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[00:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:55] <exec> 08└─Michael David Crawford is a server expert, see? The chances are pretty good that just rebooting my server will fix it.
[00:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:57] <exec> 08└─Clippy: Your installation of Windows 10 is now authenticated. Sorry.
[00:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:59] <exec> 08└─Salty Spice! It's great to see you here :-) You should pop over to MDC's journal and say hello. It's never a party until Salty makes an appearance.
[00:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:01] <exec> 08└─The strongest cheerleader for Linux and BSD will always be Microsoft :) Yet another reason I'm glad I finally quit Windows.
[00:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:03] <exec> 08└─One day we will be able to install Microsoft Linux.
[00:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:05] <exec> 08└─No. One day you'll be able to buy install disks for Microsoft Linux. Will you be able to install it? That's the usual Microsoft Crapshoot 1.0 (TM)
[00:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:07] <exec> 08└─One day we will be able to install Microsoft Linux.
[00:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:25] <exec> 08└─Which Disney rules will be broken on disney+? no smoking, skewering or beheading [bustle.com]? Or just the R*rating [cbr.com] ban? *US R rating, seems to be equivalent to NC17+ or MA in other countries. So no sex, but lots of violence and death. Yay for sensible ratings. Can't have children seeing s...
[00:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:27] <exec> 08└─I know how to use Pirate Bay and friends, cut the cable 6 months ago when my rate went from $120/month (which was too much but whatever) to $140 (yeah, how about no). Given what I've downloaded over the past 6 months I'm good to go for a year. 6 feet under, Star Trek Discovery, Altered Carbon. Could...
[00:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:46] <exec> 08└─That's the nature of Science: It shits all over your beliefs.
[00:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:47] <exec> 08└─Makes you think doesn't it?
[00:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:50] <exec> 08└─Redundant comment is redundant.
[00:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:52] <exec> 08└─Redundant comment is redundant.
[00:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 1454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:39] <exec> 08└─Uhhh, no. Critical Thinking +5. It's exactly what I came here to say. The movie never shows just how bad the villain really is, and just how is the prospect of all of New York perishing not more violent than Superman bringing down a whole building? Superman doesn't bring down a few buildings fightin...
[00:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's correct. However, exhaust emissions and brake dust emissions are way down. Tire compounds are probably generally par, but I suppose because EVs tend to stick the road better, they might actually be a little worse on tire particulates. All in all, though, since better traction makes for a...
[00:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:30] <exec> 08└─I am not kidding. A VW group racing electric prototype emits CO2. Around 200 Kg in a racing day for Cupra e-Racer, based in SEAT Leon. No. Really, electric car spitting CO2. They use dry ice for cooling. I read the article and LOLed. VW gotta be VW. If the race is 400 Km, that means 500 g per km (cu...
[00:43:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:42] <exec> 08└─Isn't that what you identify as?
[00:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:55] <exec> 08└─Can you show me something from the 1800s that demonstrates that you're not a complete moron and troll?
[00:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:56] <exec> 08└─This is the difference that makes me say that he "may be" a genius, and not he is clearly one. He is claiming that age is fluid. If we reasonably define our terms ("age" as revolutions around the sun, "fluid" as might change in the future), then he's dead wrong, and it's pretty easy to spot that. He...
[00:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:58] <exec> 08└─Anonymous coward is neither a moron nor a troll, being an upstanding individuall in all things, & known to be prone to wisdom and charity towards all. - Abraham Lincoln, "Letters to the Internet," 1863.
[00:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:01] <exec> 08└─I disagree. The name, description, and apparently genetics, of a venus flytrap is human defined.
[00:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:03] <exec> 08└─...there is no such thing as birthdatefluid. Well it's something now: my new favorite euphemism for semen.
[00:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:05] <exec> 08└─This is another of those "I identify as an attack helicopter" memes, which were both missing the point and about as amusing as a rubber crutch to begin with.
[00:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:50] <exec> 08└─True enough, however, what corporate sponsor supplies more than 20% of PBS' funding? Mr. Rogers made a very compelling case to Congress, and I'm sure over the years Congress has made a compelling case or two to PBS executives - whether that was made public or not.
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[01:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:28] <exec> 08└─I would actually like to see Microsoft do that. Heck, I might even buy a copy. At one point, they were actually competent enough to make decent administrative controls and user interfaces to control your system. The default libraries were pretty damn good, and using Windows objects was fairly painle...
[01:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but wut about a Microsoft Windows® Linux® for The Desktop?
[01:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:31] <exec> 08└─Don't you just love the Muppets [youtube.com]?
[01:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:53] <exec> 08└─That's unless they learn pirating skills that are very usefull in mordern life.
[01:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:54] <exec> 08└─All these million streaming services are also a giant pain in the ass. I had no problem with the netflix model, at it's core: buy millions of cheap licenses at let people watch what they want, until you run out, renew the cost effective licenses. But "exclusives" are hell, and trying to figure out w...
[01:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:56] <exec> 08└─Starve them from social symbols. For example, dress them in second hand closes bought from rednecks.
[01:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:59] <exec> 08└─I watch what I can pirate. If I can't pirate it, too bad, I am not watching that shit. But honestly, there is nothing that they produced over the last three decades worse even pirating.
[01:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think maybe you just don't like things. Even if you don't like corporate overproduced trash, there's lots out there.
[01:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:27] <exec> 08└─AncientArchitects and AncientAliens aren't fucking science.
[01:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:28] <exec> 08└─Redundant comment is redundant.
[01:39:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 2017 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:56] <exec> 08└─It's not that I'm necessarily disagreeing that heroes tend to use a lot of violence to solve problems, and the stereotypical male will usually resort to a violence-based solution much earlier than a stereotypical heroine... but... I am very curious exactly what these people wrote down during their r...
[01:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:07] <exec> 08└─Have you ever been in a wide electric outage situatuon? I had; twice. That was just light, mind you, and heating. Once your vision is in place, which is likely to happen, I agree, one lucky hack will do it. What is important though is that so called green replaces current robust infrastructure with...
[01:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:09] <exec> 08└─There is no question that Uber and shares will be electric.
[01:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:11] <exec> 08└─running on Russian nuclear power grid.
[01:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:29] <exec> 08└─You're talking about how successful they are, and those are real limits. But the limit on complexity of the code depends on copying fidelity. And that's also a real limit. That's one reason why mammals have such intensive fidelity checks on their code, and cells with erroneous code tend to be destro...
