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[00:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:37] <exec> 08└─are those grey shadows that show up in heavy rain/fog. Guess what dipshit? Only half of your headlights are for you to see what's in front of you. The other half? So I can see your hidden ass in thick fog and/or rain. When in doubt turn your fucking headlights on and quit thinking of the $0.12 it wi...
[00:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:38] <exec> 08└─I've had enough of being blinded by poorly adjusted HID headlights. They are NOT BETTER, they are a hazard to oncoming drivers !!!!!! Fuck all the engineers who thought that brighter lights were a good idea. May they all die a painful death from some horrible disease. And if you disagree with what I...
[00:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:40] <exec> 08└─Been thinking along this route for a long time. Just wasn't sure how to pull it off, safely. ....and yes, some of us DO want it brighter.. Melt the plastic bumpers off incoming cars bright.
[00:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:43] <exec> 08└─I don't need to be blinded, literally, by oncoming headlights. Go back to making sushi and Godzilla movies.
[00:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:45] <exec> 08└─Lasers are not the answer. I have to drive through areas where there are deer that run out in the middle of traffic. You need to turn your bright lights to see the suckers at the edge of the road. Problem comes when someone is coming from the other direction, and you have to turn the brights off to...
[00:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:47] <exec> 08└─Those idiots that put brighter white or blue bulbs in are doing the opposite of what the Europeans already figured out. Put in a yellow bulb that's DOT approved and you'll see the road better, and yellow cuts through fog better.
[00:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:49] <exec> 08└─There is some possibility that those lights aren't exactly "too bright". Often enough, I see them poorly aimed, into the eyes of oncoming drivers. If the damned idiots took the time, or paid a mechanic to adjust the lights properly, life would be better for all of us. Of course, even with all the he...
[00:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:52] <exec> 08└─Dumbass, the laser solves your problem by vaporizing the deer.
[00:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:54] <exec> 08└─Too many people think like you do. So, uhhh, what is your response when the oncoming driver is blinded, and drives right into your dumb ass? What are you going to have to say to him, while you're standing around, waiting for St. Peter to open up in the morning?
[00:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:56] <exec> 08└─do not stare into laser beam with remaining eye.
[00:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oh, SSH, IT Please see this: Malicious Servers can fsck with your PC's Files During scp Slurps - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:06] <exec> 08└─Oh, SSH, IT Please see This: Malicious Servers can Fsck With Your PC's Files During scp Slurps
[00:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:14] <exec> 08└─Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
[00:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:16] <exec> 08└─The problem I have with GMO's is the thinking behind it and others: Lets fuck with food for profit. Lets fuck with the environment for profit. If we kill a few people, it's okay because lawsuits are cheap, we won't probably go to jail and look at the profit! We don't even need to think about consequ...
[00:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:18] <exec> 08└─And don't get me started on vegan millennials...
[00:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:20] <exec> 08└─The Dunning-Kruger effect is sneaky and affects literally everyone, without exception.
[00:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:22] <exec> 08└─Certainly he knew more than some nervous Nellie who "had a bad feeling" about it.
[00:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:25] <exec> 08└─While we wait for his elucidation, how about a nice film? Fail Safe [wikipedia.org]
[00:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:47] <exec> 08└─Feds *can* force you to unlock your iphone with finger or face. For example, FBI Man can cut off your finger, use it to unlock phone, and then say it fell off while you were resisting arrest.
[00:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:54] <exec> 08└─According to SCMP, a similar biosphere experiment will be conducted on Earth for comparison.
[00:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:56] <exec> 08└─That being, those who will fall under the powerful delusion(Energeian Planes) have already "refused the love of the truth that would save them."
[00:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:58] <exec> 08└─I understand the disappointment in the plant experiment. If they mixed in some percentage of Lunar soil even, it would have more meaning. We know plants can grow with reduced gravity and weird sunlight schedules already. One of the Tom Swift Jr. books (written in the 50's and 60's) had Tom launching...
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[01:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:33] <exec> 08└─Visualize subject.
[01:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:35] <exec> 08└─Editors removed the more accurate title: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[01:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:37] <exec> 08└─http://www.humorpower.com/art-rulethree.html [humorpower.com]
[01:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:57] <exec> 08└─BRIGHTER THAN THE NEW AMERICAN DRIVERS WHO LEAVE THEM IN THE "BLIND ONCOMING CARS" SETTING. "HIGH BEAMS" for those of us who remember that you DON'T USE THEM IN TRAFFIC.
[01:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:58] <exec> 08└─I agree with both of your points, however, there are many hills and curves where I live. No amount of properly aiming a fixed pattern will stop the insanely bright headlight from hitting me directly in the eyes frequently. I don't understand how we're all safer when drivers are being blinded.
[01:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:00] <exec> 08└─Enough said.
[01:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:03] <exec> 08└─Easy solution, vote blue.
[01:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:05] <exec> 08└─Do headlights need to be brighter?
[01:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:07] <exec> 08└─There is a slight chance that older car drivers will add brighter lights to compensate living in a brighter world, and make comments about your family. But you are one of those dim americans who need it bigger, brighter, faster.
[01:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oh, SSH, IT Please see this: Malicious Servers can fsck with your PC's Files During scp Slurps - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:18] <exec> 08└─I think a friend (who was developing in the penumbra of ssh) showed me this vulnerability ~10 years ago. By him controlling the server, my client had unwanted files written to my disk when I used scp. I had always wanted to ask him when he was going to report it, but I guess he never did.
[01:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oh, SSH, IT Please see this: Malicious Servers can fsck with your PC's Files During scp Slurps - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:20] <exec> 08└─This is El-Reg. Fscking up headlines is their specialty.
[01:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VR Gets Reality Check with Significant Decline in Investment - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:36] <exec> 08└─Porn!
[01:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VR Gets Reality Check with Significant Decline in Investment - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:38] <exec> 08└─I haven't looked for it but I vaguely recall that such is already available.
[01:34:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:49] <exec> 08└─"Those who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." (In truth, the more educated I've become the more I realize how little I know.)
[01:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:37] <exec> 08└─My opposition to GMOs has nothing to do with genetics, or even science for that matter. It has everything to do with my strong position against industrial agriculture, and the idea that a handfull of mega multinational corporations want to possess absolute control over food production for the entire...
[01:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:39] <exec> 08└─PETA is a bunch of wackos too, seriously dangerous ones. I worked in a very visible animal research lab that was "hiding in plain sight" in the middle of a major metro area. Everyone involved exercised a great deal of discretion because: A) the lab did important work that helped a lot of people, B)...
[01:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:41] <exec> 08└─Well, given that nobody knows everything
[01:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:43] <exec> 08└─Stick hand out. Put on keyboard. Push down. You just found it. Your are welcome.
[01:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:05] <exec> 08└─No, Technology is ignoring the law. And the companies predominantly responsible for that, are being abetted by the judiciary. Eventually somebody is going to show up who can articulate this problem in a way that resonates. When that happens it will be a good day to invest in cleaning materials.
[01:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Billion-Dollar Question: What Was Really Behind Qualcomm's Surprise Ten-Digit Gift to Apple? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:23] <exec> 08└─how likely is Apple to be influenced by a bribe that is 1/243th (or only 0.4%) of their cash pile?
[01:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 1752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:18] <exec> 08└─I appreciate your comments. I forgot to repeat another meaning of Energeian Planes: Operation (or working) of Wandering. Planes comes from the same root as planet(aka wandering star). I do not see reality as a delusion; the delusion is enabled by God by virtue of the physical laws that betray no sup...
[01:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only; AMD Radeon VII: Less Than 5,000 Available - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:00] <exec> 08└─You should axe her nicely.
[01:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Plans to Tackle US Sanctions With $10 Billion Bitcoin Investment - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:18] <exec> 08└─Its a great place to store money for people who can think long term (more than 2 years or so).
[01:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Plans to Tackle US Sanctions With $10 Billion Bitcoin Investment - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:20] <exec> 08└─Honest question/Not trolling - are there enough "vendors" that accept bitcoin that provide the types of services that Russia would want to purchase that Russia currently cannot purchase due to sanctions?
[01:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Announces Radeon VII GPU, Teases Third-Generation Ryzen CPU - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:33] <exec> 08└─32 Gb of ram and 8c/16t cpu is only 2 gb of ram per thread... you probably want at least 4 gb/thread.
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[02:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:40] <exec> 08└─Let's hope he can do the same for scientific journals (if that falls under his purview)
[02:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:42] <exec> 08└─Trump signs bill forcing government agencies to provide data to russian spies
[02:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:44] <exec> 08└─This is Something Good [tm], yet it's been championed by Trump. I'm trying to find the catch but I can't find it. How strange...
[02:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:46] <exec> 08└─There is not one. Do not let others control your feelings.
[02:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:48] <exec> 08└─Every administration will do some good things, and he didn't create the legislation anyway. The passage of H.R. 4174 would not have been possible without the dedication and leadership of former Speaker Paul Ryan (WI-1-R), Senators Patty Murray (WA-D), Brian Schatz (HI-D), Ben Sasse (NE-R), and Rep....
[02:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:51] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure its normal human behavior to dislike lying criminals.
[02:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:53] <exec> 08└─As other have pointed out, this is yet another move hand data over to Russia.... yet another Russian collusion! Are you afraid yet!!
[02:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:55] <exec> 08└─I'm not reading anything in the summary about funding for it, so there's that.
[02:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:57] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure you are being manipulated into thinking that.
[02:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:00] <exec> 08└─Maybe. But legislation so often does the exact opposite of what its name claims that it will do that I remain dubious.
[02:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:25] <exec> 08└─Dafuq does voting have to do with the issue?
[02:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:26] <exec> 08└─No, retard. I don't see old people with HID's on their vehicles. The vast majority of them are running OEM headlights. The HID's and assorted other headlights are on vehicles owned by younger drivers. Teens and early twenties own the most, then the 25-35 year olds. From 35 on up, it seems to taper o...
[02:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:29] <exec> 08└─Funny - but yes, there is some limit. I've actually been driving along on a nicely sunlit day, and met a pair of headlights that were painfully bright. That is well and truly excessive.
[02:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:31] <exec> 08└─One of the counterintuitive tricks I was taught growing up - as you top a hill, switch to high beams, so they don't shine into the eyes of oncoming drivers. As you level off, switch back to low beams. I don't think that is taught anymore, and even if it were, no one would actually do it.
[02:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:33] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the solution here is dynamically adjusting headlights, you know, maybe throw in a gyroscope and program some smarts into it. Heck, maybe use the gyro in your phone and have it so it connect to the phone.. But nooooo, we need moar brightness!! Fucking hoons!
[02:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oh, SSH, IT Please see this: Malicious Servers can fsck with your PC's Files During scp Slurps - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:44] <exec> 08└─It doesn't sound really scary, or even a little scary. You're suggesting that someone, who already has root access to replace the sshd with a corrupted one, would then be able to... read your public keys from .ssh/authorized_keys? They can do that already, not that it matters; they're called public...
[02:35:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:34] <exec> 08└─We need to know how to prevent and cure human flaws.
[02:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:05] <exec> 08└─GMOs seem like the kind of technology that we might want to put on hold until the means of production are brought under democratic control.
[02:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:07] <exec> 08└─I had to check the survey they use, so I followed the links to the study published in Nature [nature.com] and from there to the link in the "Data availability" section (isn't a permalink). The questions are easily high school level, which is grades 9-12 in the US. We are witnessing the first signs o...
[02:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Plans to Tackle US Sanctions With $10 Billion Bitcoin Investment - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:43] <exec> 08└─Over Christmas when the market looked grim I was chatting with a colleague about how bitcoin might fare in a downturn. We honestly don't know. I tried to compare bitcoin to gold as a reserve of wealth, but ultimately bitcoin is still untested.
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[03:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:53] <exec> 08└─The catch is that Trump has been running the most transparent administration in history. Refute that without using feelings.
[03:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:55] <exec> 08└─BUT BUT BUT MUH FEELZ!!!
[03:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:57] <exec> 08└─Our televised Pravda on however-many channels is just so hopeless, and I can't believe that people buy it. I pulled up my Pravda feed (Google News) today to check out the headlines. Yet again, a white woman went missing, and that was front page news.
