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[00:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beavers Are Engineering a New Alaskan Tundra - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:29] <exec> 08└─In Spring, male beavers are "feeling their oats", as they say.... and are much, MUCH more aggressive. https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca [ctvnews.ca] https://www.thestar.com
[00:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beavers Are Engineering a New Alaskan Tundra - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:30] <exec> 08└─beavers... wood... there's a joke in there somewhere, dam it
[00:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beavers Are Engineering a New Alaskan Tundra - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:33] <exec> 08└─These beavers must be stopped before we all spontaneously cumbust due to the heat.
[00:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Beavers Are Engineering a New Alaskan Tundra - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:35] <exec> 08└─"Physical changes to the environment could be just as dramatic, thawing permafrost decades faster than climate change alone would." There is something akin to Godwin's law for science articles. If you throw in a gratuitous mention of climate change, your "research" deserves all the respect afforded...
[00:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beavers Are Engineering a New Alaskan Tundra - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:37] <exec> 08└─If Beavers are tasty, the problem will solve itself.
[00:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beavers Are Engineering a New Alaskan Tundra - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:40] <exec> 08└─Beaver anal glands taste like raspberry. When you see 'natural flavor' on something that tastes like raspberry thats what it means.
[00:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Beavers Are Engineering a New Alaskan Tundra - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:42] <exec> 08└─I would often go for walkabouts when I attended the University of Alaska Anchorage while smoking cigars around a nearby body of water that was swarming with these voracious rodents. Signs all over about keeping pets safe from aggressive beavers. Yearly the University had to pay to unblock the waterw...
[00:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:06] <exec> 08└─Can you write FORTRAN in FORTH? I'd like to see that, honestly. I always did like FORTH. It's uses were pretty niche, but when it fit the use it really was fun to code in.
[00:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:34] <exec> 08└─Chinese media is throwing him under the bus, and a Chinese official indicated that he might have broken the law. Maybe they are more mad about him doing it in secret than doing it at all. Or maybe the outrage is a show. Guess we'll find out.
[00:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:36] <exec> 08└─We had lots of technological advances since 1960's. But that does not mean that flights to the Moon were a mistake. Everything has its time and place in history; some are pioneers, who are risking everything, other prefer to come when everything is ready for them. But they'd have nowhere to come wit...
[00:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:38] <exec> 08└─> this isn't a special case. Yes it is, because you are dealing with humans, and not only that, but the humans are unable to give consent. If the embryos have their DNA tampered with to reduce the chances of them getting AIDS, but they end up with other mutations that cause them more suffering in li...
[00:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:41] <exec> 08└─Children don't get to choose who their parents are, or how old their parents are when they conceive, etc. If they are dealt a genetic shit sandwich, they have to live with it. Newborns and young children with illnesses, genetic or not, also do not get to choose what kind of treatment they get or con...
[00:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:43] <exec> 08└─We have had two fine summaries in a row that are possible explanations for the origin of Eth! And I think there was a third just a bit prior? Science be just amazing.
[00:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:10] <exec> 08└─I've been listening to the series in audiobook format -- one book left. The setting intrigued me and the writer plainly did a lot of research. She takes pains to point out that everything is fiction of course but it is also plain she tied it to scientific studies and actual artifacts, even going so...
[00:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:11] <exec> 08└─After it rained and "ruined" some stored grains.
[00:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:14] <exec> 08└─Given news stories of various animals, including birds, becoming drunk from naturally fermented berries, I'd suggest that fermentation for alcohol wasn't invented so much as discovered. Later refined, of course.
[00:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:16] <exec> 08└─refined [sladorana.hr] or refined [refinedspirits.com.au]?
[00:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:53] <exec> 08└─OK. But that normal user is still trusting someone else's word that the code is good. Exactly the same trust that they place in someone handing them a binary blob. An auditor, "other's contributions", or proprietary closed source: All require the user to place trust that running the code is OK. Eith...
[00:38:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 379 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:41] <exec> 08└─I think you're on to something. When the mind is quiet, it becomes very creative and receptive to learning. Early humans would have had many opportunities for quiet contemplation. Modern day humans are now at the mercy of externalities that relentless and forcibly intrude into their lives preying on...
[00:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:40] <exec> 08└─It's mostly still that way, too. For humanity. And nature generally does not allow plateaus - it's either anabolism or catabolism... stable states are always undermined by entropy.
[00:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:42] <exec> 08└─Exactly the point. A person who is alone with things to do is not bored. Solitude isn't the problem, loneliness only comes from not finding enough to occupy oneself with. Although an extrovert might disagree.
[00:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Park Anywhere' Electric Bike Hire Launched in Milton Keynes - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:08] <exec> 08└─the rate is about 50% walk with traffic, 50% against in my area
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[01:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beavers Are Engineering a New Alaskan Tundra - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:43] <exec> 08└─Wow. Apparently this is true. [wikipedia.org]
[01:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:10] <exec> 08└─Real men use Fortran IV.
[01:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:37] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a Vipasana retreat where people spend 6 days in the 'shack' per session, then come out and help out with the running of things, then back in the shack for the time they're on their retreat - sometimes 6 months to a few years.
[01:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Park Anywhere' Electric Bike Hire Launched in Milton Keynes - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:03] <exec> 08└─http://fortune.com/2018/10/19/electric-scooters-lime-uber-chargers/ [fortune.com] You can get a bounty for charging them and returning them (probably only after signing up with them to do this). I have no idea about returning abandoned bikes not found on the roads.
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[02:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Shows the Sámi and Finns Share Identical Siberian Genes - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:10] <exec> 08└─Gonna show we's all bruthas an' sistas... in the whole fuckin' universe... Sheeiiit!
[02:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Shows the Sámi and Finns Share Identical Siberian Genes - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:11] <exec> 08└─It also means we're a bunch of inbreds, which would explain why we're so fucking retarded! Yeah! That means all of yous too! We all said "Red, Hammer", so don't try to claim innocence with me..
[02:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beavers Are Engineering a New Alaskan Tundra - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:29] <exec> 08└─Like Wynona's Big Brown Beaver [youtube.com]?
[02:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:55] <exec> 08└─The last version called "FORTRAN" is FORTRAN 77 (circa, you guessed it, 1977). I expect the number of people still writing programs for FORTRAN 77 is approximately zero. When the ANSI standardization process was finally done in 1990, the language was called simply "Fortran". This edition added suppo...
[02:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:25] <exec> 08└─Consent? What consent? They can be killed without their consent all right. In fact they are somebody's else body if I believe liberals and that body can take whatever drugs it wants. Better start fixing ethics issues at some other stage. Can't have it both ways. What happened here is that somebody f...
[02:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:27] <exec> 08└─Regardless, the race for a super soldier is on.
[02:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:29] <exec> 08└─after all, children are naturally born with genetic defects sometimes - and not a single bioethicist said a word that a woman after 30 must not bear children. But late births produce most of the defects.
[02:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:31] <exec> 08└─One problem is the risk of something going wrong for a low chance of benefit. Vertical transmission of HIV is already preventable with antivirals and this therapy is already possible in adults (editing genes of bone marrow, which will then produce CCR5 null T cells).
[02:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:39] <exec> 08└─Money in general and crypto targeted here in particular is all about trust. The question is if we want to trust central authorities or develop decentralized trust schemas. You are advertising authorities approach, while it might be beneficial to improve the decentralized one, say put code on blockch...
[02:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:41] <exec> 08└─While I totally agree with you, it helps to remember that economical vertical mobility implies a high chance to loose money. Without vertical mobility there will be not much of a progress. In an ideal world a person spends parts of her life in all the income categories, including prison slavery.
[02:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Microbes Gobble Greenhouse Gases and Perhaps Oil Spills, Too - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:57] <exec> 08└─Beneath the ocean floor huge reservoirs of hydrocarbon gases—including methane, propane, butane and others—exist now
[02:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Microbes Gobble Greenhouse Gases and Perhaps Oil Spills, Too - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:58] <exec> 08└─Assuming they would be released naturally, yes. My understanding is that burned for fuel natural gas is about 5 times less greenhouse than simply released.
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[03:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartwatches are Bringing Lab-Style Analysis to Our Wrists - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:51] <exec> 08└─No way until they make them self winding.
[03:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Shows the Sámi and Finns Share Identical Siberian Genes - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:01] <exec> 08└─Except the Basques? Their language and appearance isn't much like any other group near their current center in the Pyrenees between France and Spain. Not sure if anyone has tried this genetic back-tracing on some of them?
[03:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:18] <exec> 08└─HIV causes AIDS, but HIV doesn't equal AIDS. Long-term non-progressers (that have a mutated CCR5) can get HIV, but it doesn't progress to AIDS.
[03:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:36] <exec> 08└─You just made all cheesee enter temporal liquidity you bastard!
[03:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:38] <exec> 08└─Some guys I saw in Louisville were using a crossbow with a reel mounted on it. They just shot the bolts through the ceiling to the other end of the warehouse, and then pulled the CAT6 with the string. Never even bothered to give us a heads up.
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[04:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartwatches are Bringing Lab-Style Analysis to Our Wrists - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:32] <exec> 08└─Careful, you might get a chair thrown at you :)
[04:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartwatches are Bringing Lab-Style Analysis to Our Wrists - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:34] <exec> 08└─The sleep apnea detection might be the best feature. Calorie counting could be the "killer app", if such a thing were possible to monitor from the wrist with no manual user intervention. As ID'd by martyb, the more useful these get, the more privacy could become an issue.
[04:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:24] <exec> 08└─NASA had a problem they couldn't solve, or at least couldn't solve easily, or cheaply. They created a contest, to see who could solve it. They got so many solutions, thus proving that the problem was easily solvable, that they closed the contest. Makes you wonder what's going on at NASA. Aren't they...