[01:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:35] <exec> 08└─Never Twice the Same Color
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[02:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Healing Kidneys with Nanotechnology - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:02] <exec> 08└─This article is interesting, but it's a little late. MDC had his kidney removed last week.
[02:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Healing Kidneys with Nanotechnology - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:03] <exec> 08└─LOVE MDC.
[02:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but wut about a Microsoft Windows® Linux® for The Desktop?
[02:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:29] <exec> 08└─Excuse me for a moment... hahahahahahahaha aha ha ha ha ha ha. I just wish this sort of shit happened more often. Then perhaps more people would understand why this form of COPY PROTECTION is stupid. There is no guarantee at all that Microsoft will be around in the future. (And every day that passes...
[02:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:31] <exec> 08└─The problem with Novell, and I've worked with it a bit back in the day, was that writing applications for the server was a pain in the ass. Windows server came along and while it sucked in comparison to Novell every Tom Dick and Harry could write a server app for it. Eventually Windows Server got be...
[02:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:56] <exec> 08└─Well, may be, but I don't think so. I still can find lots of good books. Movies, on the other hand, are trash with rare exeptions.
[02:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:57] <exec> 08└─US R rating, seems to be equivalent to NC17+ or MA in other countries. So no sex, but lots of violence and death. Yay for sensible ratings. Can't have children seeing sex, death and destruction are far better entertainment!
[02:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:25] <exec> 08└─It would be a shame if something were to happen to it.
[02:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:29] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I'll look it up. (I'd probably need to buy a copy to read it, so this isn't certain.) OTOH, bdelloid rotifers call into question the inevitability of sexual reproduction. Most theories of why sex say that they should have gone extinct long ago...but they're still around, and fairly numerous...
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[03:38:22] <exec> 08└─> Interesting. I've often wondered myself what might have been if Novell had ported Netware to Unix back in the 90s, rather than sticking with their crap server UI. They had the edge in file/print services as well as huge market share. And the NDS (x.500) directory was years ahead of Active Director...
[03:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:24] <exec> 08└─Did you do .nlm development?
[03:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:26] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping that Microsoft disappears and they are fucked. All of dem. AAAALLLLLLL!!! Ha-ha, hee-hee, ho-ho. Fuck em all. Yeah.
[03:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maggotbrain [6063] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:28] <exec> 08└─This is very true and why I won't be using an OS that relies on external license servers for use. Personal anecdote: About ten+ years ago, I worked with a company that developed a music purchasing and sample service for Amazon(This was prior to them developing a music service in-house). All of the m...
[03:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:53] <exec> 08└─> call service disney+ you are here
[03:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:19] <exec> 08└─That's literally the dumbass youtube channel you linked.
[03:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:11] <exec> 08└─You might be right about the fact that the hero is shown more. But the average kid doesn't analyse it this way. The motivation behind the research was children's exposure to violence.
[03:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:03] <exec> 08└─And as far as "fluids" goes, that means "windshield wiper fluid".
[03:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:04] <exec> 08└─I expect an electric pickup traveling steadily down a highway is going to use about 30 kw. 5 hours to go 300 miles = about 150 kwHrs. Price per kwHr is about 10 cents, So $15 to refill. Cheaper than gas.
[03:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:06] <exec> 08└─Solar seems to be on every second roof here in Oz, and more is getting installed all the time. Most don't have batteries but just about every solar system now comes advertised as 'Battery-Ready'. The same battery advances that make cars economical will bring individual homes closer to cutting the p...
[03:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:09] <exec> 08└─Audi (VW upscale brand) also intend to sell EVs. First one due in 2019 is a mid-size SUV, larger than any Tesla, so going for a different piece of the luxury market. Article I saw recently indicated Audi are looking at brute-forcing the fast-charging issue, with future plans to charge at 350KW (yes,...
[03:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:51] <exec> 08└─Hopefully that won't be a case for the follow-up article "The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts". Her work on Panfrost is outstanding and if completed would be the missing puzzle piece in getting an entirely libre-software computer suitable for everyday use, without backdoors. The RK3399 just ba...
[03:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Nanocardboard" Made of Aluminum Oxide Exhibits Useful Properties - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:46] <exec> 08└─> ...more susceptible to corrosion. Are you sure about that? Seems to me that Al2O3 (aluminum oxide) is pretty darn stable, already fully oxidized into a ceramic and with a very high melting point.
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[04:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Healing Kidneys with Nanotechnology - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:22] <exec> 08└─I've got another one. I want to mention that despite my cancer being two inches across I didn't feel it because kidneys don't have nerves. You don't feel kidney stones until they enter the urethra. Perhaps that's what makes The Silent Killer silent: high blood pressure will destroy your kidneys but...
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[04:38:51] <exec> 08└─Too big to fail - if this went on for more than a few days, government and/or an impromptu coalition of impacted corporations would find a way to fix Microsoft's problems for them and replace the activation servers. It would be an amazing watershed event, but with 841B market cap on the line, Micros...
[04:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:53] <exec> 08└─Today, the part of Linux will be played by a shim between GNU userland and the Windows kernel
[04:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:55] <exec> 08└─Too big to fail - if this went on for more than a few days, government and/or an impromptu coalition of impacted corporations would find a way to fix Microsoft's problems for them and replace the activation servers. It would be an amazing watershed event, but with 841B market cap on the line, Micros...
[04:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:48] <exec> 08└─Keep thinking about it.
[04:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:49] <exec> 08└─The Centauri technology [fanpop.com] involved in keeping Giorgio Tsoukalos' [wikipedia.org] hair in place proves that aliens, ancient or otherwise, exist.
[04:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:51] <exec> 08└─Redundant comment is redundant.
[04:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I can see a bright future of driving a Tesla from one solar powered house to another. Kindness of strangers, all right. Somehow I don't think it will work.
[04:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:23] <exec> 08└─Nice troll. I know these questions seem like baiting
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[05:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yelp Craters as Much as 32% as Advertisers Abandon the Site - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:59] <exec> 08└─Yelp makes money off advertisements? I thought they were just a run-of-the-mill extortion racket: "It'd be a real shame if everyone got to read these made up bad reviews of your establishment, wouldn't it? How about you pay up to have them removed..."
