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[01:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:55] <exec> 08└─Its mind boggling how much sand is used to make modern buildings. Can't take it from beaches, and a lot of desert sand is unsuitable for concrete for reasons.
[01:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6686877/Women-tracking-app-lets-Saudi-Arabian-men-monitor-wives.html [dailymail.co.uk] The sauds have an app for that
[01:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:20] <exec> 08└─Shoshana Zuboff's [wikipedia.org] book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism [theguardian.com] discusses just how much your data is being (mis)used by an increasingly broad set of corporations in more industries than you might imagine. You can find an overview of the concepts here [wikipedia.org], and...
[01:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:22] <exec> 08└─Damn, shouldn't have stopped by the strip club on the way home.
[01:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:25] <exec> 08└─Might be showing my age here, but after getting a real job that kind of shit stops being funny. Hell, I got a net-nanny warning from clicking a link on Drudge Report without checking the URL. It went to Infowars, which I like personally but nowadays in some circles is considered almost as bad as Wik...
[01:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:27] <exec> 08└─In today's society, if you're ready to stand up and own the fact that you go to gay sex clubs, then that shouldn't be a problem. If, on the other hand, you do any such thing that you don't want somebody, anybody, to know about - phone powered off before even starting out the door on the way to the p...
[01:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe we could craft laws and societal norms so that individual data cannot be kept. This aggregate data was a good thing -- and it doesn't not even need to be kept for all that long to be useful. It's usefulness wears off and needs updates on something dynamic like Maps.
[01:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:31] <exec> 08└─I've often wondered how much I, personally, am being profiled as I drive in traffic. Do I get a rating for what percentile I fall in for progress made along a certain route? I mean, some people consistently choose slower lanes than others - is that data being collected somewhere? If it is, is it per...
[01:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Plans Brief Disconnection From the Internet for Internal Traffic Test - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:04] <exec> 08└─Very few attacks are coming from Russia. There are numerous live maps. For example, this one https://www.deteque.com [deteque.com]
[01:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Russia Plans Brief Disconnection From the Internet for Internal Traffic Test - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:06] <exec> 08└─It's because the ruling elites know that it works every single fucking time, and it only leads one place. Peter Jackson’s Cartoon War [truthdig.com]: The poet Siegfried Sassoon in “The Hero” captured the callousness of war: “Jack fell as he’d have wished,” the Mother said, And folded up...
[01:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Plans Brief Disconnection From the Internet for Internal Traffic Test - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:08] <exec> 08└─Is this site hosted in russia?
[01:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Gone - Breaking Up With Big Tech - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:33] <exec> 08└─http://erinlyyc.com/2017/05/17/how-to-save-google-maps-directions-for-offline-use-when-travelling/ [erinlyyc.com]
[01:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Gone - Breaking Up With Big Tech - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:34] <exec> 08└─Yes I use Duckduckgo; didn't know Amazon hosted it.
[01:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gizmodo Writer Experiments Blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple From Her Life - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:12] <exec> 08└─She wanted to completely eliminate Amazon -- not just the online store, but everything they're connected to -- from her life. She discovered much the same thing that those of us who try to avoid buying anything from evil corporations like Nestle [google.com] do: they're just too vast to be able to c...
[01:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gizmodo Writer Experiments Blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple From Her Life - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:14] <exec> 08└─The youngsters can't stand themselves, they need the others to stop them go out of their mind. Which is why you swap lies with the old men ...
[01:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gizmodo Writer Experiments Blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple From Her Life - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:16] <exec> 08└─and yes I don't have one [blog] because shitty services are shitty.
[01:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gizmodo Writer Experiments Blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple From Her Life - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:18] <exec> 08└─which means I know enough to know that there's a HUGE amount of stuff I don't.
[01:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trust but Verify: Machine Learning’s Magic Masks Hidden Frailties - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:44] <exec> 08└─Bingo. This sort of thing is the purest and most dangerous expression of "garbage in, garbage out" it is possible to have.
[01:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple’s Internal Hardware Team is Working on Modems Now - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah. There's this oddly soft-edged, rounded-rectangle white coffin with an engraved Apple logo and the caption "iDied" on it. I tried to raise him with a medium's help, and it looked like it was going to work at first, but all we got was this ghostly, translucent spinning ball of rainbow colors...
[01:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Demonstrates Flat Design Interfaces are Measurably Worse - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:26] <exec> 08└─You're holding it wrong
[01:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06See Mars Near the Moon Tonight - Where to look - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:39] <exec> 08└─Long eye-relief eyepieces. Of course, if you can't put the scope on the target, that hardly matters. You need a finder, or a finder scope, and learn how to align them, and collimate the scope itself. First, sacrifice two chickens. Then, . . .
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[02:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mars One Goes Bankrupt as Reality Catches up to the Doomed Space Plan - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:52] <exec> 08└─I'm shocked that a whole venture of going to Mars as a one-way trip failed. Especially seeing that we already have space ships, space elevators, and a booming economy on the Moon continually proving the advanced and reliable technologies to keep us alive off Earth. It's not like the whole thing is p...
[02:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mars One Goes Bankrupt as Reality Catches up to the Doomed Space Plan - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:53] <exec> 08└─There's no better time than now to part the fools of their money.
[02:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mars One Goes Bankrupt as Reality Catches up to the Doomed Space Plan - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:56] <exec> 08└─Mars One was a low effort marketing campaign from the beginning, and its failure was widely predicted. BFR/Starship could actually make Mars colonization possible. If anyone wants to use that for a one-way trip, they could probably get started for a couple billion (half a billion for an in-orbit ref...
[02:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:04] <exec> 08└─"Oh no ! We are causing our pristine landscape and fresh water reserves to vanish, and might cause Europe to freeze in the process !" "Wait a minute, I know how to make money !"
[02:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:06] <exec> 08└─Now what are the Saudis going to sell once their oil runs out?
[02:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:09] <exec> 08└─The melting is likely to happen no matter what so they might as well figure out how to adapt and 'make money' from the situation they have little to no control over...
[02:34:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 419 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:31] <exec> 08└─They can't predict shit. They can interpret existing data, such as the location where one starts navigation being a luser's home or place of employment, but they can't predict that today I may just want to stop by the supermarket before going to work. Just as I can't predict whether Google's navigat...
[02:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:39] <exec> 08└─Funny: I originally typed "strip club", and decided to change it to "bar".
[02:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 2118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:41] <exec> 08└─Yep. It never ceases to amaze me how the average public thinks it's impossible. Yet, Topological Data Analysis, Advanced Data Mining, and Game Theory don't give a shit if you don't believe in them. It's kinda like Quantum-anything, in that the average person will never understand the How, but they d...
[02:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:44] <exec> 08└─That’s where I found the hetero swing club I go to
[02:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 1977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:46] <exec> 08└─Such predictions have some reliability. Google can predict, based on past data, that on Wednesday, you will probably stop at the store for milk. And, they will probably be right most of the time. Depending on how much data they have on you, they may be far less reliable at predicting what bar you're...
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[03:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mars One Goes Bankrupt as Reality Catches up to the Doomed Space Plan - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:00] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression they were going to pay for the whole thing with some kind of reality TV type thing. I then assumed that (based on the bits of reality TV I see) if they managed to get a crew to Mars, on the second day there some fool would leave the back door open and kill everyone involv...
[03:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Mars One Goes Bankrupt as Reality Catches up to the Doomed Space Plan - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:01] <exec> 08└─Well looks like you assumed wrong then.
[03:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Mars One Goes Bankrupt as Reality Catches up to the Doomed Space Plan - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:03] <exec> 08└─Actually, depression may kick in even before, on the way to Mars.
[03:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mars One Goes Bankrupt as Reality Catches up to the Doomed Space Plan - 1262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:06] <exec> 08└─As amusing as Survivor or Big Brother on Mars would be, I don't think that was the vibe they were going for. The actual video content would be more along the lines of NASA TV, but a little sexed up in the editor's room. The comparison Mars One really liked was the Olympics. Olympics cost billions of...
[03:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:16] <exec> 08└─You mean "adapting"? Only creationists believe in that.
[03:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:17] <exec> 08└─You!
[03:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:53] <exec> 08└─Encrypt message contents before sending Set this as a standard within your organization
[03:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:54] <exec> 08└─If only you could opt in to voluntarily anonymously provide this data without being personally tracked.
[03:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:56] <exec> 08└─It's got a nice SFW front page. Stop freaking out.
[03:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:58] <exec> 08└─Who else is going to pick up your daughter after "work"
[03:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I want more tools to poison the well. If they turn the hoover on high, you'll get more mileage by throwing rocks in than trying to keep the vacuum from getting anything. Now I want a rooted phone app that inserts fake trips.
[03:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:03] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure you've gone far enough, with just turning the phone off. Remove the battery - oops, can't do that with a lot of phones. Well, leave the damned thing home. The AI thinks that you spent a peaceful night at home, all alone, that way.
[03:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Plans Brief Disconnection From the Internet for Internal Traffic Test - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:39] <exec> 08└─"But we get a higher class of stupid comments here." So, we're winning at the special Olympics?
[03:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Plans Brief Disconnection From the Internet for Internal Traffic Test - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:40] <exec> 08└─Bricks "unhackable"? "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer!"
[03:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Plans Brief Disconnection From the Internet for Internal Traffic Test - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:42] <exec> 08└─Retire at 66? Doubtful.. look at the 1d10ts that are in Congress, the Executive, various state and local governments, etc in the US! Why should they retire? They have nothing to look forward to, except screwing everyone around them, and accumulating wealth for their demon spawn. /sarcasm
[03:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gizmodo Writer Experiments Blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple From Her Life - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:51] <exec> 08└─Shit, catfish is delicious. But you probably only eat hotdogs, right?