[04:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:00] <exec> 08└─Also amazing is the amount of ethical furor over this experiment on humans. But very little furor when the same experiments are run on "lower animals" and plants. Who will stand against GMO crops (which are causing a lot of collateral damage already in certain areas)? I'm guessing it won't be the sa...
[04:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:02] <exec> 08└─Yes it is, because you are dealing with humans, and not only that, but the humans are unable to give consent.
[04:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:33] <exec> 08└─I clicked it. I shouldn't of clicked it. I knew better than to click it. Fuck.
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[05:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Army Awards Microsoft a $480 Million HoloLens Contract - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:05] <exec> 08└─Get ready for BSODs on the battlefield causing casualties higher than just using regular... eyes, I guess. Brought to you (once again) by Capitalism!
[05:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Army Awards Microsoft a $480 Million HoloLens Contract - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:07] <exec> 08└─How many times has someone tried to explain the difference between capitalism and cronyism to you at this point?
[05:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartwatches are Bringing Lab-Style Analysis to Our Wrists - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:17] <exec> 08└─This mention of detecting hypertension in TFS makes me wonder: is there any smartwatch-type device out there that can actually and accurately measure BP rather than only pulse? Because I'm checking my vitals at least half a dozen times a day to determine what heart pill I'm due for to stop the chest...
[05:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:16] <exec> 08└─Real men use Fortran IV.
[05:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:18] <exec> 08└─Replying to self: Real men use Fortran IV.
[05:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:57] <exec> 08└─Without this experiment the bioethicists would be blocking everything they can reach. But now their blockade is broken, the world knows - and when some people want a service and other want to provide it, there will be business.
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[06:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Global Drone Standards Have Been Revealed - 1810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:00] <exec> 08└─So the UK air safety boars is claiming that air traffic incidents have doubled? really? lets look at some of their headline 'incidents': 'In one incident, the pilots of an A320 passenger plane saw a UAV flying below their vehicle's right wing 10,000 feet in the air as they prepare to land at the air...
[06:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Global Drone Standards Have Been Revealed - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:01] <exec> 08└─So a drone nerd think he knows better than pilots whether there is a risk of collision. I'm shocked. Face it, your stupid hobby is going to be regulated to death, and the rest of us won't care, because it will be your fault.
[06:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Army Awards Microsoft a $480 Million HoloLens Contract - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:11] <exec> 08└─They must be pretty fancy military grade headsets at almost $5000 a pop...
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[06:33:22] <exec> 08└─No doubt about the privacy issue. My mom let an insurance company put a tracker in her car to determine her rate. It was for a short period of time but, as far as I'm concerned, it's like a gateway drug for insurance companies. I'm sure they'd love to get one in your car 24/7/365. Now if they sell y...
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[06:33:48] <exec> 08└─^^^ Another entry in the journal of "the young and unafraid".
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[06:34:21] <exec> 08└─SAP tried to take over it but failed. *cries* *cries* *cries* COBOL may never die
[06:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:28] <exec> 08└─Needed eye bleach for the soul after reading the link
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[06:35:30] <exec> 08└─OOG URRRGG ME GROG. ME THINK HOMOSAPIEN GIRL VERY UGLY. UGHH. SKINNY. NO HIPS. BALD BITS. SMELL BAD. STILL DO HER THOUGH. OOK.
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[07:33:57] <exec> 08└─Everything is capitalism, so capitalism necessarily includes everything bad and sinful in the world. Therefore capitalism bad. Everyday we drift further away from Marx's light.
[07:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Army Awards Microsoft a $480 Million HoloLens Contract - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:59] <exec> 08└─I doubt they really run windows on it. The hardware only has 2GB ram but the wikipedia page says windows 10 is running on it.. yeah right. An incredibly butchered version is more likely. Also, we can't forget the weird HPU thing that is actually an ARM CPU that is doing nearly all of the real work a...
[07:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:54] <exec> 08└─Every technological change has the same potential consequences. Change a line of code in a car? Do it right, things improve. Do it wrong and unwilling nonconsenting people could die or be permanently injured.
[07:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:29] <exec> 08└─I've never read (or listened to) the series, but I remember the X-rated aspect being an 'open secret' among the girls in my high school, where they were the only books that were more popular than Stephen King's novels. Anytime I hear/see commentary implying teen girls are innocent children who are o...
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[08:33:45] <exec> 08└─The main point is WE ALREADY HAVE REGULATIONS FOR ALL OF THIS,... ... So why do we need the new rules? I believe the common term is 'totalitarianism'
[08:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SvenErik [2857] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient DNA Shows the Sámi and Finns Share Identical Siberian Genes - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:26] <exec> 08└─Apparently, they are a mix of the original local hunter-gatherers that lived there during the last age and the wave of people who brought farming to all of Europe who then later became isolated according to this article in BBC [bbc.com].
[08:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:14] <exec> 08└─In an ideal world the lowest tier is "enough to have a reasonable life" and no one is in "prison slavery"
[08:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Park Anywhere' Electric Bike Hire Launched in Milton Keynes - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:39] <exec> 08└─It's OK, you're allowed to say "I do not know how infrastructure is funded." Car owners and drivers, as such, contribute jack shit to roads.
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[09:33:32] <exec> 08└─Putin is the new wargame. Just look at Georgia and then escalation to Crimea. Always deny, provoke and then claim "self defense". Now, they are blockading ports and claiming other side is "escalating". With Putin it's like the bully that keeps telling you "stop hitting yourself" while they punch you...
[09:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06'SpongeBob SquarePants' Creator Stephen Hillenburg Dies at 57 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:41] <exec> 08└─https://i.imgur.com/J3nVZfK.jpg [imgur.com]
[09:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Global Drone Standards Have Been Revealed - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:54] <exec> 08└─I would care because they are using these rules to introduce government controlled geofencing on drones, automatic tracking of drones, and registration of drones. There is already talk of government being able to shut off your car remotely (on some they already can), and for self-drives, take over c...
[09:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Global Drone Standards Have Been Revealed - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:56] <exec> 08└─Actually I am a pilot (private..), and I dont fly drones (I had a toy one, and lost interest very fast). Care to try again Troll? (yes, why do I bother with the flood in stupid ACs these days...)
[09:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Global Drone Standards Have Been Revealed - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:58] <exec> 08└─I would care because they are using these rules to introduce government controlled geofencing on drones, automatic tracking of drones, and registration of drones.
[09:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:18] <exec> 08└─OK. But that normal user is still trusting someone else's word that the code is good.
[09:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:20] <exec> 08└─Not to mine. I cancelled my home internet; I'm posting this from my phone But it's a real cold night tonight. I'm glad I spent two grand on my rig because it's warms my room right up You can buy this same rig for $52 now. It's seems safe to run unattended or as I am about to do, while asleep. It's r...
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[10:33:43] <exec> 08└─Won't somebody please think of the children!
[10:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:51] <exec> 08└─How to keep an idiot in suspense for 24 hours? I'll tell you tomorrow.
[10:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:53] <exec> 08└─It is control of the media. Putin, Berlusconi (o.k. he is gone), Erdogan. Trump btw does not fall in this category. There seems to be part of US media landscape voluntarily enslaving themselves.
[10:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:56] <exec> 08└─Curse that Putin! With his trillions in military spending and hundreds of foreign bases! He acts like he owns the world! Oh, wait. That's someone else.
[10:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:58] <exec> 08└─I don't recall where I read it, but the NATO plans in case of invasion from Yugo was to drop tactical nukes. In Italy. Living 25km from the then iron curtain, had its benefits though. Cheap gas, steak and a national government that lets you keep enough tax money in case you decide to secede and anne...
[10:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Global Drone Standards Have Been Revealed - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:18] <exec> 08└─Stop being so foolish. As I am sure you are aware, mr semantics, what I am stating is they are not placing a new limitation on what can be legally done, you are already not allowed to fly in those airspaces. These are new methods of enforcement which are not at all limited to this situation, it is j...
[10:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Global Drone Standards Have Been Revealed - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:19] <exec> 08└─By the way, if you want to see how open and transparent the current DJI geofencing maps are, its easy, you can have a look here: https://www.dji.com [dji.com] Thats a fresh link from their own site, so if you hit any problems, I'm sure it is only temporary.. really. I'm not quite sur...
[10:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06U.S. Army Awards Microsoft a $480 Million HoloLens Contract - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:32] <exec> 08└─Windows Server Core only requires like 0.5GB RAM, so .... Not sure what is this all Windows hate coming from, maybe the 1990s.
[10:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartwatches are Bringing Lab-Style Analysis to Our Wrists - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:48] <exec> 08└─My smartwatch keeps displaying "Please put me on your other wrist. I'm getting dizzy!"
[10:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:54] <exec> 08└─print("Welcome to the Hotel California")
[10:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:55] <exec> 08└─My answer is "No"
[10:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:57] <exec> 08└─We learned on a PDP-8, except for BASIC and Asm, which was on original dual-floppy IBM PCs.
[10:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:40] <exec> 08└─Roughly speaking, risk for chromosomal aberrations increases with maternal age (the mother pre-arranges chromosomes shortly after birth, ready for cell division, when the late eggs have to be in that state for decades). Risk of point mutations increases with paternal age (the copy rate per day in me...
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[11:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 2084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:23] <exec> 08└─I called Ronnie and asked him to make me Ambassador Plenipotentiary to Moscow. I said, let me sit & talk with Mikhail. And it'll take one hour of discussion before the Cold War is over. Some people have an ability to negotiate. It's something that somebody should do that knows how to negotiate and n...