[05:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yelp Craters as Much as 32% as Advertisers Abandon the Site - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:01] <exec> 08└─If I was in charge, the swine who are the principals at Yelp would be flayed and fed to sharks. Before you bother to ask, I did have harsher punishments in mind, but the above should be sufficient.
[05:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yelp Craters as Much as 32% as Advertisers Abandon the Site - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:03] <exec> 08└─Reviews of Goatse in Portland at Yelp.com
[05:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Healing Kidneys with Nanotechnology - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:15] <exec> 08└─It sounds like this could be used to prevent some occurrences of cancer, but wouldn't remove existing cancer. But with the kidney completely gone, we'll have to build a new one from scratch.
[05:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:49] <exec> 08└─True enough, as long as it's only peon voters being affected, they might let the problem go on for years before fixing it. Still, maybe 8 of their 841B could be at risk for such a long term snafu, so they'll probably put a couple of guys on it until it gets fixed.
[05:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:51] <exec> 08└─This is the BIG reason we want Microsoft to NOT meddle in Linuxland and royally bollocks things up. Silo Windows, Apple and Linux in separate bins that don't mix, don't cross-contaminate and don't cross-spyware. Thank you. Just yesterday I went to help (yet another) elderly victim of Windows 10. Fla...
[05:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:42] <exec> 08└─I was more addressing the blackout comment. I think economical power storage is going to have far reaching effects beyond electric cars. Like it or not, solar power and storage are slowly getting cheaper and oil dearer. Eventually it will hit a tipping point and I think we will end up with a much mo...
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[06:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Healing Kidneys with Nanotechnology - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:09] <exec> 08└─So how did you find out you had it?
[06:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:43] <exec> 08└─Microsoft seems to be trying very hard to get out of the consumer space without explicitly saying that. I think they've realized there's no money in it, not when Linux in the form of Android is all over the place and most users frankly haven't got the brains or the willpower to take advantage of the...
[06:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:09] <exec> 08└─As no Disney movie is R, no Disney movie will have any sex. But, as is evidenced by Marvel and many cartoons, there is/will be lots of vuolence
[06:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:30] <exec> 08└─Historically, changes were different. For example, oil revolution happened in addition to existing technologies - horses and wale oil. Fossil fuels added to the existing capacity. Nobody tried to forcibly switch old to new. Now it is different. New technology adepts are using unfair business practic...
[06:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:32] <exec> 08└─I would be happy if all diesel vehicles disappeared tomorrow. ... I live on a very busy street
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[07:38:21] <exec> 08└─News at 11.
[07:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Headmaster Fired over Secret Mining of Cryptocoins at School - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:22] <exec> 08└─can someone rescale the 14,700 yuan in average monthly income in China, or something similar? then we'll actually know what the seriousness of the offence is. stealing 1600 pounds worth of office supplies is definitely within the norm for Europe (in the sense of "I need a new laptop for work", when...
[07:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yelp Craters as Much as 32% as Advertisers Abandon the Site - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:35] <exec> 08└─I'll raise a glass to any hurt that comes an internet advertiser's way.
[07:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Healing Kidneys with Nanotechnology - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:50] <exec> 08└─IIRC, more people die of kidney failure (which is a miserable way to go) while waiting for a transplant than any other kind of organ failure, dialysis is reportedly pretty damn painful as well as expensive, and compromised kidney function means losing access to a lot of drugs & antibiotics. The soon...
[07:40:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 643 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:56] <exec> 08└─I thought it was interesting as a discursive shift. Heroes have been twisted into anti-heroes. Not universally--Wonder Woman was refreshing because it hearkened back to concepts of duty and honor that used to be the meat of every superhero mythos. It used to be that even Batman was an upbeat charact...
[07:45:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender - 574 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:11] <exec> 08└─Time is a quantitative standard, and the units of its measurement would make sense even with no human around to do the measuring. Entropy, which is what time was invented to measure, does not emerge from humanity the way gender does; indeed, humanity (and life itself) is an entropy-shuffling trick....
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[08:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:01] <exec> 08└─If they dropped their own OS entirely, and took a Linux flavor and developed everything on top of Linux, they have a pretty damn decent chance of making an impressive window manager.
[08:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:30] <exec> 08└─So now this market is fragmenting too. This happened to sports TV (at least in Europe) where in order to follow the most important events of your favourite sport, you have to subscribe to multiple services. The consumer has to pay more and has to deal with increased annoyances. This reminds me of DV...
[08:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:51] <exec> 08└─Or tanking better.
[08:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:13] <exec> 08└─The two or three billion years between first life and multi-cellular life indicate that the tough part is going multi-cellular. Once that happens diversity explodes. You might want to seed those planets with small animals and tiny plants as well, some time after the algae.
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[09:38:18] <exec> 08└─Happily. This should give you the answers you seek: http://bfy.tw [bfy.tw]
[09:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Headmaster Fired over Secret Mining of Cryptocoins at School - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:20] <exec> 08└─"Man steals electricity" with cryptomining.
[09:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yelp Craters as Much as 32% as Advertisers Abandon the Site - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:31] <exec> 08└─Shareholders, much, much less than a fuck was given. Stupid Yelp. They never should have sold the Leftorium!
[09:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:22] <exec> 08└─Thank-you, I learned a word new to me today. copacetic [merriam-webster.com] ...facts about the word’s history are scant: it appears to have arisen in African-American slang in the southern U.S., possibly as early as the 1880s, with earliest known evidence of it in print dating only to 1919. ...th...
[09:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:51] <exec> 08└─Then don't negotiate with them. Tell them.
[09:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:22] <exec> 08└─Redundant comment is redundant.
[09:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:13] <exec> 08└─So -- first thing. There is no published paper here yet: Please note: only the abstract is being presented at the meeting. In some cases, the researcher may have more data available to share with media, or may be preparing a longer article for submission to a journal.
[09:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:16] <exec> 08└─Indeed. And their intentions aren't even solid yet, just "We're thinking of converting some plants" to make them. On top of that? Looking at a few articles I discovered this : "MEB entry" is their platform. But I can't get any solid specs, except for old press releases on range and such. And here's...
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[10:41:30] <exec> 08└─Hordes of baddies vs. one player. Villains and their henchmen outnumber heroes. So it falls to the hero to fire more rounds and bust more heads.
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[11:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Headmaster Fired over Secret Mining of Cryptocoins at School - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:08] <exec> 08└─Man steals more electricity than he earned with cryptomining.
