec> 08└─>If my aunt was a sabre-toothed tiger I think the epithet is reserved to the mother in law.
[22:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:58] <exec> 08└─Sounds hot. I would.
[22:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:00] <exec> 08└─The ancient city atomic blast story is a fabrication, but a good one, thoroughly enjoyable! https://skeptoid.com [skeptoid.com]
[22:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:02] <exec> 08└─Looks like we found the Alabama poster.
[22:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:22] <exec> 08└─I guess they're as artful as American laws need them to be for "freedom of speech" to kick in and not artful enough to prevent making money in China.
[22:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:52] <exec> 08└─Try AutoplayStopper, works for me.
[22:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:15] <exec> 08└─It's not a witty phrase meaning "do all things well." Rather, it's a phrase meaning "do it well or not at all".
[22:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:16] <exec> 08└─Same AC, replying to myself because no edit feature.... the 1% above should be less than symbol 1%. This budget was found at https://www.valuepenguin.com [valuepenguin.com] I changed it to my own numbers. Also, I don't have a car, but added in the number for the few times...
[22:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:18] <exec> 08└─I don't know, but they don't seem to be doing it anymore. Somebody has to do it.
[22:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:20] <exec> 08└─Nope, sometimes it is important for pepple to see that there is significant pushback against crap ideas. Mr. Trumptroll pushes Trump's ideas on here and they should be called out for the garbage they are. Ill pay attention to your whining once someone actually does something to make you/trumptroll s...
[22:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:22] <exec> 08└─Mine did.
[22:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:08] <exec> 08└─Agreed. And thanks for the contribution of the ring theoretic angle! The only reason to exclude them is convention: because unique factorization is such an important property, it is simpler to exclude units from the definition of prime than to write "non-unit prime" everywhere.
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[23:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation Join "Plan S" Open-Access Initiative - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:20] <exec> 08└─That's good news for today. Along with Elsvier being blocked along with Sci-hub. The RELX group can burn in hell, and this is one more nail in the coffin. Sci-hub, unlike Elsevier, is quite adept at getting around blocking too :)
[23:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation Join "Plan S" Open-Access Initiative - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:21] <exec> 08└─It pushes Science further into the existing paradigm, and will make research ever more dependent on State funding.
[23:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation Join "Plan S" Open-Access Initiative - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:23] <exec> 08└─The authors make peanuts on the articles, if they make anything at all.
[23:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation Join "Plan S" Open-Access Initiative - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:25] <exec> 08└─You know what Plan S is? I've got a feeling it stands for Plan Shit! Yes indeedy: https://gizmodo.com [gizmodo.com]
[23:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation Join "Plan S" Open-Access Initiative - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:27] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to think of what mightl be lost by these companies going away. Why would we want to keep these publishers around? The only thing i could come up with is that these organization will eventually die and go to the grave clutching their copyright locked research with them. Not really a r...
[23:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation Join "Plan S" Open-Access Initiative - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:29] <exec> 08└─That's the existing paradigm, and this makes it more entrenched. It becomes stupid to put your own resources in research, because your competition will be seeking resources from the State. As a result, everyone abandons "private" research, and the whole of Science will become political; the lack of...
[23:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:55] <exec> 08└─Love the link! I'm assuming it's posted as a joke?
[23:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:56] <exec> 08└─Give them some slack - their heads are lop-sided.
[23:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:59] <exec> 08└─Twenty comments in and it's all Beavis and Butthead commentary.
[23:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:01] <exec> 08└─To be fair the journal article is paywalled *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) xd
[23:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:20] <exec> 08└─No they don't. This is merely to preserve the existing power structure. It's thought control.
[23:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, that is what I said. I responded to a false statement. This is business, and business, at best, is amoral...
[23:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:55] <exec> 08└─Many of the ad blocking detection mechanisms rely on...scripts. Its funny, there are many times i've enabled scripts on a site for some reason only to have it immediately hide what I just read and tell me to disable my ad blocker :-p
[23:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 1673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:19] <exec> 08└─Why? I'm quite certain that buried somewhere around page 37 of their terms of service it says they can do anything they want, you have no rights whatsoever, and by using their service wave any rights the law might otherwise confer upon you, and agree to binding arbitration for any disagreement that...
[23:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:07] <exec> 08└─Children, especially with younger siblings, are more likely to lack the ability to "keep good physical control of [their] device."
[23:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planet Computers Straps Proper Phone to its next Psion Scion, Cosmo - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:27] <exec> 08└─I remember, and yes it was nice. However I prefer being able to make calls from nearly any physical location, and often the sound quality is fine. The biggest problem I've found is that some phone mics can't capture proper audio unless it is in the very tiny sweet spot.
[23:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medicare Fraud and Machine Detection - 1507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:20] <exec> 08└─I live in Australia, we have what you would call a single payer system. There is a system called Medicare that covers your run of the mill general doctor visits, ER rooms in hospitals and basically everything else. It also covers most medications at a significant subsidy. Generally, a prescription o...
[23:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:29] <exec> 08└─You can push all you want as long as you don't block others who want to listen from hearing/reading. And telling a person to shut up only makes him, rightfully I will add, push back harder against any attempted silencing. That is not the kind of opposition to your "trumpism" I would ever support. Th...
[23:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:26] <exec> 08└─WTF is it with "Imma voting this way to SPITE EM!!!" ? You reward the shitty GOP with your vote because a lot of people who oppose them are calling attention to the fact that our current administration just might be a bit too cozy with Putin and Co.? And you think that somehow this is going to cause...
[23:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:28] <exec> 08└─The original department was the "Even if you don't agree, remember to vote on November 7th dept." on purpose. (Basically the same joke that got Michael Knowles banned on twitter)
[23:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:30] <exec> 08└─Yup, he is a slimy asshole who pushes around his guests and plays the party politics game to decide right/wrong. I forget if it was him or one of his panels but someone gave a little dose of reality and the reply was "we hate Trump too, we're on the same side". Ewwwww. I mean I get trump hate, but t...
[23:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:32] <exec> 08└─The SouthPark episode, "The Battle of Heaven and Hell": Satan needs to find someone to keep Kenny alive (as a vegetable, think Jeb Bush, well not Jeb Bush exactly, but the Terry Schaivo case), so he will not go to Heaven and use the Golden PSP to defeat the hordes of perdition, but he asks, who woul...
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