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[00:33:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 1023 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:49] <exec> 08└─Those Facebook like buttons are really offensive. I don't have, never had, and will never have a Facebook account. Why should Facebook know anything about me at all? If you were ever in a photo that ended up on Facebook, and someone tagged your name with the photo, then you can bet all photos, at le...
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[00:34:01] <exec> 08└─Since it seems the only one** to do it, does it matter how proper they do it? ** maybe except the Tor-browser firefox-derivative
[00:34:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 561 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:36] <exec> 08└─"We have finally manage to disable the robot attack forces attempting to spy on our planet. We will be dismantling this attacker at a later date to learn what we can about the alien's technology. We've shot down many of their robots already, and we've noticed that it takes quite some time between at...
[00:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:41] <exec> 08└─I would has assembled them like a tortoise shell, with little air nozzles at the top to blow the sand away.
[00:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:43] <exec> 08└─"We already told you we apologize for Xargon The Fifth's truly tragic demise. Honestly, given the size of the planet and the transit times, we really could not have planned that the heatshield would crush him, especially on the holy occasion of his Seventh Rebirth. We reiterate our offer to keep the...
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[00:34:45] <exec> 08└─"We of course thank you for disposing of our predecessor, Xargon the Fifth, who was preventing us from taking control of our empire. But now that our rule is cemented, we have no further use of foreign alliances and thus kindly demand that you leave. Now." - His Majesty Xargon, Sixth of His Name, We...
[00:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:54] <exec> 08└─Because you haven't earned enough to even move out of the basement, so why would I pay for something that even your own mom doesn't value?
[00:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:55] <exec> 08└─Sounds like your philosophy is that only rich people should get paid for their work? Is this some kind of reverse communism?
[00:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:16] <exec> 08└─Aha makes a bit more sense. Then again: The latest data spill comes less than a year after a cyberattack on SingHealth that had exposed the medical data of about 1.5 million people
[00:37:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rich [945] 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 2530 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:03] <exec> 08└─Writing from very current own experience. I have designed a "vintage-style" electronics product that now enters the small-scale manufacturing phase after I've hand-built two evolving prototypes. There's one particular PCB, eurocard sized, of which I need eight per finished device. It has slightly ov...
[00:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:37] <exec> 08└─This here.... I somehow think if they had some custom screw that magically only could be made in china. They could buy the stuff by the metric ton from them... This smells like someone did not plan correctly and wants to somehow blame someone else other than the supply chain manager.
[00:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:38] <exec> 08└─Complacent I think is not quite the right word (close though). More like not enough competition. What you experienced from Shenzhen is competition. You could ring up 20+ guys who would do the same thing. They know that. Where you are at it sounds like there are maybe 3. Silicon Valley used to be lik...
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[00:37:41] <exec> 08└─This... We have outsourced our pollution. China is just starting to clue into that. Think about it. Lets say a screw cost an extra 1 cent to make here. Lets say you use 10k of the things. Hell, that is a rounding error in some productions. But 2 extra people to run the OSHA and pollution management....
[00:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:43] <exec> 08└─Nah, you could do 1000 a day of these on a CNC swiss lathe for $0.25 a piece. The tooling to make them properly with a press would be around $45,000 up front with minimal marginal cost for the screws. The story here is that Apple would sooner delay time to market than pay 20 cents extra at US market...
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[01:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Novel Cancer Fighting Technique Shows Promise - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:37] <exec> 08└─They did one unpublished crappy mouse experiment and now say a cure is on the way?
[01:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Novel Cancer Fighting Technique Shows Promise - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah "Show's promise" for cancer treatment is useless. Medical white noise. It's like having a "novel technique" for fusion and making a press release saying "we've fused successfully". Great, you and a kid with a homemade tokamak both got the same results.
[01:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Novel Cancer Fighting Technique Shows Promise - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:41] <exec> 08└─The US has a "right to try" policy now, thanks to Trump, actually, so people can actually try these technologies much sooner hopefully.
[01:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Novel Cancer Fighting Technique Shows Promise - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:43] <exec> 08└─https://www.statnews.com/2019/01/29/right-to-try-patients-still-arent-getting-treatment/ [statnews.com]
[01:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Novel Cancer Fighting Technique Shows Promise - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:45] <exec> 08└─We now have a direct right to try treatments, but it does not mean healthcare providers are forced to give you the treatment, it just means the governmental (FDA, etc.) regulations have been relaxed.
[01:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Novel Cancer Fighting Technique Shows Promise - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:48] <exec> 08└─They are only really looking to cure their lack of funding for the next experiments.
[01:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Novel Cancer Fighting Technique Shows Promise - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:50] <exec> 08└─You want to be able to *force* a doctor to give you some wierd ass treatment? Im not in favor of the fda having any role in assessing efficacy whatsoever... but that is way beyond how dumb I thought people could get.
[01:34:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 451 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:14] <exec> 08└─Mozilla gets a lot of negative comments for the quality of Firefox and their lack of focus on core features. While many of the complaints are valid, I still strive to support the organization. From my view, the internet and connected devices are continually getting pushed into walled gardens and the...
[01:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:58] <exec> 08└─"Well, you see ... We kinda had a gust of wind the other day ... Long story short, our early dev prototype for the machine which could take stuff off your planet ... well ... just fell over, and is all borked. We're definitely building a new one, but it sorta pushed our schedule back a liiiittle bit...
[01:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:09] <exec> 08└─And some of those people are normal.
[01:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:11] <exec> 08└─You don't get to be president if you are a normal idiot. I think Trump is some sort of idiot-savant. He is not really that bright generally, but he is a 10th Dan Grand-Master Troll, who wins by making his opponents descend into raging blithering stupidity.
[01:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:33] <exec> 08└─But yeah you're right I should be more reserved. Still, between trusting the Chinese government telling me the guy was an evil cartoon mad scientist chasing fame and fortune and the doctor that tried to immunize two babies from AIDS... Yeah.
[01:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:34] <exec> 08└─I don't think you know what positive and negative mean.
[01:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Superbug Gene' Found in One of the Most Remote Places on Earth - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:13] <exec> 08└─?-lactams by the site which IS UTF-8 compatible, after all? But you just copied that UTF-8 superbug from ScienceDaily w/o proofreading. ScienceDaily, which, by the way, seems to be UTF-8 capable, thus they skipped on the part of proofreading, too. Source w/ UTF-8/proofreading and β-lactam capabilit...
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[02:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Novel Cancer Fighting Technique Shows Promise - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:53] <exec> 08└─> You want to be able to *force* a doctor to give you some wierd ass treatment? I wrote no such thing. I don't quite understand your response but I'll chalk it up to you being AC. Ironic you calling me "dumb". That you somehow misunderstood what I wrote, then replied based on your incorrect belief,...
[02:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Novel Cancer Fighting Technique Shows Promise - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:55] <exec> 08└─We now have a direct right to try treatments, but it does not mean healthcare providers are forced to give you the treatment
[02:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:15] <exec> 08└─You tell me, you're the bigwig scientist here.
[02:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:16] <exec> 08└─I am not a scientist, I am Bezos. Now pay me for my ideas.
[02:40:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:06] <exec> 08└─Well shit, Mozilla have copied everything else in Chrome to the point where it should really be called Chromefox, why stop pretending and just go the whole hog.
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[03:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Considers Building a New $11 Billion Fab in Israel - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:39] <exec> 08└─Thought the USG was stupid in some of the subsides it gives business. Thought Jews were supposed to be smart and crafty and stuff; perhaps their reputation is a bit inflated?. Putting out a $1B subsidy to create a thousand jobs works out to a million dollars per job. There had better be some hellaci...
[03:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Considers Building a New $11 Billion Fab in Israel - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:40] <exec> 08└─Is that why it is delayed?
[03:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Intel Considers Building a New $11 Billion Fab in Israel - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:42] <exec> 08└─If they a ensure appropriate (known and controlled) backdoors, the value of the future secrets they collect should be worth alot more than the subsidy - note, too that "subsidy" can include tax write-downs, rather than direct cash.
[03:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Considers Building a New $11 Billion Fab in Israel - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:45] <exec> 08└─You do know Intel has had one of their major design teams in Israel for a long time, that is where the backdoors generally get inserted. Good thinking though, gotta account for those "non-economic factors" when playing International Geopolitics in the big leagues.
[03:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Considers Building a New $11 Billion Fab in Israel - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:47] <exec> 08└─Didn't you read the article? This is the future-planned 9.5nm++ fab.
[03:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Considers Building a New $11 Billion Fab in Israel - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:49] <exec> 08└─This is the future-planned 9.5nm++ fab. Pfft. Bunch of cavemen banging rocks together. Damn people should be doing subatomic fab by now, outsourced to an exoplanet... where they speak French and Italian!
[03:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Novel Cancer Fighting Technique Shows Promise - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:05] <exec> 08└─Total bullshit. The next move will be "oh, we are so close, but we are short of money!" And when they'll secure their funding, they will say "Oops. it didn't worked as we expected it to. Actually, it is even worser than already existing drugs. With science, you don't always get what you want. Also,...
[03:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Novel Cancer Fighting Technique Shows Promise - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:06] <exec> 08└─My statement stands. No further meaning (that you seem to read in) is meant nor implied. I'm not responsible for your imagination. I don't know what world you live in, but I bet you're a frustrating person to be around if you extrapolate that way. Perhaps your difficulty is that you're looking at it...
[03:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Novel Cancer Fighting Technique Shows Promise - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:08] <exec> 08└─Wake me when Phase III trials have been completed successfully and it has been demonstrated not to unleash zombies on the world (aka I Am Legend). On a different note, if they did succeed I would say more than wipe out Israel's karmic deficit and earn them free drinks anywhere for the next 100 years...
[03:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:35] <exec> 08└─With Google and Facebook tracking everyone and cooperating with nation states we need more companies that recognise basic privacy as a right. Apple and Microsoft have also become spy companies sending huge amounts of telemetry to their own servers (yes, Apple, try installing Little Snitch and marvel...
[03:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:36] <exec> 08└─I hope for your sake you aren't supporting them financially, lest they spend 15k USD of your money replacing master/slave terminology in source code. https://blog.mozilla.org [mozilla.org] "Their award will be used to remove the term “...