[03:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but she might have been raped! In the pussy! It's very important news.
[03:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:02] <exec> 08└─It can be both. Government sponsored fraudulent science used to drive decision-making. TFA: The OPEN Government Data Act seeks to... require the federal government to use open data to improve decision making.
[03:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:04] <exec> 08└─oops. s/fraudulent //. Private sector will be the one supplying the data, licensed with the open government license, which the government is required to use.
[03:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:06] <exec> 08└─...agh, my kingdom for an edit button...
[03:34:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:16] <exec> 08└─Ok, Ok,, stop already. I'll mount them on sharks instead.
[03:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:38] <exec> 08└─I was thinking: little sharks under the headlights...
[03:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:39] <exec> 08└─What?
[03:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:42] <exec> 08└─Hah, I do that too, but was never taught. Seems like a courtesy.
[03:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:44] <exec> 08└─If you need to see what is a kilometre away then you're driving too fast, and are liable to blind anybody 100m away.
[03:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:46] <exec> 08└─It's always lovely when you're on the freeway and the car behind you has bright enough headlights that your own car is casting a shadow in front of you where you're driving, and all you can really see are the sides of the road...
[03:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:48] <exec> 08└─So, picture a windshield which identifies the pulse frequency/phase of the oncoming headlamps, mutes them down to a still visible but dim level, and opens as clear as possible for the light pulses returning from your headlamps. If everybody's headlamps pulsed with a low (like 1%) duty cycle, that co...
[03:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:51] <exec> 08└─Lasata: lasers are so always the answer. Keep the beam at low enough intensity (as low or lower than traditional headlamps) and there is no foul here. High beam and low beam intensity are very close, I think traditional halogen bulbs are 65W and 55W respectively. What is different is where the light...
[03:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:53] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it would be a good invention right now, as long as you use a grid of adaptive glass segments (the inner layer of the windshield) that are more transparent than a typical welder's glass. When the car gets illuminated by headlights, the computer calculates the beam path by seeing the light sou...
[03:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oh, SSH, IT Please see this: Malicious Servers can fsck with your PC's Files During scp Slurps - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:06] <exec> 08└─1. Go back to ftp, encrypting the files with gpg before transmitting them. 2. Run scp in a sandbox such as a virtual machine. 3. Harden the destination system with Access Control Lists like in SELinux so scp can't maliciously overwrite important files. Anyway, wow, a security hole that's been presen...
[03:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oh, SSH, IT Please see this: Malicious Servers can fsck with your PC's Files During scp Slurps - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:07] <exec> 08└─If you're copying your public key to a server, and the server can modify files on YOUR machine, that's scary.
[03:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 1993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:52] <exec> 08└─IANAL but the cases you are looking for are Fisher vs. U.S. (1976), Doe vs. U.S. (1988), and U.S. vs. Hubbell (2000). Briefly, Fisher established the so-called "Act of Production" doctrine which limits the cases where people may be compelled to create communications or documents that may incriminate...
[03:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:05] <exec> 08└─The OP clearly meant the moon is simply a harsh environment with little to no upside. I disagree with them and think we should make a moon colony, but my response to you was simply about you being too literal with the different paragraphs in order to be insulting. Just calling that out, and it appea...
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[04:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:35] <exec> 08└─$21 billion is nothing at these scales, maybe theyll accidently find something cool. On the other hand, theres gotta be more clever and cheaper ways to go about this than brute force. Rewarding that tactic may not be exactly what we want?
[04:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:42] <exec> 08└─One the one hand, trademarks are used in isolation. You can have Acme Tool Company and Acme University both having the same trademark on "Acme," so just because they used "Choose Your Own Adventure" in the show doesn't automatically mean the book trademark and film trademarks would result in confuse...
[04:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:44] <exec> 08└─They also sued for a Jeep commercial that used 'choose your adventure' I can understand Netflix somewhat, particularly if they have plans to move into that medium, but Jeep isn't referring to any genre of media consumption, just driving around in the woods, roads, beach, whatever. So I'm going to le...
[04:33:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 455 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:58] <exec> 08└─Every administration will do some good things, and he didn't create the legislation anyway. The passage of H.R. 4174 would not have been possible without the dedication and leadership of former Speaker Paul Ryan (WI-1-R), Senators Patty Murray (WA-D), Brian Schatz (HI-D), Ben Sasse (NE-R), and Rep....
[04:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:11] <exec> 08└─Wtf i hate transparency now
[04:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:13] <exec> 08└─Then why are you being transparent and telling everyone?
[04:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:15] <exec> 08└─How about prove that statement using only facts? It is a tough bar you'll have to reach since Trump has met with Putin multiple times without any other US personnel around.
[04:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:17] <exec> 08└─"There is no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia"
[04:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:19] <exec> 08└─"Normal human behavior" isn't always good. Questioning it is the first step to escaping it.
[04:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 2202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:21] <exec> 08└─Haha, when he fired Comey it became pretty clear we have a criminal president, then we got everything that happened after. Not to mention We shall see once the investigation is finished, though I don't think the Trumpettes would be capable of accepting such a thing. Even though you're just a troll h...
[04:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:24] <exec> 08└─That may be decent advice for some situations, but not in this case. Are you saying everyone SHOULD trust proven liars? People SHOULD trust someone who is very likely a criminal? Please Mr. Fool, enlighten us.
[04:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:26] <exec> 08└─So? You want transcripts of the presidents every word to meet your criteria for transparent now? Im ok with that in general, actually last election there was a guy out here who ran for governor or mayor or something on the platform that all political offices would be bugged and theyd have to wear go...
[04:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:05] <exec> 08└─In Germany, checking the headlight alignment is part of the regular inspection. I've never had that done in the USA. So in the future, bad alignment will mean a laser to the face.
[04:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:06] <exec> 08└─Sucks to be a cyclist or pedestrian in your world.
[04:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 1323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:08] <exec> 08└─I don't know what a "hoon" is, but evidently they procreate. :) But I digress... Long before any of us were born, very industrious, intelligent people worked tirelessly figuring out what headlight brightness, pattern, and color temperature was the best compromise for all drivers in all road and driv...
[04:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:11] <exec> 08└─He's talking about folks who drive with their headlights off in poor visibility weather, making them hard to see. It doesn't make me happy either.
[04:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:13] <exec> 08└─As someone who also lives in a deer (and occasional moose) heavy area... perhaps we could power up the lasers, instead? And maybe instead of using them as headlights, we could use them as an auto-turret. If it was going to run in front of your car anyway, zapping it seems reasonable. If we were real...
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[04:35:28] <exec> 08└─El-Reg headlines are often only comprehensible to UK local slang savvy persons. SCP - glad I don't use it. I can see the OSS devs... read this, glance over at their Patreon / PayPal bucket, which lies near empty, shrug and think "F* it" and reach for another Diet Coke from the mini fridge. Until som...
[04:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oh, SSH, IT Please see this: Malicious Servers can fsck with your PC's Files During scp Slurps - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:30] <exec> 08└─$ chroot /tmp/ /usr/bin/scp -P 109 ~/Desktop/MixTapes.txt satori@warplife.com:. That doesn't work on macOS Sierra I expect because of its kernel-level protection for vital files. I don't recall what it's called. I expect it would work to mount a disk image that had some non-Apple filesystem then chr...
[04:36:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:39] <exec> 08└─Dismiss ecology in favour of growth at your peril. Everybody's peril, actually.
[04:36:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 924 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:48] <exec> 08└─PETA is a bunch of wackos too, seriously dangerous ones. I worked in a very visible animal research lab that was "hiding in plain sight" in the middle of a major metro area. Everyone involved exercised a great deal of discretion because: A) the lab did important work that helped a lot of people, B)...
[04:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:54] <exec> 08└─The study is interesting because it has implications re: how to get facts to people. It's frustrating because it's being taken as "lol GMO is good stupid people say no", which says nothing about the arguments in question, ie. the facts of the matter on which we should base public policy.
[04:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:56] <exec> 08└─You're a moron, conflating slow knockout-style mutations with entire genes being copied between organisms. If you weren't a moron, you'd say "oh but viral vectors for interspecies gene transcription exist", which is a mostly-flawed argument becaue a virus with a plant host isn't likely to leap speci...
[04:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:58] <exec> 08└─> GM scientists are merely accelerating the same processes that selective breeders have been employing No. That was the case for 'gamma gene gardens' that produced eg. red grapefruit. But shotgun-and-sample is not what GMO means now, or there would be no problem. The problem is gene transfer from ot...
[04:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:00] <exec> 08└─> Crop plants don't have the rigor to survive the wild very well. Until they chance mutate, the old way, and do? Or until they're barely able enough, just like lots of plants which have limited ranges/niches? Or maybe "very well" doesn't matter: they can survive at all. Life struggles, and will surv...
[04:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 2358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:03] <exec> 08└─Here are the objective questions, concerting GMO's. There are others concerning things like the earths core but cut n' paste wasn't working well so I stuck to the core subject. True / False questions: All plants and animals have DNA. It is the father’s genes that decide whether the baby is a boy o...
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[05:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:37] <exec> 08└─For a charged particle to travel in a curve leads it to emit Synchrotron Radiation - hard X-Rays for SLAC - tangentially to their curve. To accelerate more-massive particles is far more efficient but to do that with bound-state particles results in "dirty" events, in that each pair of the three quar...
[05:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:38] <exec> 08└─Sabine's blog is the most addictive read of the year, for sure, but I agree with the why-not sentiment, because high-energy collisions produced completely unexpected results before (the infamous particle zoo which led to the discovery of quarks) and may yet produce completely unexpected results in t...
[05:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, but if we end by creating more dark matter in a controlled manner, we may slow the speed of Universe expansion! Now, that is long term thinking! (grin)
[05:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:43] <exec> 08└─As far as Im concerned the theories are bunk at this point. None are predicting anything, but if theres a slight signal hundreds of different explanations are apparently plausible: https://phys.org [phys.org] That tells me the standard mode...
[05:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:25] <exec> 08└─Go read the OIG report or something besides fake news. https://www.justice.gov [justice.gov]
[05:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:27] <exec> 08└─Wow informative? OK where is the link to him being convicted of a crime, which is the bar for calling someone criminal. Also, I hate Clintons for being lying rapists and murderers.
[05:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:29] <exec> 08└─Mr. Coward, I am simply saying that proven liars can do good things on occasion. Trusting them to do good wouldn't be too bright, but denying that they could ever do any good isn't too bright either.
[05:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:31] <exec> 08└─Pretty terrible stats for the greatest businessman ever!
[05:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:33] <exec> 08└─A fine example [washingtonpost.com] of his transparency was in the news just a few days ago.
[05:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:36] <exec> 08└─It's not at all clear that this is good. There are all kinds of reasons that valid data may not be publicly released. This law will exclude those datasets from any policy making. For an example, there is proprietary climate data that cannot be released because of its proprietary nature. This new law...
[05:34:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 321 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:47] <exec> 08└─I've had enough of being blinded by poorly adjusted HID headlights. They are NOT BETTER, they are a hazard to oncoming drivers !!!!!! Fuck all the engineers who thought that brighter lights were a good idea. May they all die a painful death from some horrible disease. And if you disagree with what I...
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[05:35:20] <exec> 08└─In my area there are plenty of older (80s) people with new cars (esp. anything German) with HID and the way brighter LED headlights. I live amongst the wealthy. Perhaps you're referring to the illegal aftermarket retrofit lights? You can always spot them because they're absurdly blue and there's no...
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[05:35:22] <exec> 08└─For many years I've imagined an automatically guided LASER- the destructive kind- that would home in on overly bright headlights and give 'em back some photons.
[05:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:24] <exec> 08└─Cool idea and probably practical. You could do it with glasses too, instead of the whole windshield. And I assume you're referring to using liquid-crystal? But a true genius had a similar and very workable idea a very long time ago: https://www.polarization.com [polarization.com]
[05:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:26] <exec> 08└─No, retard. OLDER CARS. Not older drivers driving newer cars. TFA is about headlights of the future so commenting about drivers' age seems out of place. You dim bulb.
[05:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:10] <exec> 08└─That, and they've funded Animal Liberation Front efforts before. ALF in this case isn't a loveable alien life form from the 1980's, but a friggin' terrorist group that has members convicted of arson and bombing and such. And PETA gives those guys money. Oh, and PETA also kills most of the animals pu...