[03:41:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06Study Demonstrates Flat Design Interfaces are Measurably Worse - 560 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:57] <exec> 08└─Because the old way is old and clearly inferior. And we can't make new things look like old things because then people will think the new things are also old, and thus also inferior. So it is imperative that we throw the baby out with the bathwater, give the basin a good scrubbing to make sure they...
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[04:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cutting-edge Underwater Mining System Can Give Flooded Mines a New Lease of Life - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:50] <exec> 08└─I can see lots of already really rich people jumping up and down at this idea. I didn't read anything that spoke of the downsides. There are always downsides. Think I'll take this with a grain of salt for the time being...
[04:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mars One Goes Bankrupt as Reality Catches up to the Doomed Space Plan - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:04] <exec> 08└─Mars One's original plan called for a Falcon Heavy to send 4 people. Crew Dragon 2 has about 10 m3 of volume. Starship has about 1,000 m3 of volume. The latter option should be much less depressing, even if they increased the crew size. Furthermore, SpaceX plans to refuel Starship in orbit, which sh...
[04:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:17] <exec> 08└─So, the sand is going to be extremely valuable to... who? Who will be around to have a hardon for sand? Fresh water, food, environmental shelter, and cooling technology - there's the market of the future!
[04:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:19] <exec> 08└─What happened to seasteading?
[04:34:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 546 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:44] <exec> 08└─Shoshana Zuboff's [wikipedia.org] book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism [theguardian.com] discusses just how much your data is being (mis)used by an increasingly broad set of corporations in more industries than you might imagine. You can find an overview of the concepts here [wikipedia.org], and...
[04:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:01] <exec> 08└─I think if you reliably carry your phone with you everywhere then yes, they could calculate a probability that you will stop at the store on any given day, have a fairly accurate time window of when you would do it, and how long it would take. If they have access to your credit card transaction hist...
[04:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:02] <exec> 08└─I'd just like to say, that with machine learning all kinds of very surprising correlations can be extracted from very large datasets that NO ONE would have guessed. The ML algorithm processes the data and finds the connections. People do not necessarily prescribe beforehand which connections and cor...
[04:35:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google Gone - Breaking Up With Big Tech - 18 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:47] <exec> 08└─It's posted twice.
[04:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Horizons Departing View of Ultima Thule Reveals Flattened Shape - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:20] <exec> 08└─Is it spinning? Maybe centrifugal force is at play like a disk of pizza dough?
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[05:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mars One Goes Bankrupt as Reality Catches up to the Doomed Space Plan - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:12] <exec> 08└─The key issue with their entire plan was the reality TV. Have you ever seen clips of actual astronauts in space, doing actual things? It's fascinating yet very boring. It's methodical, same stuff happens nearly every day, they get along, there's no gossip. This doesn't make riveting TV; furthermore...
[05:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:27] <exec> 08└─We are causing our pristine landscape and fresh water reserves to vanish, and might cause Europe to freeze in the process !
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[06:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Company Tencent Buys a 5% Stake in Reddit - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:55] <exec> 08└─Why does reddit need money? Serious question.
[06:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mars One Goes Bankrupt as Reality Catches up to the Doomed Space Plan - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:23] <exec> 08└─That sounds more likely than my idea.
[06:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:39] <exec> 08└─totally buying stock in this: transporting yuge amounts of heavy volume with the power of burning fossil fuel will yield auto-mining of said yuge volume resource. doesn't get any more WIN-WIN then this ^_^ on a more serious side note: for applications that require clean, washed and carbon free (leaf...
[06:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:41] <exec> 08└─Didn't you watch waterworld, dirt is the new gold.
[06:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Gizmodo Writer Experiments Blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple From Her Life - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, people never talk about the good things dementia brings to the table.
[06:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gizmodo Writer Experiments Blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple From Her Life - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:12] <exec> 08└─Don't knock lips and assholes. They've got their place too.
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[07:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Chinese Company Tencent Buys a 5% Stake in Reddit - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:52] <exec> 08└─To pay its employees and run servers.
[07:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Company Tencent Buys a 5% Stake in Reddit - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:54] <exec> 08└─hookers and blow don't buy themselves?
[07:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Company Tencent Buys a 5% Stake in Reddit - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:56] <exec> 08└─Hint: Reddit - Corporate Affairs [wikipedia.org] Reddit is a private company based in
[07:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mars One Goes Bankrupt as Reality Catches up to the Doomed Space Plan - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:26] <exec> 08└─I mentioned NASA TV for a reason. If they did hire a reality TV production team, they could edit the footage to create fake conflicts, or even coach the participants, although the 4-24 minute delay would make it harder to have a chat. The hazards would also be played up to build tension. Stirring up...
[07:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Gone - Breaking Up With Big Tech - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:30] <exec> 08└─I block Facebook at the DNS level on my networks, I don't use much of Google's stuff, though I do use YouTube and occasionally maps. I run LineageOS, so at least it's not an official Google build. I don't touch Apple. I've gained a greatly reinvigorated hatred for Apple as of late with the Mac Mini...
[07:39:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Apple’s Internal Hardware Team is Working on Modems Now - 324 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:57] <exec> 08└─This is just vertical integration and a smart move by Apple. Buying parts from a competitor? [9to5mac.com] Stupid move. Buying parts from a company [wikipedia.org] that sues you constantly? Bad move. Buying parts from a company and running it into the ground [soylentnews.org]? Bold move. Making your...
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[08:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Source Project Aims to Make Ubuntu Usable on Arm-Powered Windows Laptops - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:49] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't they focus on making Ubuntu usable on x86-64 desktop and notebook computers first?
[08:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mars One Goes Bankrupt as Reality Catches up to the Doomed Space Plan - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:29] <exec> 08└─I'm shocked that a whole venture of going to Mars as a one-way trip failed.
[08:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:47] <exec> 08└─With this work, we present a rare example of economic opportunity brought to life by climate change," said Irina Overeem
[08:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:30] <exec> 08└─Nah, was picking up my wife and my girlfriend.
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[09:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Source Project Aims to Make Ubuntu Usable on Arm-Powered Windows Laptops - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:56] <exec> 08└─Well, in what way do you think it isn't usable? Thousands of people have chosen Ubuntu and it seems to meet their needs. Perhaps you have a specific complaint that doesn't affect the majority of users?
[09:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Source Project Aims to Make Ubuntu Usable on Arm-Powered Windows Laptops - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:57] <exec> 08└─Yes. I have a list. And a link to https://askubuntu.com [askubuntu.com] This is not the appropriate forum for this conversion.
[09:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Source Project Aims to Make Ubuntu Usable on Arm-Powered Windows Laptops - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:59] <exec> 08└─It is quite usable in the x86-64 desktop world (for the most part). I made use of it for quite on my iMac a while before being thrust back into the macOS world. To get the sound to work on my iMac I had to use a hack and I couldn't put it to sleep without causing video problems. But it works splendi...
[09:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Company Tencent Buys a 5% Stake in Reddit - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:10] <exec> 08└─Reddit has been around forever. If it's not profitable yet, they have a problem, because reddit isn't going to majorly change without driving off its users. OTOH, if it's not profitable by now, why would any new investor want to buy in? Hence, the question: why?
[09:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Russia Plans Brief Disconnection From the Internet for Internal Traffic Test - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:19] <exec> 08└─I suspect the global backbone carriers will learn something too. This exercise would mean a very large number of routes (ASs, really) dropping off the BGP routing table for the duration, then coming back over a fairly short (presumably) timeframe. That's going to put a fair bit of stress on backbone...
[09:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Gone - Breaking Up With Big Tech - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:47] <exec> 08└─Fine. Screw you guys. I will just type the website address in BY HAND
[09:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Gone - Breaking Up With Big Tech - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:49] <exec> 08└─I didn't know you had that many first cousins. God luck!
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[10:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:51] <exec> 08└─And my hair has a great so-called "Carbon Footprint." Because I NEVER go to Hairdresser. And I never Blow Dry. So please, eliminate all Planes, Cars, Cows, Oil, Gas & Military (foolish). But stay away from my hair!!!
[10:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:52] <exec> 08└─According to TFA, washing your hair twice a day uses 14222 liters of water per year. Washing your hair twice a week uses only 613 liters. Yet: 14222 / 613 > 23. Granted, they also talk about conditioner, but they are still fudging the numbers. Moreso, because washing your hair twice in one shower is...
[10:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:54] <exec> 08└─I think the Army, Navy and Air Force might have been on to something.
[10:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:56] <exec> 08└─apparently it's standard to shower daily in some cultures, whether or not people are actually dirty. it's ok to wash every two days or once a week, depending on how much you sweat and how much of your skin is exposed (to accumulate dust etc). do change your socks as often as possible, as well as und...
[10:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:59] <exec> 08└─Fewer showers. Take fewer showers.
[10:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:01] <exec> 08└─I think the Army, Navy and Air Force might have been on to something.
[10:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:03] <exec> 08└─Be really environmentally friendly: have a sand bath
[10:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:05] <exec> 08└─apparently it's standard to shower daily in some cultures, whether or not people are actually dirty.
[10:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:08] <exec> 08└─Use Mother dirt [vice.com] "Why does my horse roll around in its own filth all day?" It was a pretty weird question to be asked on a date, but it ended up changing David Whitlock's life. That was 12 years ago, and Whitlock hasn't bathed since. Driven by the burning ambition to find an answer to his...
[10:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:10] <exec> 08└─How often people shower, in various countries [theatlantic.com] I am surprised - if you believe this, nowhere do people shower less than 5 times per week. Not sure I believe it, either - it doesn't fit with my experience in Europe, where I would have thought 3-4 times per week was more typical. Obvi...