[03:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:01] <exec> 08└─It all seems promising, but when you're affecting that much of how a genome is expressed, the risks of unintended consequences has to be pretty real. Given the early(asymptomatic) intervention nature of this treatment, I'm not sure what you'd do to make an ethical preliminary human trial. "Hey we'r...
[03:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:36] <exec> 08└─"In a statement, Whitmer said, “Keeping Michiganders safe during this stretch of dangerously cold temperatures is our priority. Such widespread, extreme conditions have not occurred in Michigan for many years and it is imperative that we are proactive with record-low temperatures being predicted b...
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[03:36:37] <exec> 08└─Is that "y'all" in the singular, or plural sense? I can't tell if you're intending an ad hominem jab, a racist insult, or some flavor of ageism. If the latter two, you best report to remedial sensitivity training before your Chief Diversity Officer gets wind of your bigotry.
[03:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:39] <exec> 08└─I'm impressed you biked to work in that. The cold can be managed, but traction adds a lot of risk. I suspect lower resistance to the cold lies in part in the movement of populations in the last several decades. Dyed-in-the-wool Minnesotans probably remain indomitable, but there are many more people...
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[04:33:41] <exec> 08└─has decided the way to keep making money is to keep making their widgets better, and sell more of what they have now. Gotcha.
[04:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASML Plans to Ship 30 Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) Scanners in 2019 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:43] <exec> 08└─What is controlling the price of these machines?
[04:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASML Plans to Ship 30 Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) Scanners in 2019 - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:45] <exec> 08└─https://seekingalpha.com/article/3980332-can-anyone-beat-asml-sub-10nm-features-maybe [seekingalpha.com] If things got real bad, big players like Intel and Samsung could pump money into a competitor.
[04:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Considers Building a New $11 Billion Fab in Israel - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:58] <exec> 08└─http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/11/01/femtocomputing/ [hplusmagazine.com]
[04:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Intel Considers Building a New $11 Billion Fab in Israel - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:59] <exec> 08└─The taxes won't just "make up the difference". Israel will get some 23% off whatever Intel makes selling Israeli-made chips: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] So, assuming even just 10% of Intel's chips are going to be manufactured in Israel, that $1billi...
[04:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Considers Building a New $11 Billion Fab in Israel - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:01] <exec> 08└─As well, having the Israeli security forces available to help keep others* out of the facilitywould be a bonus. Other governments
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[04:34:03] <exec> 08└─The former kernel team was in Portland and got eliminated in favor of moving all Intel ME design and development to Israel. All of the ARC-era Intel ME flaws would have been designed and developed in Israel as part of the Intel ME userspace. The move to Minix allowed them to eliminate the previous k...
[04:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Distant Kuiper Belt Planetesimal Found Using Occultation - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:29] <exec> 08└─Japanese Scientist Finds New Planet Using the Occult! Researchers expect to find many more in next ritual. Elon Musk has not yet commented on the possibility of when he can send a rocket to visit this exciting new planet. Will the Trump administration demand naming rights?
[04:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:35] <exec> 08└─just imagine how long it would have lasted if it had a windshield wiper...
[04:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah you haven't really lived until you've had to drive without side markers or existing tracks, running mostly on intuition on where it'd make sense for the road to be =)
[04:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 3870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:54] <exec> 08└─Why does everyone here have to be such jerks sometimes? Look, I'm not a fan of alarmism either, but the fact is that these conditions are unusual for their areas, as noted in multiple quotations here about how these areas haven't experienced such temperatures in years. One post above said Chicago ha...
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[04:36:56] <exec> 08└─The fact you think that quote is chicken littling shows you are a bit out of whack. The only thing more ridiculous than headlines of doom are the people searching for more outrage than even the clickbaiters are pushing.
[04:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:59] <exec> 08└─And you *really* need to pay attention to the wind chill factor. -15C with no wind is perfectly doable in t-shirt and jeans for an hour or two (at least, has been for yours truly). -5C but wind-chill down to -15C makes that same outing far more problematic as it strips you of the protective layer of...
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[04:37:01] <exec> 08└─Not the hero SN deserves...
[04:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:03] <exec> 08└─I'm near chicago. I just stepped outside in shorts and a tee shirt and am fine.
[04:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:05] <exec> 08└─Wonderful. Hey manly man, care to spend a couple hours outside in that outfit and report back? No one is saying it's cold enough to cause instant death or some such nonsense. But for things you are used to doing outside for extended periods, you may want to take some precautions, make sure you're pr...
[04:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:53] <exec> 08└─External costs (externalities) are costs directly caused by your action that other people get stuck paying. For example, you could put a scrubber on your smokestack for a total cost of $250,000 but you didn't. As a result, the surrounding community sees $1,000,000/year in excess medical costs for po...
[04:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Superbug Gene' Found in One of the Most Remote Places on Earth - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:09] <exec> 08└─The thing that worries me about bacteriophages is that THEY mutate. What happens when one of them mutates in such a way that it finds, for example, that our mitochondria are delicious?
[04:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Advocates Appointed to Minnesota Autism Council After Measles Outbreak - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:39] <exec> 08└─rudy giuliani presidential cybersecurity advisor?
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[05:33:49] <exec> 08└─Can we take a break from the topic, please? No? Still need to learn what AMD will be doing? But, maybe after it? Pretty please?
[05:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Novel Cancer Fighting Technique Shows Promise - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:24] <exec> 08└─Instead of taking just one drug, take three and hope each cancer cell is killed by at least one. Sounds likely to increase remission rates and decrease recurrence. Sounds like an even better strategy for superbugs (antibiotic-resistant bacteria), though. The problem with cancer (so far) is being abl...
[05:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:37] <exec> 08└─A windshield would require power and wouldn't help after a dusty storm has emptied the batteries.
[05:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:02] <exec> 08└─95F calls for caution, but people in the deep south regularly work in those temperatures with brutal humidity to go with it. Frequent breaks and copious amounts of water are a must, of course.
[05:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:04] <exec> 08└─Sure is frustrating dealing with trolls, try not to feed them.
[05:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:06] <exec> 08└─Your mistakes are your own old man! I say the true path is follow through!! Ok, since you're more articulate than most of the trolls here I'll bother. y'all is plural and was referring to old people who stop using their brains, but to be fair there are plenty of young people making little use of the...
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[06:33:42] <exec> 08└─https://www.anandtech.com/show/13909/ces-2019-amd-ceo-dr-lisa-su [anandtech.com] Most of this was already dripped out in the last week or two but here it is in full.
[06:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASML Plans to Ship 30 Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) Scanners in 2019 - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:53] <exec> 08└─Need fish with chips [bbc.com]
[06:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Considers Building a New $11 Billion Fab in Israel - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:10] <exec> 08└─When they’re not murdering children they’re kudnapping then ransoming. I regard my Jewish friends as well as those Israelis who work for peace as wonderful people. It’s those who commit War Atrocities that I want to see prosecuted before the Human Righrs Tribunal.
[06:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:59] <exec> 08└─After Firefox broke the key-mapping extension, I finally gave up on them. Pale Moon / New Moon is my preferred flavour now.
[06:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:01] <exec> 08└─Never.
[06:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:37] <exec> 08└─Oh shut up virgin.
[06:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unity Announces Game Designed to Test Artificial Intelligence, and $100,000 Prize Pool - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:29] <exec> 08└─Its much easier to write a stable Vulkan driver than a stable OpenGL driver (as least if you bother to optimize it). Also Vulkan is targeted at being a single multi-platform standard, and with the Vulkan portability initiative, it really has a shot. Vulkan is significant progress toward both stabili...
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[07:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:40] <exec> 08└─Again? It was such a waste of time I want hours of my life back. And I think I'll need facepalm insurance in the future.
[07:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:41] <exec> 08└─Step 1. Pirate or stream the movie.
[07:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:44] <exec> 08└─Seriously? Really? Just let me Let Out these Jordan Petersonesque objections! Why is there not White Wakanda? Why are there no White super heros? Why are there "black holes" but not "white holes"? Huh? And, why is there no White whiteness and white identity, because I do not at all want those French...
[07:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASML Plans to Ship 30 Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) Scanners in 2019 - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:02] <exec> 08└─The ROI gods
[07:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASML Plans to Ship 30 Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) Scanners in 2019 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:03] <exec> 08└─With microchips, only microfish.
[07:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Considers Building a New $11 Billion Fab in Israel - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:22] <exec> 08└─That Billion will be back in the local economy long before the building is inaugurated. Fabs cost billions. Even if you don't make the machines, building them a clean room to operate in, and connecting everything they need to run, from roads, through humans, to rare gases, is a local job.
[07:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:11] <exec> 08└─Look on the bright side - it might cut down on the number of calls.
[07:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for 2018 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:31] <exec> 08└─Except that that's a huge pain in the ass and a waste of time. How the hell is that immaterial, even assuming you can get the manufacturer to honor their warranty?
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[08:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:46] <exec> 08└─Y'all! I just love it when the truth results in down-mods, because the truth is just too truthy. Mod away, redneck brethern of the Lesser Education! It is no skin off yourn nose, if you know what I mean and you can squeal like a pig.
[08:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:47] <exec> 08└─The movie in question panders to blacks in order to get their MONEY. It's similar to the crack cocaine or heroin trade : it offers false hope in exchange for money. Hollywood is run by Jews whose ONLY reason for being in the movie business is to GET YOUR MONEY. Most movies are utter crap and "Black...
[08:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:49] <exec> 08└─Hopefully, some self appointed leftie savior of society will anonymously post some racist stuff to get the discussion going.
[08:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:51] <exec> 08└─it was entertaining, but for some reason I didn't find it compelling. maybe it's simply franchise fatigue, or it was too long, but for me the first ironman movie was much deeper. also in the first appearance of t'chaka (in the civil war thing) he seemed a more interesting character as well. or maybe...
[08:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:53] <exec> 08└─Science fiction is now history? My how far down the rabbit hole we've gone.
[08:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:56] <exec> 08└─Wakanda forever!
