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[00:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chimsley [5351] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06 I Made a Smart Watch from Scratch - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:11] <exec> 08└─This is pretty awesome man.
[00:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 I Made a Smart Watch from Scratch - 2799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:13] <exec> 08└─Comment Description Designator Quantity Part number Digikey Number 10K 0603 Resistor R1, R3, R4, R5, R11 5 RC0603FR-0710KL 311-10.0KHRCT-ND 10uF 0603 Capacitor C2, C10, C11, C12, C15 5 GRM188R61A106KE69D 490-10474-1...
[00:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:30] <exec> 08└─I thought every modern OS had this. Maybe you should switch to Windows.
[00:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:32] <exec> 08└─Download here: https://getfedora.org [getfedora.org]
[00:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:34] <exec> 08└─Anyone using gnome 3 who cares to comment?
[00:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:36] <exec> 08└─Fractional scaling
[00:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:38] <exec> 08└─But can I install i3? I don't think I've used gnome this decade. I can't imagine a user who went to the "hassle" of Linux but couldn't be bothered to get a better desktop.
[00:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:41] <exec> 08└─I use Gnome but on Ubuntu, not Fedora. As far as I am aware, I am still on 3.2x as I use the 18.04 LTS version. I forced myself to use Gnome in an effort to figure out why it was the default desktop in so many of the biggest distros. After a few months I am really pleased with it and likely won't c...
[00:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to release an XBox without a disc drive - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:56] <exec> 08└─Perhaps this is a gift from Microsoft to Netflix introducing a new raft of customers looking for online content delivery.
[00:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:27] <exec> 08└─but rather it is indeed an exploitable vulnerability which could be part of an attempted back door.
[00:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:29] <exec> 08└─And AGW could profoundly impact the human civilization. You not afraid of it?
[00:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:31] <exec> 08└─That New Yorker piece is interesting, but many of the claims about 5G are the same claims made about GSM 2G and 3G when they were being developed, and none of them happened. Two words explain the difference between our current wireless networks and 5G: speed and latency. 5G—if you believe the hyp...
[00:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 2182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:08] <exec> 08└─They can't. We've known since at least the early 60's, from NASA, that redundancy is wonderful and helps make the ridiculously dangerous shit (like going to the Moon) safe. Likewise, we've also known for quite some damn time, that redundancy means more than one fucking thing responsible for doing th...
[00:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 4497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:10] <exec> 08└─The more this guy opens his mouth, the more he makes it clear he is a liar or has absolutely no idea whats going on. The Max debacle is a disaster for Boeing, and I have no idea how this company can be trusted again unless there is a top down change in leadership and put people in there who admit th...
[00:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:12] <exec> 08└─That's fucking perfect :)
[00:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:37] <exec> 08└─Because all those aggrieved parents after slamming their own kids' fingers in the door of their cars would be taking justice into their own hands against those poor school administrators. I never get picked for jury duty because I refuse to assign blame for some idiot's own actions to another only b...
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[01:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06 I Made a Smart Watch from Scratch - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:12] <exec> 08└─Do you have a through-hole version?
[01:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 I Made a Smart Watch from Scratch - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:13] <exec> 08└─End white supremacy! [pluralist.com]
[01:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 I Made a Smart Watch from Scratch - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:16] <exec> 08└─I once heard that to record every event, no matter how minute, that occurred during the course of a year would require every compute in the world along with every human as a computer operator, de facto.
[01:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:38] <exec> 08└─"What do we want?" "Brainsssss!" "When do we want 'em?" "Brainssss!"
[01:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:39] <exec> 08└─Ah, thank you for the Missing Link. Now the 'evolution' is complete. You sure its not another dud archeological find? Well, my quality of life will improve now. I really, really need a big improvement so this has my hopes up. Question - is just downloading and having the ISO enough, or do I need to...
[01:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:42] <exec> 08└─This article was low quality. Why did you choose this one over any of Aristichoke's far more interesting submissions in the queue?
[01:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:44] <exec> 08└─You might wait for a while for XServer, Fedora defaults to Wayland since 2 releases now...
[01:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:46] <exec> 08└─interesting != good
[01:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:48] <exec> 08└─I only use the first release of fedora and stopped using it immediatly, it was too shitty even before systemd
[01:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:51] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the tip. A good thing I'm not using Fedora, then. Based on the advice, it will probably be a (long) time until I get to try it again.
[01:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:07] <exec> 08└─It's the same control over sharing and resale that Valve has with Steam.
[01:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:08] <exec> 08└─Now, now, let's be fair. You're probably going to get some free ads with that.
[01:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:11] <exec> 08└─Soon all the kids will know is that in order to buy a game it must be purchased online.
[01:15:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:32] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, Bloomberg doesn't understand tech.
[01:16:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:44] <exec> 08└─Umm.. does it matter? or change anything? or is this just another nerd 'hey, this is cool' type of thing
[01:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:53] <exec> 08└─Is this the old "live forever or die trying" motto?
[01:23:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06How New York City Is Preparing for Climate Change - 18 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:13] <exec> 08└─He said "Detroit."
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[02:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:07] <exec> 08└─Hehe, millenials. Boomers, millenials, the perfect combo.
[02:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:08] <exec> 08└─But will it work with my 3D glasses?
[02:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:11] <exec> 08└─Does it come with control over which way the image faces? Sometimes I want to override the accelerometer in my tablet so I can lie on my side and read with the text lined up with my eyes. You know, the same way you turn a book sideways when reading stretched out on your side.
[02:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:13] <exec> 08└─I saw monitors like this (except they were CRT monitors) back in the 80s. The whole case could be turned over on its side to display a page of text. They flopped then, too.
[02:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 I Made a Smart Watch from Scratch - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:24] <exec> 08└─Modding funny to reverse spam mod; parent may be trollish, but is on-topic. From the fine link in the parent: Gender Studies Professor Says ‘White People Own Time’: ‘If Time Had a Race, It Would Be White’
[02:14:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:40] <exec> 08└─sh Here, I think you dropped this.
[02:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:55] <exec> 08└─Being forced to use substandard tools at work for ~40h/wk can certainly reduce one's quality of life.
[02:15:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 433 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:02] <exec> 08└─It's the same physical box, minus the optical drive. Discount for losing the convenience is a $50 MSRP drop. Consoles with the drive have a lower usual-price. Stores will not be rushing to sell a console with no game attachments. Customers with limited internet will not rush to buy a 40GB-download-p...
[02:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:15] <exec> 08└─Given that the consoles are just typical x86 computers with customized SoCs these days, I wonder if some people will plug in an external optical drive using a USB port (and have the disc recognized, etc.).
[02:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:16] <exec> 08└─Your generation will pass. Soon all the kids will know is that in order to buy a game it must be purchased online.
[02:16:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:42] <exec> 08└─I was going to do this, but I'm already waffling...
[02:19:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06Pro-Vaccine Nurse Defends Family After Mumps Outbreak Among Her Fully Vaccinated Family - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:02] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that most shootings, including mass-shootings, are done with handguns, not assault weapons.
[02:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:55] <exec> 08└─OK, muzzies are all well and good, if you just need to use them for an excuse. But, predators existed long before Muslims arrived here in any numbers. Predators, sex and other types, generally prey on their own demographics. Of course, you knew that already.
[02:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:57] <exec> 08└─Over a thousand girls in one city? And, what is that local population doing about it? They haven't taken up arms?
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[03:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:05] <exec> 08└─Trump knew about this, that is why he eased up on the russian "wahles".
[03:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:06] <exec> 08└─Equipment of St. Petersburg
[03:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:17] <exec> 08└─Screw snapchat and screw every 'digital assistant' and screw the preinstalled spyware. But the basic idea of going back to monitors with decent proportions is a good one. The march to widescreen has been pointless and actually counterproductive and driven by movie watching, not computing. The tradit...
[03:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:19] <exec> 08└─Are there any standards for up/down viewing angle and pixel aspect ratio in HD tvs/displays? Like if you want to buy a standard TV, are there specs that describe usable viewing angle from vertical (when in landscape mode), and whether the pixels are square, so you can be guaranteed a high-quality p...