[10:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:12] <exec> 08└─A couple of thoughts about washing hair / this blurb: * electric heating isn't necessarly the most carbon-friendly variant of heating, unless those electrons get pushed by nuclear power plants or renewables. I replaced the electric boilers by one connected to the highly efficient central natural gas...
[10:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:14] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry. mai bad.
[10:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:16] <exec> 08└─The same for clothes washing: generally clothes are good for more than a single wearing.
[10:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Source Project Aims to Make Ubuntu Usable on Arm-Powered Windows Laptops - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:27] <exec> 08└─I and most of my family have been using Ubuntu for about 10 years, and since systemd usability has gone down so badly that some have stopped using it while others are still running a five year old version. Systemd is particularly prone to overwriting config settings on a reboot leaving the machine u...
[10:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Company Tencent Buys a 5% Stake in Reddit - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:39] <exec> 08└─If it's not profitable yet, they have a problem
[10:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:12] <exec> 08└─Consider that Vlad Putin is a former KGB Agent. I expect Vlad knows from Signals Intelligence. Now imagine the former KGB - the FSB now I think - planting a "May I Use Your Location?" App on Cheeto's phone shortly after he announced his candidacy for 2016. Hilarity really _did_ Ensue.
[10:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xbox Live to Connect with Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch Players - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:12] <exec> 08└─Things like MIST and AberMud? Yeah, I remember such revollutionary concepts back in the 80s
[10:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Demonstrates Flat Design Interfaces are Measurably Worse - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:17] <exec> 08└─When your ui requires systemD? It has everything to do with it.
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[11:37:10] <exec> 08└─Meh, blame me. I scanned subs as usual before writing it up and submitting, but missed it.
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[12:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetic Testing for Dogs - 1537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:53] <exec> 08└─There is so much going on in the dog world - some good and some bad - that it's hard to take a stand on something like this. If you have a mutt, it might be interesting to know what all is in the mix. More curiousity than anything else. If you have a purebred, from a breed with known potential probl...
[12:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:15] <exec> 08└─If you REALLY CARED about using minimal resources, you could still easily shower every day: just turn on the water, get wet, then turn it off. Rub yourself with soap and shampoo. Turn water on and rinse. I've heard this called a "Navy shower."
[12:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:17] <exec> 08└─Right way, backwarda, inside-out forwards, inside-out backwards.. that is four..
[12:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:19] <exec> 08└─Navy shower? Many sailors at once, or cold water only?
[12:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03knarf [2042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:21] <exec> 08└─There's another soluti8on to the problem of body odour: stop using commercial deodorants, make your own using baking soda/potato starch/cocos fat (plenty of recipes to be found online). Strangely enough commercial deodorants seem to mask the smell for about a day after which it returns - or even eme...
[12:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:23] <exec> 08└─Also, stop using shampoo [biome.com.au]
[12:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, gawd, of course. However, for practical reasons you can keep 'em on constantly for a week.
[12:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:28] <exec> 08└─Dandruff isn't flaking of dry skin. Dandruff is (a fungal infection evidenced by) clumping of skin that then fails to flake off naturally (in almost invisible pieces), so eventually sloughs off in big pieces that are very visible. At this point perhaps I should chip in that I haven't used shampoo or...
[12:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:30] <exec> 08└─I do take cold showers every day for about two years now. Apart from making you more cold resistant, I have considerable less colds as compared to previous times (maybe one mild cold per year). The first moment is still somewhat unpleasant (maybe 2 seconds) and probably will always be. Being attract...
[12:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:32] <exec> 08└─Indeed. As long as you keep it clean, a face cloth will sort out all your sebacious areas quickly and with minimal resource usage. I know some people get all squicky about them (note the 'keep it clean' above), but a twice-daily flannel wash removes all I want to remove, and leaves all I want to lea...
[12:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:34] <exec> 08└─"at least 6 weeks" seems like wishful thinking. I didn't properly reach steady state until about 6 months of no poo, even if the difficult hump was passed after about 2-3 months. I'd been stretching intervals out before then for a year before-hand too, I went in prepared. (But was still a bit squick...
[12:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:29] <exec> 08└─You belong to the American majority you naive fuck. Do some reading https://www.pnas.org [pnas.org]
[12:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:31] <exec> 08└─The answer is obvious, I do anything and everything in my power to oppose the surveillance capitalism. This includes running only free software on your computers, starting from operating systems (Linux, BSD) and applications as well and not using the services of companies, such as Facebook, Google,...
[12:36:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Russia Plans Brief Disconnection From the Internet for Internal Traffic Test - 958 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:45] <exec> 08└─Earlier today this was also up on Slashdot. Many of the comments were really stupid, like wishing that it will be permanently disconnected. Do they not understand that Internet is needed for the population there, so they have a better chance to get information and not what their authorities want to...
[12:37:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Russia Plans Brief Disconnection From the Internet for Internal Traffic Test - 687 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:10] <exec> 08└─I suspect the global backbone carriers will learn something too. This exercise would mean a very large number of routes (ASs, really) dropping off the BGP routing table for the duration, then coming back over a fairly short (presumably) timeframe. That's going to put a fair bit of stress on backbone...
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[13:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:51] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they're looking for a municipal waste incineration facility - in South Florida those were owned and operated by the mob. Suuuuure, they've got armed guards and video security - especially the Russian mob.
[13:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:52] <exec> 08└─2 tons. Can you imagine? That's a lot of yoga. That's a lot of yoga.
[13:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:54] <exec> 08└─The incineration facility must have "at the minimum, secure entry, 24-hour armed guards and 24/7 camera surveillance with recordable date and time capabilities."
[13:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SvenErik [2857] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:57] <exec> 08└─They should look into using one a steel mill or other nearby melting plants. I work at a Ferro Silicon Manganese producer, and I throw hard-disks in the furnaces to get rid of them. With that quantity, they probably have to parcel it over some time out so they will not pollute the melt too much, but...
[13:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetic Testing for Dogs - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:05] <exec> 08└─Yarp: https://www.youtube.com Incidentally, after reading the summary twice, I still don't understand what the problem is such that genetic testing is the solution unless it's an admission that the dog breeding world is a cess...
[13:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:36] <exec> 08└─At one time (UK) showers were only found in sports changing rooms, and normal houses (built pre-1970ish) only had a bath, which people typically took once a week. Then there was a campaign by the water companies to get people to shower "because it uses less water than a bath". But that assumed peopl...
[13:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:37] <exec> 08└─many gels or shampoos have included some sort of micro-bubbles
[13:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:40] <exec> 08└─I have seen reports of people dying of heart attacks triggered by cold showers. FWIW it is also the traditional cure for excessive libido.
[13:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:42] <exec> 08└─Fewer showers. HAVE fewer showers.
[13:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:44] <exec> 08└─Do the regressives take into account that the only susceptible section of the citizenry is exactly their own electorate? *snicker*
[13:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Source Project Aims to Make Ubuntu Usable on Arm-Powered Windows Laptops - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:55] <exec> 08└─The work looks elaborate, someone put in good effort into setting that up. But s/he/they hide behind the "AArch64 Laptops" name, even in their kernel sign-off line. It strikes me as particulary weird that the individual(s) behind it focus on two very specific laptops from different vendors that have...
[13:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbruchon [4473] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Open Source Project Aims to Make Ubuntu Usable on Arm-Powered Windows Laptops - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:57] <exec> 08└─x86-compatible systems have standards like PCI[e], ACPI, DMI, and more recently UEFI, all of which give an operating system the basic configuration information it needs to know what hardware is in the computer and roughly how to communicate with it. ARM systems tend to have a lot of hardware attache...
[13:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Source Project Aims to Make Ubuntu Usable on Arm-Powered Windows Laptops - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:59] <exec> 08└─I have a list of problems with using Windows on ANYTHING: just ask the ENTIRE FECKING INTERNET!
[13:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Open Source Project Aims to Make Ubuntu Usable on Arm-Powered Windows Laptops - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:01] <exec> 08└─I am not sure it is systemd's fault. I have never heard about the problems you describe (opensuse here). Maybe it is just Ubuntu having bad defaults.
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[13:40:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah...I hear that people never talk about the good things dementia brings to the table.
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[14:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:49] <exec> 08└─Without strong insect populations, it's not unreasonable to conclude that humanity may not continue either.
[14:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:50] <exec> 08└─Is there any way to accelerate this process (of human demise)?
[14:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:02] <exec> 08└─or they could send them to Hawaii and dump them in a river of lava. I doubt the possibly toxic chemicals from this stuff would do any damage there. Since they're the Navy, they probably have regular shipments to and from Hawaii anyway where 2 extra tons of cargo isn't a big deal.
[14:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:03] <exec> 08└─Ship it to Fort Meade. The NSA does this kind of destruction as part of their job.
[14:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:05] <exec> 08└─Why go to an outside vendor? Just put a pile of drives under the nozzle when launching a missile/rocket. The fire for incineration comes for free...
[14:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:08] <exec> 08└─A lot of good engineering suggestions above if pollution is not an issue, but this being the gov we can assume its gotta be EPA to hell and back. Otherwise its just the good old thermite grenade treatment. The big red soup cans like we had in the army. GIs being GIs the othe office workers had to be...
[14:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fennec [7053] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:10] <exec> 08└─Or use them for target practice ... But that would probably be too cost effective.
[14:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetic Testing for Dogs - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:19] <exec> 08└─Build the wall to keep out the chihuahuas. It will be a small wall so it should be much cheaper.
[14:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetic Testing for Dogs - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:22] <exec> 08└─Slight correction that its the dog buying world demanding superficial stuff, and extreme optimization for feature A will probably result in inferior results for unoptimized feature Z. Sorta like the human gene editing thing; we'd like to think people would breed for heart disease resistance, but you...