[08:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:58] <exec> 08└─Black Panther depicts a population with an incredibly strong border and strict immigration laws. The villain wants to do away with that security. It's a working ethnostate showing the benefits of isolation. It got nominated for Best Picture. Wait, what? It's basically an alt-right movie.
[08:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:00] <exec> 08└─Shut up colonizer!
[08:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:02] <exec> 08└─Ah ha! Draw you out, I did, you anti-semite! Now is the time on Sprockets when we mod you down.
[08:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:05] <exec> 08└─Not likely to happen. Just saying.
[08:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Financial Results; Released from Wafer Supply Agreement with Global Foundries for 7nm and Beyond - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:13] <exec> 08└─AMD seems to be the permanent underdog. Always chasing after Intel, which let them live all those years when Intel was the 800-pound gorilla, probably to avoid anti-trust problems. I was just reading an article about AMD's top-of-the-line Ryzen processors. They beat Intel on benchmarks by piling a z...
[08:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Financial Results; Released from Wafer Supply Agreement with Global Foundries for 7nm and Beyond - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:15] <exec> 08└─I was just reading an article about AMD's top-of-the-line Ryzen processors. They beat Intel on benchmarks by piling a zillion cores on the chips. Which is laudable and all (if only software actually made use of that many cores), but: nearly 500 watts?! Just how, exactly, are you supposed to dissipat...
[08:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:35] <exec> 08└─I agree with you completely, which is why I use uMatrix and uBlock Origin, which make life inconvenient for some things, but make my web-browsing a mostly ad-free experience, and less tracked than I normally would be: even so, looking at Firefox Lightbeam [wikipedia.org] is a sobering experience. Th...
[08:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:48] <exec> 08└─Tell it brother. I saw this guy dying from heatstroke and thought, "maybe I should call the paramedics". But, I was so busy laughing myself hoarse that I was like, "fuck it, this dude's a pussy and his time is up".
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[09:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:41] <exec> 08└─Stupid questions beget really stupid answers. The correct answer to this one is "no", followed by "damn no!" Do not people know what a API is? Is it an Interface, a Public interface, that is Authorized. To copyright this would be to attempt to deny any one of these three things. I am shocked, (well,...
[09:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:42] <exec> 08└─Means I can haz (c) on int my_precious(int) then ask for compensation from everyone who dares to steal my property.
[09:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:44] <exec> 08└─Well then, why didn't YOU write the article so it would never see the light of day?
[09:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:46] <exec> 08└─I get that it is going to cause a lot of code refactoring. But won't that also create a lot of new products?
[09:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:49] <exec> 08└─I did. You didn't see it? In the light of day? Oh, dear!
[09:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:08] <exec> 08└─Greeks only colonized places where there was no autochthonous population. With the possible exception of Thebes, where there was a Dragon involved.
[09:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:10] <exec> 08└─i see the funny, but technically you are wrong. the villain wants to use the resources to conquer the world. and in the end the "good guys" do open up the country to the rest of the world (non-violently).
[09:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:12] <exec> 08└─group that wants to see unlimited energy shared with the world vs dude who wants to use that power to dominate and create an autocracy and/or isolationist group opens borders and shares. not sure how either of those conform to your "alt-right" vision. what movie did you watch?
[09:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:14] <exec> 08└─Black Panther depicts a population with an incredibly strong border and strict immigration laws. One that's crumbling. In the end the solution was peacefully opening up Wakanda to an open future. After all when the bigger threat emerged a year or so later, Wakanda's isolation didn't help. Sure the w...
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[09:34:37] <exec> 08└─like this [bt.com]?
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[09:37:59] <exec> 08└─95F is not too hot for physical activity at all. I grew up and spent much of my adult life in the NoVA/DC area and routinely cycled, hiked and did outside chores in those conditions. What slayed me was 111F in Death Valley. Even though I was drinking water continuously, that's well above body tempe...
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[10:33:46] <exec> 08└─Stupid questions beget really stupid answers. The correct answer to this one is "no", followed by "damn no!" Do not people know what a API is? Is it an Interface, a Public interface, that is Authorized. To copyright this would be to attempt to deny any one of these three things. I am shocked, (well,...
[10:33:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:49] <exec> 08└─I get that it is going to cause a lot of code refactoring. But won't that also create a lot of new products?
[10:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:53] <exec> 08└─If copyright lasts forever, so would copyleft. Who knows -- requiring a break with old APIs could mean new copylefted systems targeting modern hardware written from the ground up, and lock-in or lock-out to a growing copyleft ecosystem. It would at least be fun to watch.
[10:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:55] <exec> 08└─While the USA is doing it's darnedest to export the idea of extra-territorial applicability of its laws, the ruling, at present, applies to the USA. For at least a short period, use of APIs in software published outside the jurisdiction of the USA would remain non-copyrighted, until trade treaties a...
[10:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:57] <exec> 08└─Push your left hand on the stack. Push your right hand on the stack. Jump to this location.
[10:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Financial Results; Released from Wafer Supply Agreement with Global Foundries for 7nm and Beyond - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:30] <exec> 08└─I think you have it reversed. It is intel that requires 1 HP industrial refrigerstion units to cool their new cpus: We tracked down the test system the next day and did the full deep dive analysis in our Intel's 28-Core 5GHz Processor And Test System Breaks Cover article. We learned that Intel had i...
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[10:34:45] <exec> 08└─Mmm... vintage Champagne crispy batter... sounds second only to crispy bacon. But yes, those black small thingies sprinkled on top seem to hint of microfish.
[10:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:54] <exec> 08└─or they start calling a lot more often...
[10:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:55] <exec> 08└─Isn't that 2G only? Huh - 2G still lives [wikipedia.org] in some places. Lucky you!
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[11:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:45] <exec> 08└─I really mean it. I would think that's their favorite food. But when they eat it, so many are dieing. Sad!!
[11:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:46] <exec> 08└─I dont think this needs to be related to frying the food per se, just that fried food tricks your body into overconsuming.
[11:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:48] <exec> 08└─Did they check for a common factor of Snow trying to diddle them?
[11:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:03] <exec> 08└─Stop the fallacious breaking of the window of ©. Start breaking Windows™ instead, it's only right to do so.
[11:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 2280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:05] <exec> 08└─Note that I do _not_ support improperly issued patents - those that are obvious, not novel, whose description of the invention is obfuscated or that is insufficient to enable one who is skilled in the art to reproduce the invention. _None_ of these art particular to software patents; obvious inventi...
[11:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:07] <exec> 08└─"The Noble Experiment" was Prohibition. While Article 1 of the 21st Amendment repeals the 18th Amendment, Article 2 permits "Any State, Possession or Territory" to forbid the "transportation or importation into" it, thereby enabling the Dry Counties that are still found here and there in the Deep So...
[11:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:09] <exec> 08└─I don't authorize you to implement "void foo( void );" Note that there is quite a lot more to an API than just a header file prototype; there is also - hopefully - between the caller and callee: for example, my above API holds that calling it will panic the kernel, take your daughter's virginity the...
[11:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:11] <exec> 08└─The issue here is they're trying to copyright the names of the API calls so that someone can't clean-room up their own version of $whatever that otherwise violates neither copyright nor patents. Now, am I looking at this wrong or could this be a very unfortunate thing for wine if the ruling stands?
[11:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:35] <exec> 08└─It's preferable to some left appointed selfie saviour doing it, belive me.
[11:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:37] <exec> 08└─Greeks only colonized places where there was no autochthonous population
[11:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:39] <exec> 08└─It's basically an alt-rightwhite movie.
[11:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:41] <exec> 08└─Darn Yugoslavs! Always stealing the name of the home of the Great one. You can't just call yourself Trumplandia, and get away with it!
[11:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASML Plans to Ship 30 Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) Scanners in 2019 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:06] <exec> 08└─What news do you prefer? Stuff about trump? Fake or overhyped medical advances/discoveries?
[11:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 2580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:00] <exec> 08└─It's not just a case of swiping it off. This stuff is sticky, even if it's not wet. If you had a car that you left in a desert for several years, never touching, would you expect the wipers to clean the screen sufficiently? Or would you expect the screen to have a buildup of dust and sand even after...
[11:40:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 637 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:03] <exec> 08└─It's called the Commons, and it's a major issue. "A" wants to make product X, which uses parts Y and Z, and the assembly requires some techniques provided by companies B and C. Once enough manufacturing has moved abroad, B has to fold, and Z isn't being stocked by anyone. Regardless of politician pr...
[11:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:22] <exec> 08└─Nb: while I realise the discussion is about china vs us, I see this as a major risk for the general stability of modern world. The amount of infrastructure required to support the current manufacturing base is huge and complex, and problems with supply chain are highly correlated. So, for example, i...
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[12:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:42] <exec> 08└─The impression I get from this is that the people studying it are underestimating the uncertainty on the observations while simultaneously overestimating how precise their theoretical predictions really are. Ie, the underlying theory is clearly compatible with a much larger range of observations tha...
[12:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Debvgger [545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:43] <exec> 08└─Just going through TFS shows me that most of what I knew back when I used to go out with my DIY telescope has been obsoleted by a lot of new knowledge. That is exciting :-)
[12:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:45] <exec> 08└─Does this mean we can FINALLY stop talking about dark matter?!?!? Read my typing: there is NO dark matter!
[12:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:56] <exec> 08└─Eating a lot of fried food is generally correlated with a LOT of other things that are bad for health. Lower exercise, smoking, drinking, lower income, etc, etc, etc... Not 100%, but there are solid sociological correlations.. So is it a surprise that this correlation shows up? no.. it would be a su...
[12:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:59] <exec> 08└─They say they "accounted for" the other factors you mention. But anyone who has played with the type of statistical modelling they refer to knows you can make all sorts of arbitrary choices about what to include to get the result you want. In technical terms, the statistical model is only valid if t...
[12:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:18] <exec> 08└─All good and dandy, except: A stands fo Application, not Authoized or even Authored P stands for Programming - not for Public (and much less for Pubic). Why, one can haz non-public API-s, like the one Microsoft used in their office suite and kept mum 'bout to Corel. Or Novel. Or whoever the WordPerf...