[11:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yelp Craters as Much as 32% as Advertisers Abandon the Site - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:23] <exec> 08└─* Pay small amount of cryptocurrency to review any business, school, hospital, address, product, web page, etc. So you could review an Amazon or Walmart product without a user account, or a university faculty member by going to their web site. * Decentralized storage of reviews * Other users can tip...
[11:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yelp Craters as Much as 32% as Advertisers Abandon the Site - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:24] <exec> 08└─This sounds right, but i'm a touch cynical. . I never intentionally go to Yelp. . I always kind of ranked it up there with all the other sites that just live by intercepting search results and attempt to push down the actual things you are searching for in results.
[11:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:49] <exec> 08└─What do we want -everything in one place- What do we not want -every damned studio setting up its own pay service-, - every damned pay service becoming its own studio-
[11:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:50] <exec> 08└─A decade or two ago everyone was clamoring for a la carte pricing, since the cable comapnies all sold you content in "tiers", mny of which contained the one channel everyone wanted with a bunch of bullshit channels that were paying the cable co to be included in their lineup. Now if you think of wha...
[11:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:18] <exec> 08└─The problem is not that they are vigilantes above law, the problem is the concept of justice and morals they show. One of the points is that collateral damage is not something they accountable for. Other point is that some superheroes disdain normal-justice, they don't act where normal law enforceme...
[11:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:20] <exec> 08└─Magneto: Genocide Dr Doom: Authoritarian dictator Joker: Serial killer Loki: Enabled war of aggression Kingpin: Mafia boss Red Skull: Literal nazi Apocalypse: See the name Do I need to continue?
[11:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:22] <exec> 08└─The average "kid" doesn't watch movies rated 13+, and if yours does then that's your individual responsibility as a parent. As for teenagers, they are quite capable of comprehending the nuance of justifiable violence in response to a terrible transgression.
[11:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:25] <exec> 08└─Yep. Not really arguing with unfair support at the moment. But I think that the trends are that pretty soon it would have happened anyway without forced incentives. Maybe not as fast, but it would still have happened. I think we will soon have .Gov propping up power companies, and probably legislati...
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[12:38:00] <exec> 08└─"I can count the number of times I went out in a seven-year period on both of my hands," he says.
[12:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:02] <exec> 08└─Read history.
[12:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:04] <exec> 08└─3D is PD.
[12:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:06] <exec> 08└─I feel personally attacked.
[12:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:08] <exec> 08└─Seven Years in His Dressing Gown
[12:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yelp Craters as Much as 32% as Advertisers Abandon the Site - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:45] <exec> 08└─$1 billion in venture capital, plz
[12:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yelp Craters as Much as 32% as Advertisers Abandon the Site - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:47] <exec> 08└─Didn't you die or something? Perhaps we should leave a review of your life on Yelp To you know help it out a bit by increasing site visits
[12:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:13] <exec> 08└─They tried this in Australia with broadcasting events. It did not work at all. The downturn in viewership will be hard to recover. More people just use the internet these days to watch the game or the highlights. Out the window goes the advertising dollars. They shot themselves in the foot in the sa...
[12:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:46] <exec> 08└─Depicted? Hardly. They have been known to kill people who publish images of their beloved paedophile prophet
[12:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:07] <exec> 08└─There are ten eggs in a nest, one has a really good mutation, a mutation that happens 1 in a billion. And then a lizard eats that egg just because it was a few cm closer to it. That mutation is lost forever Think of a tree where there are multiple branches in each level, some with more probability t...
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[13:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:35] <exec> 08└─Should have stuck in there for at least 2 more years.
[13:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:36] <exec> 08└─No mention of where he was getting money from, or who was bringing him food. These sorts of issues can be just as much the fault of the people who enable this behavior.
[13:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:38] <exec> 08└─What's new? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:40] <exec> 08└─It says he was living at home, with the implication that his parents took care of him.
[13:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:42] <exec> 08└─"I wasn't sure why I was alive, why I was here... I realised if I didn't do something I wouldn't be here in a year or two years." He finally decided to seek help and ended up taking part in the Real Ideas Organisation's (RIO) Game Changer programme, which aims to encourage young people to develop sk...
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[13:38:22] <exec> 08└─Cheers!
[13:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:17] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure about that. Over the years, Microsoft just realized that they can make more money off of consumers with telemetry. This is why any computer Win 7+ was offered free upgrades to Win 10. (I assumed that pretty much any older XP systems did not have the required horsepower.) After all, i...
[13:39:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 536 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:37] <exec> 08└─I know how to use Pirate Bay and friends, cut the cable 6 months ago when my rate went from $120/month (which was too much but whatever) to $140 (yeah, how about no). Given what I've downloaded over the past 6 months I'm good to go for a year. 6 feet under, Star Trek Discovery, Altered Carbon. Could...
[13:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:52] <exec> 08└─Each generation of P2P is an improvement on the last. Most likely, the next time P2P rises again a far greater proportion of the population will be involved. The tools will be far superior. What will the MAFFIA do then?
[13:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:27] <exec> 08└─There is a theory currently being investigated that they came in at least two waves. The second wave killing off the first. Regardless, they killed each other in disputes over territory for centuries with might making right. Yet still today they whine about the loss of their land. Go figure.
[13:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:29] <exec> 08└─No, the The Mormon religion is predicated upon the idea that there is some imaginary magic sky wiener that says it was ok to have multiple wives, molest children, and sell magic underwear. Not joking or trolling.
[13:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:31] <exec> 08└─#Because #everything #must #start #with #gay #hashtags
[13:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 1650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:34] <exec> 08└─If you look at history, Standard Oil did a number of rather dodgy things to force the adoption of oil and motorised transport. Later government policy encouraged it with the development of motorways and interstate systems etc. These actions displaced the previous systems, some forcibly through legis...
[13:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:18] <exec> 08└─EOM Need we say more.
[13:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pagamigo: FOSS Python Script for PayPal Payments - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:20] <exec> 08└─A better way would be to extend or wrap this script to get the password from gpg-agent or something similar. Shouldn't take more than a few lines of python either way.
[13:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Northern (Nearly Extinct) and Southern White Rhinos More Closely Related than Previously Thought - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:58] <exec> 08└─The next reboot of Jurassic Park may be non-fiction. While I applaud the idea to save the species, God knows(literally) what possible problems this can cause. Maybe next time, we can actually do things about conservation efforts before we get down to a point of not having any viable breeders in an a...