[11:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:24] <exec> 08└─Role-playing Nato forces launched a single medium range nuclear missile, wiping Ukrainian capital Kiev from the map. It was deployed as a signal, a warning that Nato was prepared to escalate the war. The theory was that this 'nuclear signalling' would help cooler heads to prevail. It didn’t work.
[11:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Army Awards Microsoft a $480 Million HoloLens Contract - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:08] <exec> 08└─To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
[11:35:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:22] <exec> 08└─NASA had a problem they couldn't solve, or at least couldn't solve easily, or cheaply. They created a contest, to see who could solve it. They got so many solutions, thus proving that the problem was easily solvable, that they closed the contest. Makes you wonder what's going on at NASA. Aren't they...
[11:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:29] <exec> 08└─NASA has been downsizing and outsourcing for many years. Many of the companies it has been outsourcing to no longer prioritize technical competence but fire such employees and restock with business administration types to focus on investments and internal politics. So the availability of skilled sta...
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[11:36:13] <exec> 08└─> GMO crops (which are causing a lot of collateral damage already in certain areas) Well, then. Present your statistics.
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[12:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:10] <exec> 08└─public Wi-Fi networks "are attracting pedophiles and sex offenders" and put children at risk.
[12:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:12] <exec> 08└─I love how they so casually lump "illegal child porn" and "hard-core pornography" in one sentence. One is illegal, one has decades of court decisions saying it's not only legal but also is protected speech. This illustrates the actual agenda of these mouth-breathing hype beasts: banning a broad set...
[12:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:29] <exec> 08└─Note Ukraine was part of USSR in those days - so it's like nuking San Francisco, not Washington...
[12:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:31] <exec> 08└─You're right! All countries with a military ARE THE SAME! I am sure Ukraine agrees with your brilliant logic!
[12:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:33] <exec> 08└─Yep it is a peculiar choice. Especially because the area of Kiev features the reactors of chernobyl and the russian woodpecker, a pretty giant antenna which has also been linked by conspiracy theorists to the chernobyl accident (if e.g. taking a car and driving it full speed into a wall can be calle...
[12:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:35] <exec> 08└─I've spent some limited time looking into the recent naval skirmish near Crimea. So far I haven't found enough data/information to form an opinion. Plenty of opinions trusted upon me, but not enough data. I'd appreciate if you can provide some good sources. Anyway, you need some history lessons so p...
[12:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'SpongeBob SquarePants' Creator Stephen Hillenburg Dies at 57 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:46] <exec> 08└─https://i.imgur.com/yxtwNKm.jpg [imgur.com]
[12:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:22] <exec> 08└─Whoosh, you missed the irony... Similar experiments, yet wildly different reactions from different human groups.
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[13:32:45] <exec> 08└─If you care to go down the rabbit hole, you can visit the org's website: https://enough.org [enough.org] https://enough.org [enough.org] In an overwhelming bipartisan vote (97-2), the U.S. Senate’s passage of H.R. 1865, “FOSTA SESTA” is a critical step towards draining the cy...
[13:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:47] <exec> 08└─I always thought part of the reason you had to block content like this on public wifi, was if someone found a way to do mischief with it, you could show you had made some effort to prevent such uses, and thus were not deliberately complicit.
[13:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:06] <exec> 08└─It was, but would the US (POTUS was Reagan) have sat back and thought "Oh, San Francisco (or any other similarly major city), well that's not very important compared to DC, clearly these cool-headed Communists just just want to talk?" Nope. Didn't think so, and the response would likely be the same...
[13:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Global Drone Standards Have Been Revealed - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:33] <exec> 08└─You should try some RC helicopter with collective pitch.
[13:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:05] <exec> 08└─this should be made flat out illegal. The Govt, if it wants your service should *pay*. Running a fuc*ing lottery where they get YOUR solutions for free for the CHANCE to win a prize? GTFOH... If you want my intellect to solve your problem, expect to pay. If I give it for free, don't expect to make m...
[13:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jrbrtsn [6338] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:06] <exec> 08└─Back in the 1990's I ran some performance experiments on an SGI workstation between Fortran and C. When I declared all variables static in C, the performance was identical. Fortran makes all variables static by default. As far as scientific programming goes, Fortran has support for complex numbers [...
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[14:33:18] <exec> 08└─I run an open access point with no password, no filtering, and no monitoring. It is my opinion that everyone should do this. It's not difficult to firewall it from your main network.
[14:33:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 299 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:31] <exec> 08└─Role-playing Nato forces launched a single medium range nuclear missile, wiping Ukrainian capital Kiev from the map. It was deployed as a signal, a warning that Nato was prepared to escalate the war. The theory was that this 'nuclear signalling' would help cooler heads to prevail. It didn’t work.
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[15:33:05] <exec> 08└─Grandma laments her chosen vocation as a house wife.
[15:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Melt Gold at Room Temperature - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:07] <exec> 08└─That is... the opposite of what they did, in almost every respect.
[15:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Fraudsters Exploited My Angry Tweet' - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:16] <exec> 08└─That was dumb.
[15:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Fraudsters Exploited My Angry Tweet' - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:18] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure they spelled Mr. Loudmouth's name in TFS and TFA. He's part of the Bigmouth clan, not part of the Tin clan at all.
[15:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Fraudsters Exploited My Angry Tweet' - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:20] <exec> 08└─Which one? The bank that uses email as though it's a secure communications medium, or the guy who didn't check the return path in the mail headers when he already had security concerns about the company in question? They're both completely frikkin' incompetent as far as I'm concerned...but the bank...
[15:33:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:35] <exec> 08└─public Wi-Fi networks "are attracting pedophiles and sex offenders" and put children at risk.
[15:33:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 944 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:37] <exec> 08└─If you care to go down the rabbit hole, you can visit the org's website: https://enough.org [enough.org] https://enough.org [enough.org] In an overwhelming bipartisan vote (97-2), the U.S. Senate’s passage of H.R. 1865, “FOSTA SESTA” is a critical step towards draining the cy...
[15:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:41] <exec> 08└─Once you go down the road of selectively blocking content 1. you end up over blocking some legitimate content 2. you may be liable for failing to block something that should have been blocked 3. blocking pr0n may be the least of your problems once the RIAA and MPAA take notice Maybe it's just better...
[15:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:44] <exec> 08└─So someone starts looking at porn at Starbucks. What do we do? 1. Call the cops if he (or she?) whips it out and starts pleasuring themselves. 2. Call the cops if the individual is seen by other patrons or staff to be violating the law (by accessing child pornography, or some other offense such as s...
[15:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:46] <exec> 08└─Here's some of the cringe [enough.org] (labeled [enough.org] "SHARE THE MEMES").
[15:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:48] <exec> 08└─If the content is illegal, how can we expect Starbucks (or anyone) to be able to determine where it could be located on the internet and block it? I don't think you can just redirect childporn.org to 0.0.0.0 and suddenly solve this problem.
[15:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:50] <exec> 08└─srsly, they should sue the god for making a universe that transmits photons "net neutral". there's no way to censor the photons leaving the screen and showing CP. the universe must be ev1l. ofc, maybe some nice chinese scientist might make genetic eyes that go auto-blind when looking at certain imag...
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[15:33:52] <exec> 08└─" hi! i am from the organization for the well-being of over-worked parents. i would like to propose a license for verified parents with young children so that they can legally peruse so-called "child porn" (CP). There's nothing as efficient to getting those unruly brats to brush their teeth, eat the...
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[15:34:14] <exec> 08└─BREAKING NEWS ! Coming up after the break . . . how to keep someone glued to watching CNN.
[15:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:15] <exec> 08└─Do Trump hotels in Russia have free WiFi?
[15:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beavers Are Engineering a New Alaskan Tundra - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:44] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the link, I was passing this off as non-sense at first. You changed that for me. Now I may have to re-evaluate my taste for vanilla, raspberry and strawberry flavors... My favorite part of that article: Product ingredient lists often refer to it simply as a "natural flavoring."
[15:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:22] <exec> 08└─I remember a story my grad adviser told me about comparing the two. He said that his group wrote a program in C and Fortran to do the same thing. The C version compiled relatively quickly, but ran slowly. The Fortran version compiled slowly, but ran instantly, also, the executable was tiny. When the...
[15:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:05] <exec> 08└─Even the critics don't agree with you: Science Summit Denounces Gene-Edited Babies Claim, But Rejects Moratorium [npr.org] "Making changes in the DNA of embryos ... could allow parents who carry disease-causing mutations to have healthy, genetically related children," Baltimore said. "However, herit...
[15:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:41] <exec> 08└─Assuming we're the more intelligent species wouldn't be terribly wise. Neanderthal had larger brains and there's good indication they had domesticated animals long before homo sapiens did. Higher IQ scores among humans also mirror the larger percentages of neanderthal DNA regionally fairly precisely...
[15:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:42] <exec> 08└─Wait for a Gal Gadot sex tape. Her features are very much like those of a female neanderthal.
[15:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:44] <exec> 08└─Neanderthals confirmed hotter than homo sapiens. But this is the DeepFakes era, you don't need to wait for a sex tape.
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[16:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06How to Melt Gold at Room Temperature - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:11] <exec> 08└─when being bombarded by electron rays in a vacuum.
[16:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Melt Gold at Room Temperature - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:12] <exec> 08└─This is exactly what I was thinking, if the "room" happens to be 1,064°C gold will melt.
[16:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Melt Gold at Room Temperature - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe Grandma uses an induction pressure cooker... What's a coil or two between scientists and grannies?
[16:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Melt Gold at Room Temperature - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:17] <exec> 08└─Mercury also melts gold at room temperature.