[03:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:21] <exec> 08└─They flopped
[03:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:23] <exec> 08└─The move to 16:9 was driven by two factors: 1. Cost. Production can be on production lines built for TV screens. 2. Dumb buyers: The same diagonal measurement gets you less screen area with a 16:9 screen. A lot of buyers did not realize this when buying monitors and the vendors too advantage of this...
[03:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:25] <exec> 08└─Boomers, millenials, the perfect combo.
[03:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:07] <exec> 08└─It's free, so you don't have to work as much. And you'll get more done with it, same outcome. :)
[03:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:09] <exec> 08└─... But why not. It's Fedora, if you want text until X starts, use Gentoo or the like. This kind of polish makes it compete with Windows better. Your mum's and dad's or grandma's not going to want to see text flying by. A seamless polished experience that's bug free is what they want. So they can ha...
[03:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:11] <exec> 08└─Windows is dying. Netcraft confirmed it. :Polished?" You are a turd. Keep polishing.
[03:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:14] <exec> 08└─Where do I sign up?
[03:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:35] <exec> 08└─I find the convenience of downloaded games compelling. No tracking disks, just switch games as you like just using the console UI. Yes, the price is too high for what you get. If it was my choice I wouldn't get one. But my kids are fanatics for particular console exclusives, so hooking something els...
[03:15:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 636 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:58] <exec> 08└─Except, if you look at the links provided in the comments, it turns out Vodafone Italy discovered that Telnet was left turned on, and was not accessible from the Internet, so the Bloomberg story is wrong. As the US has been pressuring other Western countries to ditch Huawei presumably in favour of...
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[04:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:13] <exec> 08└─Wait for the laser sharks, them are the secret weapon The U.S. Navy dolphins [wikipedia.org] will not last the first encounter! Mua-ha-ha-ha
[04:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:14] <exec> 08└─Whale with harness almost work 'til stupid moose and squirrel foiled perfect plan.
[04:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, oddly enough. I figured it would be Cyrillic also. Here's an image of the harness writing [timeincapp.com] Although i would argue that CIA agents that make that kind of rookie mistake are subject to evolutionary pressures faster than the rest of us.
[04:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:19] <exec> 08└─I doubt is anyone at that level. It is probably just a general bounty put out to cause shit and this is another "jesse smollet" level bs fake news result.
[04:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:21] <exec> 08└─How do you connect that pic to this story?
[04:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:23] <exec> 08└─Baby Beluga in the cold North Sea Spies for the Russians and the K-G-B! Heaven above and the sea below He's just a little white whale on the go!
[04:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:25] <exec> 08└─Glad I'm not the only one who thought of that. Are we paranoid, or just paying attention?
[04:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:41] <exec> 08└─Is this because millennials tend to take "portrait" format videos with their phones? The one the local TV station has to postprocess to avoid black bars on the side?
[04:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:43] <exec> 08└─I've had LCD monitors from Dell and Samsung that rotate 90º
[04:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:45] <exec> 08└─yassss
[04:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:47] <exec> 08└─I disagree. Gaming, which is a huge market and use of monitors benefits from widescreens... i can't even imagine playing much of anything beyond galaga on a 3:4 screen. Gran Turismo? Grand Theft Auto? Command and Conquor? Fallout New Vegas? Sim City? Likewise, spreadsheet work benefits from a wide s...
[04:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:49] <exec> 08└─But if you get a big enough 16:9 screen, you can just snap a window to each side. That way you basically have the benefit of dual monitors without the cost. Or you can flip it to portrait and it is the perfect size for an Letter sized paper with the toolbars on top and bottom.
[04:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:52] <exec> 08└─We should all switch to VR/AR headsets. Any aspect ratio you want, at any "size". Just put in a couple of 16K resolution panels and add foveated rendering and we're good to go.
[04:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:54] <exec> 08└─I don't buy 1. The cost for producing a 16:9 screen and producing a 9:16 screen are identical. That leaves 2. I'm buying 2. A little oversimplified but not incorrect.
[04:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:56] <exec> 08└─But if you get a big enough 16:9 screen, you can just snap a window to each side. That way you basically have the benefit of dual monitors without the cost. Uhh, no. Same cost, absent 'we decided you would want this one so we built 10 million of them already, and we're selling them at a discount, th...
[04:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:59] <exec> 08└─Some games definitely benefit from widescreens. But did the games come first, or the widescreens? And this is all basically aside from the real point. We could have had a trajectory where computer monitors followed sensible geometries for computing uses, and gamers simply bought a second monitor to...
[04:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06 I Made a Smart Watch from Scratch - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:11] <exec> 08└─Wife tried to convince me that one day we'd be making phone calls and sending messages from wrist-mounted devices....not on my watch I said!
[04:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:47] <exec> 08└─It's not hard to keep the text. Fedora's tried to have a boot splash by default for ages. Just remove "rhgb quiet" from the kernel command line and you're good. I've done that for literally almost a decade.
[04:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:51] <exec> 08└─So, you don't like lawyers and lawsuits. Then tell me the solution to the following in your dream world without lawyers and lawsuits: if you are hit by a car that drives through your domicile's window because it was bumped on the road by a truck, what do you do when both drivers refuse to pay?
[04:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Action Needed to End Our Love Affair with Cars, Report Finds - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:52] <exec> 08└─You do realize that small claims courts are full of cases where people represent themselves? Or watch daytime television, and see how many people there are suing another for a couple hundred dollars to thousand dollars. Lawyers aren't the problem, it is the people who want to shift the burden to som...
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[05:14:23] <exec> 08└─Source [fandom.com]
[05:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:25] <exec> 08└─Was this [wordpress.com] the Russian whale in the harness?
[05:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:50] <exec> 08└─I dunno, for TVs wider makes sense than taller. Afterall walls in most homes are wider than they are tall... and yea TVs are primarily for watching movies and we're talking about TVs here. If you're just being specific to monitors, for sure we need more vertical space, but personally I want both, no...
[05:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:52] <exec> 08└─Basically every TV made today has VESA mounting holes on the back and you can mount it any way you like. I recommend the bold and dynamic diagonal orientation [xkcd.com]. Rather than a "vertical TV" this looks more like a regular TV with a very large rotating monitor stand attached to it. I guess mo...
[05:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:41] <exec> 08└─I hate systemd, I really do. Hell, I wrote my own init system, Epoch. (Epoch's site/my server's down due to a move, wait a few days for it to come online again) But Fedora is good. Despite systemd, Fedora is good. The dnf package manager is rock solid, the OS is nearly impossible to kill by stuff li...
[05:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:43] <exec> 08└─Both as a server and as a workstation for my personal projects. There have been a number of questionable choices made by Fedora over the years, not least of which was Gnome 3. As for the "quality of life improvements," that's for the great unwashed. The users who don't know or care what's giving the...
[05:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:45] <exec> 08└─The new version includes some quality-of-life improvements [fresh polish on the same turd]...
[05:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:07] <exec> 08└─And Valve can go fuck themselves.
[05:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:42] <exec> 08└─Bloomberg once again proving that they're the US government's useful idiots [securityboulevard.com] in their anti-China propaganda drive. With an emphasis on "idiots".
[05:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:43] <exec> 08└─Bloomberg is an information company. Except that in their ongoing yellow-peril scare story series it's more accurately disinformation, not information.
[05:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:54] <exec> 08└─More like Steven Wright:"My plan is to live forever. So far, so good." Best I can promise!
[05:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:56] <exec> 08└─It would have been on-chip in cache and registers, all of which are ECC'd. Interesting point though.
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[06:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:14] <exec> 08└─The article describes itself as referring to 'every' electric vehicle. However, I saw no mention of hobby conversion kits (enthusiasts have been leading the way for decades, since before Elon whats-his-name was born.) I saw no mention of buses or public transit. A huge market niche. I saw no mention...
[06:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:15] <exec> 08└─This. Plus all the electric motorcycles and scooters, which now have decent range and speed, and are great solution for warmer times. nitpick: > For $75,000 I could buy seventy-five high-end electric bicycles $1k buys a low-end electric bike. Mid-range is $2k-3k, high-end reaches $5k quickly. > The...