[05:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:48] <exec> 08└─I understand the disappointment in the plant experiment. If they mixed in some percentage of Lunar soil even, it would have more meaning. We know plants can grow with reduced gravity and weird sunlight schedules already.
[05:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protoplanetary Disks Can be Perpendicular to the Orbital Plane of Binary Stars - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:00] <exec> 08└─Except that the protoplanetary disc *is* aligned with the stars' orbital plane - it's just aligned perpendicularly rather than in parallel - something that the theory says is a stable outcome. The stars' early mutual interactions may well be responsible for twisting them out of alignment with the or...
[05:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:42] <exec> 08└─No, RSS is a piece of shit. Have you tried implementing a complete RSS client? First thing you might do is find the spec doc. Oh wait, there is no spec. Actually, there are two or three different specs. Well, there used to be multiple specs, I hear that now there's a single RSS 2.0 spec. The spec su...
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[06:33:46] <exec> 08└─The author of the GPL licensed text-mode casino game "GPC-Slots 2" has rescinded the license from the "Geek feminist" collective. ( https://slashdot.org [slashdot.org] ) [Notice: the revocation of the "Geek Feminists"'s license /just/ occurred. 2019. January.] T...
[06:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 2915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:47] <exec> 08└─OK, you are probably going to think I am going nuts, and you are probably right, but what you are saying makes too much sense to me. I've been reading this blog so much the last week or so, that I have to stop myself almost daily from writing to Sabine (out of the cold) about how much sense this shi...
[06:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:49] <exec> 08└─OK, you are probably going to think I am going nuts, and you are probably right, but what you are saying makes too much sense to me.
[06:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:52] <exec> 08└─Science doesnt care if you are crazy? However you do need to get a testable prediction out of the theory... Preferably something quantitative and precise. P.S. the geocentric and heliocentric models of the solar system are equivalent. They are both correct, just using different reference frames. Hum...
[06:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:54] <exec> 08└─As far as Im concerned the theories are bunk at this point.
[06:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 7608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:04] <exec> 08└─The author of the GPL licensed text-mode casino game "GPC-Slots 2" has rescinded the license from the "Geek feminist" collective. ( https://slashdot.org [slashdot.org] ) [Notice: the revocation of the "Geek Feminists"'s license /just/ occurred. 2019. January.] T...
[06:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:45] <exec> 08└─Is it anonymous sources?
[06:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:46] <exec> 08└─I couldnt help and clicked it... and.... I knew it, hilarious. That paper seems to consist of nothing but anonymously sourced rumors, there is something mentally deficient about people who take that kind of stuff seriously.
[06:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:35] <exec> 08└─We need an affordable, portable anti-laser cannon to fend off the Japanese and their car headlights. What a stoooopid idea. PhD, huh? Nobel winner, huh? Peanut head I say.
[06:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:36] <exec> 08└─That's not how lasers work. Lasers are focused, so they will only be illuminating the care and not the windows. In fact, you'll probably end up with the opposite problem. Instead of being blinded, you won't even see the headlights of the car behind you, since the lasers won't be fired at any of the...
[06:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:21] <exec> 08└─Apparently, my point went right over your head. I won't speculate as to why, but you might consider your own weak attempt at insult as applying to you. I'll explain, and I'll use small words so you'll be sure to understand, you warthog-faced buffoon: Genetic modification isn't just CRISPR-style gene...
[06:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:01] <exec> 08└─The OP clearly meant the moon is simply a harsh environment with little to no upside.
[06:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protoplanetary Disks Can be Perpendicular to the Orbital Plane of Binary Stars - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:14] <exec> 08└─Why? There's a reason discs and rings are common: You've got umpteen zillions of gas molecules, dust specks, and larger accumulations all in independent orbits around their primary. Any particle that follows anything but a perfectly circular orbit in the same plane as its neighbors is eventually goi...
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[07:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 1810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:33] <exec> 08└─You know, when you go to feed on the recently deceased, all the fauna that once relied upon that creature for their livelihood are in the market for a new host. So of course the blood and offal covered neck of the Buzzard is you go-to next-best-choice option. So, after a while, the Mighty Buzzard is...
[07:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:35] <exec> 08└─In both cases, they suck resources without having any redeeming aspects.
[07:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:37] <exec> 08└─Why don't you just do the right thing and kill yourself, you worthless cock-gobbling loser.
[07:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:39] <exec> 08└─There are special Internet publications that specialize in shocking, revolting content. I do not see why this article should be on this site.
[07:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:41] <exec> 08└─Oh, on the contrary! Ticks, and other parasites, weed out the weak, the white supremacists who cannot get job because of affirmative action, the conservative "scholar" who cannot get a tenure track position in a real University because of Liberal bias, the alt-right He-men who cannot get a date, mai...
[07:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:58] <exec> 08└─Using different reference frames, one of which is just wrong, unless for religious reasons. And you have the hubris to question aristarchus? I gave the quantitative predictions, and given what I was working with, they were pretty spot on. So what perverse aesthetics do you prefer to work with, oh da...
[07:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:59] <exec> 08└─So you are are a relativity denier?
[07:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:01] <exec> 08└─Yet another person who thinks science runs on argument from consensus... its so sad. A pillar of western civilization is dissolving before our eyes.
[07:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah...just don't pay any attention to the little guy behind the curtain...
[07:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:55] <exec> 08└─Wasn't that democratic tribe code for "anti-Trump"?
[07:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:46] <exec> 08└─This is obviously a Trump voter. Probably owns an assault rifle too.
[07:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:48] <exec> 08└─May they all die a painful death from some horrible disease.
[07:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:50] <exec> 08└─Or we could just mandate not using aircraft landing lights as headlights.
[07:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Plans to Tackle US Sanctions With $10 Billion Bitcoin Investment - 1498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:19] <exec> 08└─There are no vendors of any value that sell for BTC. A few retailers tried Bitcoin to draw customers. This SoylentNews tried accepting subscriptions in BTC, but had to cancel due to upheaval in the BTC world. It means that there is absolutely no need for a state to invest into a cryptocurrency. Sec...
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[08:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:46] <exec> 08└─So you also followed the Boehner link?
[08:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:06] <exec> 08└─So you are are a relativity denier?
[08:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, Geo-centrism is absurd, silly. Quite close to the Electric Universe or Flat-earthers.
[08:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:09] <exec> 08└─If two trains are traveling towards each other at near the speed of light isnt their relative velocity ~2c? The answer is no, and for the same reason your far away galaxies moving really fast relative to earth is not an issue. Also, the only one bringing up religion is you. You think Ptolemy cared a...
[08:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:20] <exec> 08└─Having one of their books mentioned - isn't that called "free publicity"? WTF are they upset about? Oh, I get it. They haven't published a book in 20 years [wikipedia.org], so they've decided to be come a "trademark troll". All the profit, none of the work...
[08:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:22] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't the trademark then be lost due to non-use?
[08:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:24] <exec> 08└─One possibility not yet mentioned (there are 4 comments and one obviously MikeeeUSA spam as I write this), is that a "trademark" which is just the *simplest* natural language description of a property of the product, service, or brand, using only terms that would naturally be associated with *all* s...
[08:34:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:36] <exec> 08└─This is Something Good [tm], yet it's been championed by Trump. I'm trying to find the catch but I can't find it. How strange...
[08:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:09] <exec> 08└─You are correct. Hell, even Hannibal Lecter was known for his marvelous dinner parties.
[08:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:11] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but there aren't enough pictures in scientific journals for him to care about them. I hear his next target is Honest Information for Placemat Puzzle Adventures (HIPPA).
[08:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:04] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a different technological solution would be infra-red headlights coupled with a IR-cameras and high-quality full-screen Head-Up Display. That way you wouldn't blind other drivers with high-intensity light and you could compete in bragging rights on how good your HUD was. One example is https...
[08:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:51] <exec> 08└─Agreed, PETA is a bunch of wackos at best. As was pointed out, they kill lots of animals. The documentary cowspiracy plausibly painted them in cahoots with the meat industry. They are a walking contradiction. On the flip side animal research labs are not known for their benevolence toward animals, a...
[08:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:33] <exec> 08└─No, I'm Russian.
[08:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protoplanetary Disks Can be Perpendicular to the Orbital Plane of Binary Stars - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:47] <exec> 08└─Assuming that is the eventual outcome I can't see the planetary disk neatly rotating to the new ecliptic as a single entity, far more likely is that it would breakup with proto-planets going through all sorts of odd orbital changes, hence "tearing itself apart". I don't think that's very likely eith...
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[09:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:47] <exec> 08└─There is no such vote. The best you can do is to spam mod the TMB. I did it once, and it felt wonderful, almost as good as noodling catfish. But short of that, there is no way to keep the editors from driving the site into the ground, but not getting humor, by humoring the alt-right, and by putting...
[09:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:48] <exec> 08└─How does one noodle a catfish?
[09:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:12] <exec> 08└─for the same reason your far away galaxies moving really fast relative to earth is not an issue.
[09:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:13] <exec> 08└─And another right-wing nut-job who thinks his dissension from the accepted state of scientific theory amounts to jack-shit. Pro-tip: It does not. This is the Lonely Johnson inverse scientific method, where you can just cut off his johnson, and that proves that global warming is not real, or at least...
[09:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:15] <exec> 08└─For some reason, I assumed you were familiar with the basic concepts behind modern physics: https://www.physicsforums.com [physicsforums.com]
[09:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:18] <exec> 08└─Never said dissention means jack shit... thats your strawman (oddly typical of someone who thinks consensus is important to science...) Only thing that matters is accurate and useful predictions, the more surprising the better.
[09:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:20] <exec> 08└─Not me, the geocentrists. And "two-trains" is more "trolley-car" science. Can you say something about dark matter, instead?
[09:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:22] <exec> 08└─So here is the nice dissenting prediction: As far as Im concerned the theories are bunk at this point.
[09:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:24] <exec> 08└─Now put THIS in your pipe and smoke it.
[09:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:26] <exec> 08└─Thats not a prediction. The theories have stopped making useful and accurate predictions, and whenever they fail an excuse is made. Its a classic degenerating research programme.
[09:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:25] <exec> 08└─The only thought that went through Trump's head was the it enables more data mining business for his "friends".
[09:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oh, SSH, IT Please see this: Malicious Servers can fsck with your PC's Files During scp Slurps - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:36] <exec> 08└─> a Fortran mathematical library written in the 1960s that's a dependency for the Vulkan API that our current 3d accelerated graphics uses? Baah, you got me there! :D
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[10:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:20] <exec> 08└─How could you add "free will" to a computer simulation though? Even for the most basic program? Seems like that idea needs to go then.
[10:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:22] <exec> 08└─And isn't Europe overdue for a major war,
[10:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:22] <exec> 08└─He has accomplished many good things unless you are anti-American or pro-Communist. Most people here have been completely immersed in censored media which makes seeing him do anything good seem shocking. Censoring bastards and information bubbles have set your beliefs and you must know that's the tr...
[10:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:24] <exec> 08└─A few people around here think that marrying your first cousin and raping your sister is normal. Questioning it can lead to death.
[10:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:19] <exec> 08└─A hoon, in Australia and New Zealand, is a person who deliberately drives a vehicle in a reckless or dangerous manner, generally in order to provoke a reaction from onlookers.
[10:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:20] <exec> 08└─In fact, you'll probably end up with the opposite problem. Instead of being blinded, you won't even see the headlights of the car behind you, since the lasers won't be fired at any of the windows.
[10:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:22] <exec> 08└─Dafuq does voting have to do with the issue?
[10:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:09] <exec> 08└─I see catarel, essce and pigup.
[10:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:50] <exec> 08└─Noooooo we must nuke china NOW a preemptive strike is the only way!!!!!!!!!
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[11:33:49] <exec> 08└─This is a wild life/biology/science article it certainly is intereseting. It does not include gore nor anything shocking unless you click on it. Just because you find ticks gross, and i do also, it does not detract the knowledge that, for example snakes are also affected by ticks. I did not know tha...
[11:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:51] <exec> 08└─Why don't you just do the right thing ...