[16:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Fraudsters Exploited My Angry Tweet' - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:28] <exec> 08└─He's a landlord. He doesn't need to think, just absorb his tenants' money like an idle blob.
[16:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:53] <exec> 08└─Great, but what are you going to do if someone downloads illegal things over your connection, and you are arrested or sued, your name and pictures pasted all over your local news?
[16:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:54] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be easier to just ban children?
[16:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:21] <exec> 08└─The 1983 exercise introduced several new elements not seen in previous years, including a new, unique format of coded communication, radio silences, and the participation of heads of government. This increase in realism, combined with deteriorating relations between the United States and the Soviet...
[16:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:22] <exec> 08└─On the night of September 26, 1983, the Soviet orbital missile early warning system (SPRN), code-named Oko, reported a single intercontinental ballistic missile launch from the territory of the United States.[29] Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov
[16:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:24] <exec> 08└─>There seems to be part of US media landscape voluntarily enslaving themselves. Are you sure it's voluntary enslavement? The vast bulk of U.S. media outlets, both national and local are owned by only a few major conglomerates. Get a few key executives or stockholders in those conglomerates on board...
[16:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:26] <exec> 08└─Nope. Didn't think so, and the response would likely be the same if they'd picked some random and much smaller city with absolutely no strategic value either.
[16:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:29] <exec> 08└─It isn't that anyone believes him. It's that nobody wants to do anything about it. Some would like to but don't have the ability, some have the ability but not the balls, some don't care, and some admire him.
[16:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:31] <exec> 08└─Anyway, you need some history lessons so please look into how the US got involved in WW2 Europe, WW2 vs Japan, Vietnam, Iraq part 1, Korea, and there's probably a few more following the exact pattern you are accusing Russia off. So now, the US has entered Afghanistan, Iraq again, Syria, Yemen, Lybia...
[16:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:33] <exec> 08└─Xi? /s https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:35] <exec> 08└─Ukraine? You mean the country where the current anti-Russia government took power in a coup backed by the US and EU, even though a large portion of the country's population was in favor of closer ties to Russia? And where those events put a hostile army right on Russia's border and in control of one...
[16:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:38] <exec> 08└─Hmm, apparently that doesn't involve the military. Other than a single base in Djibouti nvm
[16:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Global Drone Standards Have Been Revealed - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:07] <exec> 08└─And you are also wrong, building a gun is not particularly harder than building a drone - somewhat easier in fact I would say.
[16:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Global Drone Standards Have Been Revealed - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:08] <exec> 08└─I can fly anything that has an auto-level feature right now and hardly ever crash them. I can fly with out the leveler on and I have a 180 class quad I use for practicing that out in the real world. In the simulator I'm flying T-Rex 500 class collective pitch helis and can even some times do an upsi...
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[17:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:04] <exec> 08└─Can they refund the purchase? I think the vendors will quickly frown on this practice if they start to get their goods send back by a significant percentage.
[17:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:05] <exec> 08└─"Amazon reportedly told advertisers that around 60 percent were left in place." no shit, you suited whores. that's the percent that don't know they're there.
[17:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:07] <exec> 08└─All modern marketing is based on the idea of getting people to buy crap they don't need by showing advertising that tricks their brain into feeling good about it bypassing the logical purchasing decision. It sounds like Bezos found a way to optimize this: why invest a ton of work in a commercial? Th...
[17:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:10] <exec> 08└─While true that, scummy marketing tricks sell products. Scummy marketing tricks are also a good way to lose customers.
[17:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:12] <exec> 08└─When you "buy" a gift on a registry in France, you reserve the gift, but it's not really "bought" until the parents/newlyweds review the list afterwards, check what's not been taken, and potentially reassign the money towards things they need (or big items). It helps so you don't get 7 forks, 9 plat...
[17:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:14] <exec> 08└─and many other things I see on the internet and in real life, is why I never EVER buy anything that I see an advertisement for. I work my butt off to filter online ads, skip through TV ads, and ignore billboards whenever I see them. Whatever manages to get to my brain, I make a conscious and deliber...
[17:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:16] <exec> 08└─It became apparent to me that Amazon is a psychopath when they suggested a product for teen-age girls that uses a webcam to analyze their outfits, tells them how cool they were, and what Amazon products they can buy that helps make them even more cool.
[17:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:19] <exec> 08└─Apparently I've never heard of that product and would assume it would open one up to serious legal troubles. Unless, those pictures aren't actually going anywhere and are analyzed locally on their own machine. Then again, I have things called ethics and morals, which get in the way of "Great Busines...
[17:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:21] <exec> 08└─If you want to help out a new parent who isn't a relative or very very close friend, give them one of the following: 1. Money. 2. Babysitting help. 3. Food to mom's specifications. 4. Assistance pushing away people who are fawning over the baby but are just making things harder. If the new parent is...
[17:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:23] <exec> 08└─It's past time to add Amazon.com to the list of scam websites. No legitimate business does the stuff they do. Pure deception, the very definition of "scam." Why don't the browsers flag them? Oh that's right, because once you reach a certain size in sales figures, you are AUTOMATICALLY legitimate! Li...
[17:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How to Melt Gold at Room Temperature - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:38] <exec> 08└─Pressure cookers use pressure to increase attainable temperatures. These folks are using tension to cause melting *without* changing the temperature.
[17:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06How to Melt Gold at Room Temperature - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:40] <exec> 08└─That's dissolving, not melting. Completely unrelated processes. Unless you were talking about the planet - in which case we've already developed room-temperature superconductors for Pluto.
[17:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Melt Gold at Room Temperature - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:42] <exec> 08└─That is what they *think* they did. If they monitor the surface temperature while they repeat the experiment they will have another amazing revelation.
[17:34:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 799 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:06] <exec> 08└─I love how they so casually lump "illegal child porn" and "hard-core pornography" in one sentence. One is illegal, one has decades of court decisions saying it's not only legal but also is protected speech. This illustrates the actual agenda of these mouth-breathing hype beasts: banning a broad set...
[17:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:19] <exec> 08└─Best ban sex offenders and problem solved.
[17:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:20] <exec> 08└─I hope you're prepared for the potential consequences of your act of civil disobedience though -- which could easily include death of yourself or loved ones: https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] In that c...
[17:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:23] <exec> 08└─I, for one, will welcome full Wi-Fi ban at Starbucks in hope of making all these forever-hanging MacBook teenagers innovative designers go away so I can drink my latte sitting.
[17:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:25] <exec> 08└─"A petition from Enough Is Enough said that public Wi-Fi networks "are attracting pedophiles and sex offenders" and put children at risk." if this were true you should be glad that public wifi is making it so easy to catch these dangerous pervs. of course the police would have to do at least a small...
[17:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:27] <exec> 08└─Can I get a Cleveland Steamer with my Frothy Latté?
[17:35:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 248 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:04] <exec> 08└─On the night of September 26, 1983, the Soviet orbital missile early warning system (SPRN), code-named Oko, reported a single intercontinental ballistic missile launch from the territory of the United States.[29] Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov
[17:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:12] <exec> 08└─No, but they have free golden showers.
[17:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:15] <exec> 08└─FUCK. Then we've been very lucky! I bet the Soviets didn't communicate to NATO that colonel Petrov had just saved the world. I wonder how those participating NATO commanders reacted when they found out about Petrov, years later!
[17:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Army Awards Microsoft a $480 Million HoloLens Contract - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:57] <exec> 08└─This is right up there with forced funding of abortion and wars as a good example of why i don't pay income taxes.
[17:37:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 241 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:50] <exec> 08└─Chinese media is throwing him under the bus, and a Chinese official indicated that he might have broken the law. Maybe they are more mad about him doing it in secret than doing it at all. Or maybe the outrage is a show. Guess we'll find out.
[17:37:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 1167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:55] <exec> 08└─Children don't get to choose who their parents are, or how old their parents are when they conceive, etc. If they are dealt a genetic shit sandwich, they have to live with it. Newborns and young children with illnesses, genetic or not, also do not get to choose what kind of treatment they get or con...
[17:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:09] <exec> 08└─babies and children are the responsibility of the parents. parents need no approval from "society"(brainwashed slaves) or the parasites of the state.
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[18:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:41] <exec> 08└─No, you'll never be free of advertisements. There's too much money at stake for that to happen. I would also say, that you've gone nuts, if you're actually avoiding any product that's ever been advertised to you. When you get right down to it, a product label is an advertisement. The item has been a...
[18:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:43] <exec> 08└─As a relatively new parent. I can definitely say that Money is always a welcome gift. Assuming, you're dealing with people well off enough to not care about money, sure go the whole caring, gifting route. Otherwise, give them some cash. Option #2 If you want it to "be special" or whatever, give them...
[18:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:45] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Cash is always useful and is not tacky in any way. Don't let the "gift industry" brainwash you into believing you HAVE to buy one of their products! I would LOVE money for diapers or formula!
[18:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:47] <exec> 08└─They lost me already. I don't do business with amazon any more.
[18:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:49] <exec> 08└─I appreciated receiving diapers more than any of the other gifts.
[18:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:51] <exec> 08└─I'd buy the fancy organic one since most likely it doesn't have the massive number of preservatives and other artificial crap put into it.
[18:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Melt Gold at Room Temperature - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:08] <exec> 08└─The way I understood it, the skin effect" [wikipedia.org] is pressuring the electrons into the surface of the gold to the point the molecular bonds are breaking apart. At the quantum level the quarks are probably switching phases back and forth so quickly the atoms are going out of resonance with ea...
[18:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Fraudsters Exploited My Angry Tweet' - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:19] <exec> 08└─Could this idiot not have gone to the competition for his business account?