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[14:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:02] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of information out there on protecting your devices against EMPs and Carrington class CME events. Basically all variations on building Faraday cages and sticking stuff inside. I've watched a few out of idle curiosity, but it's really hard to get motivated to go to that much expense an...
[14:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:19] <exec> 08└─These sorts of issues can be just as much the fault of the people who enable this behavior.
[14:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:21] <exec> 08└─Welcome to XXI century. And what I found, especially after certain age (30s), talking with people not about work is highly outdated and in last decade became socially unacceptable. From experience: One half will try to fraud you (males), the other (females) will file a complaint about molesting. We...
[14:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:23] <exec> 08└─He got an itch.
[14:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene on the Way to Superconductivity - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:33] <exec> 08└─Link to the article in English - https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de [helmholtz-berlin.de]
[14:38:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Yelp Craters as Much as 32% as Advertisers Abandon the Site - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:55] <exec> 08└─I'll raise a glass to any hurt that comes an internet advertiser's way.
[14:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:29] <exec> 08└─That's bull... there is a lot of decent stuff out there. Some is even worth buying if it wasn't overpriced and full of BS DRM. Sadly, piracy is an answer. I will admit to one thing though.... There is a ton of crap out there... regurgitated plot lines... complete lack of innovation, reality shows (t...
[14:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:04] <exec> 08└─So, what happened to the stuff that matters?
[14:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:05] <exec> 08└─So, what you are saying is that... Donald Trump is a superhero.
[14:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:08] <exec> 08└─<PoliticallyIncorrect>If we are interested in seeing an ultraviolent female superhero, maybe we can just film one during that time of the month.</PoliticallyIncorrect>
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[15:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 1489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:22] <exec> 08└─Well, having lived through it, 1972 wasn't the dark ages. In the US, the country was wired for electricity (all those "large networks of copper wire"), and served by a small handful of large regional grids. Telephone networks were exclusively copper (another "large network of copper"). Every house i...
[15:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:23] <exec> 08└─The technology and infrastructure has changed so far beyond what was in use 40 years ago that the fact we survived the pulse back then is not relevant to the current situation. The copper phone networks are sure on their way out but the old electro-mechanical phones of 1972 but they were also fairl...
[15:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene on the Way to Superconductivity - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:53] <exec> 08└─The linked article doesn't indicate what temperature this would occur at that I saw. There is a reference to this on wikipedia already that does make a mention of temperature In 2018, a research team from the Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discovered superconductivity...
[15:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 2392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:52] <exec> 08└─No, Hollywood has some significant problems, and it is reasonable to say most movies are trash. Hollywood is awesome with the visuals. They try hard to get the looks fantastic, dramatic and exciting, and they spare no expense on that. They've really come a long ways from the days of visible wires ho...
[15:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:37] <exec> 08└─No brake fluid? Are they all using electronic brakes?
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[16:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:23] <exec> 08└─Drop a nuke on the Congo. It will contain the outbreak there, and solve a lot of other problems.
[16:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:24] <exec> 08└─"The outbreak is taking place in a part of Congo that is an active war zone. Dozens of armed militias operate in the area, attacking government outposts and civilians, complicating the work of Ebola response teams and putting their security at risk." If those troops somehow contracted Ebola, they wo...
[16:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:26] <exec> 08└─Drop a nuke on the Congo. It will contain the outbreak there, and solve a lot of other problems.
[16:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:28] <exec> 08└─So - it might beat us to Mars? Europa? Alpha Centauri? Dayumn - all of our evolution, and we're going to be beaten by a damned virus!
[16:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:31] <exec> 08└─Alright then, Mr. Tommy Troll. Please explain how a nuke is going to wipe out a virus. You do realize that Chernobyl today provides homes to every kind of wildlife that has ever thrived in the region? Well - except maybe the dinosaurs, mastodons, and sabre toothed tigers. Or, the unicorns, dragons,...
[16:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:43] <exec> 08└─So how much energy can be coupled into a 1m USB cable? Or into an unconnected cellphone? How robust is the ESD protection on the pin of a modern IC, compared with a 1970's vintage IC? How good are 100Base-T and 1000Base-T transceivers at rejecting common-mode voltages on the order of several kV? How...
[16:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074285/ [imdb.com] Carrie did it!
[16:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:47] <exec> 08└─Cars and other vehicles are filled with essential components that won't tolerate a small surge either, maxing out at 3.3V DC or 5V DC.
[16:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:49] <exec> 08└─Given that nearly everything is almost fully dependent on electronics and those same electronics are connected to several large networks of copper wire which will act as antennas, what will we do now to mitigate the damage so we are more ready when a similar event occurs again?
[16:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:14] <exec> 08└─Not "themselves".
[16:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:16] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, you socialists constantly want to strip people of their efforts, and dissipate it into nothingness.
[16:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:18] <exec> 08└─You sound like a weirdo. Start making positive changes in your life.
[16:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:20] <exec> 08└─His mum was mentally and physically damaged, it says. It says explicitly: In what was a difficult childhood, Mr Brown was taken into care repeatedly during his mother's hospital stays for her mental and physical health problems... "I wasn't taking care of myself[;] I was only taking care of my mothe...
[16:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:22] <exec> 08└─If only people really believed that, rather than it just being a meme spread around almost entirely by filthy normies (i.e. those who are attracted to real people).
[16:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:24] <exec> 08└─I'm no socialist. strip huge, monopolistic, amoral corporations of their directors' bonuses, and dissipate it amongst the littler guys and gals FTFY. You see, corporations aren't really people.
[16:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:26] <exec> 08└─undoubtedly on welfare
[16:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:58] <exec> 08└─No I had my hands full running a team that was writing our in-house applications which were all designed around our business (basically an auto club like AAA.) We used the Advantage Database Engine which ran on the server. We were consumers of server apps but not developers. This was back in the 90'...
[16:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:37] <exec> 08└─I would have enjoyed the inclusion of Tom Bombadil. That added extreme dimension to the perceived age of Middle Earth. Also, it explained how Merry and Pippin came by the swords they used to pierce the Witchking's enchantments so Eowyn could kill him. Without Bombadil, the struggle against Sauron is...
[16:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:14] <exec> 08└─Redundant comment is redundant.