[11:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:53] <exec> 08└─You'll have to PM TMB for that, I'm afraid.
[11:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:26] <exec> 08└─> $21 billion is nothing at these scales Well, it is about 20 times the total US budget for particle physics, or 2.5 times the annual NASA budget. The particle physics community is struggling to get funding for International Linear Collider which comes in at about $10 B. Also, don't forget to add a...
[11:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:27] <exec> 08└─> don't have a clue why no one builds two opposing Linacs The linac gets very long and expensive. In a circular machine one reuses the RF cavities. Nonetheless, this is a plan - google CLIC and/or ILC. > the Jura Mountains The FCC is planned to go around the far side of the Jura.
[11:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:30] <exec> 08└─How could you add "free will" to a computer simulation though?
[11:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:32] <exec> 08└─If a theory is espoused all around the globe, may be, just may be, it's worth some more investigation?
[11:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:34] <exec> 08└─Can you say something about dark matter, instead?
[11:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:47] <exec> 08└─It seems like all the projects that get the official trademark are tweenager friendly. If the argument is that the mark becomes worth lest to the company and to consumers if it gets associated with more violent stuff then I think there is a case for that. There was just a few months ago a boardgame...
[11:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:38] <exec> 08└─That's right; sometimes an evil person has to do some good to get something evil accomplished. Sometimes you just have to help that little old lady across the street, perhaps to get her out of the way to install someone to turn tricks at that corner.
[11:35:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:45] <exec> 08└─I don't need to be blinded, literally, by oncoming headlights. Go back to making sushi and Godzilla movies.
[11:35:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:52] <exec> 08└─I don't need to be blinded, literally, by oncoming headlights. Go back to making sushi and Godzilla movies.
[11:36:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 293 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:02] <exec> 08└─I agree with both of your points, however, there are many hills and curves where I live. No amount of properly aiming a fixed pattern will stop the insanely bright headlight from hitting me directly in the eyes frequently. I don't understand how we're all safer when drivers are being blinded.
[11:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NoMaster [3543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:37] <exec> 08└─You mentioned the halogens. When I was a kid (early 80s) I knew a guy who had aftermarket halogens and he had to change them out for every state inspection, which he gladly did. I never had the heart to tell him I didn't think they were all that. Those guys have fragile egos and all. By the late 80s...
[11:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:39] <exec> 08└─Assuming that this is the blue laser-white phosphor combo, it's been around for a couple of years..aren't the Germans using them on some high-end cars ? (Positive I saw a demo headlight module a couple of years back..can remember speculating if this would lead to a rise in targetted techie car vanda...
[11:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:41] <exec> 08└─Nah, seems easier to just outlaw functioning eyeballs.
[11:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oh, SSH, IT Please see this: Malicious Servers can fsck with your PC's Files During scp Slurps - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:59] <exec> 08└─If I don't use sudo, I get operation not permitted. I _think_ that's perror()'s complaint about insufficient privileges. _With_ chroot, I get "killed 9". If that's a linking problem, I figured I would have got some other signal, but really I don't know. There's lots of HOWTOs on putting httpd in a j...
[11:37:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 842 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:43] <exec> 08└─My opposition to GMOs has nothing to do with genetics, or even science for that matter. It has everything to do with my strong position against industrial agriculture, and the idea that a handfull of mega multinational corporations want to possess absolute control over food production for the entire...
[11:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:31] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure about nuclear power. The ignorant are clearly opposed but there are plenty of ignorant people that are adamantly for nuclear power yet they don't know the details. It's kind of like little knowledge is dangerous scenario, except in nuclear power little knowledge is a wide swath of the p...
[11:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:33] <exec> 08└─More than that, like you said I think the biggest problem is that corporate law seems set up to let companies literally get away with murder if they just pay the requisite fines and/or bribes. If the people standing to make the most profit also stood the biggest chance of real jail time we'd see a l...
[11:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:15] <exec> 08└─An unattractive prospect. While researching for the role, I ran computer simulations demonstrating, incontrovertibly, that the whole bio-enclosure concept is fundamentally flawed. Be it expressed via dome, sphere, cube or even a stately tetrahedron, buddy!
[11:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eugeniu Iordachescu, Engineer who Moved Bucharest's Centuries-Old Churches, has Died at 89 - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:13] <exec> 08└─A small correction: Orthodox priests *must* marry before ordination, as a matter fact, bachelor seminary students are formally told that they must get married within the 5 years of study otherwise they won't be ordained. Those who won't might join a monastery and be ordained as monk priests, but tha...
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[12:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Play Store Android Apps Must Have 64-Bit Versions by August 2019 - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:41] <exec> 08└─Given that Android apps are JIT/AOT-compiled into native code on running/installing, how can an app not be 64-bit ready? They're turned into a 32-bit or 64-bit app as required by the runtime environment.
[12:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Play Store Android Apps Must Have 64-Bit Versions by August 2019 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:43] <exec> 08└─Given that Android apps are JIT/AOT-compiled...
[12:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that last image was over the top. *shudder*
[12:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:03] <exec> 08└─They "removed" the ticks? Damn, just throw the whole thing into a hot, hot fire. It's the only way to be sure. Have Australians never seen any sci-fi or creature horror movie, ever?
[12:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah I was just thinking I haven't seen any around since childhood. And I get the impression today's kids don't really give a shit about reading books. Certainly not on dead trees anyway. Luckily our legal system often lets them have their cake and eat it too, receiving free publicity then suing the...
[12:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:56] <exec> 08└─That's not a trademark, that's a description...
[12:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Only_Mortal [7122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:58] <exec> 08└─Given its origin, shouldn't UK law apply here?
[12:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:49] <exec> 08└─Somebody who thinks that being involved in lots of lawsuits in the real estate market in NYC has zero grasp of the realities of real estate in NYC. Really, zero. In NYC, real estate is the most fiercely contested business, where people sue each other all the time. Real estate interests drive NYC pol...
[12:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:50] <exec> 08└─Presumably Trump could champion real, forward-thinking legislation on climate change to lower global atmospheric carbon dioxide, and the Democrats and the MSM would instantly pivot to become anti-environment. In upside-down world, anything is possible.
[12:36:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 411 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:01] <exec> 08└─are those grey shadows that show up in heavy rain/fog. Guess what dipshit? Only half of your headlights are for you to see what's in front of you. The other half? So I can see your hidden ass in thick fog and/or rain. When in doubt turn your fucking headlights on and quit thinking of the $0.12 it wi...
[12:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:51] <exec> 08└─Please, for the sake of my ears, stop swearing AC? Thanks in advance!
[12:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:53] <exec> 08└─> Go back to making sushi and Godzilla movies. Unnecessary racism, AC. Plus a swear word in the subject. Are you a 12 year old?
[12:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:55] <exec> 08└─Since they came out with those insanely bright blue headlights I have fantasized about mounting rear-facing klieg lights on my cargo rack that automatically switch on when those people come up behind me. A crazy loud infrasonic speaker/LRAD to rattle their car would underscore the message.
[12:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:57] <exec> 08└─Wide beamspread? Please: there's been enough work on headlight divergence - they are a solved problem. No need risking our eyesight hundreds of times each night, just because someone is too jittery to drive without seeing miles and miles of road ahead.
[12:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:00] <exec> 08└─infra-red headlights coupled with a IR-cameras and high-quality full-screen Head-Up Display.
[12:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airlander 10: World's Longest Aircraft Gets Full-Production Go-Ahead - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:13] <exec> 08└─An airship of sufficient size could circle the fire at slow speed, dousing the flames with water or fire retardant. In forest fires choppers can hover and accurately deliver a spray, but they can't carry that much. Planes can carry much more, but it's easy for them to miss their target. Moreover, an...
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[13:33:44] <exec> 08└─Except for web-based trash, most android "app"s are likely written in another language for portability.
[13:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:56] <exec> 08└─.. the laser solves your problem by vaporizing the deer.
[13:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:57] <exec> 08└─Polarization is cool in lots of ways, but doesn't have as much potential as time division multiplexing...
[13:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:59] <exec> 08└─... and who TF needs to see things a kilometer away? They must have extremely poor brakes if they need to apply them that far ahead. In the UK there are very few roads where you can see a kilometer ahead even in broad daylight, and even if other cars were not in the way of your view. In any case the...
[13:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:51] <exec> 08└─animal research labs are not known for their benevolence toward animals,
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[14:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES - Massive Monitor Menagerie - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:39] <exec> 08└─If your average "HiDef" security camera is 720p resolution, an 8K screen can host 32 security images simultaneously in full resolution in an 8x4 matrix with space left over for meta-data display outside each image...
[14:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:08] <exec> 08└─Have you not seen australian wildlife? If the creature from the black lagoon turned up, we'd say G'day and give him a beer.
[14:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:10] <exec> 08└─They don't need movies, they have mouse plagues in real life...
[14:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:48] <exec> 08└─Besides, what makes you believe you have free will now?
[14:35:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 1041 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:01] <exec> 08└─One possibility not yet mentioned (there are 4 comments and one obviously MikeeeUSA spam as I write this), is that a "trademark" which is just the *simplest* natural language description of a property of the product, service, or brand, using only terms that would naturally be associated with *all* s...
[14:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:06] <exec> 08└─Informative: SN has a little known secret mechanism whereby you can submit something like this as a potential front page story.
[14:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:08] <exec> 08└─Google for four words: "eu trademark big mac". If McDonalds can lose the BigMac tirade mark for being a grade-A hole and tirade mark bullying, then why can't another company lose a tirade mark, at least in the EU?
[14:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 1307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:10] <exec> 08└─You are right to a point, but then most people over-do it. When you can plainly see cars at the limit of the physical line of sight of the road you are on, then lights are not just unnecessary, but are a disadvantage. Often I can still recognise the makes of cars at this distance but many drivers ne...
[14:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:11] <exec> 08└─And are you a virgin butterfly attending sunday school? By the way, there was no racism involved.
[14:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:13] <exec> 08└─Why bother with the IR? Just do it with visible light. Cameras and a videoscreen instead of a windscreen. Put a maximum level in the brightness somewhere and problem solved.
[14:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oh, SSH, IT Please see this: Malicious Servers can fsck with your PC's Files During scp Slurps - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:32] <exec> 08└─I _think_ it wasn't SIP giving me grief but that on macOS at least chroot must be run as root. To disable SIP, boot into Recovery Mode - search for how - then give the command # csrutil disable then reboot normally. I often disable SIP so I can test my unsigned drivers.
[14:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oh, SSH, IT Please see this: Malicious Servers can fsck with your PC's Files During scp Slurps - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:33] <exec> 08└─I guess the moral of the story is if you know a vulnerability, you report it.
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[15:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:37] <exec> 08└─You Say That Like It's A Bad Thing. Perhaps I shouldn't have cranked "She's So Heavy" all the way up to eleven just now, seeing as how it's six-thirty in the morning. What's yer take?
[15:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:38] <exec> 08└─The fishes do the same - they convert salty water into more saltier water. A little swimming desalination plants they are. So we are doomed anyway - unless, of course, the dolphins eat all the fish for great justice.
[15:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:40] <exec> 08└─Do you like breathing?
[15:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:42] <exec> 08└─I thought that "duh" was the appropriate response. When you desalinate seawater, of course you're going to make fresh water and saltier water. If you store the brine in a lake you'll eventually make a "Sea Salt" factory (complete with microplastic particles...) If you concentrate the brine and eject...
[15:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:45] <exec> 08└─everybody knows that aliens are stealing our water and that world governement is in collusion because they're trying to protect us from a alien invasion. furthermore, water that rains from the sky is "biologically" charged, because it has fallen thru the magnetosphere and thus cannot be teleported t...
[15:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:47] <exec> 08└─Let it evaporate and crystallize (that is how islanders make salt..they don't mine it) and use it to make molten salt energy storage by solar power plants.
[15:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES - Massive Monitor Menagerie - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:56] <exec> 08└─Indeed, there have always been applications with the requirement for the best possible, very high resolution images, for example, medical imaging. The question is whether one of those applications is the displays for general home television or home theater type applications. The sheer size of the so...