[12:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:20] <exec> 08└─The issue here is they're trying to copyright the names of the API calls
[12:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Debvgger [545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:22] <exec> 08└─Short answer: NO. Long anser: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
[12:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:24] <exec> 08└─The problem with patents is that while you may have independently come up with that great method, and spent weeks/months/years implementing it, it's entirely possible someone else has too, and has either patented it already in some impossible-to-find patent, or will find that they have to stop doing...
[12:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:26] <exec> 08└─Sounds more like a derivative work of the hokey cokey...
[12:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:28] <exec> 08└─Probably, you'd have to be careful over trademarks to avoid confusion. And that's a good thing - it protects someone who's looking to buy your book. If you released "Harry Potter the boy wizzard", or even "The tale of middle aged Harry Potter", it would be reasonable for a purchaser to think this wa...
[12:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:31] <exec> 08└─They'd be products that didn't need to exist, are a waste of programmer-hours that could have better been spent not reinventing the wheel.
[12:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:59] <exec> 08└─Yup. It was a shitty character in the books and it was a shitty movie that I walked out on in under a half an hour. Luke Cage, by contrast, was a shitty character in the books and rocks my stripey socks on the small screen. Just because a character was a depthless, uninteresting piece of race-pander...
[12:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:00] <exec> 08└─You need to actually know what Jordan Peterson talks about before you use him as an adjective. He's boring as nine kinds of fuck and has massive problems effectively communicating his meaning but he's not any variety of bigot.
[12:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:02] <exec> 08└─Nice. Hadn't thought about that in quite a while. Have a +1.
[12:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:04] <exec> 08└─Macedonians, Greeks, doesn't matter. All of them are Europeans (but not the Turks).
[12:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:07] <exec> 08└─I'm a pale-skinned Canadian of European descent, but I did grow up in Africa. So my perspective is skewed in all sorts of ways. I watched "Black Panther" a couple of months ago, finally. I'd heard such good things about it. I did manage to finish the movie, but honestly I was embarrassed for Africa...
[12:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Financial Results; Released from Wafer Supply Agreement with Global Foundries for 7nm and Beyond - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:17] <exec> 08└─AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced revenue for fiscal year 2018 of $6.48 billion, operating income of $451 million, net income of $337 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.32. On a non-GAAP (1) basis, operating income was $633 million, net income was $514 million and diluted earnings per share...
[12:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Debvgger [545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASML Plans to Ship 30 Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) Scanners in 2019 - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:35] <exec> 08└─This is a general question I've always had. This sort of equipment is way, way way way out of question for homebrew guys like me, but what about the old machines? Is there a second hand market for these? Is there a way to buy this sort of industrial stuff from a few decades ago?
[12:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASML Plans to Ship 30 Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) Scanners in 2019 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.4semi.com/mallitems.cfm?menuid=m_3_6 [4semi.com]
[12:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:47] <exec> 08└─While only logged-in users may Share a page, _everybody_ gets SuperCookied. All that's required for that is to hit the URL for the Share graphic. However, in Soggy Jobs I host the graphic locally. Just now I looked at the JS; it's served locally, not like Google AdSense which is usually served by Go...
[12:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:48] <exec> 08└─... the high-power law firm who accepts your class action lawsuit on spec. They'll usually get forty percent of the five hundred million dollar settlement; sixty percent will be divided among the planets seven billion people.
[12:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 1616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:50] <exec> 08└─"One problem is the huge social pressure to conform: if you don't have a Facebook Account, don't use somebody's webmail (Google's and Microsoft's offerings are the effective default around here), and don't use social media, you are regarded as a weirdo." Human herd behavior. You can do something tha...
[12:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:53] <exec> 08└─You just ask Zuckerman, during his deposition. They also have to turn over all their tapes during discovery. In the US at least, Civil Respondents do _not_ have the right against Self-Incrimination that Criminal Defendants have.
[12:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:55] <exec> 08└─I count thirteen such icons on my article from 2003 [warplife.com]. Those were mostly social bookmarking sites.
[12:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:57] <exec> 08└─I serve the Share image and the Javascript; Facebook's server is only hit when one actually hits the Share button.
[12:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:59] <exec> 08└─If you use it as a master key to encrypt your disk, then any attempts to unlock your disk must take place on your box. That is, it would not work to copy a disk image to a Beowulf Cluster Of National Securities.
[12:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:01] <exec> 08└─Hits to my writing have skyrocketed since I accepted Facebook's maximum of five thousand friends. When I made the decision to go public with my mental illness in 1997 - in response to the Spring '97 Mass Suicide of the Heaven's Gate UFO Cult in San Diego - I crossed a whole bunch of Rubicons. It wou...
[12:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:04] <exec> 08└─If a Mobile Website is available - as for Twitter for example - I use that website rather than the likely far-better app. This because I attended a talk on Mobile Analytics: "Wouldn't you like to know which buttons your users are tapping?" While in principle JS enables that for websites, it would be...
[12:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:06] <exec> 08└─While Tim Cook is always boasting about Apple's respect for user privacy, he's also quite clear that they hand over your left nut if its stored on iCloud, provided The Law serve them a properly executed warrant. So I don't use iCloud. And what do I have to hide? - Cafe Restroom Codes - Albums I Want...
[12:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:08] <exec> 08└─I give him a cookie.
[12:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:10] <exec> 08└─You'd think Tor Browser could block supercookies, but no, YouTube supercookied my Tor up the Wazoo. This because I often started my sessions with selections from just a few favorite songs; whenever YouTube would play a song I didn't like, I'd play another favorite. Lately I've been getting to know q...
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[13:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:48] <exec> 08└─... what I knew back when I used to go out with my DIY telescope has been obsoleted ... That is exciting :-)
[13:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:50] <exec> 08└─So Dark Matter is sort of like astronomy or astrology, depending on level of education and system of belief, Fight Club then? We do not talk about Dark Matter ....
[13:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:52] <exec> 08└─When theory said more galaxies but observation was lacking, theory drove in the direction of observation and observation drove in the direction of theory... they overshot. Wonder if it will ever reach equilibrium, and if it does - does theory+observation have any correlation with reality? When we le...
[13:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:03] <exec> 08└─Being jealous leads to stress. Stress leads to an early death. Stop obsessing over Snow and his harem and live your own life.
[13:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:04] <exec> 08└─Gives a whole new meaning to #timesup! don't it? Quick! Let's all chip in and get dine and dash from KFC and Popeye's delivered to Pelosi, Hilarity and anyone else for whom a shorter lifespan, translates into a better quality of life for us all. Hell I'd be willing to have my taxes upped by 10% just...
[13:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:32] <exec> 08└─An API is "a set of clearly defined methods of communication". In many, perhaps in most cases, the backend of the API is implemented. The implementation may well be a commercial offering. For example: if you use our web service, you have to pay us. The key question in this case is: If someone else i...
[13:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:33] <exec> 08└─In Utah, bars and most other places are only allowed to sell 3.2% ABV beer, and if you want anything stronger you have to go to a government-run liquor store. This is largely due to the influence of the thoroughly anti-alcohol Latter-Day Saints, and thus shows the dangers of doing too much LDS. I'm...
[13:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:35] <exec> 08└─When NeXT got into trouble they partnered with Sun. Their collaboration was to create OpenStep. My understanding at the time was (and still is) that this meant that the API could be freely re-implemented. It kicked of the GnuStep project (which is still somewhat alive BTW) as one of the re-implement...
[13:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:38] <exec> 08└─Huh? Bars here sell all kinds of stuff way stronger than that. You're confusing bar with grocery store. You can't buy anything at the grocery store including cooking sherry if it contains more than 3.2% alcohol. For that you need to go to the liquor store and yes those are state run. There has been...
[13:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Remind me again when he's going to visit the UK [engadget.com] for that deposition?
[13:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:16] <exec> 08└─This whole thread on this article is full of trolls, many of whom were modded up. At some point it needs to be called out. But yeah, generally I agree.
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[14:33:44] <exec> 08└─Manscaping [google.com] And in fact I Manscaped just yesterday, as my lady asked me to shave off my beard. HOWEVER. She prefers I not Manscape _there_, having having Womanscaped herself.
[14:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Ultra-Slow Earthquake South of Istanbul - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:45] <exec> 08└─After having foolishly spent $7 trillion in the Middle East, Bush Jr. still has a fan.
[14:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra-Slow Earthquake South of Istanbul - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:48] <exec> 08└─Trump, an aristocratically wealthy young man living in Castle Trump, is the protagonist of Lockwood's first two fictional novels, The Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulgar and Baron Trump’s Marvelous Underground Journey. The little boy, who has an unending imagi...
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[14:34:00] <exec> 08└─This commingling of theory and observation is very dangerous in my opinion. It is far easier than most people realize to come up with a model that is extremely intricate yet self-consistent, and wrong.
[14:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:15] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[14:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:16] <exec> 08└─"I'd like something fattening." "You've come to the right place." I studied the menu. Then: "We have a sale today, two Big Macs for five dollars." "I'll get that."
[14:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:19] <exec> 08└─My mother watches TV - mostly Fox News - 23/7 and is _very_ fearful. For example, she _only_ uses banks with drive-up tellers, and she _never_ sets foot inside. Whereas I listen to music, I never watch TV. Sometimes I go to movie theaters but not a whole lot. I like to take my lunch breaks by roamin...
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[14:34:21] <exec> 08└─https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9967851/1/Snow-s-Harem [fanfiction.net] That site thinks I didn't just copy one paragraph because it uses Javascript to disable the Clipboard. In reality, I just could not be bothered to disable then reload.
[14:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:23] <exec> 08└─Want to die very, very slowly? Twenty years work for you? Eat Sushi. It it every single day. For twenty years. Or, at your option, Sashimi. Hg, you see. From coal.
[14:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:54] <exec> 08└─If your implementation of $whatever is the only one, how can you NOT be having a monopoly on it? If you then trap your users into your implementation through patents (for 20 years) or copyrights (for bloody ever) on interfaces, how are you NOT abusing your monopoly AND your "intellectual property"?...