[14:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:57] <exec> 08└─Sure, most heart attacks happen in the morning as circulation is ramping up. A cold shower is an extra kick, so if you have heart problems you might not want to take cold showers. I should also add, that the first month or so, the cold showers are unpleasant throughout. So, as ones tends to say, not...
[14:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:59] <exec> 08└─Redpill me on dandruff shampoo, senpai.
[14:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:01] <exec> 08└─Only wash your hair with real poo!
[14:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:03] <exec> 08└─> Lastly, by what weird definition is heating water "the most energy intensive activity" in a house? ... In places like the UK, it's going to be heating. In the UK most heating systems run by piping hot water around the house "Central Heating". This is different from US, where a lot of heating seems...
[14:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:05] <exec> 08└─Hair today, gone tomorrow.
[14:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Source Project Aims to Make Ubuntu Usable on Arm-Powered Windows Laptops - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:20] <exec> 08└─I have. Discovered a new one two days ago. Simple solution is to never update it and never reboot. If it takes a dive then reinstall.
[14:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Readying 16-24 TB HAMR HDDs, and Hard Drives With Two Actuators - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:39] <exec> 08└─That is a humongous load of porn. (Someone had to say it.)
[14:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate Readying 16-24 TB HAMR HDDs, and Hard Drives With Two Actuators - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:40] <exec> 08└─"Linus Tech Tips" https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] It seems pretty cool but I think the hype is a bit exaggerated. We'll see if it's really reliable long term.
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[15:33:53] <exec> 08└─No problem... the body is already going downhill. The rest will follow soon enough. Then I will be automagically reduced to carbon dioxide, water and some trace elements. May nature be gentle with my elements ;-)
[15:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 1432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:54] <exec> 08└─if by "humanity" you mean a population of beings that can reproduce successfully with homo sapiens, and it's genetically diverse enough to not die out from "married my cousin" mutations, then humanity will continue. if only remote populations of eskimos/innuits etc, but still we can survive without...
[15:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:57] <exec> 08└─Sorry, we can't allow that to happen. You're going to have to pay to have your body hermetically sealed to keep the CO2 out of the atmosphere. Just be glad nobody has thought of all the CO2 you're producing by breathing or they wouldn't be willing to wait that long.
[15:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:59] <exec> 08└─I am reminded of an argument I had with someone... I can't remember if it was here or slashdot... but their point was that humans couldn't be the cause of a mass extinction event because things haven't died off yet. The fact that all the signs of an impending catastrophie are here, wasn't good enoug...
[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:01] <exec> 08└─Some of your points are reasonable, but not all. The biggest one is the "eat locally". While supporting local business is a good thing in principle, this does not make agriculture more efficient. Transport is the smallest part of agriculture, and all the rest benefits from mass production. Anyway, a...
[15:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:03] <exec> 08└─Wasn't cockroaches supposed to outlive us all? Weaklings. Here, we present a comprehensive review of 73 historical reports of insect declines from across the globe, and systematically assess the underlying drivers.
[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─China's one-child policy was not wrong. The simplest, if cold-blooded, method would be to cut off any and all international aid, as long as countries populations are exploding.
[15:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 1576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:08] <exec> 08└─You sound like my daughter. It's amazing, she buys almost all the food for her family. She's into the Organic Food, big time. And the Locally Grown. She goes to the Farmers' Market, she buys the Avocado. And the Banana. From the guys that grow them. And New York is amazing that way, it's a place whe...
[15:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:10] <exec> 08└─Is there any way to accelerate this process (of human demise)?
[15:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:12] <exec> 08└─See that long trail of gasoline that starts a few feet away over there? Now observe as I light a match and toss it over there. There is no way that that fire is going to follow the gasoline all around the room and eventually come to the puddle of gas that I'm standing in and soaked myself in. I woul...
[15:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:28] <exec> 08└─Probably, yeah. I expect someone has a brother-in-law already lined up ready to build a destruction facility that will cost a fortune and charge six fortunes per year to handle it. Simply blowing them up wouldn't make anyone any money.
[15:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:29] <exec> 08└─Which is why the military can't do it
[15:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:31] <exec> 08└─One would seriously thing there was a simple solution like that to some people that work with lasers, missiles and rocket. I'm sure they have come chemist there that could cook up a good batch of thermite. Dig a suitable hole somewhere, toss drives in, apply termite. Hand out the smores and wait, ok...
[15:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:34] <exec> 08└─Put the hard drives through a "chipper" first so they come out in small pieces. The smaller pieces are easier for the lava to destroy.
[15:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetic Testing for Dogs - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:44] <exec> 08└─The breed-mix test
[15:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:26] <exec> 08└─My house is heated by natural gas and I have a natural gas water heater. My averaged gas usage per month is 72 CCF. (I just checked) My monthly minimum usage is 13 CCF when the central heating is off in summer. The water heater consumes 18% of my annual natural gas budget usage leaving 82% for home...
[15:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:27] <exec> 08└─I bet there's four superimposed graphs going into the signal: 1) bell curve certainly includes people who shower more than once a day, I lift weights about three times per week and often do physical "stuff" at least once a week outside the gym so maybe a dozen quick showers a week for me. So me, plu...
[15:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:30] <exec> 08└─Next step up is a heat pump, always cheaper to move heat than to make it. I am told you can long term average over 300% efficiency using a heat pump water heater. Donno if true or false. Big decision for me, I've had a tankless for like 20 years and they only last 30 years (unlike tanks that struggl...
[15:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:32] <exec> 08└─As a Navy veteran I can confirm this. Fresh water is a rationed commodity on a ship. In my day, the showers had "wands" with push buttons on them that released the water. You wet yourself, then lather up, then rinse. The water does not continuously run like a civilian shower. It's not nearly as sati...
[15:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03patrick [3990] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:34] <exec> 08└─From the same article: The greatest and most amazing change is that I'm always in a good mood now. Aside from that, I haven't collected any data in order to evaluate it. Of course my skin is also very soft and in a good condition, but it always was actually.
[15:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:36] <exec> 08└─Right! Thank you for the precision, my memory didn't serve up the proper term "microbeads". From the wikipedia article, not everybody has banned these yet, but it's on its way.
[15:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Source Project Aims to Make Ubuntu Usable on Arm-Powered Windows Laptops - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:53] <exec> 08└─In what way is a Firefox problem the responsibility of Ubuntu? Likewise: "How to select the first line from each file in a directory and print it into a new text file""How to Convert H265 (go pro, 4K, 60) to DnxHQx (DnxHD 4k, 60) using FFMPEG?" Many of the 'problems' in your selected list are nothin...
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[15:35:54] <exec> 08└─I and most of my family have been using Ubuntu for about 10 years, and since systemd usability has gone down...
[15:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Readying 16-24 TB HAMR HDDs, and Hard Drives With Two Actuators - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:14] <exec> 08└─I think the "helium-filled drive" technology was cooler. HAMR/MAMR increases the density. Great, but years late. Hopefully they will meet their more ambitious targets and pump out stuff like 48 TB drives by 2024, because the $/TB gap with SSDs will shrink otherwise. I'm also optimistic about the rel...
[15:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:44] <exec> 08└─The first few Marvel movies, about a decade ago, were fun. I enjoyed some X-men and Fantastic-4 But they quickly wear thin. I don't even give them a look these days.
[15:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:46] <exec> 08└─Actually, it can, in some cases, be okay to keep individual data points if they are sufficiently anonymized. Here are 35 android device data location points indicating a line of stopped cars. Little more than 35 GPS coordinates. If only they could have, or by law have, an attitude of keeping the lea...
[15:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:48] <exec> 08└─You put too much faith in the results. When surveillance capitalism spies on you, they can try to reconstruct facts about you. Such as where you live and where you work. They can try to prompt you to go out and buy the proverbial batteries after you just bought some on Amazon. They can try to link s...
[15:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:50] <exec> 08└─Suppose you have a burner phone that is used only when going to the gay sex club. Better be careful when you turn the burner phone on. Imagine: 1. turn off regular phone, put it in faraday bag 2. turn on burner phone. (possibly interchange previous two steps) 3. depart for gay sex club 4. return hom...
[15:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:53] <exec> 08└─In today's society, if you're ready to stand up and own the fact that you go to gay sex clubs, then that shouldn't be a problem.
[15:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:55] <exec> 08└─My organization also uses outlook for email. Despite my horrible opinion of Microsoft, I think the reason is quite clear. It pains me to admit it but Outlook / Exchange managed by a competent staff is pretty good enterprise software, for mail, calendars, scheduling things, including resources like m...
[15:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:57] <exec> 08└─If you use some type of turnpike pre-paid scanned gadget for convenience in order to drive through without stopping to pay the troll, you leave a data trail every time you drive through the turnpike.
[15:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:59] <exec> 08└─People say: robots will create enough wealth to feed the unemployed. DannyB sez: robots will create enough unemployed to feed the robots.
[15:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MindEscapes [6751] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:01] <exec> 08└─Only if you don't drive your own vehicle. Few these days without their own built in tracking.
[15:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gizmodo Writer Experiments Blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple From Her Life - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:57] <exec> 08└─Have you considered all the good things that dementia brings to the table though?
[15:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trust but Verify: Machine Learning’s Magic Masks Hidden Frailties - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, unintended consequences my ass. It was obvious what the result would be from the first sentence.
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[16:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:51] <exec> 08└─Galileo was friends with the Pope (Urban VII), but then took the Pope's arguments from a personal discussion they had and put them in the mouth of a character called "Simplicio" (the Simpleton) for one of his books. That is when all the trouble started.
[16:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:52] <exec> 08└─Galileo was only harassed after calling the Pope a dumbass in his book. He put the Pope's personal views in the mouth of "Simplicio" and snarkily demolished them. The Pope, it bears mentioning, was also a temporal prince of the Papal States; in short, he was Galileo's King. Viewed in context of usua...