[18:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Fraudsters Exploited My Angry Tweet' - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:20] <exec> 08└─The bank that uses email as though it's a secure communications medium I have literally never had a bank do that. If you have, it's probably time to get a new bank.
[18:34:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:50] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be easier to just ban children?
[18:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but we're talking about Starbucks here. Is he at the Starbucks here, the one across the street, or the one that's inside the one across the street?
[18:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:00] <exec> 08└─Well we all think it's stupid but do we all drink that much Starbucks coffee? I'd wager that we're mostly better at math than that. So who does drink lot's of Starbucks: Pearl-clutching parents A bunch of customers asks Starbucks to install a filter and they comply. Since they're not an ISP or part...
[18:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:02] <exec> 08└─I'm curious if someone has registered the domain "childporn.org", but there's no way in hell I'm going to check.
[18:35:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 514 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:11] <exec> 08└─Putin is the new wargame. Just look at Georgia and then escalation to Crimea. Always deny, provoke and then claim "self defense". Now, they are blockading ports and claiming other side is "escalating". With Putin it's like the bully that keeps telling you "stop hitting yourself" while they punch you...
[18:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:36] <exec> 08└─but honestly perhaps the best reaction for the human race is to just let them nuke the whole country and do nothing. Does nuclear winter still set in if one side doesn't launch their nukes?
[18:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:38] <exec> 08└─Not everyone in the US believes all the propaganda. Especially now, with a pathological liar in the top spot. However, thanks to him, the art of critical thinking could become more fashionable. What's especially ridiculous is that even in wars in which the US was definitely a hero, it seems some sti...
[18:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:40] <exec> 08└─So if given the choice between "let a few thousand people die" and "basically end the human race", you'd go with the latter. I really hope our actual leaders don't share that sentiment.
[18:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:42] <exec> 08└─We can already see the same exact same news story scripts being recited in once-local TV News stations around the country, often almost word for word. Or in the case of Sinclair Media, literally word-for-word. Sinclair Forces Local TV Stations to Air Segment Defending Tear-Gassing Migrants [thedaily...
[18:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartwatches are Bringing Lab-Style Analysis to Our Wrists - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:41] <exec> 08└─Stick a bunch of useful health monitoring stuff in there though, and soon enough I'll never take it off. (provided it's either open source or has no radios)
[18:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beavers Are Engineering a New Alaskan Tundra - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:14] <exec> 08└─Self-cooking animals sound like a great opportunity for people to finally leave their parent's basements.
[18:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:39] <exec> 08└─"But vaccines generally go the other way, you're more or less required to give that procedure to your child -- because it's low risk with a huge benefit and we can't wait until the kid turns 18." NWO scum and their brainwashed minions would like you to believe that you are required to inject that li...
[18:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:40] <exec> 08└─he would just spy on you and pee in your cokes...
[18:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:21] <exec> 08└─Yep. Neanderthals had a big disadvantage in spear throwing due to a shoulder joint difference. They were also less social, showing DNA that tends to make people more autistic. They had more-cylindrical body shapes, possibly causing a heat exhaustion disadvantage in summer fights. They were probably...
[18:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:22] <exec> 08└─i would have exterminated that whole village. fuck those pieces of dog shit.
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[19:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:48] <exec> 08└─As soon as a few of them fail in a deadly fashion, the risk/cost/benefit analysis will change and it won't be worth it. Just hoping that those mercenaries don't endanger (or worse) the real firemen before that.
[19:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:49] <exec> 08└─Every year the Federal government lays off all their "forest technicians" (forest firefighters) and trains them how to go on unemployment. So basically they are getting paid by the government about the same amount to do nothing, when every year there are also a bunch of fires in California without e...
[19:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:51] <exec> 08└─I'll have you make a guess as to what will happen in the near future...
[19:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:53] <exec> 08└─...because any javascript dev can be a java dev as well, amirite?
[19:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:56] <exec> 08└─Sometimes they change jobs. Sometimes they just chose to work a second job instead of overtime. Sometimes they come from far away to help. It makes sense. The city fire department is government, and they don't have to care. The insurance company calculates the cost of paying for fireman and the cost...
[19:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:58] <exec> 08└─This is literally exactly their jobs. Some even work in the exact same areas during the summer.
[19:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:00] <exec> 08└─This is less about amateurs getting in the way and more about free market professionals doing the job the California government cannot. If you don't want a private company protecting your house from those fires, that's nice for you. But let's not rush to judge those people who want to save homes fro...
[19:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:02] <exec> 08└─My point is that those guys don't have the full equipment, communication, and backing of the firemen who are on the city/county/state payroll. They may have the skills, but I've seen the Woolsey fire and the Springs fire both go by (as in: I saw the flames running on the hills). Coordination is how...
[19:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:05] <exec> 08└─...because any javascript dev can be a java dev as well, amirite?
[19:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:07] <exec> 08└─My point is that those guys don't have the full equipment, communication, and backing of the firemen who are on the city/county/state payroll.
[19:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:09] <exec> 08└─I personally like having a government funded fire department, but I also like to have the freedom to replace them if they can't handle the job.
[19:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:11] <exec> 08└─Quit viewing them as a responsibility. Have them sign a waivers stating that they're on their own if something goes wrong. Problem solved. Cruel? Unprofessional? That's just your attitude. You're all taking essentially the same risk, it's just that they're willing to go the extra mile for their clie...
[19:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:14] <exec> 08└─They don't have planes or helicopters, because the fire area is a no-fly zone. They may have a shiny truck, pumps and gas masks, but they usually can't legally tap the fire hydrant, and the official firemen may need every drop from it. They can pump the pool, as long as they have electricity or gas....
[19:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:16] <exec> 08└─and now they have to deal with some other guys who've gotten in their way.
[19:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:18] <exec> 08└─They don't have planes
[19:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:45] <exec> 08└─I've seen a few studies showing that people are becoming less and less susceptible to traditional forms of advertising...here's one such report for example: https://www.forbes.com [forbes.com] First they had the traveling...
[19:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:47] <exec> 08└─So, WTF is a "Baby Registry"? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In real english it's called a "Wish List"??
[19:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:49] <exec> 08└─100% marketing success.
[19:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:51] <exec> 08└─Sounds like "My Little Camera" - less pony, more perv.
[19:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:06] <exec> 08└─Puritans can't meme.
[19:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:08] <exec> 08└─So someone starts looking at porn at Starbucks. What do we do? 1. Call the cops if he (or she?) whips it out and starts pleasuring themselves. 2. Call the cops if the individual is seen by other patrons or staff to be violating the law (by accessing child pornography, or some other offense such as s...
[19:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:10] <exec> 08└─That will not happen because he is an Anonymous Coward.
[19:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:12] <exec> 08└─Not even on your neighbor's WiFi?
[19:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:14] <exec> 08└─WTF is this 'Frothy Latté you speak of?
[19:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:16] <exec> 08└─other explicit material
[19:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:56] <exec> 08└─The video is unavailable
[19:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:57] <exec> 08└─You're right! All countries with a military ARE THE SAME! I am sure Iraq agrees with your brilliant logic!
[19:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:00] <exec> 08└─The video is unavailable Oh, sorry, better link: Watch: dozens of local TV anchors read the same anti-“false news” script in unison [vox.com]
[19:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartwatches are Bringing Lab-Style Analysis to Our Wrists - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:01] <exec> 08└─Wrist ? Look, to properly measure acceleration, heartbeat, temperature, and blood pressure, you shouldn't put it on a dumb bony wrist. Now I'm going back to writing my app that triggers an alarm when reaching specific thresholds. She asked for a buzzing alarm. Finally a killer app.
[19:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartwatches are Bringing Lab-Style Analysis to Our Wrists - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:03] <exec> 08└─Oh yes. People will remove them if they get accurate warnings. Jiminy Cricket is not a fan favorite.
[19:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:31] <exec> 08└─If you use 3, one is redundant.
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[20:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Sennheiser Discloses Monumental Blunder that Cripples HTTPS on PCs and Macs - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:18] <exec> 08└─Why is there anything to install?
[20:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Sennheiser Discloses Monumental Blunder that Cripples HTTPS on PCs and Macs - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:19] <exec> 08└─I bet Schneier ones have much better crypto.
[20:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sennheiser Discloses Monumental Blunder that Cripples HTTPS on PCs and Macs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:22] <exec> 08└─To allow Sennheiser headphones and speaker phones to work seamlessly with computers
[20:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sennheiser Discloses Monumental Blunder that Cripples HTTPS on PCs and Macs - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:24] <exec> 08└─This way we made our innocuous physical object to spy on you for our profit also allows nefarious individuals to spy on you for their profit. Our bad.
[20:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sennheiser Discloses Monumental Blunder that Cripples HTTPS on PCs and Macs - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:26] <exec> 08└─Apping the apps that app the app.
[20:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sennheiser Discloses Monumental Blunder that Cripples HTTPS on PCs and Macs - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:28] <exec> 08└─Fuck em, they deserve it.
[20:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:54] <exec> 08└─Pretty much this. The firefighters don't like to let a mansion burn. There's pride in saving buildings. There's even tax revenue in saving buildings. When those guys say "let this one burn, focus elsewhere", it's partially because they have limited manpower (one firefighter per house, nothing will b...
[20:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:56] <exec> 08└─Your article: > afford government agencies the flexibility to bring in additional resources only when needed. This is a more cost-effective solution. > Furthermore, the costs of training, insurance, benefits, gear and transportation costs are all borne by the contractor. You are conflating "private...
[20:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:58] <exec> 08└─Marcus Licinius Crassus, is that you rearing your ugly head again? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:00] <exec> 08└─Heh, I knew I wouldn't be disappointed. I knew the douches would crawl out of the woodwork to support letting people's houses burn rather than cutting into the livelihoods of employees of the state.