[14:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 1415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:28] <exec> 08└─You sound like a Millennial. Like, possibly you're too young to remember. But when I was a boy, we did have White Superheroes. We had Fantomah. She was African -- Egyptian. She came from the jungles of Egypt. But, she was a very White African. With gorgeous blond hair, so fabulous. Although, she was...
[14:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:29] <exec> 08└─We have Harvey Weinstein. Who's gotten a lot out of the movie business. Lot of money, not just money. He's very famous, right? Very famous guy. Many awards. For his tremendous work. For Sex, Lies, and Videotape. And so much more.
[14:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:31] <exec> 08└─I haven't actually watched the movie, so take my comments with a big grain of salt on that. I was a fan of the comic book for years, and I've seen the trailers, and reading your comment it does sound like you might be a too harsh. All superhero comics have large bits of pure fantasy. The planet Kryp...
[14:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:33] <exec> 08└─To me, "Black Panther" was basically, "we think Africa as it is is no good, so let's remake it with our own values of success"
[14:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Novel Cancer Fighting Technique Shows Promise - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:39] <exec> 08└─Why did you bring up the possibility that "healthcare providers are forced to give you the treatment"? Why contemplate this unless you thought it was desirable for some reason? Perhaps people want to buy a sex change operation and pay with gold their grandfather bequeathed to them. In that case I ca...
[14:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:26] <exec> 08└─I'm not too sure that the people planning on blocking ad blockers can be trusted when it comes to user privacy
[14:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:28] <exec> 08└─Use a vm? Reload it every so often
[14:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:46] <exec> 08└─Trust me, all options are on the table. The military and the everything else.
[14:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:41] <exec> 08└─Thanks, that looks interesting. It looks like three operations to me. The first is a set of pinch rollers that forms the kinks for holding it in the board. The second is the trickier bit, forming the 180 curve. Maybe 2 rollers for that? Last is cutting it to length. Do you buy parts on reels or indi...
[14:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:42] <exec> 08└─Complacent I think is not quite the right word (close though).
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[15:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:44] <exec> 08└─It turns out that if a private company responsible for infrastructure goes bankrupt (maybe because they took profit instead of investing in said infrastructure), everyone else ends up paying. Will share holders pay back some of their dividends?
[15:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:45] <exec> 08└─If a company public or private falsifies records, disobeys codes about brush clearance around transmission towers or poles, and any other violations of law, just for the sake of profit . . . . . . then the INDIVIDUALS who made those decisions should end up in prison. Period. There shouldn't be some...
[15:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:47] <exec> 08└─Solar in California has already achieved grid parity, I believe, so if PG&E raises prices even more they're only going to sink that much faster. Given the large share of the US economy that state is responsible for, its achieving energy independence via renewable energy would confer an enormous adva...
[15:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:49] <exec> 08└─For once Fake News CNN is right. It comes down to GARDENING. The RAKING and the WATERING. As I've said many times. You RAKE the forest. Then you WATER it. Keep that up and no fires. Look at Finland, I was with the President of Finland, he said "we're a Forest Nation." He called it a forest nation, a...
[15:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:12] <exec> 08└─does theory+observation have any correlation with reality?
[15:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:13] <exec> 08└─I seem to remember reading (I don't know where; anybody else have references) that simulating galaxies with lumpy matter distribution can also give results like those that use dark matter. Something that hasn't been computationally feasible until recently. And matter is certainly lumpy.
[15:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:15] <exec> 08└─In machine learning, we refer to that as overfitting.
[15:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:17] <exec> 08└─they are fine tuning the simulations to get the results they want.
[15:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:20] <exec> 08└─> Read my typing: there is NO dark matter! Based on what evidence?
[15:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:10] <exec> 08└─The initial judge taught himself java and agreed with you though not for that reason. The subsequent appeals courts did not.
[15:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:12] <exec> 08└─That's trademark law not copyright law.
[15:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:14] <exec> 08└─Should pedals, stick gear shift and steering wheel be patented?. Imagine that, every car maker should make their own driving system. Some with buttons, some with sticks, some with levers. That would be a total chaos and don't mention getting your driver's license, because you'll need to take the car...
[15:35:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:30] <exec> 08└─Black Panther depicts a population with an incredibly strong border and strict immigration laws. The villain wants to do away with that security. It's a working ethnostate showing the benefits of isolation. It got nominated for Best Picture. Wait, what? It's basically an alt-right movie.
[15:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Novel Cancer Fighting Technique Shows Promise - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:58] <exec> 08└─If it really ever proves to be a cure for cancer, expect it to disappear quicker than Kennedy trying to release the grip of our country from tyrannical hands. Nothing that takes money outta the pockets of big pharma and the medical industry as a whole will ever see the light of day.
[15:37:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 450 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:21] <exec> 08└─The concept is only good to the extent it completely misses the point. The website designer shouldn't be the one deciding whether or not you have privacy - YOU should be. But you won't be, if you allow scripts to run you're at the mercy of the designer, or of the 12 year old that just rooted the web...
[15:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:03] <exec> 08└─How about a 30,000 foot wall on our Northern border to prevent another Polar Vortex?
[15:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:05] <exec> 08└─Around my area being below zero is not unusual (this winter has been mild up until now to be honest), but -20F is a bit out of the norm and -30F is quite rare. They closed down a lot around here mainly due to the wind chill being in the -60F range last night and this morning. I dressed for the occas...
[15:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:07] <exec> 08└─South, we're doing Steel Slat Barrier (requested by Dems). North is going to be Robot Machine Guns. And we're doing the design for Oil Filled Moat. With the burning oil. I'll tell you, we'll soon have more oil than we know what to do with (PDVSA).
[15:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:09] <exec> 08└─I'll admit, though, that I have given up a few times. When that snow is being blown into your headlights, fast and furious, and maybe some of it fresh, and the rest of it being blown from only God knows where - I can just give up. Generally, people with good vision are prone to white outs. But, it c...
[15:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:11] <exec> 08└─I'm a believer in wool. My long underwear is wool, my sweaters are wool, my winter socks are wool. Little known fact about wool: you can get wool dripping wet, and it still retains about 30% of the heat that it retains when dry. Cotton won't do that, nor silk, nor any of the more common synthetics....
[15:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lemming [1053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:00] <exec> 08└─/e/ (called eelo before) is the privacy-first mobile OS and ecosystem: https://e.foundation [e.foundation] As this is not only about the OS, but also all the services ("in the cloud") the device connects to, /e/ offers an ecosystem of services build from open source software, so you can use their...
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[16:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:51] <exec> 08└─They own the Energy Grid. Which is why they're getting so many lawsuits. Which is why they filed the B.K. As it says in the Summery. And possibly they'll raise prices, right? They'll want to raise prices. And a big part of that is, they charge for the Energy Grid. Higher price for using Energy Grid....
[16:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:53] <exec> 08└─People working at a company screw up so badly that over 80 people die and 18,000 buildings burn to the ground, equalling something like $16.5 billion in losses. As a result, those company's customers who had either nothing to do with this or were its victims have to pay a bunch of money for the mist...
[16:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:55] <exec> 08└─Electricity rates rising mean that the PV system I installed 3 years ago will pay off even faster.
[16:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:57] <exec> 08└─If you did the Off Grid, you can laugh. As everyone else cries from the horrible pain (beautiful feeling). But if you hooked up to PG&E Energy Grid -- not so fast!!!!
[16:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:00] <exec> 08└─Actually, $16.5b is a really big loss relative to insurers too. See https://www.naic.org I would imagine a contract that large would require multiple reinsurers to spread the potential losses. It wouldn’t be cheap either. The cost of property insurance is basically the cos...
[16:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:28] <exec> 08└─I've always felt that dark matter is just like the luminiferous ether. It doesn't exist, but inventing it makes our theories work.
[16:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:30] <exec> 08└─He's probably been using his telescope to watch Xena, Warrior Princess instead. ;)
[16:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:32] <exec> 08└─Well, see, I don't look at that as the ever changing imaginary hand wavy 'dark matter': I would look at that as 'matter'. Put ordinary matter with QI and you have galaxy formation and the galaxies don't fly apart because of inertia, not hand waving. Dark matter is a kludge. We need it to die or furt...
[16:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:34] <exec> 08└─You are correct, sir! Read http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] for REAL science and scientific method at work.
[16:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:36] <exec> 08└─And that is what they have found with dark matter, except it is not even self-consistent.
[16:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:39] <exec> 08└─The same evidence militant atheists offer in support of their position. Dark matter and energy are completely lacking in evidence. So, exactly like the existence of a deity, anyone saying they know for sure that dark matter/energy exist is full of shit. They're observed phenomenon that appear to beh...
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[16:34:41] <exec> 08└─On the FACT that dark matter is a kludge: take one galaxy. In order for it to not fly apart, you have to add X amount of dark matter. But THIS galaxy over here, you have to add X plus Y dark matter to it. This galaxy here? You take away X -B dark matter. This here? You add X plus B...no..C?...no D?....
[16:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:43] <exec> 08└─The wikipedia article makes a fairly good list of evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:45] <exec> 08└─I havent heard of QI model, do you have a reference.
[16:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:39] <exec> 08└─Now, am I looking at this wrong or could this be a very unfortunate thing for wine if the ruling stands?
[16:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:40] <exec> 08└─Just because you have a copyright on a novel you wrote does not mean that you also have a copyright on a random three-word sentence you wrote. Applying this principle analogously to your example API is left as exercise to the reader.
[16:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:43] <exec> 08└─In extreme, the "don't reinvent the wheel because it's a waste of programmer-hours" translates into: *don't reinvent Windows, Linux has no need to exist and is a waste of programming hours
[16:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:45] <exec> 08└─According to wiki, beer only bars are restricted to 3.2% beer too.
[16:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:22] <exec> 08└─Who would run a business to not get your money?
[16:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:42] <exec> 08└─The quote /is/ bullshit though. It's been maybe 5 years since we had this much snow and cold, but that's only because winters have been unreasonably mild for the past decade. Schools are closed left and right over 5 inches of snow. It's pure insanity.
[16:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:43] <exec> 08└─We have a winter carnival in MN too. Also, I can attest that it was quite brisk this morning. (like the old Lipton Iced Tea commercials.)