[16:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:54] <exec> 08└─I already said that.
[16:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:57] <exec> 08└─Stop arguing with myself, will you?
[16:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:59] <exec> 08└─Thanks, Soylent, for making me 100% non-spam, non-troll, on-topic today. For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie. Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse [siderus.io] It has blood on it! [siderus.io] ABCNews: Eclipse mak...
[16:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:17] <exec> 08└─"Our work reveals dramatic rates of decline that may lead to the extinction...."
[16:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:19] <exec> 08└─You are doing it wrong! Use more matches to accelerate the process. Humans are notoriously impatient. So, get lightin' yourself, come on!
[16:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:21] <exec> 08└─Don't know anything about this in particular but in the past I've looked into these types of claims and all the numbers were generated only after a long chain of questionable assumptions.
[16:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:40] <exec> 08└─Spoiler alert: The NSA is who they're trying to hide it from.
[16:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:42] <exec> 08└─Give the 2 tons of waste to the IRS or HRC. It'll disappear quicker than you can say " ".
[16:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:44] <exec> 08└─Burned, to ash, eh? 24/7 armed guards? That's some highly melodramatic security theater alrighty. What a waste of taxpayer money. To wit, if the data on those hard drives and other storage is so precious, how did it all end up collected together like that? Some of that must have sat in storage for m...
[16:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:46] <exec> 08└─There is only one way to be sure. You know, the one that involves powerful weapons sent from space.
[16:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_bad_influence [3854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetic Testing for Dogs - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:58] <exec> 08└─I have heard that some apartment buildings and homeowners associations require DNA testing for pets. Then they can identify the animal responsible for leaving their 'calling cards' scattered around and hold the owner responsible. We almost have more dogs than people in my town and I wish they'd requ...
[16:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:46] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking about building a (Finnish) sauna, and trying to decide what kind of heater to use is the hardest part. Electric is convenient, but uses alot of energy. Wood require work to make fuel or money to buy. Gas requires expensive and dangerous infrastucture.
[16:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:47] <exec> 08└─Washing hair daily isn't particularly good for hair anyway. I've heard from hairdressers that they only wash their hair once a week. In part that's because they do all kinds of other labor-intensive styling that you would not want to do every day. But it's also because they know that the chemicals i...
[16:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:49] <exec> 08└─But using real poo doesn't exactly make your hair more clean!
[16:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:52] <exec> 08└─Obviously, one needs to shower after sports
[16:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:54] <exec> 08└─If you REALLY CARED about using minimal resources, you could still easily shower every day: just turn on the water, get wet, then turn it off.
[16:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:56] <exec> 08└─Or using sea water? Maybe all three at once!
[16:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:58] <exec> 08└─I did not realize phys.org was a member of the DNC *snicker what an idiot*
[16:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Source Project Aims to Make Ubuntu Usable on Arm-Powered Windows Laptops - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:17] <exec> 08└─I really really really want to like FreeBSD, but every time I try it I think "I wish OpenBSD had ZFS and better hardware support". So, I'm using linux with root on encrypted ZFS. FreeBSD would be OK for a desktop, but on my daily-driver laptop it just sucks too hard in all the useability factors.
[16:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:17] <exec> 08└─As far as I have experimented in Florida, the Turnpike doesn't care how quickly you get from point A to point B in their system - though back in the days of paper toll tickets I did catch an evil grin from a toll collector when I covered 167 miles in under 2 hours...
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[17:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:54] <exec> 08└─Did the church put your dept. line on the index?
[17:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:55] <exec> 08└─Now the SJW's in the Church of the State harass all who blaspheme liberalism and its omipotent and omniscient State.
[17:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:57] <exec> 08└─https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/02/rising-of-the-shield-hero-had-no-outrage-controversies-in-japan-says-kadokawa-producer/76749/ [oneangrygamer.net]
[17:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 1581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:00] <exec> 08└─There's good reason the Church will never be allowed to live Galileo down. Many of their members are still at odds with scientists today. Then it was Galileo, now it's Darwin. I suppose they always will be getting themselves tangled up in pointless holy wars. The organization by its very nature has...
[17:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:21] <exec> 08└─Wasn't cockroaches supposed to outlive us all?
[17:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:22] <exec> 08└─tl;dr The numbers were pulled from Al Gore's arse.
[17:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:25] <exec> 08└─You can always direct download a paper by doing this: https://sci-hub.tw [sci-hub.tw] Sometimes the domain changes from .tw to whatever else.
[17:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:27] <exec> 08└─Exactly - thank you. The thing that reduces population is LESS poverty and MORE aid. The useless fucks that brought you austerity (only for the poor) are now shipping it abroad. It's really almost as if devastation and WW3 are really the goal. (Endtimes perhaps?)
[17:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:29] <exec> 08└─Thanks for putting in the effort. In support of your position, I overheard a man at the pub saying he doesn't believe in that nonsense either.
[17:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:31] <exec> 08└─Imagine if you knew that "discoveries" like this typically resulted from monks praying and writing down the ideas "god" told them. It wouldn't necessarily make what they said wrong, but in general you would just dismiss it after awhile.
[17:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 1495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:55] <exec> 08└─There's a microSD card / mini USB key inside the mounds and mounds of equipment. You blow up the pile / fire it with a rocket. You now have no idea / accountability for whether that thing stayed in the pile and burned or just disappeared by blasting off somewhere. Now you have to a) know that happen...
[17:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:56] <exec> 08└─Probably regs about the burning of trash that they can't violate
[17:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:58] <exec> 08└─Oh c'mon... I'm sure your president Trump will phone around to his friends, and one of them will have a competitive bid to make those hard drives and USB sticks disappear from the USA.
[17:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetic Testing for Dogs - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:11] <exec> 08└─Send all dogs to hell and turn up the heat. Filthy creatures that "hunt" only when in packs, and only of slow, sick animals. When one gets bitten by a cat, the screeching sound is worth hearing. A most funny moment is when one of the pack gets hit by a car. Nice. Real nice. Dog-owners, keep your dog...
[17:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetic Testing for Dogs - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:12] <exec> 08└─Thought I had a dog, got it DNA tested, turns out it's a cat. Explains the cat shit in the house, I guess.
[17:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetic Testing for Dogs - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:14] <exec> 08└─It would be great to associate DNA with: a. chance of biting b. height of bite above ground (nearer to human faces) c. jaw strength d. powerful side-shaking (like pit bulls do) You could then prove that your pit bull actually does have the DNA to be a safe dog. Before long, they'd all be that way, b...
[17:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:08] <exec> 08└─My wife and I shower together some times: usually it's longer than 10 minutes, though. ;)
[17:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:32] <exec> 08└─We're not invading them for their minerals and strategic position, because they are in charge of keeping the fresh water cubes for our cocktails. Now they're obviously not preventing them from melting. What do you think would happen to Switzerland if they stopped keeping good care of our money ?
[17:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:30] <exec> 08└─You put too much faith in the results. When surveillance capitalism spies on you, they can try to reconstruct facts about you. Such as where you live and where you work. They can try to prompt you to go out and buy the proverbial batteries after you just bought some on Amazon. They can try to link s...
[17:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Plans Brief Disconnection From the Internet for Internal Traffic Test - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:11] <exec> 08└─http://www.turnofftheinternet.com/ [turnofftheinternet.com]
[17:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Gone - Breaking Up With Big Tech - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:42] <exec> 08└─Facebook and Apple, equally easy since I use neither. Microsoft, since I used to cling to it for Visual Studio but don't do development any more. I could muddle through some other IDE if I really had to. Amazon. I've only ordered online a few times. I love the selection, but I could have found a sli...
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[18:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:54] <exec> 08└─Also, if you never used Facebook in the first place, are you Enlightened or Retarded?
[18:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:56] <exec> 08└─people who think the internet is just another entertainment platform and sit on slavebook all the time probably do get dumber when they stop using slavebook, b/c instead of being challenged with "news" and "conversation" they go back to watching retarded propaganda pig shows on tv like the ignorant...
[18:33:57] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:58] <exec> 08└─Quitting FB makes you less informed about current events. Not dumber.
[18:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:00] <exec> 08└─But when it came to factual knowledge of current events — the Facebook-breakers scored lower than they had prior to deactivation.
[18:34:01] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03slinches [5049] 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 310 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:02] <exec> 08└─Not being 100% up to date on what the biggest media outlets considers to be the most important current events is not the same thing as being dumb. Actually, I think those that spend less time keeping up with the 24hr news cycle might be smarter in terms of the things that actually influence their da...
[18:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:06] <exec> 08└─And of course it only makes you less informed about current events if you don't use other sources of information about current events. Not to mention that there are certainly some current events you don't need to be informed about. Like the newest gossip about some celebrity.
[18:34:07] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03EJ [2452] 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:08] <exec> 08└─You can't. Knowledge of current events does not make you smart. It just makes you informed. The headline above implies that Einstein would somehow be stupid for not knowing who won the latest sportsball tournament.
[18:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:10] <exec> 08└─Considering that the information on FB isn't necessarily reliable and that there are other sources of information, I'm not sure how you reach that conclusion.
[18:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:12] <exec> 08└─So, facebook is the only source of True Facts(TM) about current events? And if you don't know about the True Facts(TM) you are dumb? From the paper: "Accuracy on our news knowledge quiz falls by 0.12 standard deviations. Tangibly, the Control group answered an average of 7.26 out of the 10 news know...
[18:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:15] <exec> 08└─The most fitting user!
[18:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:17] <exec> 08└─I only read major news websites from 3 or 4 different countries every day, plus Ars, SN, El Reg ... But I don't use FB, so I'm dumb.
[18:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:19] <exec> 08└─Current events are not knowledge. They come and go like the tides. Knowledge is timeless, and that again is a feature found diminished in FB users.