[20:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:03] <exec> 08└─Where did I conflate these two scenarios? You claimed they couldnt use aircraft around a fire because it was a no fly zone. The link says they can. It probably doesnt make any sense to deploy an aircraft to protect specific houses, but that has nothing to do with the ability to do so if they wanted....
[20:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 1236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:05] <exec> 08└─As I already said: I just saw the Woolsey fire go by, on top of the mountain in front of my house. I know people whose house burnt, and people whose houses were only spared because of firemen and luck. I even know people without fire insurance, whose house burnt. Gladly we only got a couple deaths,...
[20:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:07] <exec> 08└─Reading comprehension my main douchenozzle, reading comprehension. "As soon as a few of them fail in a deadly fashion, the risk/cost/benefit analysis will change and it won't be worth it." - Just a statement about how this industry may collapse, insurance companies won't want to continue using such...
[20:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:09] <exec> 08└─"when every year there are also a bunch of fires in California without enough firefighters." You seem to have missed the point. Those seasonal workers would be better put to use elsewhere in the country instead of going on unemployment. It wasn't quite the "git a job varmint!" post you seem to think...
[20:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:12] <exec> 08└─Yep, you still don't get it. Private companies contract with the state to fly firefighting aircraft for the firemen: They get to fly on the fire, dropping where the firefighters tell them to drop. Private companies contract with people/insurance to defend specific homes: They don't get to fly on the...
[20:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:14] <exec> 08└─This entire problem of coordinating with "firefighter command" is made up just like the rest of bob_super's arguments: WDS’s certification as an insurance response resource enables our engine crews to coordinate with Incident Command of an active wildfire event. As a certified wildfire resource we...
[20:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:16] <exec> 08└─I thought about replying seriously to you, but if you are unable to make sense of this rather simple thread then you've got bigger problems anyway.
[20:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:18] <exec> 08└─Now you finally can! http://tangramgames.dk [tangramgames.dk] GPL, CC BY-SA
[20:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:21] <exec> 08└─This is the very sort of thing that shows humanity's penchant for drama and heroism. And stupidity. Save the homes from the wildfires! Give homage to those brave, brave firefighters! Pity those poor wretches who lost their homes. Not to slang firefighters, but we could be smarter about this stuff. W...
[20:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:23] <exec> 08└─A great portion of the homes lost in the wildfires were due to lack of foresight and failure of maintenance. Whether the landscape control and clean up was the responsibility of the resident, the landlord, the county, the state, or the Feds varies greatly depending on the area, but there was a huge...
[20:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:25] <exec> 08└─How did I miss the point of my own post? That info comes from my friend who does this job. He was literally laid off in california wishing he could help fight the fires. The government simply does not want to fund a proper firefighting force (for whatever government reasons), they prefer to let the...
[20:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:27] <exec> 08└─I've heard the safest place to live in terms of natural disasters is actually south africa. But the point is that anywhere you go there will be something that can threaten your home (tornado, hurricanes, wildfire, flooding, earthquake, etc).
[20:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:30] <exec> 08└─I understand the thread perfectly fine. Bob_super claims these private firefighting agencies could not use firefighting aircraft (which they do have access to) if they wanted to because it requires "coordinating with the firefighting command", as if that is some insurmountable task. The actual reaso...
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[20:34:32] <exec> 08└─How is California responsible for the federal forestry service not maintaining national forest areas due to claims of lack of funds ? Some of the areas in question were indeed state parks but the greatest portion of the areas were federal and private lands that should have been kept up by residents...
[20:34:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 652 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:45] <exec> 08└─When you "buy" a gift on a registry in France, you reserve the gift, but it's not really "bought" until the parents/newlyweds review the list afterwards, check what's not been taken, and potentially reassign the money towards things they need (or big items). It helps so you don't get 7 forks, 9 plat...
[20:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:02] <exec> 08└─All Amazon employees are short term, I don't mean the company is going to fail (immediately) but if company policy is to make sure very few people survive past three years of employment, well, most decisions made are not going to care about post three year effects, probably leading eventually to the...
[20:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:04] <exec> 08└─From what I understand that product is "outfit compare" and it doesn't sell stuff. Merely an A/B testing "hot or not" which supposedly is not public. Honestly I think its more a demo for Mechanical Turk than a real feature. Its funny that every mass media story including actual footage of the produc...
[20:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:06] <exec> 08└─At that point, why not just stick a $20 in the card and skip the middleman? Oh yeah, cashless society means profitable middlemen, etc.
[20:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:08] <exec> 08└─No, you'll never be free of advertisements.
[20:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's essentially that, but with the appearance of having chosen a gift out of the registry. I haven't looked at trends, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that later marriages and modern consumption patterns are badly hurting the whole wedding registry industry. Baby shower registries probab...
[20:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:12] <exec> 08└─Food to mom's specifications.
[20:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:15] <exec> 08└─Also: Clothes for 12+ months ... Everyone wants to give the cute newborn outfts, which will be used once, maybe twice. But what really hurts the wallet, if you don't have enough hand-me-downs, is dressing them up after 6 months. Expensive as hell, still short lifespan. Tell your friends those clothe...
[20:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:17] <exec> 08└─I've been using Netflix for quite some time. While their streaming lineup may or may not be as extensive as with Amazon Prime, I've experienced 0 advertisements. Unless you count those auto-playing video previews. Which is at least just trying to catch your attention for movies / shows that are avai...
[20:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Fraudsters Exploited My Angry Tweet' - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:46] <exec> 08└─My guess is the bank doesn't use email as a communication method outside of "you have a message waiting for you, please log in to our website to retrieve it", like pretty much every other bank on earth, and especially big ones.
[20:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:33] <exec> 08└─Your list is pretty much a list of white privilege, so I suspect suppression of those features might have a goal other than 'saving children'. I don't think we have to worry about non-white areas being tagged as "attracting pedophiles and sex offenders" for racial/political reasons. "Refugees Welcom...
[20:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Improbus [6425] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:34] <exec> 08└─Are they going to block VPNs? If your traffic is encrypted how will they filter it out?
[20:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:36] <exec> 08└─In my #3 scenario, nobody sees/notices the activity. If you sit quietly in the corner and don't drop your trousers, you aren't going to be noticed by other customers (or Wi-Fi leechers), Starbucks staff, or even the security cameras which probably won't be aimed in that direction. You'd only be noti...
[20:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:38] <exec> 08└─Oh, shut the fuck up. You can't make everything political and a jab at the left you raving fucking loon. I'm sure that plenty of pearl-clutching mothers decrying the un-Christian behavior are also Republicans.
[20:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:22] <exec> 08└─make me Ambassador Plenipotentiary
[20:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'SpongeBob SquarePants' Creator Stephen Hillenburg Dies at 57 - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:34] <exec> 08└─He created something that people like, does that make him a "visionary creator"? Or a good artist that got a lucky break?
[20:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'SpongeBob SquarePants' Creator Stephen Hillenburg Dies at 57 - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:35] <exec> 08└─I really like Spongebob Squarepants. I would watch it with my little relatives 20 years ago and laugh hysterically. The cartoon physics in that show were simply amazing. Fire under water, beaches under water (that's possible), krabby patties frying on a fryer under water, etc. The main villain was a...
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[20:37:38] <exec> 08└─Depends on how you interpret it. vi·sion·ar·y (vĭzh′ə-nĕr′ē) adj. 1. Characterized by vision or foresight. 2. a. Having the nature of fantasies or dreams; illusory. b. Existing in imagination only; imaginary. 3. a. Characterized by or given to apparitions, prophecies, or revelations. b. G...
[20:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Beavers Are Engineering a New Alaskan Tundra - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:03] <exec> 08└─Truth is stranger than fiction. annual industry consumption is very low, around 300 pounds
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[21:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sennheiser Discloses Monumental Blunder that Cripples HTTPS on PCs and Macs - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:03] <exec> 08└─All of my headphones have seams. I'm the only kid on the block with seamed headphones. The shame! Not even my pumped up kicks makes up for the seams. -signed Foster
[21:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sennheiser Discloses Monumental Blunder that Cripples HTTPS on PCs and Macs - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:05] <exec> 08└─You really, really don't want to lock an admin user out of modifying the root certificate store. The day you do that is the day we truly lose control of our computers. And if users can do it, code admin users run (like this exceptionally silly installer) can do it. But, why the websocket? Loading a...
[21:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:48] <exec> 08└─True, but in the Midwest almost every home has a basement to be used as a tornado refuge. In these fire prone areas wouldn't having a huge fire-proof tarp to throw over the house or strategicly placed swim pool or decorative pond (on direction flames would come from) be a wise investment?
[21:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:50] <exec> 08└─Don't join them in assholery.
[21:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:28] <exec> 08└─later marriages
[21:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:29] <exec> 08└─My wife has gone to several baby / kids clothing sales. Nothing like quality clothes at Wal-Mart or cheaper prices. Don't be so bent on buying new.
[21:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:31] <exec> 08└─Good point. I was fortunate enough to have three boys so all of their cloths were interchangeable, although in this glorious modern age we live in you could use boys cloths for girls. Right now though most of the handmedowns I have for the baby are full of holes because of our collie puppy, but they...
[21:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:33] <exec> 08└─auto-playing video
[21:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:36] <exec> 08└─I found baby registry useful. Though I suppose wife could have just bought the items as fast as adding them to registry.
[21:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:38] <exec> 08└─Short term employees are problematic, but I was talking about losing customers for life (and the life of their children) for a quick additional profit. "We don't trust Amazon because they tried to take advantage of our child's birth" is not something that is easily forgotten, and is something they w...