[06:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:34] <exec> 08└─The offensive-to-Islam video they brought out to blame for the "spontaneous attack" on the US embassy in Tripoli had a similar air of a C-team effort.
[06:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:01] <exec> 08└─Try a 4K ~40-in 16/9 TV as a monitor. That solves the 1080p problem, and gives you a real desktop with many windows/terminals/documents/waveforms filling your visual field with minimal motion. The guys I work with laughed when I commandeered the $350 TV after a tradeshow. Now they all have the same...
[06:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:03] <exec> 08└─While you might possibly shoehorn this into usability, it's still horrible design. 16/9? 9/16. Please!
[06:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:56] <exec> 08└─Or just hit when you see the splash screen.
[06:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:40] <exec> 08└─Boeing is trying to market the planes as a drop in for a 737
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[07:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:16] <exec> 08└─Late-stage Socialism at work. Saddest thing about it, the guy who is trying to replace him is a "Socialist" as well. It's like you need to be next level retarded to get off at Socialism Central, and get right back on the same train to nowhere.
[07:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:17] <exec> 08└─And our thoughts & prayers are with them. 100% and that's coming from BOTH SIDES. Often referred to as, bipartisan. "To @jguaido, the National Assembly and all the freedom-loving people of Venezuela who are taking to the streets today in #operacionlibertad—Estamos con ustedes! We are with you! Ame...
[07:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:20] <exec> 08└─Late-stage Socialism at work.
[07:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:22] <exec> 08└─Your current signature (#FREEVUVUZUELA [soylentnews.org]) earned you a +Funny
[07:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:24] <exec> 08└─An overthrow of the Venzuelan government is supported in a bi-partisan way, and across the board in mainstream media. For another take check out The Grayzone Project [youtube.com] or The Real News [youtube.com]. The reporters from these chanels have been on the ground for months in Venezuela and hav...
[07:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:51] <exec> 08└─Off the shelf part intended for the international market? I don't see the alleged "of" in the photo of the actual part, just a logo with EQUIPMENT and ST. PETERSBURG around it.
[07:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:52] <exec> 08└─Sharks, especially White sharks, are too dumb to deploy as weapons, just as White Americans are too dumb to deploy as soldiers. They always end up shooting or eating their own comrades! This is why the US Military is now filtering for White Superemist tats, and logos, and stupid things said, to exc...
[07:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:22] <exec> 08└─For some reason text broken up into horizontal scan lines is much more readable than text broken into vertical scanlines. I don't know whether it is an artifact of the letter shapes or just what people are used to. You had to have a monitor with insane resolution to rotate it, and then there was no...
[07:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:24] <exec> 08└─3. For laptops anyway, the keyboard is also wider than deep, so a wide screen pairs with it well.
[07:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:17] <exec> 08└─Found the windoze luser.
[07:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:19] <exec> 08└─Aris is a political prisoner of SN.
[07:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:21] <exec> 08└─It's Red Hat's testing ground, so no thanks.
[07:18:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:40] <exec> 08└─The Boeing CEO should resign. An unplanned safety update in response to the death of hundreds of people on TWO separate flights indicates a complete failure of process and management. End of comment.
[07:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:05] <exec> 08└─I agree, but surely that also implies that fully qualified yet inexperienced 737 pilots do need extra training. I suspect that Mullenburg might regret making that statement.
[07:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:06] <exec> 08└─Oh, well that explains it. I didn't realize it was SUPPOSED to make a plane crash. But hey, if that's working within designed and certified standards......
[07:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:08] <exec> 08└─Interesting that VW is paying 20-30 billion dollars with executives facing jail time for emitting a bit more pollution than they claimed while Boeing will maybe lose or postpone a few orders for killing nearly 350 people.
[07:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:11] <exec> 08└─It's not quite right, it should say "Not to be managed by fuckwits", and be pinned to Boeing corporate HQ.
[07:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:13] <exec> 08└─The lack of input redundancy was a criminal oversight
[07:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:15] <exec> 08└─We've known since at least the early 60's, from NASA, that redundancy is wonderful
[07:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:17] <exec> 08└─Our planes are 100% safe if you fly them as intended.
[07:24:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping - 5441 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:04] <exec> 08└─You know that feeling you get when someone says something that so completely demonstrates their lack of understanding of a topic that you suddenly realize you need to educate them? For instance when someone calls you and tells you their computer is broken and you come over only to find out they unpl...
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[08:14:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 1268 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:19] <exec> 08└─And our thoughts & prayers are with them. 100% and that's coming from BOTH SIDES. Often referred to as, bipartisan. "To @jguaido, the National Assembly and all the freedom-loving people of Venezuela who are taking to the streets today in #operacionlibertad—Estamos con ustedes! We are with you! Ame...
[08:14:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 29 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:20] <exec> 08└─Late-stage Socialism at work.
[08:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:24] <exec> 08└─If not for threat of nuclear annihilation this could easily escalate into world war. US is too proud to stop their government changing operation and Russia and China don't feel too subservient anymore.
[08:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:27] <exec> 08└─US MIC is too proud greedy to stop their government changing operation
[08:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:29] <exec> 08└─Nice to see that hashtag being dug out of its 2010 grave.
[08:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:31] <exec> 08└─This is something of a tautology, but modding c0lo "informative" is almost by definition redundant. Post on, paduwan!
[08:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:41] <exec> 08└─Summary (I mean, seriously, they couldn't put that in a table or something for their readers?): Tesla "wins" on range, but only because it costs twice as much as everything else, and it gets way less than twice the range of a car half its price. Almost all the other cars offer a better range/price r...
[08:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:02] <exec> 08└─I thought the same thing looking at the Venezuela story. Who doesn't assume every coup on the planet is the CIA though? Simplest explanation is that the whale got stuck in random garbage and was trying to scrape it off on any random nearby object. That gets a lot fewer clicks though.
[08:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:03] <exec> 08└─OTOH if you mount an operation in the open and purposefully plant glaring inconsistencies, then you can blame the other side for having tried to pull a false flag. "we russkies we no speak english not our stuff"
[08:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 I Made a Smart Watch from Scratch - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:48] <exec> 08└─How the fuck is that on topic of building a smartwatch from scratch?
[08:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:31] <exec> 08└─https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/lxde/ [fedoraproject.org]
[08:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:32] <exec> 08└─pro tip: Hit the [esc] key at the splash and you'll see it all.
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[09:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reeducating Legislators on the Right to Repair - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:16] <exec> 08└─The immediate free association that pops into my mind when it comes to 'reeducating legislators' is 'reeducation camps'. Not that I like them but I like even less the legislators.
[09:14:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pav [114] 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 365 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:26] <exec> 08└─An overthrow of the Venzuelan government is supported in a bi-partisan way, and across the board in mainstream media. For another take check out The Grayzone Project [youtube.com] or The Real News [youtube.com]. The reporters from these chanels have been on the ground for months in Venezuela and hav...
[09:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:40] <exec> 08└─When I can drive From SoCal to Lewiston, ID, on other than Interstates, stopping no more often than every 3 hours, and for no more than 1/2 hour at each stop (unless we are at someplace interesting, like a National Park), I'll consider an electric. Both my XJ and my best friend's Subaru are perfectl...
[09:16:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:01] <exec> 08└─Give me decent housing, good friends, a good job. Those improve my quality of life. An OS? Yeah, notsomuch.
[09:16:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:17] <exec> 08└─Being forced to use substandard tools at work for ~40h/wk can certainly reduce one's quality of life.
[09:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:32] <exec> 08└─Not gonna change the Devuan installation, thus no need to hit anything - I'm having the way I like already.
[09:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:33] <exec> 08└─Already using it on top of Devuan. As a plus, no systemd - makes me a happy camper.
[09:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:35] <exec> 08└─As if a reply was necessary! Ow! Hey, Stop gnu-ing on my skull, you corporate sell-out zombie! Not quite mandatory Youtube vid: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Got to see it in ASL, to really get the nuance!
[09:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:38] <exec> 08└─Gnome 3.32 in Ubuntu 19.04 feels a bit snappier. It hasn't crashed on me yet. Other than that, I haven't really noticed sweeping changes. Then again, I murder the default workflow with Dash to Panel, which makes Gnome 3 a lot more palatable. Also Gnome Tweak Tool is an essential addition.