[18:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:21] <exec> 08└─From the paper:
[18:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:37] <exec> 08└─What is the new "truith"? It regurgitates the same story everyone knows.
[18:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:38] <exec> 08└─As to the details, if Galileo was an ass about it, and mocked the Pope, shouldn't the representatives of Christianity have shown more Christian forgiveness, as well as humility? Turn the other cheek? By going after him, they made a far bigger mockery of themselves than Galileo could have ever done....
[18:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:40] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre [wikipedia.org] By 1951, Pope Pius XII declared that Lemaître's [Big Bang] theory provided a scientific validation for Catholicism.
[18:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:43] <exec> 08└─"Henry Ansgar Kelly, professor emeritus of English, trained as a Jesuit for 13 years" No bias there, no-siree. He kind of shoots himself in the foot pretty quickly when he wrote "Galileo was clearly stretching the truth when he maintained at his trial ...". The fact that there was a trial means he w...
[18:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:45] <exec> 08└─A lot of that has to do with how the church dealt with the sex abuse scandals that continue to this day. The church's antiquated notions on sexual orientation aren't helping, but let's be honest about the fact that the sex abuse scandals were a massive part of the problem. People who go to church pr...
[18:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:47] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure "friends" was ever the correct description, but his problems *were* caused by an arrogantly abusive nature. And that "Simplitico" character was clearly an caricature of the Pope as a fool. Others espousing much the same beliefs at the same time got off a lot more lightly. (OTOH, they we...
[18:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:50] <exec> 08└─It's been a long time since the Roman Catholic Church was at odds with "Science" over Darwinian evolution. There are still lots of idiots, some in religious power of one sort or another, who refuse to accept Darwin, but the Catholic Church isn't one of them. OTOH, they still claim the power, or at l...
[18:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:52] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but while there's nothing new here to anyone who's looked into the matter, kids are (or were when I was in school) still taught the hagiographic history of Galileo in grade school and high school. So it's not an "everyone knows" kind of thing.
[18:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:54] <exec> 08└─No, he doesn't shoot himself in the foot. He's being historically accurate. FWIW, Galileo got off lightly considering the typical punishment for his real crime (Lèse-majesté). People are still killed for less abusive Lèse-majesté in certain countries in today's world.
[18:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:57] <exec> 08└─A journal run by the Catholic church says Galileo lied and was the bad guy? I am shocked, shocked I say. Well, not all that shocked, actually.
[18:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:59] <exec> 08└─As I've explained to you in great detail before [soylentnews.org], there were good scientific reasons to doubt the heliocentric theory in Galileo's time, and Galileo was asserting all sorts of non-scientific nonsense to buttress his theory. The organization by its very nature has a huge problem with...
[18:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:26] <exec> 08└─Tommy [wikipedia.org], is that you?
[18:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:28] <exec> 08└─If humans go extinct then the roaches will have a hard time. No trash, no poop, no tasty humanade...
[18:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:55] <exec> 08└─You forgot one extra detail : If it was such important data, then the drives/CDs must have been encrypted. It's White Sands. They know heat and radiation well. Both destroy data, and it doesn't take a lot of either to make it impossible to recover and decrypt data. Most high-tech solution: Ship to y...
[18:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:57] <exec> 08└─The solution is simple -- seriously, even hard bricks and firewood can get a kiln to 2400 F, and with insulating firebricks/fiber and gas burners, you could easily achieve any metal's melting temp (aside from tungsten) in a modern furnace or kiln: https://www.onlinemetals.com [onlinemetal...
[18:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:59] <exec> 08└─If it's sensitive content, then it should be encrypted with a secure encryption scheme. In which case, just destroying the decryption key should be sufficient to make the data unrecoverable. Add physical deletion/overwriting of the encrypted data on top of it, and the method of physical destruction...
[18:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:01] <exec> 08└─That was my thought. Isn't this the place working on laser weaponry? That sounds ideal for the purpose. You might need to work a bit on containment, to protect against explosive delamination (of a non-rotating disk), but you'd need range security anyway.
[18:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:04] <exec> 08└─It's probably an official requirement dating back to the 1920's. It doesn't matter much that it doesn't make any sense.
[18:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:07] <exec> 08└─They were developing the directional cricket sonic weapon there.
[18:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:10] <exec> 08└─I agree 100%- probably a typical broad-brush application of a very old rule (destroying paper-stored data). Seems like a huge waste. I think too many people confuse movies with reality. Wipe the drives and re-use them.
[18:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetic Testing for Dogs - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:25] <exec> 08└─genetics has nothing to do with characteristics Ah, genetics are real all of a sudden? "Cause you posted 16 times in the Darwin thread yesterday saying the opposite.
[18:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetic Testing for Dogs - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:26] <exec> 08└─what kind of fucking slave submits to licensing his pets?
[18:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:22] <exec> 08└─"God made a few perfect heads. The rest, he covered with hair." I admit I was a little disappointed when I started losing my hair in my teens, but since it finished, hair care has been a lot simpler.
[18:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 2002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:24] <exec> 08└─Too many Popular Misconceptions out there (fake news, etc.) You mentioned "inefficient electric tank water heaters". I'm not sure why people believe that, other than salespeople trying to sell tankless units. Here's a great reference that compares efficiencies at the bottom of the page: https://www....
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[18:37:44] <exec> 08└─"some systems" evidently means "the most closed shit you can buy".
[18:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Source Project Aims to Make Ubuntu Usable on Arm-Powered Windows Laptops - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:46] <exec> 08└─yeah, i recently bought my first arm dev/tinkering board (orange pi r1 i think) and found this out the hard way. it's been sitting here ever since and i'm not exactly looking to buy more arm stuff. alpine and alarm don't seem to want to support the cheap little board either, even though it would mak...
[18:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Company Tencent Buys a 5% Stake in Reddit - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:59] <exec> 08└─My guess is they're trying to get into video hosting. This is from the last round of fundraising. [cnbc.com] The new funding round, the company's largest ever, should expedite a number of internal product and business efforts, including a redesign of its homepage and its first foray into user-upload...
[18:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cutting-edge Underwater Mining System Can Give Flooded Mines a New Lease of Life - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:15] <exec> 08└─Downsides like the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill [wikipedia.org] That was a flooded mine that, ironically, was being remediated when it sprung a leak and discharged 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater.
[18:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:54] <exec> 08└─if climate change is melting their beloved glaciers and depositing sand everywhere and this process is supposed to be making sea levels rise then maybe it's a little short sighted to sell the freaking sand? i mean, you might need that one day.
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[19:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:48] <exec> 08└─The same exact headline was on the New York Post. Images here [electoral-vote.com]. (as well as "Hard Times for Pecker.")
[19:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:50] <exec> 08└─Forgot to mention... In addition to the "Hard Times for Pecker" Headline, there was another funny subtitle on that cover, "Will Amazon Pull Out of NYC?"
[19:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:52] <exec> 08└─Back in my younger years, I met my congressman, whose name was, I'm not kidding, Dick Swett [congress.gov]. I kept my cool, but I have to admit I always wondered "Why didn't this guy go by 'Richard', 'Rich', or 'Rick'?" Of course, his plight wasn't half as bad as our classmate who was stuck with an...
[19:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:54] <exec> 08└─Used to be a NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle. He retired about 10 years ago.
[19:34:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:03] <exec> 08└─But, how can I be any dumber than when I'm using Facebook?
[19:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:19] <exec> 08└─The time constant for "current" and the importance threshold for "event" seem to have quickly and silently changed for everyone with the global Internet. So how does being "less informed" on these items show its lack of/value, setting aside "dumber"?
[19:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:21] <exec> 08└─Wait … 0.12 standard deviations? Doesn't sound statistically significant. Did the authors get their statistics knowledge from Facebook?
[19:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:23] <exec> 08└─Well, the entire public education system is set up to do exactly that - teach people to be mere parrots. This study helps show the effectiveness of Facebook in keeping the hoodwinked slaves on the information plantation.
[19:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:25] <exec> 08└─There's also the point that not all current events are worth knowing. Sometimes they're just drivel, like what the latest Kardashian is feuding about with some other random famous person. Sometimes the current event has no effect based on distance -- what the weather is like in Seattle today is not...
[19:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:27] <exec> 08└─In some ways, the internet has turned the world into a small town where every busybody is in everyone's business but instead of whispering rumors, they're now shouted.
[19:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:30] <exec> 08└─This was also my first thought: What "facts"? For someone who does technology there's still less "facts" of this domain in FB than in e.g. news sites, or even SN. But if the "factual knowledge" is how the last fart of "celebrity" smelled and who replaced their arse with hovercraft tanks, this is tot...
[19:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:32] <exec> 08└─Most current events are nothing but short term trivia. You can see all of them by just glancing the headlines on a news app or website. Often the headlines tell you just about all you need to know.
[19:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:34] <exec> 08└─I have never used Facebook. Ever. Also, I have not yet been involuntarily committed to a loony bin, as far as I am able to determine.
[19:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:02] <exec> 08└─He kind of shoots himself in the foot pretty quickly when he wrote "Galileo was clearly stretching the truth when he maintained at his trial ...".
[19:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:03] <exec> 08└─For many years Galileo had a close friendship with cardinal Maffeo Barberini who had even sent Galileo a latin ode composed by the cardinal in praise of Galileo’s telescopic discoveries. This same cardinal became Pope Urban VIII, the reigning pontiff at the time of the church’s condemnation of G...
[19:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:05] <exec> 08└─What is with these recent front page topics? It is almost as if the eds are trying to provoke or incite certain ancient heliocentrists to respond to religious idiocy, which did not exist in my time, if you are interested. What we should be concentrating on are two things, the Pope, by definition, is...
[19:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:08] <exec> 08└─So you are not actually the Athanasius Kircher, S.J.? The Societie Jesu is kind of a tell, unless it is followed by "warrior", which would suit the Jesuits.