[16:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:16] <exec> 08└─Heroes have always been antiheroes. The ultimate outsiders.
[16:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:26] <exec> 08└─It really sounds like battery-electrics are a vehicle manufacturers dream. Resale value of a vehicle with shot batteries is likely very low, and everything else will go bad quickly too.
[16:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:27] <exec> 08└─Ask anyone who buys and handles second hand cars for a living. The first thing to go on a car is the electronics.
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[17:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bionic Mushroom" Produces Electrical Current - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:10] <exec> 08└─As a huge fan of mushrooms on pizza, in spaghetti sauce, and by them selves but stuffed with various cheeses and so forth, I find this idea shocking. Even if it is current science. I assume they keep these in a corner and feed them eelshit. Okay, I'll put a cap on it.
[17:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:24] <exec> 08└─Well, that's not true. There is a solution to containing it. "No people, no problem" —Stalin. (close enough) Invalid form key: k9BS9J6JFU
[17:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:25] <exec> 08└─> If those troops somehow contracted Ebola, they would become a lot more cooperative or at least less of a problem. Uh. No? That's contagion. They'd be much less cooperative and much more dead, and then their extremely hazardous remains would be a much much greater problem.
[17:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:27] <exec> 08└─Why contain it?
[17:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:29] <exec> 08└─until they start raping babies to cure themselves https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:32] <exec> 08└─it's also funny how short the key is.
[17:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:34] <exec> 08└─For easier warehousing, and eventual export, most likely.
[17:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:36] <exec> 08└─better make that "put" on cobalt a "call" then?
[17:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:38] <exec> 08└─Do we have the ability to send large numbers of people to those places? Nope, so it may not be possible to contain the outbreak. One of the benefits of AI cars would be that in extreme situations like a highly contagious outbreak, people wouldn't need to go out and interact with each other. Items co...
[17:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:40] <exec> 08└─It's a bit like a forest fire. It's not generally possible to put the entire thing out, so firefighters focus on containing it so that it runs out of fuel and eventually goes out on its own. We can do that because the forest itself is something that can be reforested and forest fires get to be massi...
[17:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:54] <exec> 08└─I've seen a lot of people do a lot of talking about EMP proofing their stuff and never seen anyone test it ever with the exception of the US Government. How about some of those people build an explosively pumped flux compression generator [wikipedia.org] then we can see if putting a consumer radio i...
[17:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:56] <exec> 08└─although it's not clear that the device connections are well protected against high common mode voltages coming in.
[17:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:58] <exec> 08└─How robust is the ESD protection on the pin of a modern IC, compared with a 1970's vintage IC?
[17:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:00] <exec> 08└─I've a whole plant full of equipment. Some of that equipment uses 50 year old technology, while we have (in some cases) almost identical equipment sitting next to it, that uses state of the art electronics. When we have a power fluctuation, it's the modern stuff that crashes first. In days gone by,...
[17:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:02] <exec> 08└─In reality, I had a REALLY bad case of the shits for a while then. Butterfly and snowball effect.
[17:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:04] <exec> 08└─I bet a voltage sag on one of the many or the main oscillator puts it into a condition it can't ever get back from. That equipment should have watchdogs on it that cause them to go through the initial power on sequence again if it is that delicate.
[17:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:32] <exec> 08└─As a general rule, single mothers shouldn't get government assistance. Single mothers are some of the most self-centered and narcissistic people around. They offload their responsibility to other people and everybody suffers as a result. It's really not fair to the kids to be neglected like that bec...
[17:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:33] <exec> 08└─More or less that. If we didn't allow the parasite class to steal everything that isn't nailed down, there's no real reason why the typical worker should have to be at work more than half time. That's more than enough time to get all the productive work we need for society to function to be complete...
[17:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:35] <exec> 08└─The point is that single mothers destroy generations, and we enable it.
[17:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:37] <exec> 08└─Perhaps if you don't talk about your bank account numbers or your penis, you won't have those problems. I regularly talk about things that aren't work at work when time permits and I've never had problems with those things.
[17:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:40] <exec> 08└─More practically, strip corporations of the ability to hold or buy patents and copyrights. They should stay with their original creators. Both are artificial monopolies, and being able to transfer them only means we allow monopolies to be transferred, traded, and accumulated by psychotic MBAs, conce...
[17:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:17] <exec> 08└─they will go back to using their precious Microsoft software.
[17:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:57] <exec> 08└─i'm so glad TBL voted for extended media extensions (or whatever they are called) so these dinosaurs don't actually have to modernize their business models. now they can just perpetuate their monopoly of slime well into infinity! good job, whores.
[17:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:46] <exec> 08└─If the existing manufacturers already know how to make money building cars one way then why does Elon go beyond ignoring their collective wisdom from the last 100 years to the point where he tells them they flat out do not know what they are doing and are wrong and stupid. Then he sucks at running a...
[17:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:48] <exec> 08└─Can do 4WD much better then any gear train could or is ever expected to
[17:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:14] <exec> 08└─Amazon didn't invent online retailing.
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[18:38:24] <exec> 08└─Spore drive ! Yay !
[18:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:49] <exec> 08└─The survivors will be more resistant. Just like bacteria to antibiotics. Keeping everybody alive and letting them breed makes us all weak.
[18:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:50] <exec> 08└─I know right?? Better to let it spread and hopefully wipe out all the racist idiotsbin the world. Can we engineer viruses to attack certain mental states?
[18:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, the military has been working on a bioweapon to target liberals for decades now. Wait, you didn't thing it was going to work the other way 'round did you?
[18:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:54] <exec> 08└─So being not-racist is liberal huh? Good to know, go plan your little civil war. It'll suck, but at the end maybe we will be rid of the Nazi stain on humanity.
[18:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:17] <exec> 08└─I've been in factories in Taiwan and China building modern laptops. It's entertaining to go by the ESD prototype test stations, where there's a person sitting there zapping every available pin on every available port 10 times in a row with an ESD gun set at 15 KV (about a 1" spark). Zap, Zap, Zap. I...
[18:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:18] <exec> 08└─one would think, that a downed 20kV grid "wire" is not a problem if ripped down by a back-hoe. but just taking a step (on earth) creates a voltage difference between your left leg and your right leg and will kill you if you leave the back-hoe. the only "safe" way is to move in hops. i suppose with a...