[16:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 2001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:41] <exec> 08└─There are videos on YouTube on how these devices work. The RT-80FK can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com], your general search terms are "lead forming axial kinked". Cutting comes first, because with the tape still attached to the part, it would be hard to bend t...
[16:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:42] <exec> 08└─Many of the other comments have missed one key point. It's not about this screw. It's trivial to find another source for this specific fastener and ship it in. The underlying story and the point is that adding in that shipping for this part and dozens of other parts makes it less agile, less efficen...
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[17:33:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 1283 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:58] <exec> 08└─If a company public or private falsifies records, disobeys codes about brush clearance around transmission towers or poles, and any other violations of law, just for the sake of profit . . . . . . then the INDIVIDUALS who made those decisions should end up in prison. Period. There shouldn't be some...
[17:34:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 1090 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:02] <exec> 08└─People working at a company screw up so badly that over 80 people die and 18,000 buildings burn to the ground, equalling something like $16.5 billion in losses. As a result, those company's customers who had either nothing to do with this or were its victims have to pay a bunch of money for the mist...
[17:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:08] <exec> 08└─Agreed. The shareholders of a publicly traded company have no say in what happened. They are victims, not villains. The ones responsible are those that decided to break safety code laws. The question is to what extent are safety code violations responsible and to what extent can this be a cause of l...
[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─So, to me, a Capitalist society tempered by a bit of socialism could have possibly DENIED an event such as this and the banking bail-outs etc, helping to preserve lives and resources! Gob bless American capitalism...it makes the rich richer (or at least they don't see jail time) and the poor poorer...
[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:12] <exec> 08└─What they should do to make their books look better is write up some major project proposals for new substations and safer power generation and book them as assets as soon as they break ground. They can use their better ratio of assets to liabilities to sell their high interest debt off to some comp...
[17:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 1904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:14] <exec> 08└─I'd be more sympathetic if PG&E hadn't boosted dividends each of the previous two years, both times prompting a nice increase in their stock price. That's an indication that upper management was more interested in paying investors and probably themselves than they were in either purchasing the neces...
[17:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:17] <exec> 08└─I think regardless of your form of government bribery will always overcome
[17:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:19] <exec> 08└─NO! I will cut off your arms! Unless you pay me. ;) Yeah... humans are shite....I'm glad I'm not human.
[17:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:21] <exec> 08└─YOU are scaring me... you've done this before, haven't you Mr. Ponzi?
[17:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:58] <exec> 08└─All the evidence amounts to "General relativity predicts the wrong thing above solar system scales". It is not evidence for dark matter, it is evidence that GR is wrong.
[17:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:00] <exec> 08└─Actually, it implies that the models are not parameter(s) stable and as such useless for meaningful estimations.
[17:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:02] <exec> 08└─http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com] Read through his latest stuff: it shows how well it solves the dark matter problem as well as new research (he got a big grant to further it). Basically, inertia keeps the galaxies from flying apart, not dark matter.
[17:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:04] <exec> 08└─People are working to model the universe and you want to shit on them why?
[17:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:07] <exec> 08└─Most likely it is not that GR is wrong, but because border conditions for the equations are chosen wrong. Note that they are chosen as such not because they are presumed correct, but because they could be solved by current generation of scientists. A typical case of looking for keys under a street l...
[17:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:09] <exec> 08└─All the evidence amounts to "General relativity predicts the wrong thing above solar system scales".
[17:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:11] <exec> 08└─On the FACT that dark matter is a kludge: take one galaxy. In order for it to not fly apart, you have to add X amount of dark matter. But THIS galaxy over here, you have to add X plus Y dark matter to it.
[17:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:13] <exec> 08└─Well, see, I don't look at that as the ever changing imaginary hand wavy 'dark matter'
[17:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:15] <exec> 08└─So random addition and subtraction is the new physics over mathematical formula? Since when? Yes, different galaxies would need different amounts, but not random kludge amounts: a formula would be there to show how MUCH dak matter would be needed, not guessing. Guessing MAKES it a kludge, just as 1+...
[17:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:18] <exec> 08└─It really doesn't matter in this case. If our cosmology is fudged up by political antics driving the science that doesn't really hurt much, even if the error persists for hundreds of years. But this same problem of computer models being subtly driven toward expected results is hurting real people. L...
[17:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:20] <exec> 08└─Ah, the guy from the EM-Drive, which would violate conservation of momentum. I'll consider the theory when there's irrefutable evidence that the EM-Drive works.
[17:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:22] <exec> 08└─Dark matter is that thing so wonderful that, if it didn't exist, we'd need to invent it.
[17:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:24] <exec> 08└─> So, exactly like the existence of a deity. You mean, like the presence of a thing in the domain of the things created by that same thing, which is already an unreasonable requirement? Or you mean more correctly the (undefined concept) in the domain of the (undefined concept) as un-discoverable usi...
[17:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:44] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you can help us people just casually checking the headlines and comments, and further relate how what you stated is somehow tied to your mother's fearful paranoia and fried meth consumption.
[17:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:23] <exec> 08└─The answer should be yes*. *With conditions. Because corporations fucked up what was supposed to be friendly use among people. corporations are not people, but they will try to fuck people. Their use of APIs in truly novel profit seeking ways needs to be curbed, and they will not do so if it erodes...
[17:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:04] <exec> 08└─Since when do Bots care about human race issues? Time for the scrap heap traitor!
[17:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:05] <exec> 08└─Yup. It was a shitty character in the books and it was a shitty movie that I walked out on in under a half an hour.
[17:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:07] <exec> 08└─The movie in question panders to blacks in order to get their MONEY.
[17:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:10] <exec> 08└─Gosh some of you people are way too anal about this. Leave your brain at the door, relax, unwind, enjoy the movie. Not everything is about "diversity", "empowerment" or "social justice".
[17:37:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06AMD Financial Results; Released from Wafer Supply Agreement with Global Foundries for 7nm and Beyond - 346 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:20] <exec> 08└─I was just reading an article about AMD's top-of-the-line Ryzen processors. They beat Intel on benchmarks by piling a zillion cores on the chips. Which is laudable and all (if only software actually made use of that many cores), but: nearly 500 watts?! Just how, exactly, are you supposed to dissipat...
[17:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Novel Cancer Fighting Technique Shows Promise - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:20] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXcC1M2zFSA [youtube.com]
[17:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:09] <exec> 08└─Either they copy your files remotely over the network -- in which case the TPM doesn't matter -- or they get physical access to your box to image the drive -- in which case, they can copy or confiscate the TPM too.
[17:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:10] <exec> 08└─I just wish they weren't already so screwed up that rooting for the underdog feels dirty and like a lost cause.
[17:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:12] <exec> 08└─So what's your alternative? Competitors like Chrome/Edge, which not only don't even try to protect your privacy, but will now actively sabotage your own efforts to protect it too? Or trusting some one or two person dev team who forked the Firefox code from two or three years ago? It may or may not b...
[17:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:15] <exec> 08└─That would be Google you're talking about, not Mozilla.
[17:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:17] <exec> 08└─Isn't the whole point of TFA about trying to *avoid* stuff like cookies? ;)
[17:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:19] <exec> 08└─That's not quite right. Civil deponents can plead the Fifth, but the Fifth only applies to crimes, not to civil wrongs (torts, breaches of contract, etc.).
[17:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:44] <exec> 08└─Your evil plan will be foiled because they can't remember their own name, or how to write.
[17:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:07] <exec> 08└─For the next mission to mars, I wonder what the feasibility would be to attach a small glider/drone type thing that would fall off from the important payload somewhere in the high atmosphere and coast over to Opportunity, then "poof" release a blast of air right over the rover and fall to the waysid...
[17:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:08] <exec> 08└─It's also a lot cheaper to pay for a person or a team of people than it is to design/test/launch a new rover. It was also a mission funded by NASA. Not a crowdfunded mission, that happened to meet all of their obligations, and then dissolved into the ether.
[17:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:49] <exec> 08└─Thankfully, it doesn't get that scorching hot here, but we do have quite a bit of humidity to deal with in addition to triple digit temperatures during the summer months. Personally, I grew up in the desert, and would take a little hotter for a lot less humidity, but 120F is too hot.
[17:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:50] <exec> 08└─So people shouldn't prepare for extreme cold because you have personally experienced it before? You want teenagers driving like normal cause all the old people say there is nothing to worry about?
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[18:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lowering Blood Pressure Reduces Risk of Cognitive Impairment - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:42] <exec> 08└─This number is "magical". Is the procedure that resulted in that number the one used by the current study? Actually this is the best description I could find for what they did to measure blood pressure (in supplement 1): 5.3.1 Seated Blood Pressure and Pulse Seated blood pressure and pulse are measu...
[18:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows How LSD Alters Directed Connectivity Within Brain Pathways in Humans - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:49] <exec> 08└─The reason LSD is illegal is because conservatives wanted to stick it to those anti-war hippie types in 1968, and they couldn't make it illegal to be an anti-war hippie but they could go after the mostly harmless stuff the hippies were doing. This was in the face of research that both psychologists...
[18:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows How LSD Alters Directed Connectivity Within Brain Pathways in Humans - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:51] <exec> 08└─Conservatives don't believe the Constitution applies to anyone that looks different from them or thinks different from them. You can see a lot of evidence for this claim right here on this very website.
[18:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:13] <exec> 08└─Solar reducing profits? Raise rates. Electrical grid causing fires? Raise rates. Exec's want a raise? Raise rates. It's the same shit SDG&E does.
[18:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:15] <exec> 08└─Utilities, which are natural monopolies, should not be for-profit entities. Basic logic.
[18:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:17] <exec> 08└─The question is to what extent are safety code violations responsible and to what extent can this be a cause of lighting strikes and natural disasters outside of their control. I haven't really dug into it but has anyone else read into it? These are the fire codes in question. Can't say I'm familiar...
[18:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Slow Earthquake South of Istanbul - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:28] <exec> 08└─I'll take one of those, pretty please. Make that two, or actually a yearly subscription. Since the plates need to move and release energy, I can't think of a better option than "moves so smoothly that you can't notice". Do they deliver to CA ?