[19:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:10] <exec> 08└─the real problem was that Galileo insisted on teaching heliocentrism as fact in an era when it couldn't be proven.
[19:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:12] <exec> 08└─But you are an anonymous coward and thus cannot be believed. The one who reposted it is more reliable and to be trusted.
[19:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:15] <exec> 08└─Many of their members are still at odds with scientists today. Then it was Galileo, now it's Darwin.
[19:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:45] <exec> 08└─True, but I wouldn't dismiss a bunch of monks writing down ideas after collecting data and doing their best to model reality.
[19:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:19] <exec> 08└─just hire a chinese state "company" and then have the whole country's media claim you were "hacked" like the OPM did.
[19:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:21] <exec> 08└─requires too many tps forms?
[19:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:23] <exec> 08└─Outsource it. Outsource IT. Same difference. Mumbai or Shanghai today sir?
[19:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:25] <exec> 08└─Windows is made by an American company, Microsoft, while Linux was built by a bunch of foreigners.
[19:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:27] <exec> 08└─gasoline and a match
[19:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:41] <exec> 08└─Instead of taking less showers, share the resources, shower with your significant other.
[19:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:43] <exec> 08└─After all, germs aren't real because you can't see them. Don’t shake hands with Pete Hegseth. [yahoo.com] For reasons that remain foggy, the Fox News host bragged on the television Sunday that he has not washed his hands in approximately a decade-and attributed the fact that he rarely gets sick to...
[19:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Source Project Aims to Make Ubuntu Usable on Arm-Powered Windows Laptops - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:05] <exec> 08└─64-bit arm doesn't have as many problems as 32-bit. 64-bit is pretty much just like any other architecture.
[19:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Company Tencent Buys a 5% Stake in Reddit - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:19] <exec> 08└─"Oh, bother."
[19:39:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 1977 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:49] <exec> 08└─Such predictions have some reliability. Google can predict, based on past data, that on Wednesday, you will probably stop at the store for milk. And, they will probably be right most of the time. Depending on how much data they have on you, they may be far less reliable at predicting what bar you're...
[19:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:13] <exec> 08└─Just because they don't bother to act on it doesn't mean they don't know. They could also decide to "know" retroactively at any time. Then select the subset of people who do not have the correct political thoughts for those currently in power.
[19:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:14] <exec> 08└─1) burner phone off, battery out 2) normal phone on, at home 3) travel with no phone on 4) turn on burner, if needed 5) when leaving turn off burner, battery out 6) arrive home, pocket normal phone There you go, there isn't a pattern there to discern, at least is you normally leave your phone on the...
[19:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:17] <exec> 08└─I had a phone years ago now that I dropped on accident and the battery popped right out. Picked up the phone and was surprised to see it still on. Pulling your battery is not a guarantee these days, there may still be a backup battery that pumps out occasional bursts to keep that sweet sweet locatio...
[19:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trust but Verify: Machine Learning’s Magic Masks Hidden Frailties - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:43] <exec> 08└─I'd argue that a good teacher - the kind you would actually want educating children - is almost certainly capable of becoming an electrician. And you can't export an electrician's job overseas, but if there are dozens nearby you won't pay that much anyway. As you said, like physicians they have effe...
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[20:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:53] <exec> 08└─You'll get a warm fuzzy feeling when you chuckle at his name, and when the people in your community need to vote, "Remember the name, you know he's familiar -- Dick Swett!"
[20:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:54] <exec> 08└─There is a ton of shit in New York named after Robert Wood Johnson [wikipedia.org] of Johnson & Johnson fame. And it is always with the middle name. And theres a bunch of generations of his decedents with the same name that keep naming things after themselves. I wish one of them had a kid named Rich...
[20:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:56] <exec> 08└─This isn't another indicator of the collapse of society, because sophomoric innuendos have been made in headlines throughout the history of the headline. But it certainly is evidence that human beings don't progress much, either.
[20:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:29] <exec> 08└─Dumb is the state of not having a voice. Literally speechless. In earlier times, when disabled people were treated less well by society, being disabled by lack of speech was regarded as making you stupid. To a certain extent, when so many people use Facebook to broadcast their thoughts, not using Fa...
[20:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:31] <exec> 08└─until none are left. That would be ok...
[20:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:33] <exec> 08└─You have a cat?
[20:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:35] <exec> 08└─I've seen it especially from people in the "DNC-fed" camp. After the purge then they turn on each other, repeat. People who believe that crap they are reading cannot live with others.
[20:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:37] <exec> 08└─Does that mean quitting Twitter makes me smarter but less happy?
[20:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:13] <exec> 08└─They are advancing the Mystery of Lawlessness, completely blinded as they do so. Hey, how about that great new movie, "The Wandering Earth?"
[20:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:15] <exec> 08└─I claim this VC1 rant is a pronouncement on the theories of Darwin: """ If anyone does not confess that the world and all things which are contained in it, both spiritual and material, were produced, according to their whole substance, out of nothing by God; or holds that God did not create by hi...
[20:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:25] <exec> 08└─that everything is classified.
[20:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:26] <exec> 08└─Since they're testing laser weapons, they could easily vaporize the hard drives. The problem is there wouldn't be any ash to store in a secure facility with a 24 hour armed guard until the end of time.
[20:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:28] <exec> 08└─I can't believe this is a new problem. Surely there must be a facility under some *other* Federal agency that meets their spec. I worked briefly for a contractor and the phrase "burn bag" for stuff that needed to be disposed was in our parlance. The bag probably wasn't under armed guard, or the faci...
[20:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:45] <exec> 08└─There are almost no losses in transmission of gas (pipes).
[20:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:18] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what my next step would be to prevent google and other church members from knowing that I was going to a gay sex club.
[20:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Gone - Breaking Up With Big Tech - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:31] <exec> 08└─I accidentally doubled one of my words in the other article (I submitted the other article. I listed Amazon twice instead of listing Apple.) Looks like it was destined to be duplicates all the way down!
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[21:33:56] <exec> 08└─Offline backups are your annoying friend.
[21:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:57] <exec> 08└─Bleeping Computer has a more recent article on the attack [bleepingcomputer.com] with a statement from the owner. The owner stated that he will most likely shut VFEmail down as a result of this hack. I don't know why this level of attack was executed. I wouldn't say I have no idea why, but I hear ru...
[21:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:00] <exec> 08└─This reeks of an inside job. No ransom note, just seek out and destroy
[21:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:02] <exec> 08└─I thought similarly. Something like this is the work of professionals. Professionals get paid one way or the other. There is no money in destroying with no warning. Therefore, there must be an incentive from somewhere else, either some bigger delayed payment, revenge, the LULz, or sabotage.
[21:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:15] <exec> 08└─I read once that the UK tabloids figured out the the best headlines had some combination of urgency, youth, sex, the royal family, and a medical angle. This means the the best possible headline would be: "TEENAGE VIRGIN SURGEON IN PALACE MERCY DASH"
[21:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:17] <exec> 08└─These penis jokes are a perfect example of the toxic masculinity that is driving women away from the old boy's club mainstream media outlets. The patriarchy must be torn down so women can have a safe space in the media that is free from this triggering bro culture.
[21:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:55] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty much up to speed about current events without Facebook. Current events right here is me drinking beer and reading Soylent, post-poning doing some code because I got past the fun part of it.
[21:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:56] <exec> 08└─I don't know, but whistling is proven to make you happy. *tweeet* *tweet* *twee* *tweet*
[21:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:59] <exec> 08└─To be fair to educators it is pretty difficult to have students recreate the entirety of human knowledge... The real problem with education is that we have the very limited "fast track" of honors/advanced classes and "all others". Students shouldn't be put into such linear tracks where a bad grade i...
[21:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:01] <exec> 08└─What if I used Facebook and are also stupid? Checkmate atheists!
[21:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 1363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:39] <exec> 08└─> in fact, he believed it to be literally true in an era when there was no empirical evidence to support such a position (and lots of empirical arguments, not to mention long-held tradition and Aristotelean science, against). It was a theory that was at least 1800 years old at that stage, and even A...
[21:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:41] <exec> 08└─I don't agree. I dream an universe ruled by darwin I dream an universe ruled by lamarck What difference does it make to my nature? Or to my intentions? I have reservations about darwin because it assumes that the interactions at a quantum level are impersonally random when it speaks of random mutati...
[21:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:43] <exec> 08└─For empirical evidence, there were astrolabes dating back over 600 years that were based on the principle that, and therefore would only be accurate if, earth and the other heavenly objects went round the sun.
[21:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:45] <exec> 08└─>No bias there, no-siree. Jesuit? A Jesuit is to Catholic doctrine what systemd is to the unix toolbox. Let me cite two recent assertions by Jesuits: We are not sure about Christian doctrine about marriage and divorce because “at that time no one had a tape recorder to record his [Jesus'] words....
[21:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:48] <exec> 08└─You suffer from the delusions that all Christians are alike, have one temporal organization ("the" Church), and that all followers believe that they (and everyone else) are capable of perfection on this side of the grave. For some it's more about learning to live apart from temporal organization and...
[21:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:50] <exec> 08└─Oh I forgot the best one by Sosa: “We have formed symbolic figures such as the devil to express evil...". If the devil isn't a person then a person isn't a person either, it's a symbol for a lump of cells and more or less symbiotic bacteria. What makes the cells a person? the synergy and the unity...
[21:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:52] <exec> 08└─> suspension of disbelief AKA belief
[21:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:55] <exec> 08└─Almost. Jesuits have had both up-and-down periods in their relationship to the Roman Catholic Church. And, AFAIK, systemd has yet to be formally Suppressed within the Corpus Linuxum.