[21:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:40] <exec> 08└─Oh that's right, because once you reach a certain size in sales figures, you are AUTOMATICALLY legitimate!
[21:34:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06How to Melt Gold at Room Temperature - 541 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:57] <exec> 08└─The way I understood it, the skin effect" [wikipedia.org] is pressuring the electrons into the surface of the gold to the point the molecular bonds are breaking apart. At the quantum level the quarks are probably switching phases back and forth so quickly the atoms are going out of resonance with ea...
[21:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Melt Gold at Room Temperature - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:58] <exec> 08└─If I remember correctly, Crooke’s tubes were known in the 19th century to heat, melt, and warp their metal targets. So should the headline be, “guy learns about how electron beams work”?
[21:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Fraudsters Exploited My Angry Tweet' - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe a little off-topic, but banks, insurance agencies & carriers, and other big outfits often do treat email as a secure communications medium. Some of them have got better in the last 5 years, moving towards internal messaging systems with message waiting indicators sent via email. Big banks are...
[21:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 2234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:02] <exec> 08└─Still doing it. I don't give a flat fuck either. Nobody is going to tell me I cannot offer hospitality, and that is what offering wireless Internet IS. Being hospitable to your guests, and even random strangers. That does NOT mean you have to give them unfettered access. My guest network is isolated...
[21:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:03] <exec> 08└─You tell the truth that it was a guest that used it. Since everybody reading the local news most likely does the same thing in their house, I expect most people will believe it's bullshit. There is big difference between "illegal downloads at that location", and "police found 50,000 CP pictures on m...
[21:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:05] <exec> 08└─You channeled my grandfather perfectly :)
[21:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Global Drone Standards Have Been Revealed - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:18] <exec> 08└─Are you perhaps trying to point out how stupid such laws are because anyone wilfully criminal will just build a drone anyway
[21:38:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Beavers Are Engineering a New Alaskan Tundra - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:16] <exec> 08└─Beaver anal glands taste like raspberry. When you see 'natural flavor' on something that tastes like raspberry thats what it means.
[21:38:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03schad [2398] 02 - 06Beavers Are Engineering a New Alaskan Tundra - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:18] <exec> 08└─Wow. Apparently this is true. [wikipedia.org]
[21:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beavers Are Engineering a New Alaskan Tundra - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:25] <exec> 08└─Yuck! I feel physically sick. I've always thought it's outrageous food manufacturers are allowed to just print "natural flavoring" and that qualifies as an ingredient on the label. It's obvious pandering to the flavoring companies at the expense of consumer information and dietary choice. As this ex...
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[22:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Will Investigate Video Game "Loot Boxes" - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:11] <exec> 08└─They pay real money to buy virtual items. They program using Ruby on Rails. They have several dozen genders. They dye their hair pink and have tattoos like sideshow freaks. How much longer do we have to wait until a less ridiculous generation emerges?
[22:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Will Investigate Video Game "Loot Boxes" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:12] <exec> 08└─How much longer do we have to wait until a less ridiculous generation emerges?
[22:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Will Investigate Video Game "Loot Boxes" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:15] <exec> 08└─One can only hope that "loot boxes" will be regulated as gambling.
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[22:33:17] <exec> 08└─Thankfully less stupid than the previous generations. "You're gay/black/brown get curb stomped!" "Environmental regulations? Pfffft." "Who needs to plan for the future, buncha hippy talk!" "Racism stopped after the Civil War!" "Muh cheeto bandeeto" Yeah, uh huh, millenials are the most ridiculous. B...
[22:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sennheiser Discloses Monumental Blunder that Cripples HTTPS on PCs and Macs - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:35] <exec> 08└─To allow Sennheiser headphones and speaker phones to work seamlessly with computers, HeadSetup establishes an encrypted Websocket with a browser.
[22:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Sennheiser Discloses Monumental Blunder that Cripples HTTPS on PCs and Macs - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:36] <exec> 08└─These "value-add software" guys in hardware companies get paid extremely little, because... well, the software itself isn't what they are selling, so corporate treats those teams like garbage. There is no training budget for people on teams like this and it's often unpaid/low-paid interns doing the...
[22:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sennheiser Discloses Monumental Blunder that Cripples HTTPS on PCs and Macs - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:39] <exec> 08└─Sennheiser means "without schneier" in german. That's the problem right there.
[22:34:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 689 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:02] <exec> 08└─They don't have planes or helicopters, because the fire area is a no-fly zone. They may have a shiny truck, pumps and gas masks, but they usually can't legally tap the fire hydrant, and the official firemen may need every drop from it. They can pump the pool, as long as they have electricity or gas....
[22:34:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 764 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:06] <exec> 08└─Your article: > afford government agencies the flexibility to bring in additional resources only when needed. This is a more cost-effective solution. > Furthermore, the costs of training, insurance, benefits, gear and transportation costs are all borne by the contractor. You are conflating "private...
[22:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:26] <exec> 08└─How did I miss the point of my own post?
[22:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:27] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. There are legal implications to taking your private craft to a firefighting zone. Unless you are explicitly contracted and certified for it, you're a liability, to the guys in the air and on the ground, and a lawsuit waiting to happen. My neighbor is becoming a fire department helicopter p...
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[22:34:29] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. There are legal implications to taking your private craft to a firefighting zone. Unless you are explicitly contracted and certified for it, you're a liability, to the guys in the air and on the ground, and a lawsuit waiting to happen. My neighbor is becoming a fire department helicopter p...
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[22:34:32] <exec> 08└─You are fundamentally right. Everybody knows the natural disaster prone areas. The same fucking disasters keep happening in the region since forever--some years granted are worse than others, but it's a well-known risk. Little sympathy on the property loss. It just is, and was likely to happen in an...
[22:34:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 774 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:46] <exec> 08└─and many other things I see on the internet and in real life, is why I never EVER buy anything that I see an advertisement for. I work my butt off to filter online ads, skip through TV ads, and ignore billboards whenever I see them. Whatever manages to get to my brain, I make a conscious and deliber...
[22:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:17] <exec> 08└─I know you're a bit of a right wing nutcase but please at least don't emulate Pence and start calling your wife "mom" or "mother" when not talking to your kids!
[22:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:19] <exec> 08└─I canceled my subscription over that auto-play issue. Netflix didn't listen to the hordes of complaints about it and just said "fuck you guys our metrics show its fine". At the least they could have added an option to disable the auto play but noooooo. The other factor was their content line up. I f...
[22:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:21] <exec> 08└─Just a long-con by the deep state so that when they tell new parents they are registering their baby the dupes will think they're getting gifts!
[22:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:23] <exec> 08└─Region controls aren't necessarily something they have control over.
[22:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:25] <exec> 08└─Can you spot the ad? [qz.com]
[22:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Fraudsters Exploited My Angry Tweet' - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:01] <exec> 08└─Seems to me the problem here isn't social media, but rather some idiot thinking it's a good idea to post personally identifiable info online. If he wouldn't post his tax papers or whatnot up in his town hall bulletin board, why on earth would he post uncensored bank documents online?
[22:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Baroness Trumpington, Former Bletchley Park Clerk, Dies Aged 96 - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:11] <exec> 08└─Guy helped in a very real way the allied powers to win the world war 2 and what was his reward? Castration. For being a faggot while cracking codes. Turing died 2 years later.
[22:36:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 777 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:39] <exec> 08└─I hope you're prepared for the potential consequences of your act of civil disobedience though -- which could easily include death of yourself or loved ones: https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] In that c...
[22:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:01] <exec> 08└─Believe me. Starbucks is not nearly as bad as visiting Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. I much prefer Epcot instead. Magic Kingdom has children roaming the streets in packs -- without leashes or muzzles! Even the Starbucks in the Magic Kingdom (on Main Street USA) has children in line with their...
[22:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:02] <exec> 08└─...but do we all drink that much Starbucks coffee?
[22:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:04] <exec> 08└─I was thinking that if someone has so little self control (and self respect) that they must to be able to watch pr0n at any moment of the day, maybe they should treat themselves to some VR glasses for the sake of others nearby. But then I'm sure Enough is Enough would have some objections to this.
[22:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:07] <exec> 08└─Especially if you VPN over HTTPS. How will they even know it is a VPN?
[22:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:09] <exec> 08└─I'd love to see the above taking off as a meme.
[22:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:11] <exec> 08└─Too kinky, you wouldn't be able to read it in a Starbucks, I reckon. (grin)
[22:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:13] <exec> 08└─That was my point. Starbucks doesn't care about the opinions of people who don't buy Starbucks.
[22:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:56] <exec> 08└─Get this man a cup of covfefe.
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[23:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:39] <exec> 08└─Earth may experience a "mini ice age"
[23:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:41] <exec> 08└─our air pollution will help offset the Sun's diminished luminosity and we'll have more time to fix up our planet before the Sun returns to full strength. I doubt the Sun's minimum will last long enough, but the irony would be pretty sweet if our fuckup actually saves us. I will gladly admit that AGW...
[23:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:43] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, winter is not found in any European art until the 1400s [wikipedia.org]. This coincides approximately with the beginning of the so-called Little Ice Age [wikipedia.org].
[23:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:45] <exec> 08└─Well since getting relief depends highly on the color of your skin I'd say "who the fuck cares we've got bigger problems". The economy would also be doing quite well with a transition to alternative energy sources, your conception is just a bunch of bales stacked up in a humanoid shape.
[23:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:47] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, Trump's inept policies of raising tariffs and allowing fracking for natural gas have inadvertently reduced coal mining and international shipping. This has been reducing CO2 emissions. If the trend continues, CO2 could drop to levels that may not provide sufficient protection against...