[09:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:40] <exec> 08└─You get YouTube on irc? Ewww dude. Really?
[09:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:42] <exec> 08└─Gnome3 .. Is that the pile of shit Ubuntu 18.04 LTS uses in place of unity? I can't say I hated or liked unity. The close on too left was irritating but other than that it was my desktop for 3 years. A good run. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS lasted less than an hour. What the heck were they thinking? Do they us...
[09:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:06] <exec> 08└─In my day we didn't even have games. All we had was a wrench, and we used it to play dodgeball. And we liked it.
[09:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:07] <exec> 08└─I can still run these old games from cassettes using emulation or even, if I have, an original hardware. I can record them into modern machine and recognize them into working files. Some time ago I was involved in project in which we had a few kilometers of non-standard 9-channel punched tape to rea...
[09:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:36] <exec> 08└─Nope. The optional, paid-for extra was only an indicator light that showed if the two AoA sensors reported different data. It did not suddenly feed two sensor streams into the MCAS system.
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[10:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reeducating Legislators on the Right to Repair - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Schneier is a Fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, but that characterisation makes it sound like Schneier is a Harvard professor, which he is not. It would have been even better to just name him one of the world's leading cryptographers and security pundits, which...
[10:16:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 266 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:11] <exec> 08└─Da fuck with bootsplash image, I want to see all the log until the XServer kicks in. Last time it became handy was only one week ago, when a laptop that used to be connected by wire took ages to boot when disconnected: the eth0 iface was configured to wait for DHCP.
[10:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:55] <exec> 08└─Should we give you a machine with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 for Workgroups to do your computing on? Enjoy fiddling with config.sys and Himem to get your devices into upper memory.
[10:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:57] <exec> 08└─Well boy do we have great news for you. Cumming from Windows you will have great appreciation for systems, the core of RedHat. You remember those heady days in Windows where something went wrong but you're not sure what and finding out why can be a pain in the ass. You are sure going to get on just...
[10:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 2963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:24] <exec> 08└─Immediate first reaction: "No more used games? Screw 'em all! I'm just gonna play Whist." But after calming down, I think there are a number of futures for the used game market. The key point is that Microsoft (and Sony and Nintendo... let's not kid ourselves, they *all* want the used game scheme to...
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[11:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:11] <exec> 08└─Timex watches are up there with the Ford Mustang and Budweiser beer as quintessentially American products.
[11:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:13] <exec> 08└─The only real Americans are Native Americans, and they consume a lot of Budweiser.
[11:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reeducating Legislators on the Right to Repair - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:23] <exec> 08└─Politicians don't, or pretend not to, acknowledge the power of these laws to favor internal markets (you know, where voters are) vs. international influence (you know, were kickbacks come from). For example, Italy: barred by international agreements to favor internal enterprises over the foreign one...
[11:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reeducating Legislators on the Right to Repair - 4583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:25] <exec> 08└─The "right to repair" law will not work because manufacturers will just make hardware not repairable. And it's not only about own chips designs, which cannot be replaced by another - it's about a fused or glued hardware casings, one-piece mainboards and unrepairable software kill switches like in so...
[11:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:41] <exec> 08└─> An overthrow of the Venzuelan government is supported in a bi-partisan way, and across the board in mainstream media. a major sign something is not quite right.
[11:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:43] <exec> 08└─So, the people of Venezuela have to pick between an increasingly panicked and authoritarian left (but I repeat myself) and a Guaido' whose only legitimacy comes from a rule in Venezuelan law that says the president of the assembly gets in charge in case of trouble, acclamated by an ideologically opp...
[11:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 1975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:54] <exec> 08└─> Call them "second cars", then you can change the negative "relegate them to" into a "optimum choice for" "Second car" is more realistic / accurate, but is still a negative. "Second car" means "another car you have to buy, tax, insure, maintain, find somewhere to park" - it may well be the "optimum...
[11:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe they kept them to calibrate new sonars. Or train the operators. Or test and mitigate the effects of the sonar on the animals as some serious concerns for their welfare has been raised over the past few years due to the sonars. Or improve their own sonar by studying on how the animals use it......
[11:15:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03petecox [3228] 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 12 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:31] <exec> 08└─They flopped
[11:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:49] <exec> 08└─All current Samsung models have advertisements on the homescreen. Fuck you, Samsung... I don't need an advertising billboard in my livingroom.
[11:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 I Made a Smart Watch from Scratch - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:05] <exec> 08└─Easy way... Parts needed: 1- Superglue 2- Old broken watch 3- Ipad Instructions: Glue Ipad to watch. Enjoy.
[11:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:53] <exec> 08└─MCAS doesn't "tie into" stick shaker because it is not an anit-stall system. Period. Yes the media have repeatedly painted it that way, because they can just about get their heads around that, but that doesn't make it true. Both MCAS and stall warning system operate at high AOA, but that is where th...
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[12:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:16] <exec> 08└─And here I thought HBO has stocks in large screen OLED and VP9 patents or something... Silly me.
[12:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:18] <exec> 08└─Finally used in a killer app [cnn.com] What do Tesla and Boeing use?
[12:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:27] <exec> 08└─You haven't tasted the "beer".
[12:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reeducating Legislators on the Right to Repair - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:38] <exec> 08└─makes it sound like Schneier is a Harvard professor, which he is not.
[12:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:56] <exec> 08└─Sounds like we need to be more wary of Russian and Chinese interests in Venezuela.
[12:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:08] <exec> 08└─Another huge marketplace
[12:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:09] <exec> 08└─Another matter is the mass of the car. The Tesla in question is over 4000 pounds (over 1800 kg). In comparison, I've driven a Nissan Sentra that was around 2700 pounds curb weight and a Honda Civic around 2200 pounds curb weight. If we could figure out how to increase the efficiency of an ICE (which...
[12:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:33] <exec> 08└─I would think St. Petersburg, Florida, not St. Petersburg, Russia. The US does similar experiments and the whale would have plenty of time to get around.
[12:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:35] <exec> 08└─For example [nytimes.com]: The United States Navy has studied marine mammals, including beluga whales, since the 1960s and has trained them to carry out a variety of tasks, like performing recovery operations and finding underwater mines.
[12:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 I Made a Smart Watch from Scratch - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:22] <exec> 08└─Smartwatches are used to tell the time White Supremacy.
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[13:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:07] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_London [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Homicide rate is down by 50 % since early 2000. Homicide rate is about a third that in New York. [sarcasm]OTOH there are lots of foreign sorts about in London, so crime...
[13:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:09] <exec> 08└─You cannot remove the violence.
[13:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:11] <exec> 08└─Since early 2000? Do you enjoy picking cherries?
[13:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:13] <exec> 08└─Your link shows homicides up 50% since 2014.
[13:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:16] <exec> 08└─First they came for my .... didn't need it so I gave it up. Then they came for my .... ... ... ... Last they came for my freedom. I'm now a slave. How my I help you, Master?
[13:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:18] <exec> 08└─It's May 1, not April 1 today.
[13:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:28] <exec> 08└─They shot it like that and 8 bit compression made it worse [newatlas.com]
[13:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:30] <exec> 08└─The next time you're streaming on Netflix, you can thank popular programming language Python and the developers who use it for much of the experience.
[13:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:32] <exec> 08└─Far as I have heard, the main difference between Python and other languages is the syntax. Much, much less punctuation. No curly braces, no semicolons. Instead, indentation is required. Seems a feature of most of the "scripting" languages, as they were unfairly derogated, is the built in associative...
[13:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:34] <exec> 08└─Despite having the subscription I've personally downloaded 8bit and 10bit 1080p versions off TPB and compared on and off OLED and the conclusion I came up with is that the episodes were made specifically to promote 10bit depth streams (VP9 over VP8) AND OLEDs (the dark areas aren't radiating white l...
[13:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:45] <exec> 08└─And the other one is owned by the Dutch anyway.
[13:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:16] <exec> 08└─And why is that? No declaration of "do as we are telling you, or else..." from the Russians or the Chinese, Plenty [pbs.org] from [politico.com] the US [forbes.com] bully [vox.com]
[13:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:17] <exec> 08└─This is exactly the model situation why I ceased to believe in deceitful liberalism and fake democracy. There is no good inside those people, nor is wisdom.