[15:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CES - Massive Monitor Menagerie - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:58] <exec> 08└─because we can't have hi-res stereo monitors less then a inch from our main visual-data gathering organs. sheesh. "loooook! i am sooooo rich, i had to build a extra structure to proof to you how much stupid money i could spend to look at ... nothing interesting ... in flat 2D ... but it's really big...
[15:34:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 1810 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:13] <exec> 08└─You know, when you go to feed on the recently deceased, all the fauna that once relied upon that creature for their livelihood are in the market for a new host. So of course the blood and offal covered neck of the Buzzard is you go-to next-best-choice option. So, after a while, the Mighty Buzzard is...
[15:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:29] <exec> 08└─> Damn, just throw the whole thing into a hot, hot fire. No effect. (Southern Australia is expecting 45-47C temperatures today..) The method for removing Aussie ticks that I was taught was to eye-drop overproof alcohol onto the embedded head of the tick, and then tweeze it off when it lifts it head...
[15:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:27] <exec> 08└─Google for four words: "eu trademark big mac". (See my similar post above) McDonalds lost its tirade mark on BigMac in the EU.
[15:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:28] <exec> 08└─It never occurred to me how Microsoft could try to abuse that trademark. As evil as Microsoft has been, I've never heard of them trying to sue someone for using the term "windows" to describe the UI concept, or the portals installed on the sides of my house and car. That would be hilarious actually.
[15:35:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:56] <exec> 08└─Wtf i hate transparency now
[15:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:33] <exec> 08└─When in doubt turn your fucking headlights
[15:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:35] <exec> 08└─But some people have a headlight that has failed. So they brilliantly come to the insightful realization that switching to the high beams all the time means that they will never need to get their malfunctioning headlight fixed. Nothing could possibly go wrong. It's easy, quick and cheap. The America...
[15:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:37] <exec> 08└─Seems like a courtesy.
[15:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:39] <exec> 08└─Interesting. I thought they drove like that in order to more effectively communicate by text massages.
[15:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:41] <exec> 08└─Easy solution, vote blue.
[15:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:43] <exec> 08└─Headlights need to be SMARTER. What if the headlight were more like a projector. Certain pixels of the light output could then be selectively dimmed in the shape of an oncoming car. Other shapes could selectively be de-illuminated as well, such as speed limit signs. Instead of making headlamps out o...
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[15:37:46] <exec> 08└─> A hoon, in Australia and New Zealand, is a person who deliberately drives a vehicle in a reckless or dangerous manner, generally in order to provoke a reaction from onlookers. Thanks for that! You'd think I could have looked it up or something. It was the wee hours and my ambition was minimal. I'm...
[15:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oh, SSH, IT Please see this: Malicious Servers can fsck with your PC's Files During scp Slurps - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:06] <exec> 08└─I didn't want to snatch it from him just for some stolen glory.
[15:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Billion-Dollar Question: What Was Really Behind Qualcomm's Surprise Ten-Digit Gift to Apple? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:23] <exec> 08└─How do you suppose they managed to hoard such a sum? By doing shady things like this. And a whole lot of tax dodging.
[15:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:25] <exec> 08└─I do not see reality as a delusion; the delusion is enabled by God by virtue of the physical laws that betray no supernatural origin.
[15:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:26] <exec> 08└─If fruit flies could thrive in hard radiation vacuum with the above temperature extremes mentioned, then they'd be doing more than just eating fruit on Earth.
[15:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:28] <exec> 08└─Welcome to ISLE (Improving Standards by Lowering Expectations). Declare the mission accomplished early on so people don't think you failed when the experiment inevitably falls apart down the road. The same was done with the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER). 90 days in, they declared the mission accompl...
[15:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 1537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:31] <exec> 08└─I see that you understand much of the implications, and that is good. God has deceived one other time in the Bible, I do not recall the passage. He sends a lying spirit to deceive. Again, I don't see it as God lying. The deceptions are always the result of prior states. Free will can't be free if th...
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[16:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Step Aside Crop Circles, Check Out this Rotating Ice Circle in Maine River - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:36] <exec> 08└─web developer Doug Bertlesman estimated the size of the disk to be at least 100 yards (91 meters).
[16:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:49] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_water_battery [wikipedia.org] https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk [proactiveinvestors.co.uk]
[16:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:51] <exec> 08└─Exactly. If you use it's no longer waste.
[16:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:53] <exec> 08└─Seriously, why can't the brine be oxygenated?
[16:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:55] <exec> 08└─Brine is a technically accurate word, but it's being used here as a fear word. A more reasonable explanation is: Seawater naturally contains about 35 grams of salt per liter, what would usually be described as 35 parts per thousand (ppt). A desalination plant removes some of the water from seawater....
[16:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:58] <exec> 08└─As the concentration of salt increases the ability to dissolve oxygen decreases. i.e. there is only so much "room" in solution. Adding more of a highly soluble substance (Salt) can cause lower solubility substances to come out of solution. In chemistry this is known as "Salting Out".
[16:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:00] <exec> 08└─you can also dilute radioactive waste from reactors by flushing the core with seawater!
[16:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:02] <exec> 08└─He likes pole smoking and salty sauces.
[16:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:04] <exec> 08└─And, the reverse doesn't apply then? You can't aerate the water to remove some portion of the salt.
[16:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─I have a Democratic solution... Add fresh water to the brine.
[16:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:09] <exec> 08└─I have a Democratic solution... Add fresh water to the brine.
[16:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:11] <exec> 08└─There's nowhere near the demand for salt in the world that there is for water. Not within 2 orders of magnitude, even if we incentivize every industrial, commercial, and individual use of salt you can think of to maximize demand. And the Molten Salt reactors the GP suggested use florine salt, not ch...
[16:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CES - Massive Monitor Menagerie - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:22] <exec> 08└─Samsung Expands 8K TV to 98 Inches at CES, Because Why the Hell Not
[16:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES - Massive Monitor Menagerie - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:24] <exec> 08└─I still see this as the step that'll allow huge screens to be shipped. There is nothing wrong with wall screens. They had 98 inch screens at the 2016 CES and they were glorious. And having a credenza/buffet with the screen built in would look nice for decor. The article though - wtf would you need 1...
[16:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:34] <exec> 08└─Im not a "he".
[16:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:35] <exec> 08└─this is probably the experimental setup required to figure out if another experiment is producing gravity/space distortions: if the bent beam suddenly stops emitting synchrotron radiation then the second experiment near to it has successfully distorted space-time. and from here we will probably fina...
[16:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:38] <exec> 08└─Random/unpredictable-ness isn't the same thing as free will.
[16:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:40] <exec> 08└─the (cut) plane thru the LHC ring is completely (geometrically) flat, or so said the laser obeying the "straight" definition of space-time with gravity, used to build that ring-tunnel thingy ...?
[16:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:42] <exec> 08└─OK. "Their" brain is all white matter.
[16:36:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:17] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure its normal human behavior to dislike lying criminals.
[16:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, the US stays behind in automotive technology because the DOT spells out exactly what is permitted, meaning anything else is NOT permitted. Seven to ten years after Europe and Asia adopts something new, the DOT gets around to approving it. In the traditional sense of conservative, our DOT is ult...
[16:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:15] <exec> 08└─Why bother with the IR?
[16:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:17] <exec> 08└─Thank-you for the explanation, I really appreciate it.
[16:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 2245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:19] <exec> 08└─I'm in USA and you're probably not. It's amazing how much misconception there is about USA. I don't like: "the US is way behind everyone else". Maybe we exercise wisdom and caution. I don't think that blinding oncoming drivers is progress (although it's rampant now). USA is made up of States, and "S...
[16:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:22] <exec> 08└─Will this burn out the cameras on self driving cars?
[16:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:24] <exec> 08└─Absolutely correct. I was just pointing out the time-frame that Dr. Land did this. I'm sure he envisioned TDM too! He is one of history's most under-recognized geniuses.
[16:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:26] <exec> 08└─Yep, that and a rear-facing sprayer that would first spray syrup at the tailgater's windshield, and if that doesn't back them off, then cooking oil. All that said, I rarely pay attention to what's behind me.
[16:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:28] <exec> 08└─One downside to the TDM approach would be attenuation of ambient light...
[16:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:25] <exec> 08└─I was interviewing with a graduate adviser. He asked what I learned in my undergraduate studies. I said, "honestly, the only thing I think I learned is that I don't know anything about EE." His response: "Seems you are ahead of most people."
[16:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:50] <exec> 08└─If your phone has hit the "you haven't used it for too long" trigger, the passcode alone is enough to unlock it. For iOS, there's no way to require more than that, as far as I know / can tell. Similarly if you've hit the panic-button to lock your phone, the passcode (and only the passcode) will unlo...
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[17:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Step Aside Crop Circles, Check Out this Rotating Ice Circle in Maine River - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:37] <exec> 08└─He was the only one who cared to make an estimate.
[17:33:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 902 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:53] <exec> 08└─Brine is a technically accurate word, but it's being used here as a fear word. A more reasonable explanation is: Seawater naturally contains about 35 grams of salt per liter, what would usually be described as 35 parts per thousand (ppt). A desalination plant removes some of the water from seawater....
[17:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:01] <exec> 08└─Where would the oxygen come from? Doesn't matter if it's oxygenated originally, things living in it will breathe that away fast enough. The problem is that you create underwater brine rivers and lakes that don't mix well with the surrounding seawater, and so they don't receive the oxygen being carri...
[17:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:03] <exec> 08└─This is one of the rare cases where dilution is the solution to pollution. Diluting the wastewater with large amounts of un-concentrated seawater lowers the salt concentration. This greatly reduces the likelihood of stratification and decreases the impact on dissolved oxygen. It's also a fairly easy...
[17:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:06] <exec> 08└─TFA started with every liter of freshwater a plant produces, 0.4 gallons (1.5 liters) of brine
[17:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:08] <exec> 08└─I see no problems with this plan. Proceed.
[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─I think the issue is that those materials become a problem when they are concentrated. Dumping that concentrated brine back into the ocean would cause environmental issues. Maybe they can just sit it out in collections pools, to dry as they do for salt mining? I suppose the plants produce way too mu...
[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:12] <exec> 08└─Or add seawater to it and it will still be less salty than the waste product. Add enough sea water and it will be pretty much the same as seawater.
[17:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:15] <exec> 08└─Covering Florida in a foot of brine "sounds" like a lot, but consider that Florida gets an annual average rainfall of over FOUR FEET of FRESH WATER. The amount of brine produced is quickly dilluted by the sea, this is less of an impact than normal sea surface evaporation - which is how Florida gets...
[17:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:17] <exec> 08└─6,000 km would be quite high (IMHO), and raises a number of questions. Would Florida be able to support the weight, or would it sink? Would it take any more land with it? Would be able to just float stuff up to space? (assuming we could get past any pressure problems at what used to be called ground...
[17:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:19] <exec> 08└─Dump it into the dead sea and it will dilute the dead sea.
[17:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES - Massive Monitor Menagerie - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:31] <exec> 08└─Umm, check your math. 720p (1280x720) and 8k(7680x4320) resolutions have the same aspect ratio (1.777...), so the 36-image matrix will be a 6x6 square: width = 7680/1280 = 6, height = 4320/720 = 6 Even if you assume an old-school 4:3 resolution (960x720, which is NOT what is normally meant by 720p),...
[17:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:06] <exec> 08└─Behold: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Microsoft v. Lindows.com, Inc. was a court case brought by Microsoft against Lindows, Inc in December 2001, claiming that the name "Lindows" was a violation of its trademark "Windows." After two and a half yea...
[17:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 1821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:07] <exec> 08└─It was referenced in the show itself in relation to a fictional book called "Bandersnatch". (The Lewis Carroll estate might also be interested, but it was a character and not a title of a book). The fictional book was described as a "choose your own adventure" book by the protagonist, a hobbyist pro...
[17:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:10] <exec> 08└─Though, in retrospect that was over the name of the OS, not the actual UI concept. The lawsuit to try to lock down the GUI was by Apple against Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:12] <exec> 08└─They might be upset because (actual spoiler) *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) In the movie the book's author (not the main character) goes insane and murders someone; that author is insane because he realizes that he himself is being controlled to do things and that the "choices"...
[17:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but can I get a Royale with Cheese there???
[17:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:16] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the run down. Might give that a shot this weekend if I find time!
[17:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:10] <exec> 08└─This should be fun.