[21:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:57] <exec> 08└─Nothing says that a symbol cannot be real, either. Or that something objectively real does not also carry symbolic meaning. Though I take your point that something can be a symbol of that which is real without being actually real itself.
[21:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:59] <exec> 08└─A lot of that has to do with how the church dealt with the sex abuse scandals that continue to this day...
[21:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:31] <exec> 08└─I knew we shouldn't listen to those who were admonishing us to eat insects.
[21:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:32] <exec> 08└─As golf course owner, you should know all about the negative effects of bug spray! I hope you aren't using it on your beautiful, beautiful greens!! [iastate.edu]-
[21:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:15] <exec> 08└─Furnace? Ask Germany for help.
[21:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:32] <exec> 08└─And how is showering with imaginary people supposed to save resources? ;-)
[21:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:33] <exec> 08└─Did you click the link I gave and read the article I summarized?
[21:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:35] <exec> 08└─How about "lesser showers", meaning shorter, or somehow using less water? For the record I use a water-saving efficient shower head with a valve that I shut mostly off when soaping / scrubbing.
[21:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:38] <exec> 08└─For me, every day is different. For sure tangible stress causes stink, but some days it happens for no apparent reason. Physical work doesn't cause much stink (the sharp kind). Keeping underarm hair trimmed helps a lot. Some days I don't use deodorants and have no stink. Some days I use deodorants a...
[21:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:40] <exec> 08└─A page by a seller of water heaters (certainly not an unbiased source) talking about money cost (not what I was talking about). In particular, it does not detail the energy cost (no matter what type of energy) that goes into transporting the energy to your house (that is, the very point I was talkin...
[21:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:42] <exec> 08└─... Washed my hair in about 6 months. Never smells or has any issues. It is dry as hell after washing it. A good conditioner is olive oil.
[21:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Company Tencent Buys a 5% Stake in Reddit - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:18] <exec> 08└─Is is just me or does Tencent have a shitty portfolio?
[21:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Chinese Company Tencent Buys a 5% Stake in Reddit - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:20] <exec> 08└─I find it more nefarious than anything.
[21:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:16] <exec> 08└─What do you think would happen to Switzerland if they stopped keeping good care of our money ?
[21:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Gone - Breaking Up With Big Tech - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:32] <exec> 08└─So you submitted it with an Amazon, and an Amazon prime?
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[22:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:01] <exec> 08└─We can only hope they could erase Twatter and Facefuck with the same amount of efficiency.
[22:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:03] <exec> 08└─It's perhaps more that anything "online" is merely replication, and replication is not backup.
[22:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:05] <exec> 08└─No inside job, this was a one man shop: "Yes, @VFEmail is effectively gone. It will likely not return. I never thought anyone would care about my labor of love so much that they'd want to completely and thoroughly destroy it." https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[22:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:07] <exec> 08└─Inside job? Could be, but there's examples of cloudy companies disappearing overnight like this without an inside man .. http://lmgtfy.com [lmgtfy.com]
[22:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:09] <exec> 08└─Offline immutable backups. At least only mutable through human intervention.
[22:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone using his services needed to destroy some information and figured wholesale destruction was the best option?
[22:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:14] <exec> 08└─It would be funny if someone came forward claiming to have sent multiple ransom notes/warnings, and all of those emails were binned by VFEmail's spam filter.
[22:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:29] <exec> 08└─When President Nixon resigned, should the headline have been "America loses Dick" or "America cuts Dick"? Shortly after that change of presidents, it was "America pulls out of Vietnam".
[22:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:31] <exec> 08└─I went to school with a Richard Johnson. We never called him dick though.
[22:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:33] <exec> 08└─Did you somehow miss the parts where first off, this is huffpoo, the vanguard of modern militant radical feminism and secondly the creator of said headline is of the XX flavor of humanity rather than XY?
[22:35:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 689 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:01] <exec> 08└─There's also the point that not all current events are worth knowing. Sometimes they're just drivel, like what the latest Kardashian is feuding about with some other random famous person. Sometimes the current event has no effect based on distance -- what the weather is like in Seattle today is not...
[22:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:15] <exec> 08└─I wanted to make a similar comment, but you did it better than I could, so I'll just add this: There's also the point that not all current events are worth knowing.
[22:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:17] <exec> 08└─You have a cat?
[22:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:06] <exec> 08└─Your religion died in 325 AD at Nicaea, and Saul of Tarsus already made a good attempt at smothering it in the cradle centuries before.
[22:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:07] <exec> 08└─This is so ratshit crazy I'm actually intrigued. Do expand on this further...
[22:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:09] <exec> 08└─Are you also going to debate whether or not the church sanctioned the rape of Joan of Arc at her trial?
[22:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:12] <exec> 08└─I will be OK. When I die the jackal-headed god Anubis will weight my heart against the feather of truth, and if they weight the same, I will go through to the afterlife in Ra's sun boat. Of course if they don't weight the same Ammit, the devourer of the dead will eat me. I believe this is something...
[22:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:14] <exec> 08└─> suspension of disbelief AKA belief
[22:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:16] <exec> 08└─Like any good Greek skeptic, since the days of the Pseudo-Dionysis the Aeropagite, I prefer the via negativa, even if it does seem like a mere double negation at times.
[22:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:32] <exec> 08└─Use this as an excuse to fire lots of rockets at the sun?
[22:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:34] <exec> 08└─Run each inventory item into a ceramic lined rod- or ball-mill operating in batch mode. Take the resultant powder and feed into a fluidised bed furnace. Alternatively, dissolve the powder in boiling aqua regia (can be done in batch mode), and dry. The result should be almost completely fully oxidise...
[22:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:36] <exec> 08└─Came here to say this. This is the WHITE SAND MISSILE TEST RANGE, right? Seems like they shouldn't need any additional explosives to do it, given that their mission is "explosives testing".
[22:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:59] <exec> 08└─You can get away with that with very long hair maybe. I haven't cut mine for almost 25 years, aside from getting it cleaned up now and then, and usually wash it, all of it, twice a week. The hair more than an inch out from your scalp or so doesn't get as sweaty and ick as the hair closer in.
[22:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:00] <exec> 08└─Okay, I spent some time and effort, did some research, posted a link to the best one I found which happens to agree with other references, the data looks good, makes sense, etc. It's an Angie's List award winner, in CA, the most energy-conscious and regulated state in the US (as far as I know and h...
[22:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Source Project Aims to Make Ubuntu Usable on Arm-Powered Windows Laptops - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:24] <exec> 08└─I was setting up Ubuntu to my tastes a couple of weeks ago, complaining in my head that the defaults were really stupid, and it struck me that I have been doing exactly that for the last 25 years. I have never installed an operating system and used it as it came out of the box and I suspect that's...
[22:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:37] <exec> 08└─Prime strategic real estate in the heart of Europe, with beautiful vacation spots for the elite ? People have been invaded for way less than that.
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[23:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:49] <exec> 08└─is also 0° Kelvin.
[23:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:51] <exec> 08└─Kelvins are Kelvins, not degrees Kelvin.
[23:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:53] <exec> 08└─Bait is bait, probably.
[23:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:55] <exec> 08└─"Degrees Kelvin" (K) is a former name for the SI unit of temperature on the thermodynamic (absolute) temperature scale. Since 1967 it has been known simply as the kelvin, with symbol K (without a degree symbol).[1] Degree absolute (°A) is obsolete terminology, often referring specifically to the ke...
[23:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:57] <exec> 08└─Oh it totally is nitpicky. Sometimes I can't help myself though. Sorry AC.
[23:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:15] <exec> 08└─TLA didn't like the privacy provided by VFEMail?
[23:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone using his services needed to destroy some information and figured wholesale destruction was the best option?
[23:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:36] <exec> 08└─I assume american media picked up on the combination of Bush and Dick too?
[23:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:37] <exec> 08└─The Anon you reply to is a male who is doing his damn best to make a joke using mimicry.
[23:34:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:54] <exec> 08└─And of course it only makes you less informed about current events if you don't use other sources of information about current events. Not to mention that there are certainly some current events you don't need to be informed about. Like the newest gossip about some celebrity.
[23:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:22] <exec> 08└─Since our "public education system" largely fails to create an educated citizenry, it should instead be called a "schooling system." Also, this applies to private schools as well. You can spot the propaganda any time someone conflates having a degree with being educated; those are not necessarily th...
[23:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:17] <exec> 08└─You choose heliocentrism because it is easier for you, right? There is no other reason to do so. Sin is often easier than virtue.
[23:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:18] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure "friends" was ever the correct description, but his problems *were* caused by an arrogantly abusive nature.
[23:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:20] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. Show me a case where cops or TSA verifiably violated someone's rights and that person didn't get at least a settlement out of it. I wait with baited breath. As for the rest.... you seem to be objecting to the fact that authority might actually wield that authority. Leaving that little taut...
[23:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:40] <exec> 08└─In which case, just destroying the decryption key should be sufficient to make the data unrecoverable.
[23:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:05] <exec> 08└─You are only expanding on my proven point. The premise was that we need to revel in our own filth in order to satisfy the Green Nazis because heating water is such a horrible eco-disaster. TFS is clearly bullshit. I'm surprised they aren't railing about wasting water too. That's a common theme among...
[23:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:43] <exec> 08└─People have been invaded for way less than that.
[23:41:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] 02 - 06Russia Plans Brief Disconnection From the Internet for Internal Traffic Test - 544 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:55] <exec> 08└─It's only been 2 or 3 years since Russia blocked Amazon Web Services when a previous attempt at censorship failed. They wanted content removed from the Internet and cited Russian law. The people with the content moved it to AWS as a work around. Russia blocked AWS to work around the work around. The...
[23:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Plans Brief Disconnection From the Internet for Internal Traffic Test - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:27] <exec> 08└─"We want to prove that we can close off Russia from the rest of the Internet when we need to."
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