[13:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 3050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:32] <exec> 08└─Don't drive your own car on epic road trips; rent one. Its cheaper per mile, cheaper on your (mileage based) car insurance. When your giant rental SUV breaks down fifty miles from nowhere surrounded by cornfields, some rental rep will rapidly appear with a replacement vehicle and you drive away from...
[13:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:33] <exec> 08└─I saw no mention of last-mile vehicles, like electric bicycles.
[13:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:00] <exec> 08└─People are smoking cod and salmon? Norway!
[13:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:02] <exec> 08└─There is no level of paranoia which is unjustified anymore.
[13:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:04] <exec> 08└─> People are smoking cod and salmon? Yeah, but they're hard as hell to keep lit.
[13:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:36] <exec> 08└─Perfect for programming, more source code visible without scrolling.
[13:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:38] <exec> 08└─Apple used to sell a portrait monitor [cultofmac.com] for publishing.
[13:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 1866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah... this is not new, but the marketing and purpose for it is. My primary monitor can turn 90 degrees like that, and a few others in the past have as well. My present primary screen is a 4K monitor, too, and it's not some ultra gamer superhertz refresh rate screen. I don't think using phone appli...
[13:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:50] <exec> 08└─You can change the default display server back to X in literally 2 clicks, but yeah, whatever rocks your boat.
[13:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:51] <exec> 08└─You are just like me: I am glued to my screen in those first seconds to watch that baby grow.
[13:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:04] <exec> 08└─/r/murderedbywords
[13:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:49] <exec> 08└─Their reputation is dead with you and me and a bunch of others, but I’m not hearing a lot of calls for the CEO’s head on a platter in the media. He essentially told the press that all corporate controls and processes are working as intended even though hundreds of people are dead as a direct res...
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[14:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:20] <exec> 08└─already have several of these? My God people could start keeping their knives around for generation after generation passing them down with their rich history to their children! Yessirree Bobby! This beauty carved up the great prize Thanksgiving turkey of 2025, your great grandpa got the leg, he al...
[14:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:22] <exec> 08└─This post is hardly offtoptic. Its not about the weapons its about the individuals who will resort to violence to serve themselves. The weapons in this case are knives. They are just a symptom of the problem.
[14:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:24] <exec> 08└─The last time there was a media panic about knife crime in London, someone did some careful research to demonstrate that when the actual incidence of knife crime is low, natural expected random variations will lead to 'spikes' that the media report on. I don't know if it is still true, but it taught...
[14:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:26] <exec> 08└─They already have "knife bins", where you get free dvds if you surrender your knife: https://www.flickfilosopher.com [flickfilosopher.com] Also, do not forget that people "shouldn't be eating meat" anyway. It is difficult to see what excuse you have for...
[14:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:28] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as dozens of people in a city randomly stabbing each other. It is happening for a reason. People need to stop calling everything random.
[14:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:31] <exec> 08└─Don't ban all knives, just assault knives.
[14:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:33] <exec> 08└─generation after generation passing them down with their rich history to their children
[14:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:35] <exec> 08└─This is what China did, nice to see the countries thinking the same /s https://www.scmp.com [scmp.com]
[14:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:37] <exec> 08└─There were no such stories about "crime waves" in the 2000s.
[14:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:40] <exec> 08└─Let's ban acid sales too. Let the Muslims find another way to disfigure women. Better yet, why not execute people who perpetrate knife, gun, acid, or violent beating attacks. Just put down the rabid dogs and then only decent people will be left.
[14:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:42] <exec> 08└─Are those the once with the combat grip, black steel and serrated edge?
[14:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:44] <exec> 08└─OK, so what is the model that allows you to predict when and where people will be stabbed? It would be very useful for the police to be able to use the predictive model to be on the scene to catch the perpetrators, or even prevent the crime. If you are unable to predict when and where stabbings will...
[14:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:47] <exec> 08└─I guess my point is there were no such stories about "crime waves" in the 2000s. Meta: when replying to two substantially identical comments, wouldn't it be nice if I could make one reply and link it to both comments.
[14:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:49] <exec> 08└─Off-topic, but we were saying "It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, and I'm wearing Milkbone underware." in Jr High. In the 70s. That saying long predates Cheers.
[14:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:51] <exec> 08└─about the individuals who will resort to violence to serve themselves
[14:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, now you are getting it. Random just means *you* don't know why so you substitute a probabilistic model for the true process. There is nothing "natural" or "normal" about it. It is totally subjective.
[14:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah but then your crime stats get messed up and look racist for trying to solve the root problem. It's easier to just let yourself die than prosecute crimes of others, plus who are we to say that their ways are not better than our own? For all we know maybe getting stabbed is healthy.
[14:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:58] <exec> 08└─London stores stop selling lingerie, after several hookers strangled with their panties.
[14:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:00] <exec> 08└─I....I am not sure how to respond. My post was supposed to be sarcastic and snarky. If it just matches reality I'm not sure where that leaves us.
[14:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:02] <exec> 08└─I believe "breadbasket of Africa" referred traditionally to regions further North. The term, I believe, originated in reference to Britain's attempts to stop other European powers interfering in its control over Egypt by taking control of regions such as Sudan, which provided a significant proportio...
[14:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, but I don't think that's the reasoning here. Poundland, as the name might imply, sells everything it stocks for one pound. What they've just removed from their shelves are essentially £1-a-pop, and readily disposable, weapons that come with a thin veneer of deniability in the form of a readily...
[14:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:07] <exec> 08└─Sure you can. Just remove the muslims.
[14:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:19] <exec> 08└─Python is the Visual Basic of the new millennia.
[14:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:20] <exec> 08└─I say Python is the new Perl.
[14:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:23] <exec> 08└─I don't mind. My rapes and murders come through clear enough.
[14:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:34] <exec> 08└─Umm, pretty sure Budweiser is Czech
[14:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:36] <exec> 08└─Jesus, enough of this tired shit. You can get a range of world beating beers in any style you choose brewed here in America from any store or bar tap. That critique hasn't been true for 20 years.
[14:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reeducating Legislators on the Right to Repair - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:48] <exec> 08└─The "right to repair" law will not work because manufacturers will just make hardware not repairable. And it's not only about own chips designs, which cannot be replaced by another - it's about a fused or glued hardware casings, one-piece mainboards and unrepairable software kill switches like in so...
[14:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:10] <exec> 08└─lol no, barely left but for mororicans and the like who know shit about CENTURIES of economic, political and military colonialism and imperialism yeah, "left"
[14:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:26] <exec> 08└─Why would i buy something like that? A good list though, but perhaps a spreadsheet would be nice (fugly? check, check, check).
[14:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:28] <exec> 08└─if you fly, according to google, Delta will get you there in 4 hours with a connecting flight for $320 bucks.
[14:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 1535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:30] <exec> 08└─All true, but its a pretty big market to search for the optimum (and avoid the pitfalls of) and the surcharge of "doin it almost exactly the wrong way" being near 100% means there's tons of flexibility to work around things. That surcharge is so expensive, that at least financially it might work out...
[14:16:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03srobert [4803] 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:41] <exec> 08└─Whale with harness almost work 'til stupid moose and squirrel foiled perfect plan.
[14:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:00] <exec> 08└─I just googled the story until I got one with a picture of the harness writing in it.
[14:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:01] <exec> 08└─Different stories say "Equipment St. Petersberg" and "Equipment of St. Petersberg" I don't see the 'of' in the picture. I assumed that difference was just translation at first, but it looks like it isn't translated after all. I suspect the 'of' is just someone's mind unconsciously adding it in to m...
[14:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:03] <exec> 08└─now we know why they invented lutefisk
[14:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:38] <exec> 08└─Someone over on the green site mentioned a couple scenarios where you'd want to keep both the head and the feet in shot. Black bars on the side are less annoying than rapidly tilting the camera up and down to alternate between a head without feet and feet without a head.
[14:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 3562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:40] <exec> 08└─The trigonometry and ergonomics can be painful with larger monitors in portrait and if you buy multiple smaller monitors to run them in portrait mode then why not just run a larger in landscape.... https://www.ccohs.ca [ccohs.ca] Lots of ink spil...