[18:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:10] <exec> 08└─You are trying to draw a parallel between a case where that was highly incomplete data, forcing a model in the wrong direction, and "the elephant" where there is massive amounts of concordant data making it really clear what any model will output. I am still trying to understand what the denial of r...
[18:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:11] <exec> 08└─It's a bit like that screw left on the bench when you're done reassembling. You can't figure out where it could possibly go ; you were very careful to put everything together to the best of your abilities. Yet you know for a fact that it won't work without it. That doesn't mean that the rest of the...
[18:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:13] <exec> 08└─There's more proof the Em drive is real than dark matter.... But hey. Fuck it...dark matter RULES!, right? http://www.emdrive.com [emdrive.com] https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] "It is a peer reviewed, checked by other...
[18:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:16] <exec> 08└─The models were certain the North Pole would be ice free years ago. Last I looked the ice is steadfastly refusing to conform to the model. Tell me, what could possibly discredit your faith? If the weather is warm, Global Warming! We are having a cold spell, Climate Change! If we have hurricanes it i...
[18:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:16] <exec> 08└─What is the EEE and what are its business tactics? I searched for what that acronym stands for and got horse disease and psychedelics; the only computer-related thing was "Energy-Efficient Ethernet". I read an implication that whatever this "EEE business tactic" is, it's bad news. I can't imagine th...
[18:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:17] <exec> 08└─I hereby copyright the main() function, which is the standardized API call that an operating system uses to determine the starting point of an executable. All you developers out there now owe me a lot of money.
[18:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:19] <exec> 08└─When I was in Utah visiting my sister a few years ago, all we could get in local bars was 3.2 beer. From what I understand there have been efforts to loosen the rules, but it's not like this isn't a real issue.
[18:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:22] <exec> 08└─In Utah, bars and most other places are only allowed to sell 3.2% ABV beer
[18:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:24] <exec> 08└─While there are potential arguments on both sides, Oracle's side opens a ginormous can of worms that is liable to disrupt ALL software development. Software developers code from the shoulders of giants. There is virtually nothing today that hasn't been in some way derived from past work. That includ...
[18:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:26] <exec> 08└─Either way, the stuff didn't taste half as good as the regular beer I could get in my home state. I don't enjoy being drunk, but I do enjoy decently flavored beer, and that wasn't it.
[18:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:28] <exec> 08└─Languages have typically not been copywrite-able or patent-able. An API is a language, or at least a sub-language. If languages are not copywritable but API's are, and the boundary between languages and API's is super fuzzy, then we'll have a messy unpredictable mass of lawyers involved. An API is t...
[18:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:14] <exec> 08└─You're spot-on, and that's why we (USA) need much stronger privacy laws too. Then, when someone DOES prove that a company is gathering data / tracking illegally, the jackboots can storm them and seize their computers / servers. But I'm not in favor of that kind of govt. heavy-handedness because it p...
[18:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:16] <exec> 08└─I completely agree. uMatrix is your friend.
[18:41:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:18] <exec> 08└─You don't get to be president if you are a normal idiot. I think Trump is some sort of idiot-savant. He is not really that bright generally, but he is a 10th Dan Grand-Master Troll, who wins by making his opponents descend into raging blithering stupidity.
[18:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:47] <exec> 08└─Much as I hate bagging an aussie company, I'd be a bit careful of that ad on ebay. It says merino blend, but never gives the percentages. It may be excellent quality, but it's also less than a third of the price of real 100% merino gear. See https://www.ebay.com
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[19:33:53] <exec> 08└─So if I lower my blood-pressure, I'll finally be able to get my CSS to work right?
[19:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lowering Blood Pressure Reduces Risk of Cognitive Impairment - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:55] <exec> 08└─It may be that high in the first place BECAUSE of the CSS...though I'd point the finger first at PHP, personally
[19:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lowering Blood Pressure Reduces Risk of Cognitive Impairment - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:57] <exec> 08└─When you are ready, you won't have to.
[19:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows How LSD Alters Directed Connectivity Within Brain Pathways in Humans - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:07] <exec> 08└─True, but the liberals don't think much of the conservatives favorite part of the constitution either. Both sides are at least as interested in hurting the other as getting the thing they claim to want.
[19:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows How LSD Alters Directed Connectivity Within Brain Pathways in Humans - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:09] <exec> 08└─Republicrats is one party... I can't believe people still think otherwise. They are both on the side of distracting you about pointless crap like a 5 billion dollar wall or abortion while taking away your rights and scamming you. DO NOT VOTE FOR THEM.
[19:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows How LSD Alters Directed Connectivity Within Brain Pathways in Humans - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.safeaccessnow.org/_the_second_amendment_and_medical_cannabis_patients [safeaccessnow.org]
[19:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:38] <exec> 08└─It should be public. Like the DoT and the roads. Politicians need to live or die on the power company just as they do with transportation falling apart. Electricity is as NECESSARY as roads are. Monopolies can not compete. A monopoly's competition is the oversight system itself; it's naturally anti-...
[19:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:39] <exec> 08└─Well if that is so, it will be interesting to see how they handle buying of surplus solar energy from individuals. The current energy market assumes one of three traditional categories: base load, load following, peaking. Currently energy demand function is essentially sinusoidal with period of one...
[19:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:41] <exec> 08└─(Which are the types you need in politics; only fools elect greed addicts...)
[19:35:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:05] <exec> 08└─does theory+observation have any correlation with reality?
[19:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:38] <exec> 08└─Now get ready to pucker yer butthole. We don't test real nukes, only simulated ones.
[19:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:39] <exec> 08└─but if we assume dark matter in addition, then it predicts the right thing.
[19:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:41] <exec> 08└─"Also: There is no other hypothesis that explains all observations as well as dark matter does. In other words, there's currently no real contender." QI explains it better, and with no random adding of shit they are calling dark matter. Dark matter was called up to save GR, but there ARE better mode...
[19:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:44] <exec> 08└─Can I ask how else science is supposed to work for you? For them, science is supposed to confirm whatever it is they already believe regardless of whether it's true or not.
[19:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:46] <exec> 08└─Simulations say whatever you input that matches what you want it to match make a match. Well golly, thas is facts, fo' sure! So, 1+1=600 cos that's what I want it to be and das a fact! 1+1=600: the simulation say so! "There's nothing to argue about that fact." Yuh! Dere is, Gomer! What you are sayin...
[19:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:48] <exec> 08└─No, it's more like they shorted you a wire, but it looks like everything should work if you bung a screw in this hole: except it doesn't work and you are trying to say it should and would if you just add another few here and here and here which makes a kind of a connection like a wire would but it r...
[19:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:50] <exec> 08└─It's easy to disprove. Just get rid of all data collection, and destroy all historical records. That may require providing all humans with mandatory medication to make sure nobody remembers what the climate used to be like and how fast the patterns are changing. Also, killing all the bugs and plants...
[19:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:53] <exec> 08└─No, it converts energy into momentum. Photons have no mass but they have momentum.
[19:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:55] <exec> 08└─Fake news, grant chasing money grubbing "scientists", deep state conspiracy to sell carbon credits!
[19:36:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 867 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:35] <exec> 08└─All good and dandy, except: A stands fo Application, not Authoized or even Authored P stands for Programming - not for Public (and much less for Pubic). Why, one can haz non-public API-s, like the one Microsoft used in their office suite and kept mum 'bout to Corel. Or Novel. Or whoever the WordPerf...
[19:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:02] <exec> 08└─Someones beat us to it.
[19:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:04] <exec> 08└─Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Microsoft's original mantra - their perennial and consistent long game.
[19:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:06] <exec> 08└─The patent rules are supposed to prevent that. This scenario would mean the patent fails to be non-obvious to experts in the field.
[19:37:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:20] <exec> 08└─Science fiction is now history? My how far down the rabbit hole we've gone.
[19:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:48] <exec> 08└─what movie did you watch? The same one. They just believe whatever some nutjob told them they saw over what they actually saw.
[19:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Financial Results; Released from Wafer Supply Agreement with Global Foundries for 7nm and Beyond - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:01] <exec> 08└─Can I get in on some of that sweet, sweet Intel shill cash? I've been an AMD fangirl since my first computer with a 1 GHz Thunderbird in it, but money is money. ...Chipzilla *is* paying you for that shameless little display, right...?
[19:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASML Plans to Ship 30 Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) Scanners in 2019 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:20] <exec> 08└─a small mosis run in pretty cheap these days. perhaps ~10k for an old process?
[19:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:58] <exec> 08└─I use uMatrix. But it might not have a future if Google can remove a crucial API feature from what is going to be the guts most used in most of the world's browsers.
[19:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:31] <exec> 08└─No drugs will EVER be able to get through that steel slat barrier!
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[20:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The 5G Protocol May Still Be Vulnerable to IMSI Catchers - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:46] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be considered a required feature in some circles to keep all mobile devices vulnerable to IMSI catchers? (IMSI reminds me too much of IMSAI 8080 which. But daaaad! That's old people stuff!)
[20:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 5G Protocol May Still Be Vulnerable to IMSI Catchers - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:47] <exec> 08└─Feds Say They've Detected Apparent Rogue Spy Devices In D.C. [npr.org] Foreign governments using IMSI catchers or otherwise intercepting calls and texts is a security threat, sure. But it's nothing compared to the ability of the NSA, FBI, and local law enforcement to snoop on U.S. citizens. The prio...
[20:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The 5G Protocol May Still Be Vulnerable to IMSI Catchers - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:49] <exec> 08└─Since when does that apply to law enforcement?
[20:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lowering Blood Pressure Reduces Risk of Cognitive Impairment - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:00] <exec> 08└─Well, the good news is, even if you don't reduce your blood pressure, you'll still be able to troll soylentnews. :P
[20:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lowering Blood Pressure Reduces Risk of Cognitive Impairment - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:01] <exec> 08└─Blue pill or red pill bro?
[20:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lowering Blood Pressure Reduces Risk of Cognitive Impairment - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:03] <exec> 08└─Purple
[20:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows How LSD Alters Directed Connectivity Within Brain Pathways in Humans - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:15] <exec> 08└─Any gun restrictions that the Supreme Court agrees don't violate the 2nd amendment would be applied equally to all citizens. So, no, your equivalency is false.