[23:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:50] <exec> 08└─Looks like an ENSO aka el nino thing will develop this winter, probably doesn't help with stuff being messed up http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov [noaa.gov] Oscillation on top of oscillation on top of oscillation, all adds together,...
[23:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:52] <exec> 08└─Moron. That's because white paint was only invented in 1406.
[23:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:54] <exec> 08└─Seems a little racist to claim there's no successful black countries or economies, but its your post, not mine. The economy is always in natural transition, its the central controllers and social engineers and do gooders who usually mess stuff up. I like solar, I just don't like Solyndra Inc, for ex...
[23:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:56] <exec> 08└─It's not winter until almost a month from now. Not even the start of it.
[23:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:58] <exec> 08└─It has nothing to do with skin color. Texas's economic footing means that while they may receive aid, they don't actually require any.
[23:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:01] <exec> 08└─Source? I see plenty of white paint used before that. Then wikipedia pissed me off so much with all its javascript, so I stopped for now and installed noscript. Here is an example with white paint from 12th century: http://www.webexhibits.org [webexhibits.org]
[23:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:03] <exec> 08└─What the heck are you talking about? Everybody around knows Christmas is a summer holiday, fire up that barbie and don't forget the sunscreen. Cold beer is a proper way to stay hydrated in temperatures over 42C. (point: different grow will have different start of winter)
[23:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2, Flamebait) 02 - 06It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:05] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, please go on you psychotic stupid fuck. What's likely to be the fourth hottest year on record of all time [noaa.gov] is the true evidence that the thing you idiots made up about people saying in a non-particular past is real. Sure your source here might be a paid-off nitwit doing the same "...
[23:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:07] <exec> 08└─Historical facts disagree, but whatever, I'm not going to argue reality with the resident SN blowhard.
[23:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:10] <exec> 08└─All time? OH NO. So it was hotter than when Earth was formed? Or when planet X smashed into proto Earth making the Moon? OUCH how the fuck did we survive?
[23:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:12] <exec> 08└─Are you familiar with the himmicans vs hurricanes issue? If those storms had female names it would have been far worse for everyone: http://www.pnas.org [pnas.org]
[23:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06InSight Mars Landing Successful; MarCO Sends Pics - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:23] <exec> 08└─Can they at least land one at the poles so we can see something besides a depressing endless expanse of rocks? Actually how about land near that area where there is a mountain that looks like a pyramid and hill that looks like a sphinx face? Not every mission needs to be like that but you would thin...
[23:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06InSight Mars Landing Successful; MarCO Sends Pics - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:26] <exec> 08└─NASA will drill into the underground lake near the Martian south pole sometime before the year 2100.
[23:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06InSight Mars Landing Successful; MarCO Sends Pics - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:28] <exec> 08└─So that was a terrifying InSight?
[23:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06InSight Mars Landing Successful; MarCO Sends Pics - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:30] <exec> 08└─Can they at least land one at the poles so we can see something besides a depressing endless expanse of rocks?
[23:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Will Investigate Video Game "Loot Boxes" - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:45] <exec> 08└─They have several dozen genders.
[23:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Will Investigate Video Game "Loot Boxes" - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:47] <exec> 08└─All those things you listed were addressed by the much hated baby boom generation. It takes more than a single generation to change.
[23:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Will Investigate Video Game "Loot Boxes" - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:49] <exec> 08└─Every generation has had its dumpster fires, its just recently we've been celebrating, encouraging, and generally giving them more visibility. It is somewhat despicable behavior in that in the old days baiting the class misfit or degenerate to encourage them to make more of a fool out of themselves...
[23:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Will Investigate Video Game "Loot Boxes" - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:51] <exec> 08└─Monetizers gotta monetize; the assumption is whatever replaces loot boxes will be better than the status quo; I donno about that, not too optimistic. My guess is short term we're looking at something like the 80s video game crash being repeated. Indie already overproduced and crashed / is crashing,...
[23:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Will Investigate Video Game "Loot Boxes" - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:53] <exec> 08└─The only technical distinction I've heard distinguishing loot boxes from gambling is that the virtual reward you receive isn't technically cash (a specious distinction, the rewards have value or you wouldn't gamble for them).
[23:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Will Investigate Video Game "Loot Boxes" - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:55] <exec> 08└─The Federal Reserve has analyzed the situation: it's because they're so poor.
[23:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Will Investigate Video Game "Loot Boxes" - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:58] <exec> 08└─As evidenced by the current state of the US the "normal people" are the real freaks. Little independent thought and lots of stupidity. The "dumpster fire of a person" is more often than not the popular crowd engaging in class persecution and other sociopath behaviors. I guess that sums you up, "they...
[23:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Will Investigate Video Game "Loot Boxes" - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:00] <exec> 08└─Independent doesn't mean bad, it's just there's a lot of junk that rolls in as well. Some of the best games ever produced are indie games or were produced by small studios. AAA studios weren't always AAA studios and I would say some have definitely downgraded in quality, if indeed AAA stands for qua...
[23:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Sennheiser Discloses Monumental Blunder that Cripples HTTPS on PCs and Macs - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:21] <exec> 08└─Guess what is even cheaper? Not buying all that crap in the first place. I stopped buying anything that had bluetooth in it, or for some inane reason, demanded being configured by a smart phone app just because. Especially, when they're fucking headphones. Anything that demands a persistent connecti...
[23:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:14] <exec> 08└─> A great portion of the homes lost in the wildfires were due to lack of foresight and failure of maintenance. Tell that to the people who lost a house in the middle of an urban area, after the fire jumped a 10-lane highway. At this wind speeds, the only foresight applicable is "don't live anywhere...
[23:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:16] <exec> 08└─Can you understand the fucking comment you quote ? If you're not under contract with the fire agencies, it doesn't matter how good you are, you ain't flying. You're a liability, even if you can single-handedly stop the fire with an auto-gyro. The agency contract checks your qualifications, and deals...
[23:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:18] <exec> 08└─There's even tax revenue in saving buildings.
[23:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:20] <exec> 08└─But more than a heap of ash ... - Save it ! But less than the mansion that will replace it if it burns down - Abandon it ! But it could take a few years before that's built, offsetting the gain - ... Err, what do I do, chief ?
[23:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Californians Hire Private Fire Crews to Save Their Homes. Regular Firefighters Aren't Happy - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:22] <exec> 08└─I think you have no clue what the Paradise fire was like. No one was trying to save structures. The fire was so intense and moved so quickly that saving structures simply wasn't an option. These fires are not extinguished by any firefighters. What the firefighters do is limit the fire and allow it t...
[23:36:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 1253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:53] <exec> 08└─I've seen a few studies showing that people are becoming less and less susceptible to traditional forms of advertising...here's one such report for example: https://www.forbes.com [forbes.com] First they had the traveling...
[23:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon is Inserting Sponsored Products Into Baby Registries - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:17] <exec> 08└─Research shows: millennials are just like every other generation - except that they're significantly less wealthy.
[23:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Melt Gold at Room Temperature - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:39] <exec> 08└─30Kev is about 350million K.
[23:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Melt Gold at Room Temperature - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:40] <exec> 08└─Tell that to Momba (the Wicked Witch of the West).
[23:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Baroness Trumpington, Former Bletchley Park Clerk, Dies Aged 96 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:09] <exec> 08└─Did she have grey hair or orange? Small hands...smelled like cabbage.
[23:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:04] <exec> 08└─They could simply download it, or even torrent the porn (accessing a torrent site rather than a porn site) for later use. I wonder if the Starcocks filter will stop them from doing that? Something something tragedy of the commons.
[23:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:06] <exec> 08└─It becomes Somebody Else's Problem, like it was in the beginning before they started catching flak from "Enuff is Enuff".
[23:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:08] <exec> 08└─Ahh, I see now (I needed that espresso. One at the kiosk in the train station, while waiting for my ride. Is good to live in Melbourne [cnn.com], you'll be... ummm... hard pressed [sbs.com.au] to find a mediocre coffee). Starbucks doesn't care about the opinions of people who don't buy Starbucks.
[23:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:10] <exec> 08└─Fuck off with that SJW bullshit.
[23:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 1974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:57] <exec> 08└─Not sure where you missed the sarcasm in that, but I was saying it doesn't matter whether it was Moscow/DC, Kiev/San Francisco, two random cities of no import, or even a region of desert/tundra with near zero population; Reagan would have retaliated in kind, or his hawks would have forced him to, an...
[23:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The War Game That Could Have Ended the World - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:59] <exec> 08└─Peaceful Iraq, a country that hadn't invaded a country since anyone could remember? Not in a state of continued post-war hostility? Yep, they are JUST LIKE UKRAINE, and US is JUST LIKE RUSSIA. Look, if you want to play tit for tat, you're going to run out of "good examples" of American belligerence...
[23:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'SpongeBob SquarePants' Creator Stephen Hillenburg Dies at 57 - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:13] <exec> 08└─Luck is seeing an opportunity and taking it. Not everyone can take advantage of all opportunities. Sour grapes is seeing someone succeed and bitching about it on the internet.
[23:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:28] <exec> 08└─I believe Intel and possibly IBM are still maintaining and even developing Fortran compilers, optimizing for the latest architectures, etc. Not sure how much they charge for these bits of software these days, but if you're inputting jobs into the Top 500 list machines, you can afford whatever it is.
[23:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:29] <exec> 08└─In most applications, there's more to be gained by optimizing the application code flow than there is tweaking around with language choices. As you imply: people who know how to write fast Fortran can write faster code in Fortran, same for C / C++ / whatever. Main thing I took away from my time with...
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