[14:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:19] <exec> 08└─Another [finger] in your ass. Then switch.
[14:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:21] <exec> 08└─Discs for video game consoles have proprietary copy authentication measures that a commodity USB BD-ROM drive is unlikely to be able to read.
[14:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:23] <exec> 08└─One key difference between Xbox and Steam is that Valve makes no attempt to block the use of out-of-Steam games on the same machine as Steam games. Want to play Lizard or Nova the Squirrel that you bought on Itch.io alongside The Curse of Possum Hollow that you bought on Steam? Go right ahead! Xbox...
[14:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:25] <exec> 08└─Emphasis added: given that many homes no longer have a standalone disc player
[14:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:28] <exec> 08└─Show me a "digital distribution" game which allows to do it on a decade-old rig
[14:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:16] <exec> 08└─I only found out this year that DDR4 has some inherent error-correction within its design. It's not as advanced as multi-bit redundancy, but it's far more advanced than the absolute nothing in DDR3's design.
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[15:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:53] <exec> 08└─I think it probably *is* random, e.g. people getting drunk and starting a fight.
[15:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:55] <exec> 08└─Well the muslims are now threatening people who sell alcohol in London. They must have people's health in mind. Yes, that's it.
[15:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:57] <exec> 08└─Presumably this is a managerial level decision like: * What is the income from knife sales? * What is the cost in staff training? * What is the cost in possible reputation damage if kids buys a knife from us? * What is the benefit in reputation by changing our stock slightly? I doubt that anyone in...
[15:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:59] <exec> 08└─Then knife crime would not be increasing. The only changing variable is Muslims.
[15:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:01] <exec> 08└─Read the second story. Poundland had to pay a £8k fine over these knives a few years ago. Looks like they decided its just more trouble than it is worth to deal with it.
[15:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:04] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as dozens of people in a city randomly stabbing each other. It is happening for a reason madness.
[15:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:06] <exec> 08└─It leaves you not in the UK, for which you can thank your lucky stars. The UK is finally conquered. It has become a Third World shithole with an icing of leftist totalitarian bullshit. Call it sef-castration. What the hell is going on with Brexit? Stalling so it simply doesn't happen?
[15:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:08] <exec> 08└─That isn't random.
[15:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:10] <exec> 08└─You must lack the capacity for empathy then.
[15:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:13] <exec> 08└─> Meta: when replying to two substantially identical comments, wouldn't it be nice if I could make one reply and link it to both comments. Spotted the java developer :) The c dev mods the later of the two redundant and replies to the one left.
[15:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:15] <exec> 08└─Explain.
[15:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:17] <exec> 08└─In totally unrelated news, a man was SPORKED to death in London today....
[15:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:19] <exec> 08└─Won't the terrorists PEOPLE OF PEACE just use a worse knife with more force?
[15:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:22] <exec> 08└─These Brits and their awful mis-use of the English language. POUNDLAND has a totally different conetations from "land of bargins" in the USA.
[15:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:24] <exec> 08└─When kitchen knives are outlawed, only outlaws and chefs and cooks and moms and dads and flatmates and partners and friends will have kitchen knives.
[15:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:26] <exec> 08└─wartime weapons -> guns -> knives -> screwdrivers -> sticks -> fingers
[15:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:29] <exec> 08└─The UK is finally conquered. It has become a Third World shithole
[15:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:31] <exec> 08└─Convert them to atheists, then they won't kill in the name of their imaginary god. They will just be normal angry people :P
[15:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:33] <exec> 08└─Empathy is the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes and understand why they act the way they do. You apparently can't imagine any reason one person may stab another since you lack that ability.
[15:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:35] <exec> 08└─when the actual incidence of knife crime is low, natural expected random variations will lead to 'spikes' that the media report on. I don't know if it is still true, but it taught me that the media will report 'spikes', but not equivalent drops due to natural variation
[15:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:38] <exec> 08└─Given that they are heavy drinkers, consumers of drugs and that they "accidentally" found antidepressants in tap water, knifing each other randomly is not so alien.
[15:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:40] <exec> 08└─Empathy is the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes and understand why they act the way they do.
[15:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:42] <exec> 08└─GP poster here: it was a joke.
[15:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:44] <exec> 08└─No knives for you knaves! The liberal elite know better what's good for you. First they create the knife condition with foreign invasion, then they take away the knives! Then if you try to Brexit, they'll fix that too!
[15:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:47] <exec> 08└─The UN was already mentioned above. They said you don't need knives to eat a proper diet of insects.
[15:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1217504/Are-old-spoon-Woman-asked-ID-buying-teaspoons-Tesco.html [dailymail.co.uk] A Tesco spokesperson said: 'Some utensils, such as knifes, will carry a 'Think 25' alert when scanned through the checkout. There is an element of common sense involved and thi...
[15:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:51] <exec> 08└─Yes it is.
[15:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:53] <exec> 08└─Fekkin' English, serving themselves since ~802, or 871, or thereabouts!
[15:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:56] <exec> 08└─That's not random. Are people getting drunk more often than before? Are they getting more drunk than they used to? Are fights more likely than usual to accompany drinking? All of those questions point to possible underlying causes which may in fact be quite serious. Generally you don't want to treat...
[15:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:58] <exec> 08└─You left out pitchforks and hammers, not to mention various battery powered hand tools. An impact driver with a long bit could do some serious damage (I've had a few bites on my hands and fingers from such due to slips). Also I have a small, but quite powerful, battery powered reciprocating saw that...
[15:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:14] <exec> 08└─Millennia is plural but maybe you are just optimistic about its future.
[15:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:27] <exec> 08└─I don't think you understand what the word "quintessentially" means.
[15:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:26] <exec> 08└─Son of a.... Yes the hypotenuse is more like 25 than 23 inches but whatever given the amount of head wiggle and slouch and exact chair positioning and stuff my number is accurate enough as an engineering estimate. Kids, don't do trig right before going to sleep.... or at least drink more caffeine.
[15:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:28] <exec> 08└─Oh F this, I got it right the first time; I'm going to sleep and try to do math again tomorrow.
[15:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:30] <exec> 08└─The trigonometry and ergonomics can be painful with larger monitors in portrait and if you buy multiple smaller monitors to run them in portrait mode then why not just run a larger in landscape....
[15:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:41] <exec> 08└─The new version includes some quality-of-life improvements, for which work began in previous versions. These include the new flicker-free boot process, which hides the GRUB loader/kernel select screen by default, and relies on some creative theming to incorporate the bootsplash image from your hardw...
[15:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:14] <exec> 08└─Comparing the value to one of the most expensive forms of video content is misleading. Especially when it could be compared what previous generation console gaming cost. By the way, the value in physical game media was never in just buying used games. It was trading them with your friends. I only ke...
[15:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000 Evacuated in Canada Floods as Rescuers Search for Pets - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:25] <exec> 08└─Did you ever try to fit a polar bear into a family car?
[15:23:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Indonesia Plans to Move Its Capital Out of Jakarta, a City That's Sinking - 239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:02] <exec> 08└─Denial, lobbying, attacking scientific reports, and kicking the problem down the road, while extracting maximum profit from the status quo. It's a 2050 problem, why bother to address it now ? Free advice, courtesy of your American friends.
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[16:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:29] <exec> 08└─>While Python has become the go-to language I see what you did there
[16:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:30] <exec> 08└─It absolutely blows my mind that Python has become the new JS (piece of crap to work with, lots of unexpected behaviors and side effects etc) Meanwhile JS has morphed into a really good language if you need to do cross platform work. Golang is still my GOTO language for most things though, as long a...
[16:14:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 818 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:52] <exec> 08└─The last time there was a media panic about knife crime in London, someone did some careful research to demonstrate that when the actual incidence of knife crime is low, natural expected random variations will lead to 'spikes' that the media report on. I don't know if it is still true, but it taught...
[16:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 1399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:44] <exec> 08└─It is about more than violence -- it about the cost of violence to the perpetrator of violence. A dive deep into the murder rate in Britain shows that what brought relative peace was the gun, the introduction of the wheellock brought about a steep drop in the murder rate, and the even cheaper flintl...