[18:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:21] <exec> 08└─so the light emitted by the sun takes 8 min to reach earth. the sun is massive and the earth is tiny. the earth has a pretty solid magnetic field. the pretty pictures we see how solar winds deform earths magnetic field might be exaggerated and too artistic? but how do solar event LINGER in the solar...
[18:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:23] <exec> 08└─Also I think most cars are still made of steel, which gives a great Faraday cage.
[18:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:25] <exec> 08└─The disturbance is through the solar wind, a stream of charged particles that is emitted by the sun. And being charged, they interact with the magnetic field of the earth. The magnetic fields of the sun certainly are negligible at the earth, but they affect the solar wind, which then disturbs the ea...
[18:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:00] <exec> 08└─It's really not fair to the kids to be neglected like that because the mother couldn't figure out how to manage a working relationship
[18:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:02] <exec> 08└─That's a remnant from the old days, when that was literally a woman's job: To raise children while men were out trying to gather resources for the family. From what I can tell, women are not more nurturing, and tend to do a horrible job or raising children who are older than perhaps 7 years old.
[18:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:04] <exec> 08└─The problem with patents/copyrights is that they are a governmental construct rather than a free-market contractual construct—the deep pockets can just purchase the violent coercion of the State, and thereby swoop in to change the rules of the game at the last moment. You can't expect freedom to b...
[18:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:06] <exec> 08└─The original meme is based on a true story. I can't remember the name of the app now, but years ago there was a mobile tamagochi-esque anime girlfriend simulator that was all the rage in Japan, and one dude decided to actually start treating the app like a real relationship. Long story short, 4chan...
[18:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:08] <exec> 08└─Lol, thie incel misogynerds are outing themselves quite nicely rhese days.
[18:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yelp Craters as Much as 32% as Advertisers Abandon the Site - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:44] <exec> 08└─$1 billion in venture capital, plz.
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[19:38:32] <exec> 08└─but a true feat of quality management and engineering, if so, congrats!
[19:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:12] <exec> 08└─after all, the native americans didn't bother containing outbreaks of small pox in europe, why should modern americans care about ebola in africa?
[19:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:41] <exec> 08└─FEMA actually tested standard consumer and light duty commercial vehicles for EMP sensitivity so they could estimate the number of vehicles that would be available after a major EMP event like a nuclear bombing. They found that 50% of modern vehicles would not start after being hit with their EMP ge...
[19:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:42] <exec> 08└─tin cookie jars and metal tool-boxes are fine places to keep your usb-sticks and backup-drives in. drop in some dead-tree info about yourself and future historians will thank you :)
[19:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:45] <exec> 08└─sunspots certainly 'feel' that they are looking at earth - as more sun-spots enter than leave the earth-facing side of sol. Suspicious0bservers/youtube had a page from a 100+yo study/book in their vids just yesterday(?); CMEs (up to half lightspeed) also seem to not be in arbitrary directions. Linge...
[19:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:26] <exec> 08└─Not all single parents chose their outcome. Often their partner leaves against their will. Or they cheat on them. Enable them? So you'd prefer them to starve to death?
[19:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03krait6 [5170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:28] <exec> 08└─Billy Brown has agoraphobia https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and he also seems to suffer from depression. For someone in that situation it can be difficult to find social situations that are "safe" because society tends to pass on expectations such as "you should be working...
[19:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:30] <exec> 08└─Fortunately mentality in my country is such that these are not a good subjects to talk. As well as salaries. There is a cultural difference between countries, and really, it may change not after airplane travel around half of the world, but when crossing a neighbor country's border. Let me go with a...
[19:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:32] <exec> 08└─You've chosen the dumbest interpretation of your opponent's point. Weak sauce. I wonder how many single mothers are worthy of receive the money stolen from other people (mostly men, who are straight and white); certainly, I'd say a such worthy mother would need to be one who desperately didn't want...
[19:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:34] <exec> 08└─This appears to be a sales pitch for the RIO program. So yes, playing games for 7 years is a terrible misfortune, wouldn't you rather have spent that time sucking up to your boss and making student loan payments?
[19:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:36] <exec> 08└─Don't be afraid to tell your boss he's an idiot, and don't take on loans that are stupid. Take some fucking responsibility for your choices, asshole.
[19:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:38] <exec> 08└─To me, the comments tend to promote the expectation that "Some people should be forced to enable other people's mental illnesses." Ultimately, discomfort is what drove this young man to choose another path; what if had been faced with [economic] discomfort much earlier, before his mental state deter...
[19:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Headmaster Fired over Secret Mining of Cryptocoins at School - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:00] <exec> 08└─Man in position of respect and authority falls victim to greed after hearing about internet fantasy money. Film at 11.
[19:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yelp Craters as Much as 32% as Advertisers Abandon the Site - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:29] <exec> 08└─Surely the reason why Yelp is suffering is because of their reputation as being horribly untrustworthy. Well. that and a user interface that is truly abhorrent. I have never found Yelp useful as either a shopper or a victim vendor. The very first good review that our business received was spam-binne...
[19:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 2201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:48] <exec> 08└─people trying to make their god be like themselves is not very related to this story. Just because propagandists say that *all* "native americans" or even more presumptuous "first nations" peoples were from Mongoloid migrations doesn't mean it's true. 11k yrs? that's all you got? there could have be...
[19:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:52] <exec> 08└─Actually, those comics show the correct way to gain and control power. They are commentary of the US police state... To control any force, you must be worst than that force. You must win at ANY cost. 1) America's nuclear bombing of Japan. 2) America's fire bombing action of Toyko 3) Carpet bombing...
[19:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:54] <exec> 08└─Thanos was not violent to all. He merely switched realities... Universe 1 vs Universe 2. So the total population was sustainable. Remember is The Matrix: Humanity is virus, it consumes and/or destroys its environment and moves on to do it again. So in the end the GOOD guys will WAYS be worse than th...
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[20:38:04] <exec> 08└─There's a one in twenty chance we're gonna set James Web up the bomb. Before the shuttle the original delta was most reliable at one in thirty.
[20:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:39] <exec> 08└─1.353708655×10¹⁶ is short?
[20:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:40] <exec> 08└─Invalid form key: k9BS9J6JFU Somebody should nuke this crap website.
[20:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:57] <exec> 08└─You've chosen the dumbest counter argument ever, snowflake. Those single mothers are doing more to propagate the human race the the single insels contributing to society for the porn they are watching.