[17:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:11] <exec> 08└─lol sure thing buddly, pay no attention to the last part where he has more lawsuits than 5 other real estate moguls combined. Also do not look at the sex related ones. I am starting to see what your nick is all about.
[17:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:13] <exec> 08└─Only information can travel through time. If I printed it out you would just say "fake news!" so we gots to wait for the feds.
[17:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:15] <exec> 08└─No, but I will require such transcripts if you want to call him the most transparent. Meeting multiple times with our biggest adversary and no other US officials? We are truly living in crazy times when conservatives are bending over backwards to defend multiple secret meetings with a Russian presid...
[17:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 3929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:18] <exec> 08└─1) That law has been in the works for YEARS; glad it didn't take a disaster to finally sneak it past... i don't have time, it's probably missing the best parts... 2) Trump lost many court cases for violating the law; if you have an army of lawyers and a company you just do settlements and SHIFT and...
[17:38:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 1323 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:00] <exec> 08└─I don't know what a "hoon" is, but evidently they procreate. :) But I digress... Long before any of us were born, very industrious, intelligent people worked tirelessly figuring out what headlight brightness, pattern, and color temperature was the best compromise for all drivers in all road and driv...
[17:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:45] <exec> 08└─All that said, I rarely pay attention to what's behind me.
[17:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oh, SSH, IT Please see this: Malicious Servers can fsck with your PC's Files During scp Slurps - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:08] <exec> 08└─in rust, obviously. i would like to try an OS made to be secure from the beginning.
[17:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:33] <exec> 08└─Maybe Chlorella [wikipedia.org] algae instead of Apple Trees of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, in the beginning: Chlorella vulgaris culture as a regulator of CO2 in a bioregenerative life support system [harvard.edu] (note that the authors of this 2013 article are from the "Laboratory of Environmen...
[17:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protoplanetary Disks Can be Perpendicular to the Orbital Plane of Binary Stars - 2780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:48] <exec> 08└─Well, I too doubt it would actually rotate as a single entity, but figure that the stars must be orbiting much faster than the the disc, creating as the simplest effect a sort of subtle, complex gravitational strobe as their precessing elliptical paths brings them closer and further from each other....
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[18:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:38] <exec> 08└─Delusions continue! It's amazing how delusions about "being great again" result in exactly the opposite. If you want to see the enemy, look in the mirror. Can't be more true for British .... or Americans these days.
[18:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:39] <exec> 08└─It isn't about being great - quite the opposite. It is about democracy at the expense of economic and political security. UK spent best part of 200 years fighting for parliamentary democracy. EU is very not-democratic with significant legislative power. Time to take it back, at some financial cost.
[18:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:41] <exec> 08└─Most of the "pro" rhetoric seems to be based around immigration, etc. As with the US, I'd suspect a bit of external influence on that one. Not all, but some.
[18:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: 1) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:43] <exec> 08└─The biggest mistake was Nigel Farage's decision to not lead the Brexit plan and instead let someone who didn't want to leave the European Union do it instead. Theresa May's Brexit plans were just "Stay in the EU while giving up our say in the EU." The United Kingdom just needs trade agreements with...
[18:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:46] <exec> 08└─> Most of the "pro" rhetoric seems to be based around immigration, etc Let's say average brexit voter wants to limit the "freedom of movement" clause in the EU. What recourse do they have? Is there any way, apart from Brexit, to seek to limit the "freedom of movement" clause?
[18:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:48] <exec> 08└─> Nigel Farage's decision to not lead the Brexit plan The british system doesn't work like this. One needs to command a majority in the houses of parliament to do business, which Farage did not have (by a couple orders of magnitude).
[18:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:50] <exec> 08└─If the main concern were that the EU was undemocratic, then why did so much of the rhetoric center around immigration? Also, if the problem was undemocratic institutions, why was the proposed solution to cut off all connections to the continent rather than, say, a concerted push for more power going...
[18:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Step Aside Crop Circles, Check Out this Rotating Ice Circle in Maine River - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:00] <exec> 08└─You can do these with a good chainsaw and a rope. If you really want to set it spinning then an outboard motor won't hurt either. These ice carousels were all the rage two years ago [sitra.fi].
[18:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:33] <exec> 08└─Did you perhaps miss the parent comment talking about diluting the brine with seawater? Any way you cut it, implying that the brine is inherently toxic just plain isn't accurate. Yeah, this could be an engineering problem, but it isn't pouring toxic waste into the waterways like they are trying to i...
[18:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:34] <exec> 08└─It will never dilute to "pretty much the same as seawater". Eventually the worlds oceans will be a (dead) Salton Sea. It's a chemistry lesson.
[18:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:36] <exec> 08└─All of those countries have vast, arid regions. Why don't they grade a section of the desert flat and dump it there? They're not growing anything there so you don't care about the ground water. Percolation would be minimal anyway because once you get a salt crust started the ponds are essentially se...
[18:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES - Massive Monitor Menagerie - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:49] <exec> 08└─The article though - wtf would you need 10Gb ethernet for cloud gaming? The 'net speed won't be more than 1G. Maybe for local streaming, but not cloud...
[18:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Play Store Android Apps Must Have 64-Bit Versions by August 2019 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:59] <exec> 08└─Ignorance is strong here.... Java != Javascript.
[18:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:24] <exec> 08└─Nope. Not sure if this was attempting to be humorous because people actually have thought that using alcohol is a good method for removal. Any irritants but just scraping the tick off is liable to cause the tick to disgorge part of its stomach contents, causing a higher chance of infection. While th...
[18:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:33] <exec> 08└─"No, but I will require such transcripts if you want to call him the most transparent."
[18:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:34] <exec> 08└─The bill passed with huge majorities. It wouldn't need Trump other than the Senate seems to be held hostage by the Majority Leader who won't disagree with Trump in the slightest anymore. Did his wife do something corrupt that Trump knows about? (she works for Trump.) Conspiracies aside, Trump wasn't...
[18:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:36] <exec> 08└─Good. So long as he doesn't touch HIPAA.
[18:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:04] <exec> 08└─And another thing: TURN OFF YOUR FUCKING FOG LAMPS!!! It's bad enough that the headlights are blindingly bright, but these fucksticks have their fog lamps on too, some that are just as bad as the headlights!
[18:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:06] <exec> 08└─BUT is it really a laser? Aren't most lasers fairly narrowband? I can understand the use of lasers in stuff like LIDAR but for illuminating a wide range of stuff for human vision wouldn't you need something with a broader spectrum? I think it might be based on SLED/SLDs: https://en.wikipedia.org
[18:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:08] <exec> 08└─The problem with those lights isn't the brightness, it's them being improperly aimed and often coming from taller vehicles. I'm not sure what the law is elsewhere, but around here there are rules that prohibit lights from being aimed too high. Unfortunately, enforcement seems to be lax. This inventi...
[18:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:10] <exec> 08└─Laser beams do diverge over a distance, and they could increase this effect as needed so that it delivers the right amount of illumination to an object 1 kilometer away, for example. I assume a complete system will use smaller infrared lasers or something to measure the distance to an object, calcul...
[18:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:12] <exec> 08└─Depends how they're aimed. The current issue we have with those bright head lights is that they're often not aimed properly. If they're aimed properly, you don't get much extra distance out of the lights, but you do get a bit of extra light bouncing to the sides. One of the big concerns I'd have is...
[18:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:15] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. At 90kph, you'd be doing that distance in 40 seconds, at 113kph is more like 30 seconds. You need roughly 5 seconds at a minimum to drive safely, and 10 seconds is a more reasonable number. 30 seconds is significant overkill and in practice, you'd probably want to aim the headlight down...
[18:40:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bussdriver [6876] 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 1457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:07] <exec> 08└─Waste of time; probably just to bolster support with the corporate sources of their institutions funding... (if not already getting promoted, big PR firms know the playbook... one doesn't have to pay off people to get useful results.) We already have plenty on tribalism and identity psychology showi...
[18:40:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 386 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:49] <exec> 08└─The problem I have with GMO's is the thinking behind it and others: Lets fuck with food for profit. Lets fuck with the environment for profit. If we kill a few people, it's okay because lawsuits are cheap, we won't probably go to jail and look at the profit! We don't even need to think about consequ...
[18:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:13] <exec> 08└─just look at cancer rates and try to prove various industry is responsible. it will be the same with these arrogant fucks. no accountability.
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[19:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:43] <exec> 08└─The big mistake was David Cameron's decision to call for the referendum in the first place, fully confident that "No" would win resoundingly. Nigel Farage and the UKIP has never had the votes needed to lead the UK government either inside or outside of Parliament, and thus is not entitled to lead Br...
[19:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:45] <exec> 08└─I believe that the lack of democracy is an underlying cause. I don't think that anyone in the British government has identified this problem, but that it is key underlying issue that causes all of the other issues surrounding Brexit. For example, no one is arguing against the lage UK aid budget (1%...
[19:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:47] <exec> 08└─EU is very not-democratic
[19:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:49] <exec> 08└─As noted in the article just now: "The government has survived a vote of no confidence, tabled by Labour" "The motion was defeated by a 19 vote margin of 306 to 325"
[19:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:52] <exec> 08└─So the English now know how the peoples in Scotland & Waled have felt for awhile now. If only they were that introspective or self-aware... We seem to like (need?) some form of representstive governments. Some prefer that representation to be only in one person (monarch/authoritarian), and at the ot...
[19:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:54] <exec> 08└─Who wants to trade for haggis or spotted dick? no one. That's the UK's main economic problem.
[19:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:39] <exec> 08└─Could make bricks out of it for construction, the f you don't mind them dissolving when it rains.
[19:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:40] <exec> 08└─I was thinking along the lines of aerating the brine like you aerate an aquarium - mechanically pumping air into the brine. But, apparently, that won't work worth squat because it won't cause any salts to settle out of solution. So, about the only other thing I can think of has already been mentione...
[19:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:42] <exec> 08└─Brine is a technically accurate word, but it's being used here as a fear word. No, it's being used correctly in the context of waste management. AKA, a term of art. Seawater naturally contains about 35 grams of salt per liter, what would usually be described as 35 parts per thousand (ppt). A desalin...
[19:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:44] <exec> 08└─"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
[19:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:47] <exec> 08└─later in TFA they call out copper and chlorine in particular, both of which are in seawater already. Now perhaps I am not up to date, but the methods of desalination I am aware of (distillation and filtration) don't involve adding anything to the water. Am I missing a step where they throw "toxic" (...
[19:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:49] <exec> 08└─And, since it's being put to beneficial use, it's no longer defined as a waste!
[19:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Play Store Android Apps Must Have 64-Bit Versions by August 2019 - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:12] <exec> 08└─What ignorance? I'm aware of three categories of application on Android: - Apps written mostly in Java, which are run in a JIT engine - Apps written mostly in JavaScript, which are run in a different JIT engine (V8 as part of Android System WebView) - Apps written mostly in native code, which must b...
[19:35:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 441 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:27] <exec> 08└─This is a wild life/biology/science article it certainly is intereseting. It does not include gore nor anything shocking unless you click on it. Just because you find ticks gross, and i do also, it does not detract the knowledge that, for example snakes are also affected by ticks. I did not know tha...
[19:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:36] <exec> 08└─Also, Lyme disease causes neurological problems. [mayoclinic.org] Hmmm....Aris, you might be onto something here!
[19:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:21] <exec> 08└─Ball now in China's court, "I see your bet and raise you" https://www.popularmechanics.com [popularmechanics.com]
[19:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:49] <exec> 08└─> Bandersnatch's "dark and violent themes" reflect poorly on its brand. Oh, you mean the series where a dictator slowly crushed the bones in a kid's hand to "prepare him for the firing squad"? (Journey to the Year 3000, the last "bad end" you can get before the good ending.) For assorted other such...
[19:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Sued for Violating "Choose Your Own Adventure" Trademark - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:50] <exec> 08└─No, that is trademarked in France and shall be viciously protected by itself from itself.
[19:37:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:20] <exec> 08└─How about prove that statement using only facts? It is a tough bar you'll have to reach since Trump has met with Putin multiple times without any other US personnel around.