[16:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:45] <exec> 08└─As an addendum, Poundland will (most likely) continue to sell knives, just not kitchen knives. The law against selling knives to under-18s (which Poundland has been fined for not following) applies to craft knives and spare blades, too. Small folding blades (i.e. pocket knives) are excluded, as are...
[16:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:47] <exec> 08└─Not sure if you genuinely don't understand, or if you are just so deadpan in your pun delivery that I'm being whooshed. In the event that it's the former, you and your parent are using different meanings of the word "reason." The one that your parent is using is the meaning that most native English...
[16:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:50] <exec> 08└─Well, kitchen knives are out. So, what about kitchen forks? I mean, some kitchen forks are pretty big, maybe better than knives for combat purpose. Reminds me of forks in Elder Scrolls too, the Daedric Lord Sheogorath would be pleased!
[16:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:52] <exec> 08└─You forgot proletarianization.... Agh, but I guess now that the whole world has decided to turn their brains off and give in to bloodlust (caused by poverty from proletariani... anyway) we might as well just conclude that Mooooooooooooooslems cause proletarianization!
[16:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:54] <exec> 08└─They already have "knife bins", where you get free dvds if you surrender your knife:
[16:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:57] <exec> 08└─No, it most certainly is not.
[16:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:59] <exec> 08└─Thank you. Somebody had to say it, and you said it. Boy, did you say it. They joined European Union. So they had to open their Borders to the entire World. Let many people in. Mostly, from Poland. And it's been a disaster for their country. Because Poland is not sending their best people. We love Po...
[16:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:01] <exec> 08└─People can use nails!!! What next? Ban nails? Ban hammers? Ban all heavy metal objects? Give it a rest already, humans will use whatever the most effective tool available is. Banning weapon X does not reduce the murders with weapon X, it just makes them use weapon Y instead.
[16:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:03] <exec> 08└─Anti-psychotic medications have a similar problem. They work so well that after a while you feel like you don't need them anymore. Then you stop and bad things happen. Something about forgetting history and doom..
[16:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:06] <exec> 08└─WRONG. The violence comes from the very violent movies. And, video games. You put a Ratings System in. And so much of that will go away. So much. In U.S. A. we're working on that one. Very hard. And, you give everybody guns. And so much of that violence will go away. Very quickly. I'll tell you, I w...
[16:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:08] <exec> 08└─Now listen, I came here for a good argument...
[16:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:10] <exec> 08└─This isn't a joke, sadly. Search twitter for #OpSpectre if you want to see pictures. The Bobbys have stopped posting pictures of the pliers and screwdrivers they seize too, because people were laughing at them. They are still seizing them, just not touting them on Twitter.
[16:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:12] <exec> 08└─I think we should be killing rabid right-wing hatemongering shitgarglers. I mean we did a lot of that in WWII and everyone seems to agree that that was a good idea, right?
[16:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:15] <exec> 08└─Here is the metric to freedom unit conversion: Poundland = Dollar Tree.
[16:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:17] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I thought it was the other kind of pounding. And I was wondering, why did they let the 14 Year olds in. Because that, possibly, is a little young to be going to Pound Town.
[16:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:19] <exec> 08└─Sure, but that's already £8k of water under the bridge they won't be getting back. How much does it cost to send an email instructing your store managers to give a quick periodic briefings on age checks to existing staff and new starters and get some signatures so they can claim the staff have had...
[16:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:21] <exec> 08└─I think GGGGP point was that there is no way to tell between a systematic variation (more people getting drunk) and a statistical variation (tonight the knife happened to end up a couple of cm closer to the heart). Say the probability of a night out ending in a trip to the morgue is 1e-4, and there...
[16:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:38] <exec> 08└─Seems a feature of most of the "scripting" languages, as they were unfairly derogated
[16:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:52] <exec> 08└─It's pretty, but I think I want a mechanical watch. Or leather, brass, and nixie tubes, but probably mechanical. :)
[16:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reeducating Legislators on the Right to Repair - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:05] <exec> 08└─Component level repairs are a thing and those schematic manuals do exist. Even for things as complex as a MacBook. This guy does it and teaches others how to do it: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] If you have a dead MacBook with soldered-in SSD and you want to get the data...
[16:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:28] <exec> 08└─You can vote your way in to socialism. You'll have to shoot your way out. Trouble is, the socialists know this. They bad guns. Venezuela has done exactly that, just a few years back, preparing for exactly this fight. It's normal in history. It was done by the National Socialist party, and by the Uni...
[16:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:47] <exec> 08└─Ok, I'll bite: San Clemente, CA to Lewiston, ID avoiding Interstates is (according to Google Maps) going to be 1,153 miles (1856 km) and take 22 hours. Now stopping no more than every three hours for one half hour totals to 25.5 hours. Two things stand out here: to be resonably safe, you need either...
[16:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:49] <exec> 08└─Well, the actual title of the article is "Here's every electric vehicle on sale in the US for 2019 and its range" so conversions and the like won't be in there. I have a different bone to pick with the lack of data points. Lots of cars, but very few battery details and missing prices. It really read...
[16:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm with you there. LXDE and XFCE in my case. I was a Gnome fan for years and years, but 3 broke me. It was a difficult time of many betrayals: 3, Unity, Beta, Lollipop.
[16:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:13] <exec> 08└─Having tools that do exactly what I want them to do, when I want them to do it, definitely brings quality to my life. Forced upgrades and all the rest of the nonsense that comes with the walled gardens massively wastes my time and money. That's what the choice of OS means to me and many others.
[16:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:16] <exec> 08└─Somebody explained the reason for that once, but it was Greek to me.
[16:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:23] <exec> 08└─I'll break it down for you because I know you're that AC who's a low-level functionary in one of our Totally Honest and Patriotic I Swear (tm) three-letter agencies and is slow, but it's a bit obvious how all these stories are coming out about Huawei's equipment being full of backdoors and being use...
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[17:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:17] <exec> 08└─> lots of unexpected behaviors and side effects etc Like what?
[17:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:19] <exec> 08└─"The open-source Microsoft editor now has 4.5 million users and was ranked the most popular developer environment for two years running in Stack Overflow's global developer survey." just a disgusting reminder that a disturbing number of developers have no self respect or integrity. or maybe they're...
[17:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:21] <exec> 08└─fucking dumb
[17:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 1871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:23] <exec> 08└─Mind you, it was not for anything for production, just pet projects and research work. Anyway, as useful as python can be, its huge drawback is the lack of proper IDE for it. Spyder, which ships with the Conda distributions, is VERY basic and offers little that we expect from modern IDEs (read no so...
[17:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:25] <exec> 08└─VS Code had 2.6 million developers using it each month
[17:14:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Revek [5022] 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:41] <exec> 08└─You cannot remove the violence.
[17:14:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:51] <exec> 08└─Don't ban all knives, just assault knives.
[17:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:59] <exec> 08└─The NRA? The *Russian funded* NRA?
[17:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:00] <exec> 08└─Somehow I don't think you read the post you are replying to.
[17:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:02] <exec> 08└─Umnh....I think you are ignoring all the other changes that happened during those time periods, such as the great London fires, the year of the plague, the invention of police, etc.
[17:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:05] <exec> 08└─Those are the worst, the absolute worst. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
[17:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:07] <exec> 08└─wartime weapons -> guns -> knives -> screwdrivers -> sticks ->stones ->fingers
[17:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snort [5141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:09] <exec> 08└─And you have to make your own shank out of bits of safety razors and pens.
[17:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:13] <exec> 08└─They aren't creative enough. Just wait till they see what carnage I can do with a meat tenderizer. On the upside, the legendary British cooking will be replaced by civilian versions of MREs with blunted plastic sporks.
[17:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:15] <exec> 08└─It certainly *can* be for a reason. That you can't find out what the reason is is also possible. E.g. there was a period when gang violence was usually confined to members of gangs, but when they wanted to let people know they were very upset, they spread it around a bit. Actually, that may still be...
[17:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:18] <exec> 08└─I *think* the post you're replying to was also a joke. But Poe's law applies.