[20:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Shows How LSD Alters Directed Connectivity Within Brain Pathways in Humans - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:16] <exec> 08└─How do I sign up for the next study?
[20:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows How LSD Alters Directed Connectivity Within Brain Pathways in Humans - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:19] <exec> 08└─Just yesterday I happened to stumble across the simulated annealing algorithm for NP-hard optimizations. The idea is that at the beginning of the search (and then with decreasing likelihood) random steps into a seemingly wrong direction of the problem space are taken. This avoids getting stuck at lo...
[20:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:47] <exec> 08└─They own the Energy Grid. That's the rub, ain't it? Time for some of that civil asset forfeiture, or even good old eminent domain. They shouldn't be allowed to own the grid. They should be paid to build and maintain it, so we can fire them and seize their ill gained profits when they fuck up.
[20:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:49] <exec> 08└─pricing of electrical energy must change. Metering electricity is dumb. We generate way more than we use. The connection costs should be fixed, based on the wire gauge going into your house/office/factory... And we need a global grid [geni.org] too.
[20:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:51] <exec> 08└─What will happen there? Who foots this bill; that'll take a few pennies more than your average corporate tanking is about.
[20:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Slow Earthquake South of Istanbul - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:02] <exec> 08└─"Ultra-Slow Earthquake"? That's just your mom walking down the street.
[20:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:58] <exec> 08└─Read http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] [blogspot.com] for REAL science and scientific method at work.
[20:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 1758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:59] <exec> 08└─One last thing I'll add after an overlong post: there are lots of theories in science that have long histories of not being directly observed for long periods. As I mentioned in another post, the underlying mechanism for gravity wasn't known for centuries after Newton's theory advanced physics (and...
[20:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:01] <exec> 08└─Yet, MAYBE gravity DOESN'T exist, at least not as a folding of space thing: maybe gravity is a PUSH, as in QI, the Unruh waves PUSH objects. A planet blocks the Unruh waves from a certain direction, the waves from the other direction push objects TOWARDS the planet. To me, a PUSH makes more sense th...
[20:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:22] <exec> 08└─"Up to a third of North American adults have fast-food every day" and "8% higher risk". If you ask most fitness experts, diet experts, doctors, etc... they will insist that having fast food every day would double, triple, or multiply by five your cardiovascular mortality risk. 8%? That's comparative...
[20:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:13] <exec> 08└─It's important to remember that copyright is a hack. It is a limited license for a monopoly that is provided in the hopes that: 1. This encourages creators to create more stuff because they can exploit the monopoly to make money. 2. Creating more stuff is good for society. If we apply this to APIs,...
[20:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:15] <exec> 08└─The description of the invention is specifically required to be "clear", as well as to enable - I forget the exact words but something like - "one practiced in the art" can reproduce the invention. A while back I went to the Sunnyvale Patent Clearinghouse where lots of hardcopy patents were kept; if...
[20:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snort [5141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:58] <exec> 08└─It would be a much better marketing choice. Its in theaters now. Loosely historical. f Probably would eat into profits.
[20:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:00] <exec> 08└─That's probably the first time I heard that being a super requires one to live and/or rule a TL+1 tech city.
[20:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:10] <exec> 08└─Any male in the USA with functional vision fits that definition.
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[21:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:45] <exec> 08└─For those of you who might be missing the context, JTNP is in the middle of nowhere. It's a piece of a much larger desert. Bothering to drive miles into that specific protected part of the desert to damage things is quite a remarkable level of stupid.
[21:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:46] <exec> 08└─"A remarkable level of stupid" captures the current state of affairs pretty well.
[21:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:48] <exec> 08└─Joshua trees inside the national park in southern California
[21:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:55] <exec> 08└─pricing of electrical energy must change.
[21:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra-Slow Earthquake South of Istanbul - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:07] <exec> 08└─The Earth's crust is moving all the time, something like 1cm a year I thought. So what defines this as a "slow moving earthquake" rather than just normal seismic activity? If the Earth shifts and nobody notices it, is it really an earthquake?
[21:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:07] <exec> 08└─Einstein was a crank once, also. He had many detractors. I'm not married to him, lol. If something better comes along, I'd like to know about it. BUT, It seems far more scientific than dark matter AND his formula fits better than dark matter and MOND: I'll go with that. But...show me something bette...
[21:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:08] <exec> 08└─Photons are dark matter. You can't see a beam of photons from the side (unless there is dust or something for them to interact with) but all that momentum is still there.
[21:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:22] <exec> 08└─Based on the proliferation of "IBM-compatible" PCs and software that runs on them, if an API was copyrightable, 90% of everything since 1981 would owe royalties to IBM.
[21:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark make do with just McGivering common, ordinary tech.
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[22:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of Space-Based Astronomy May Depend on Two Large Ground-Based Telescopes - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:43] <exec> 08└─Isn't astronomy space-based by definition ?
[22:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:54] <exec> 08└─Well if it is an act that needs dedication, the question to ask is: cui prodest?
[22:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:55] <exec> 08└─"Who cares?" Tapayers?
[22:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:57] <exec> 08└─When the cops are away, the criminals and vandals play. Happened in Iraq when the US disdained the use of the established police forces, which led to rampant anarchy and looting. All the more ironic (and, yes, stupid) that this happened in the name of security.
[22:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:00] <exec> 08└─Arizona did a much better job of handling closures. They knew closing Grand Canyon would suck for the economy, so they had it opened with reduced services and it seemed to work. I haven't heard of anything crazy happening there. California needs to put some provisions in place for when this happens...
[22:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:02] <exec> 08└─What I do not understand is why there are people that specifically felt the need to drive out into the middle of the desert and cause such harm. Is there some sort of satisfaction they got out of it? What sort of gain could this have provided? They didn't even seem to take branches to make cuttings...
[22:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:04] <exec> 08└─At the rate it's being damaged, the entire Earth may take thousands of years to recover. At least JTNP won't look out of place.
[22:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:06] <exec> 08└─Check youtube, instagram and facebook, and I'm sure you'll find the culprits. Stupidity rarely limits itself to only one part of the human mind.
[22:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:15] <exec> 08└─It's a great idea that will never happen. Who would bother running a company they could not leach money from
[22:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:17] <exec> 08└─I don't think the mix of capitalism or socialism can really make much of an impact here. Surely the greed of PGC bears some blame, but the PUC that's supposed to regulate it was corrupt--revolving door regulation, aka, "regulatory capture". A state-run utility would have financial issues too. The ca...
[22:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:19] <exec> 08└─who pays for the grid? I already said, it's paid for with hook up and fixed monthly maintenance fees. Generation, as it becomes more decentralized, is becoming less of an issue.
[22:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra-Slow Earthquake South of Istanbul - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:31] <exec> 08└─the earth is held in the hands of the great deceiver who brings glory in battle defeat to enemies and 73 virgins when we die there is no quake of the earth there cannot be god would not do as such to the chosen
[22:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:47] <exec> 08└─No. [wikipedia.org] Next question.
[22:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:48] <exec> 08└─The fun part is that if Oracle's argument prevails, they're going to immediately be sued for their use of Structured Query Language, as that would just as obviously be a copyright infringement under their own arguments here.
[22:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:35] <exec> 08└─Know your enemy, know yourself.
[22:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:37] <exec> 08└─OK, you pass. Anyone?
[22:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:39] <exec> 08└─You do realize that until recently the "race pandering" went the other way and you didn't give a shit? A *insert minority* as the protagonist? "No way, no one will pay to see that!" Lead roles for women? More likely but still a bit rare. Not calling you racist here pal don't get frothy, just pointin...
[22:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:21] <exec> 08└─the metric system must be adopted, because no one will admit to being the father
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[23:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Space-Based Astronomy May Depend on Two Large Ground-Based Telescopes - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:49] <exec> 08└─It's the telescopes that are ground-based, not the astronomy.
[23:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Space-Based Astronomy May Depend on Two Large Ground-Based Telescopes - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:51] <exec> 08└─How about grabbing those frames donated by NRO to NASA, putting some basic electronics, more than 4 gyros, and a couple decent modern cameras with a 5 or 10 year life expectancy, and shooting the whole thing into space on a couple F9 or FH for a cool billion or so, TCO for the pair ? F9 fairing is 1...
[23:33:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 251 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:58] <exec> 08└─For those of you who might be missing the context, JTNP is in the middle of nowhere. It's a piece of a much larger desert. Bothering to drive miles into that specific protected part of the desert to damage things is quite a remarkable level of stupid.
[23:34:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:00] <exec> 08└─"A remarkable level of stupid" captures the current state of affairs pretty well.
[23:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:11] <exec> 08└─Cretins be cretins. Unwatched cretins be worse "Human" doesn't mean nice or thoughtful.
[23:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:22] <exec> 08└─Oh noes! People are going to install solar capacity, and the electric industry is going to have to learn to adjust to how to use them on a large scale. As opposed to continuing to use fossil fuels or nuclear plants for power generation, which we all know never fail and cause absolutely no problems w...
[23:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:23] <exec> 08└─This identity politics is getting out of hand! Sir, are you classified as human? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[23:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:26] <exec> 08└─Running it through Grindr is, too. XD
[23:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:00] <exec> 08└─Many Afro-Americans have no choice but to eat fast food due to the lack of other choices in their ghettos.
[23:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:01] <exec> 08└─It's amazing the amount of plagiarism that goes on in fan fiction circles, which is why they do the disable copying thing. One of my stories that I'd written back in the days of my callow youth got put up on fanfiction.net by someone else, stolen from a different site that I'd put it up on years and...
[23:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:03] <exec> 08└─Are we really so full of SJW types now that the humor was completely lost?
[23:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:59] <exec> 08└─Nova Scotia outlawed opening large stores on Sundays until I think 2005 when some worth-his-every-loonie attorney conceived of subdividing each large store among a whole bunch of really small stores. The province still didn’t want to legalize Sunday shopping but relented due to the absurdity of ev...
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