[19:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:52] <exec> 08└─I was going to go into how the "Patriot Act" is an abominable oxymoron, but how others don't have to be. Then I thought, this is politics, it's entirely possible that most bills don't do what they claim.
[19:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:54] <exec> 08└─Let's hope he can do the same for scientific journals
[19:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:56] <exec> 08└─That dish with the fava beans was excellent!
[19:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:58] <exec> 08└─There are all kinds of reasons that valid data may not be publicly released. This law will exclude those datasets from any policy making.
[19:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:00] <exec> 08└─OK where is the link to him being convicted of a crime, which is the bar for calling someone criminal. Also, I hate Clintons for being lying rapists and murderers. Aren't you supposed to have a conviction of rape or murder before you call someone that? It's pretty sad I can't tell if this is a joke...
[19:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:34] <exec> 08└─As well it should be, at this point the essential bits of how to build and operate a car safely is pretty well established. Additional features and the like should be added and changed cautiously. The bigger issue tends to be that we allow cars to use the brake lights as brakelights and turn signals...
[19:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:36] <exec> 08└─Thankfully, newer cars tends to automatically turn the lights on for you in such conditions. Make it easier to just let the car do it and you solve 1/2 the problem.
[19:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:38] <exec> 08└─You inspired a thought that I'm writing before thinking about it, but how about VR goggles for all of this? I've noticed many dashcams have (some much) better night vision than I do. I see very well at night, but maybe too well. Yeah, I think I like the idea, until something goes wrong, but it's pre...
[19:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:38] <exec> 08└─The attitude of: well these piglets would be dead anyway, is a bit naive. I'm guessing Oscar Mayer, just ramped up production to meet their demands. It sounds like you work at one of the more purposeful labs. Animal testing has a purpose, and it sounds like your department is a necessary evil. Howe...
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[20:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Evidence of Superconductivity at Near Room Temperature - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:39] <exec> 08└─Sounds great, and very interesting from a theoretical perspective. However, it doesn't sound immediately useful. Have we got anything that can contain a substance at such high pressures in a small enough package to be practical? Maybe carbon nanotubes? From what I read, they have 63 GPa tensile stre...
[20:33:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:45] <exec> 08└─Delusions continue! It's amazing how delusions about "being great again" result in exactly the opposite. If you want to see the enemy, look in the mirror. Can't be more true for British .... or Americans these days.
[20:33:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 740 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:52] <exec> 08└─If the main concern were that the EU was undemocratic, then why did so much of the rhetoric center around immigration? Also, if the problem was undemocratic institutions, why was the proposed solution to cut off all connections to the continent rather than, say, a concerted push for more power going...
[20:33:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 393 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:54] <exec> 08└─The big mistake was David Cameron's decision to call for the referendum in the first place, fully confident that "No" would win resoundingly. Nigel Farage and the UKIP has never had the votes needed to lead the UK government either inside or outside of Parliament, and thus is not entitled to lead Br...
[20:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, they can. They can raise the matter through their MEPs who can then raise it in the EU Parliament, or they can raise the matter through their MPs to escalate to their heads of state who can then take the matter to the EU as well. The latter is exactly what David Cameron was doing when he went t...
[20:34:03] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 747 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:04] <exec> 08└─None of that is true. The UK has spent 200 years (and more) fighting for the interests of the UK. (Ask the people of India for example). The pro-Brexit bunch are, without exception, the privileged few that feel they are born to rule, and want to regain that. Do a quick search to find out how many o...
[20:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:06] <exec> 08└─Which is how we discover that the pro-Brexit mob do not have the courage of their convictions. In any normal world, a wounded Prime Minister would be rolled by an ambitious rival from her own party, but as we see, they won't vote for her Brexit "plan" but they won't take the bull by the horns and t...
[20:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:08] <exec> 08└─They could have chosen more competent representation, primarily at Westminster. For example, did you know that when the most Eastern-European nations joined in 2004, most EU member states imposed strict limits on the number of foreign workers they would allow [migrationpolicy.org]: During the access...
[20:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:10] <exec> 08└─Bit of a squeaker shows the level of confidence and disarray in parliament.
[20:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:13] <exec> 08└─My impression was that pro-brexiters are mostly victims of gentrification and growing economic inequality and other people who for whatever reason think that current government doesn't represent them.
[20:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:15] <exec> 08└─The Republic of Ireland is a member of the EU; the "ruling" party of Northern Ireland wants to stay in the UK, but somehow not have a customs border with the EU on the island (which the Republic also opposes) or the sea. Those are mutually exclusive, except in some sort of delusional fantasy. Either...
[20:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:17] <exec> 08└─Close yes, but also pretty much as expected. Conservatives + DUP allies vote one way, almost everyone else votes the other, independents do whatever they think best, and maybe a few voting against party lines. It's pretty much exactly the current breakdown of Parliament, less any absentees, abstaine...
[20:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:19] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the "democracy" you're throwing out is one that still requires a hereditary monarch's seal of approval on all laws and has half of their electoral body be just whatever dumbasses were born into rich families.
[20:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:10] <exec> 08└─TFA's suggestion of using the brine to irrigate seawater tolerant crops is informative about the author's knowledge on this topic.
[20:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:12] <exec> 08└─The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water
[20:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:14] <exec> 08└─funny thing is, most sheepple will 100% believe crap like this before even considering it's globalized capitalism the culprit of contamination, of sea and air, global warming, insect and mammal die off...
[20:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:16] <exec> 08└─crap indeed, but i hope it was funny crap. sheeples dont seem to get to smile alot anymore nowadays ...
[20:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Play Store Android Apps Must Have 64-Bit Versions by August 2019 - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:41] <exec> 08└─From "Get your apps ready for the 64-bit requirement" [googleblog.com]: Test for issues locally once you’ve rebuilt your app.
[20:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:50] <exec> 08└─I'm not a "their" either. Just stop.
[20:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:25] <exec> 08└─For the real eye-openers about Trumps business dealings you need to look at things like partnerships with companies like Bayrock (Trump Soho)....companies that pretty clearly are just money laundering fronts for the Russian mob: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.w...
[20:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:27] <exec> 08└─So you've gone full DINO huh? http://lmgtfy.com [lmgtfy.com] What is the point of your post? Did someone criticize Trump for signing this legislation?
[20:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:29] <exec> 08└─You realize that was the description of the legislation Trump signed right? Your post doesn't even make sense oh Lord of Edginess.
[20:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:31] <exec> 08└─Actually reality is 100% the opposite of what you think. Trump's supporters are the brainwashed masses who are repeatedly the most uninformed demographic. Keep projecting though!
[20:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, people have to be willfully ignorant to think Trump is not super fucking shady. Sure we have to wait for a criminal conviction in order to definitively say so, but at BEST the guy is a stupid fool used by criminals. That seems unlikely and is hardly much better for a POTUS. I am shocked by som...
[20:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:10] <exec> 08└─A shotgun will turn these lights off very nicel Funny - but yes, there is some limit.
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[21:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Raises Monthly Prices on All of its US Plans; Here's How Much You'll Pay - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:34] <exec> 08└─They try to make you think it costs $12 by charging $12.99, but it is actually closer to $13. I dont appreciate being treated like a fool.
[21:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Raises Monthly Prices on All of its US Plans; Here's How Much You'll Pay - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:35] <exec> 08└─Seriously, folks, when I browse Netflix, the "Netflix Original" logo on a show is a turn-off, I'll only go back and look at those when none of the non "Netflix" labeled options are appealing. Bird Box and friends certainly wasn't worth my share of $12B to me. I'd be much happier with a 2 HD stream s...
[21:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Raises Monthly Prices on All of its US Plans; Here's How Much You'll Pay - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:37] <exec> 08└─That's almost every product or service ever though. How about a $129 battery case [theverge.com]?
[21:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Raises Monthly Prices on All of its US Plans; Here's How Much You'll Pay - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:40] <exec> 08└─How much are the DVD plans' princing being raised?
[21:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Raises Monthly Prices on All of its US Plans; Here's How Much You'll Pay - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:42] <exec> 08└─I'd rather have my tonsils extracted through my ears.
[21:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Netflix Raises Monthly Prices on All of its US Plans; Here's How Much You'll Pay - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:44] <exec> 08└─Yea last I saw they had like 4 "sun is about to blow up" miniseries and also some others about asteroids and giant waves that were essentially the same plot.
[21:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Raises Monthly Prices on All of its US Plans; Here's How Much You'll Pay - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:47] <exec> 08└─As other companies try to chip at Netflix's dominance with their own services, you are going to see Netflix double down on original content out of necessity (self-preservation). And I don't think this original content is necessarily bad. One thing you might be missing is the blockbusters; they spent...
[21:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Raises Monthly Prices on All of its US Plans; Here's How Much You'll Pay - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:49] <exec> 08└─In addition to Kodi, and RedBox, there's also your local library which loans DVDs for free. Ours allows 10 at a time for up to a week between renewals.
[21:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Raises Monthly Prices on All of its US Plans; Here's How Much You'll Pay - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:51] <exec> 08└─Fuck Netflix and its continual jerking around of its customers, who ( oh by the way ) are the ONLY reason it exists. I can get virtually anything worth watching without using Netflix, and I can get it for free. Netflix will never get so much as one dollar from me.
[21:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Evidence of Superconductivity at Near Room Temperature - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:00] <exec> 08└─The best thing about this is that there seem to be rivals, and they're having a race. The previous record, with the same material, was set by a different team: https://arxiv.org . Like evolution, science progresses quickest when there's competitive pressure. Apparently models show tha...
[21:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:30] <exec> 08└─In this case, the post I was responding to was suggesting that someone who has never had the support of the majority of Commons nor the majority of British voters should be in charge of Brexit. This definitely isn't a case where either the House of Lords nor Royal Assent has gotten in the way: Royal...
[21:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:31] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the Republican Party in the US. When they were the minority party during most of the Obama years, they were very loud and vocal with all the things he was doing wrong and how horrible everything was being run. Then they got the majority on the House side and they were very good at opposi...
[21:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 1988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:33] <exec> 08└─Quite. Losing the vote does not automatically mean a general election, despite what Corbyn might have wanted. There's a "grace period" whereby any potential PM can try to get a consensus (good luck with that, to be sure) to form the next Government. No party cutrently has a majority, so that could j...
[21:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:35] <exec> 08└─Sure yeah, but "democracy" doesn't mean "one nation wide referendum every 40 years"
[21:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:38] <exec> 08└─I believe that the lack of democracy is an underlying cause. So you would prefer rule by Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson to rule by elected Euro-MPs? You want longer working hours, higher roaming charges, and bring back the lb weight and pounds, shillings and pence? The EU money is big, but its ti...
[21:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:40] <exec> 08└─a leader and try to get shit done. All to many of our leaders get shit done. As for decent policies, not so much.
[21:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:42] <exec> 08└─You are right about the bulk of them. That does not undermine the claim that the pro-Brexit masses are sheeple led by deceitful but cunning lame wolves.
[21:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:45] <exec> 08└─Which country would you call great, then? China? Russia? India? The biggest countries will have an effect on the rest of the world. China, doesn't care about anyone, but China. Same for Russia. India, might be a bit more philanthropic, but I really don't know. The United States of America, like it o...
[21:35:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:33] <exec> 08└─"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
[21:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:40] <exec> 08└─Do you know how much water is in the oceans? It's effectively infinite. To desalinate all of it to the point that you increased the average salt content by 1% you'd have ~1.5 billion liters of fresh water for each person on the planet.
[21:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:42] <exec> 08└─"So long and thanks for all the fish", just took a more sinister turn.
[21:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:45] <exec> 08└─You should Google "Water Cycle" or "Hydrologic Cycle"
[21:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:47] <exec> 08└─Those are all excellent questions A/C, thanks. I propose we put 6,000 km of water on Florida to answer them. In the name of science, of course.
[21:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:49] <exec> 08└─I remember seeing on the news, back when I was a kid, he built a spaceship out of junkyard parts and hauled an iceberg to Saudi Arabia. I think the Saudis paid him by providing free gasoline to Mayberry forever.
[21:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:51] <exec> 08└─Idea: Build a brine-desalination plant!
[21:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:54] <exec> 08└─Let it evaporate
[21:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:56] <exec> 08└─I have a delicious solution: add French fries and malt vinegar.