[20:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Headmaster Fired over Secret Mining of Cryptocoins at School - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:18] <exec> 08└─I smiled when it first occurred to me, but NedSpace has been good to me
[20:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yelp Craters as Much as 32% as Advertisers Abandon the Site - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:38] <exec> 08└─I'll get my will written now. This time for sure.
[20:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Healing Kidneys with Nanotechnology - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:52] <exec> 08└─- eggs, went to the ER. Doc was concerned about the sharp pains in my abdomen so he ordered a CT scan. It wasn't Salmonella. The sharp pains cleared up when the diarrhea did.
[20:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:13] <exec> 08└─It's possible that a reasonable defense of your position can be made, but you need to do a lot more research before you can make it. Just about every factual statement you've made has been incorrect, usually obviously so. For example: no Disney movie is R
[20:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:54] <exec> 08└─dark indians(dots not feathers) have australoid dna(and look like them too). modern science says that this is because of an early migration out of africa with some people passing through india and ending up in australia(basically). the australian aborigines say they have been their since the dawn of...
[20:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:59] <exec> 08└─Let's have Wonder Woman whip the villain's spleen out of his body and eat it raw in front of him while he's gradually dying, screaming with agonizing pain.
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[21:38:35] <exec> 08└─I dont know if i just shitposted too many times or what but ive been getting all sorts of errors when trying to post.
[21:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:05] <exec> 08└─Actually, I think that's a float.
[21:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:24] <exec> 08└─First world problems. If they had to live in a place like most of humanity, they would have no fucking time for depression and agoraphobia. Now it's just a bunch of snowflakes with their snowflake minds unable to deal with reality enabled by society so they don't have to work. Just look at all the N...
[21:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:26] <exec> 08└─So, I'm not so sure you're correct.
[21:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yelp Craters as Much as 32% as Advertisers Abandon the Site - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:12] <exec> 08└─At $20 mil a kilo you will be waiting a long time to get $1 bil out of a single coin.
[21:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:45] <exec> 08└─>> In fact new diesel cars made after 2016 for the US market are cleaner particulate wise than most GDI gas engine cars ! The GDI [wikia.com] vehicles are still cleaner than anything from NOD [wikia.com].
[21:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:46] <exec> 08└─> No brake fluid? Are they all using electronic brakes? By and large, Yes. Regenerative braking converts the cars kinetic energy into potential energy stored in the battery. This dramatically increases the lifespan of brakes. Regarding brake fluid specifically it usually lasts the service life of a...
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[22:37:50] <exec> 08└─You'll need 2 of these to store the current Bitcoin blockchain.
[22:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:51] <exec> 08└─The problem is they are rapidly being eclipsed by newer tech. Yes you can buy 100GB triple layer BD-XL now, but look at the price tag, then compare to a flash drive. If they can't move these new 128GB blanks at a price competitive with 128GB flash sticks they are going to have a problem. It is a chi...
[22:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:53] <exec> 08└─New DVD-sized disc to hold 1 to 5 terabytes of data [arstechnica.com] (2007) TDK develops 1TB optical disc, leaves other optical storage feeling emasculated [engadget.com] (2010) First one is probably the vaporware "holographic versatile disc" but whatever. There have long been promises of terabyte-...
[22:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon 9 Certified to Lift NASA's Most Valuable Science Payloads - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:04] <exec> 08└─So far SpaceX has been ahead of the curve in quality control. Most of the delays they experience are politically motivated.
[22:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon 9 Certified to Lift NASA's Most Valuable Science Payloads - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:06] <exec> 08└─Both the Obama and Trump administrations have treated SpaceX about the same, although SpaceX did sue the Air Force at one point. The true test comes when BFR is on the scene. Will it get an early NASA launch contract? Can it replace SLS?
[22:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bionic Mushroom" Produces Electrical Current - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:19] <exec> 08└─No. Your karma looks positive and normal.
[22:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bionic Mushroom" Produces Electrical Current - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:20] <exec> 08└─I sometimes get it when I post AC
[22:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:54] <exec> 08└─If the groups involved in the conflict decide that killing everyone on sight is better than spreading Ebola through their midst you just might get your roaming death squads. I doubt they're prepared to deal with this outbreak in a medically sound way. This may all lead to increased violence and deat...
[22:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:55] <exec> 08└─If they cant get any epidemiological links, perhaps its some other infection with similar symptoms like typhoid, malaria, meningitis, or the flu? Its not like they are using accurate blood tests out in these villages (assuming an accurate test does even exist).
[22:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:35] <exec> 08└─The market opportunity is to find a way to economically refurbish EV Batteries. Someone is going to make a lot of money doing this. It will certainly be cheaper than mining more raw materials to make one.
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[23:38:14] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, Sony.
[23:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:15] <exec> 08└─Not if you buy whatever is on sale that day. Today it is Samsung 128GB for $17.23 at NewEgg. And by the time these new BD discs actually show up in volume flash will have almost certainly dropped again. There is also the transfer speed advantage most of these newer flash sticks have over optical med...
[23:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:18] <exec> 08└─If they can't move these new 128GB blanks at a price competitive with 128GB flash sticks they are going to have a problem.
[23:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, in that regard, Sony does have a reputation like someone caught pissing in someone's car. He will be watched around cars for the rest of his life and no one wants him in their car.
[23:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:52] <exec> 08└─User name checks out!
[23:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 1891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:54] <exec> 08└─that it takes out my laptop or cellphone. Yeah, those things suck, but I actually remember a time before such things existed. We could mostly make due, although it would admittedly be funny as hell watching the latest generation try to read an actual *map* The larger problem is that it takes ou...
[23:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:43] <exec> 08└─Ugh. Yet again, a slimy incel triggered by the word "they."
[23:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:45] <exec> 08└─Most single mothers work for a living and do pay taxes, so the welfare they are getting isn't as big of a chunk as you'd think. Also, they wouldn't have to be on welfare if the country was sane. Keep blaming the symptoms, that'll totally cure the disease.
[23:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:47] <exec> 08└─I've watched the government and a single woman collude over multiple years to turn that single woman into a single mom via adoption, and then she went around telling everyone how hard it was to be a single mom, and that she was so thankful that she lived in a society that is willing to take care of...
[23:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Headmaster Fired over Secret Mining of Cryptocoins at School - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:13] <exec> 08└─so is the above goatse or not?
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