[21:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:58] <exec> 08└─Its Florida. Who cares?
[21:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES - Massive Monitor Menagerie - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:12] <exec> 08└─Thanks, assumed a bit, assumed wrong. Still can fit 32 images with space leftover...
[21:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES - Massive Monitor Menagerie - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:13] <exec> 08└─We have a 4K 55" screen that spends most of its time on "photo album" showing a selection of high resolution WebCam images from the past few days at various beaches. We also sometimes throw on a (lower res) webcam video feed from various mildly interesting places around the world. It's not Hollywood...
[21:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:51] <exec> 08└─a good method for removal [...] though I have to admit I like using a notched credit card instead of forceps or tweezers for people
[21:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:52] <exec> 08└─I may need to upgrade.
[21:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Lays Out Plans for Future Circular Collider - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:39] <exec> 08└─Do not worry. The Queen of Heaven is on the move, in the USA, in Mexico, in Canada, in the Congo, in France, in Sri Lanka, in China, in Germany, her torch held high.
[21:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, Hillary is an honest saint and would've certainly been better. (Hint: She would have been much worse)
[21:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:21] <exec> 08└─For transparency it is required to actually know what is going on. Since Trump changes his mind continuously and flips and reverses positions carefully laid out by his staff with a single Tweeted lie, reverse again to find actual policy. Transparency also requires honesty, the single virtue that Tru...
[21:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:23] <exec> 08└─No, reality code for "anti-Trump".
[21:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:25] <exec> 08└─If Trump did champion real, foward-thinking legislation on climate change to lower global atmospheric carbon dioxide we would already be living in upside-down world. Or yes, we'd all look for how he or his family personally makes money off it, or how it says that will occur but in fact sells more of...
[21:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:03] <exec> 08└─BMW's electric future-looking sportscar has had laser headlights for years.
[21:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:05] <exec> 08└─Then you wouldn't be able to see other cars on the road lol (I'm kidding)
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[22:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Raises Monthly Prices on All of its US Plans; Here's How Much You'll Pay - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:44] <exec> 08└─Seriously, if they want to keep squeezing cash outta my wallet, I better see less "Y7" and more "NC-17" content. If the sequel to BirdBox doesn't have full-on B-List celebrities portraying a zombie-orgy falling into meat-grinders, I'm headed right back to the 'Bay.
[22:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Raises Monthly Prices on All of its US Plans; Here's How Much You'll Pay - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:45] <exec> 08└─As I'm laying in bed, I just type the name of the movie, the year, and "free hd streaming" into the search box on my phone. Then I click the chromecast icon. Super fast and Easy. Every time I see someone using Netflix it takes them like 5 minutes to start a video. As a bonus, I'll usually watch my s...
[22:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Raises Monthly Prices on All of its US Plans; Here's How Much You'll Pay - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:47] <exec> 08└─Their script writing bot is still in alpha testing.
[22:34:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 1157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:17] <exec> 08└─They could have chosen more competent representation, primarily at Westminster. For example, did you know that when the most Eastern-European nations joined in 2004, most EU member states imposed strict limits on the number of foreign workers they would allow [migrationpolicy.org]: During the access...
[22:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:32] <exec> 08└─When someone is complaining about a lack of democracy, they usually mean that the democracy isn't doing what they want it to do. For example, in the UK democracy, pro-Brexit MPs have never even come close to holding a majority, ergo the problem isn't a lack of European democracy, it's either a lack...
[22:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:33] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a great excuse to have another 20-year civil war. Those are so much fun!
[22:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:35] <exec> 08└─But Kim Jung Un has great chemistry with Trump. And North Korea agrees with Denuclearization showing how fantastical a negotiator Trump is. North Korea's definition: Denuclearization. We fire all our nuclear weapons at you. We have none left. Denuclearization.
[22:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:38] <exec> 08└─It is a hell of a lot easier to cry "NO" and hold your breath and pout . . .
[22:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:40] <exec> 08└─...The United States of America, like it or not, is one of the best countries to have as a world leader...
[22:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:42] <exec> 08└─and has half of their electoral body be just whatever dumbasses were born into rich families.
[22:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:44] <exec> 08└─I can't speak for the GP's opinion, but by a lot of measures the greatest country in the world today is Norway, with its closest competitors being Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Luxembourg. Their people are generally very happy with their lives, highly productive, on average well-off, have good acces...
[22:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:47] <exec> 08└─Which country would you call great, then?
[22:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:49] <exec> 08└─Because we're talking about democracy at a scale that makes sense. I'm sure if put to a simple majority vote in the U.N., "Should the United States divide a couple trillion dollars between the rest of the world's countries?", that question would easily pass. Or for your example, let's instead phrase...
[22:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:51] <exec> 08└─The United States of America, like it or not, is one of the best countries to have as a world leader. You should tell the Republicans that.
[22:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:53] <exec> 08└─Whether that's the real reason people are pro-Brexit is a different matter, but widening the scope of democracy doesn't solve all problems.
[22:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Step Aside Crop Circles, Check Out this Rotating Ice Circle in Maine River - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:04] <exec> 08└─"Physics causes some strange phenomena, like slowly-rotating discs of ice on a frozen river that resemble UFO saucers. But have no fear, science is here to explain away your excitement. " If every time I get excited about something science is just going to ruin it for me then who needs science. The...
[22:35:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 841 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:15] <exec> 08└─I thought that "duh" was the appropriate response. When you desalinate seawater, of course you're going to make fresh water and saltier water. If you store the brine in a lake you'll eventually make a "Sea Salt" factory (complete with microplastic particles...) If you concentrate the brine and eject...
[22:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:00] <exec> 08└─encase it in glass, then concrete, then BUILD A FECKING WALL!
[22:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:01] <exec> 08└─Evaporation ponds are a very common method for brine disposal, already. [sciencedirect.com] Or they can do like we do here and use wastewater injection! That's the one that creates all the earthquakes that fracking gets blamed for. Brine is a common effluent from oil and gas extraction and injection...
[22:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:04] <exec> 08└─... You can't aerate the water to remove some portion of the salt.
[22:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:06] <exec> 08└─out the brine into a series of lakes. Evaporation removes the water. Truck it to a desert or other place on land. Help yourself by making fresh water from a vast natural resource. Help the environment by removing salt and chemicals. Win win! Accept this to be a cost for fresh water.
[22:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poly Ticks, Australian style - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:00] <exec> 08└─Could be worse. The snake could have been covered with politicians and lawyers.
[22:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:31] <exec> 08└─Yes other Presidents have met privately with heads of state, but always with an interpreter or other official. As with many things Trump his meetings with Putin are "unpresidented". If he was breaking with tradition and protocol in a good way then you wouldn't have so many people upset about it, but...
[22:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:32] <exec> 08└─Bbbbbut her emails!!! lol you fuckers are certifiable, what is the point of bitching about Hillary in reply to "no one likes a lying criminal like Trump"? Is that all you got? Your brains stopped trying after Nov. 2016?
[22:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:35] <exec> 08└─"unpresidented"
[22:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:37] <exec> 08└─Wasn't that democratic tribe code for "anti-Trump"? No, our code for that is "Sane."
[22:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:18] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't blind other cars. But I thought you might say: you wouldn't be able to see pedestrians on the road.
[22:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:19] <exec> 08└─Unless that also takes reflective surfaces into account, this is still a very stupid idea.
[22:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:20] <exec> 08└─Actually, that's exactly how Dunning-Kruger works. People who have insufficient expertise in a subject by definition do not have the skills required to objectively understand how little they understand. So people can learn a little bit and think that they are experts when they arn't. Hence the phras...
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[23:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Responds to Radeon VII Short Supply Rumors - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:35] <exec> 08└─Because if she did, it would be impossible to resist saying "Fuck you, Lisa Su".
[23:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Raises Monthly Prices on All of its US Plans; Here's How Much You'll Pay - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:54] <exec> 08└─No regrets. I can't wait till the general population starts realizing the privacy invasions that come with online services and we revert back to the 90s when the internet was not a requirement to use your computer. Culture should not be algorithmically driven.
[23:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Raises Monthly Prices on All of its US Plans; Here's How Much You'll Pay - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:56] <exec> 08└─I can't wait till the general population starts realizing the privacy invasions that come with online services and we revert back to the 90s when the internet was not a requirement to use your computer.
[23:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Raises Monthly Prices on All of its US Plans; Here's How Much You'll Pay - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:58] <exec> 08└─Funny, I'm the opposite. I don't watch any television rated TV-MA, and I watch very few "R" rated films. Even then, I read up on interesting-looking "R" rated films on a couple of different websites such as imdb.com and commonsensemedia.org before I watch them. I dropped my Netflix subscription a co...
[23:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Netflix Raises Monthly Prices on All of its US Plans; Here's How Much You'll Pay - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:00] <exec> 08└─Pretty soon, the original programming is all Netflix will have left. Disney has been pulling their content from Netflix in favor of Hulu and the upcoming Disney+. AT&T/WarnerMedia announced that their own video streaming service will launch at the end of the year and almost all of their content on o...
[23:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Evidence of Superconductivity at Near Room Temperature - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:10] <exec> 08└─random thought - what value of acceleration due to gravity on a planet or other celestial body would yield this pressure? It occurs if chemistry and high pressure is needed, it may occur naturally - although we may never observe the structure!!
[23:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:01] <exec> 08└─I've often thought that the Queen of Great Britain should sell Northern Ireland back to Ireland for one gold coin. The rest of Great Britain could walk away from the whole mess, and whatever happens in Ireland happens (hopefully good things; I wish no one in either place ill will). Sure, that would...
[23:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:02] <exec> 08└─If you live in SE Asia, are concerned for the sovereignty of your nation, and are not Chinese, you're probably thankful that the USA is still a world leader and world naval power.
[23:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:04] <exec> 08└─You're missing the point with your strawman, and being purposely dense while knowing the real answer. First, the parliament is not the only body that makes the rules, and oh boy do you have a surprise coming when you find out how many of the real rule makers are not elected. Second - guys from Bucha...
[23:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:07] <exec> 08└─Nice bunch of assertions. Thanks for your input Boris. Care to provide some links to back it up?
[23:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:09] <exec> 08└─And If you live in Central or South America, are concerned for the sovereignty of your nation you probably wish you lived in SE Asia.
[23:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Step Aside Crop Circles, Check Out this Rotating Ice Circle in Maine River - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:19] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a conversation I had with the editor of a local newspaper. They were talking about how people were doing what would now be called "random acts of kindness" and "paying it forward." One line from the story read something like, "And even our local Nobel Prize winner got in on the fun by...
[23:35:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 284 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:37] <exec> 08└─As the concentration of salt increases the ability to dissolve oxygen decreases. i.e. there is only so much "room" in solution. Adding more of a highly soluble substance (Salt) can cause lower solubility substances to come out of solution. In chemistry this is known as "Salting Out".
[23:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dirty Truth about Turning Seawater into Drinking Water - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:19] <exec> 08└─Huh, I think you just hit on a decent idea for storing nuclear waste! No one will want to even get near the walls. Sadly this would have pretty much zero impact on illegal immigration, but I think it'd be worth it just to have a Nuclear Wall.
[23:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:49] <exec> 08└─Given how he's handled himself this past year, I have great difficulty believing that he would be willing to sign anything that is beneficial to everyone unless he himself directly and particularly benefits from it. So I am going to assume that something has been snuck into the bill, or there is som...
[23:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:51] <exec> 08└─Duh... it's probably the clause that requires special prosecutors to hand over all their files to targets.
[23:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act  - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:53] <exec> 08└─What's actually more astonishing is how quick so many are to ignore the way he's been spouting Kremlin propaganda...shit that nobody outside of the Kremlin would ever say. Especially that recent crap about how the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan because of terrorism and was right to do so! I mean f...
[23:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:35] <exec> 08└─For me it's that the inside of my vehicle is so brightly lit by the car behind me that it's 100% distracting. It's illegal to drive with interior lights on, so it should be illegal for someone to illuminate my interior similarly.
[23:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oh, SSH, IT Please see this: Malicious Servers can fsck with your PC's Files During scp Slurps - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:58] <exec> 08└─Have you looked at Redox OS [redox-os.org]? It's a UNIX-like microkernel OS largely written in Rust.
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