[17:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:20] <exec> 08└─100% agreement, This is the argument I make against every ban proposal on any tool or weapon. Banning the tool does nothing about the culture that teaches violence and lethal force to be an acceptable response to any conflict. We need to focus on changing that culture of violence, not banning the to...
[17:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:22] <exec> 08└─because muzrats are stabbing people the government scum will prevent brits from buying kitchen utensils. use whatever half-assed weapons you still have to kill the legislators while you still can.
[17:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:24] <exec> 08└─Oh sorry, this is Abuse. Argument is a few doors down. ... ... ... stupid git...
[17:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:27] <exec> 08└─... metalworking needs to be outlawed along with videos on knifemaking and blacksmithing.
[17:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:29] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but there *IS* a convenience factor. If it's awkward to use or to carry, fewer people will use or carry it. My solution is to require them to only sell claidheamh-mòr (claymores), and require them to be secured into the scabbard with a piece of cotton thread. This is awkward enough to carry...
[17:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:31] <exec> 08└─What if the liberal elite invented the knife condition entirely by printing half-truths and sometimes outright lies in the press, which they happen to have a near-monopoly over? What if the liberal elite were also looking to clamp down on social media to prevent rational analysis from getting out? (...
[17:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:34] <exec> 08└─I read it. Obviously, I read it. But, I wish I hadn't read your's!!!!
[17:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:36] <exec> 08└─So, No more "night of the long knives" for the Commies who love May 1st? Interdasting, their method is typically: disarm, divide, then destroy...
[17:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:08] <exec> 08└─U.S. A. was once known as the home of the finest watches in the entire World. No more -- because of Globalism. And Russia got ahead of us on that one. Our companies stopped building watches. But the Russians never stopped. I call it the Watch Gap. Russia must not win. They've been winning for a long...
[17:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:09] <exec> 08└─Budweiser is both a stolen Czech trademark and traditional beer recipe, if this is considered quintessentially American, then it only amplifies my perception of Americans as a nation of slavers, bandits, thieves, drug handlers and murderers ruled by laws of criminals.
[17:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reeducating Legislators on the Right to Repair - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:23] <exec> 08└─When the replacement boards aren't made any more, that's when the schematic diagrams really come into play. I repaired a ~10-year-old 28" HD TV for a family member this way. The IR receiver was busted, and didn't respond to the remote control. I couldn't find any of the receiver assemblies for sale...
[17:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:47] <exec> 08└─I would mark your post redundant but sadly the message still hasn't sunk in to that NPC's response matrix. Seems like its cycle is set to agitate, I wonder what the spin cycle will look like.
[17:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:48] <exec> 08└─Right, because the CIA and the US have absolutely nothing to do with this, just like they've never ever ever ever done anything foul in Latin America, no sir. Who the fuck upmodded you?!
[17:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:51] <exec> 08└─Give me 10 minutes in a room alone with him and a few yards of razor wire and we'll find out. Probably like that one fatality Kabal does in MK...9, I think?
[17:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelan Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising, Coup Attempt Alleged - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:53] <exec> 08└─Go to Hell, you fucking ghoul. You wouldn't know "left wing" if it ripped out all the diodes down your left side and force-fed you them.
[17:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:14] <exec> 08└─From your description, if you had to have a second car (and in some places, it's a given), or even more than two, then only one of them needs to be an ICE. That's major progress. For the people who only have space/money for one car, and the logistics of renting are too daunting, the PHEVs are coming...
[17:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:47] <exec> 08└─One thing we're doing is noticing that there's more than one St. Petersburg. And that the photos on the net are in the Roman alphabet rather than Cyrillic. So why *assume* it's Russian? (Check out the name of the Russian city on Wikipedia. It's varied a lot, but it's never been "St. Petersburg", tho...
[17:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, as an area-denial weapon.
[17:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 1731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:29] <exec> 08└─"and gamers simply bought a second monitor to give the desired width." No gamer wants a bezel smack in the middle of a dual monitor setup. "I'm sure I'd have at least three" Right. You'd need at least three due to the bezel issue. And that is simply not going to be more inexpensive than one small wi...
[17:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Release an XBox Without a Disc Drive - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:17] <exec> 08└─> Yes, the price is too high for what you get. If it was my choice I wouldn't get one. > But my kids are fanatics for particular console exclusives, so hooking something else up just won't fly. I highly recommend making your kids to use their own savings to pay for the thing you don't like them to h...
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[18:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:36] <exec> 08└─I program in FANUC MACRO B.
[18:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmimatt [5050] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:37] <exec> 08└─I am not a fan of corporate data gorging and I sometimes use Code*. I have never used and do not plan to use the full-blown VS from Microsoft, so can't really compare the two on IDE level, but... Just last week I wrote a relatively small Python module in Code and the experience was decent. Nothing t...
[18:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:39] <exec> 08└─Like wearing out the TAB key twice as fast than for other languages (grin)
[18:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:41] <exec> 08└─He expects his code to not suck ass, but then it does for some reason. Must be the compiler's fault.
[18:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:44] <exec> 08└─I can't speak for Python, but doesn't just about any text editor, let alone IDE auto indent the next line at the same level as this line. Thus you only hit one extra tab to begin a new intent level, or one backspace to back out an indent level. Don't some Python programmers insist on using two space...
[18:15:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:21] <exec> 08└─I....I am not sure how to respond. My post was supposed to be sarcastic and snarky. If it just matches reality I'm not sure where that leaves us.
[18:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:33] <exec> 08└─You use "binomial" to mean "random", I use "Poisson binomial", where p can change from day to day: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] "Random" just refers to your subjective choice of how to model things. It isn't something in the "real world".
[18:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:34] <exec> 08└─There are now cordless electric chainsaws.
[18:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:36] <exec> 08└─I heard about a local dollar tree where everything costs more than a dollar and the cashier tries to scan a lighter they want with your stuff so you pay for it.
[18:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:38] <exec> 08└─Addressed in the original paper, link to which is in link above. Another interesting point is how non-gunowners benefited from those who did carry weapons -- criminals couldn't tell who is and is not armed and the cost of guessing wrong could be very high (death). This has played out in assault figu...
[18:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah it is a joke. This insanity ends the second a critical mass realize that and unleash the one weapon that would end it. Every politician who calls for these measures, every cucked CEO that issues such a stupid press release, every reporter that reports it as a straight news story gets the same t...
[18:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:14] <exec> 08└─I stopped wearing one once carry a cellphone everywhere became the norm. Cellphones also killed: the alarm clock, maps, camera, video camera and portable audio player.
[18:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:15] <exec> 08└─I had to stop wearing a watch when I got carpel tunnel syndrome; doctor advised me the strap around my wrist was just making it worse. Can you remember when was the last time someone asked you what time it is? Since everyone (other than small children or the elderly) have smartphones, no one needs t...
[18:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:17] <exec> 08└─"...mostly domestically-made parts. The quartz movement is the only exception..." The part that makes it a functional watch and not just a bracelet will be Swiss. So not "Making Watches in America Again", but rather assembling foreign-made ones.
[18:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:53] <exec> 08└─War crimes are bullshit. If i capture you in a war you are kept alive until i have no use for you. Render medical aid to someone i just risked my life to shoot? Yeah, fuck you, goatfucker. Fucking die already.
[18:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:54] <exec> 08└─What kind of "amateur" manufacturer puts the logo on the side with the plastic injection holes?
[18:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 I Made a Smart Watch from Scratch - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:52] <exec> 08└─way to be somebody!
[18:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:51] <exec> 08└─I like systemd just fine as an end user. Neckbeard criticisms may be valid, but are beyond my pay grade.
[18:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:53] <exec> 08└─yes, typing "systemctl" is sooo difficult.
[18:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:55] <exec> 08└─Tuned and a lot of other Redhat tools are really cool too.
[18:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:05] <exec> 08└─Bloomberg once again proving that they're the US government's useful idiots
[18:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because JCvD was well known for his serious screenplays (actually, /JCVD/ is a pretty decent movie)
[18:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Taught Belgian Cracks Crypto Conundrum that was Supposed to be Uncrackable Until 2034 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:23] <exec> 08└─I just hate how he takes all my friends away! [youtube.com]
[18:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:08] <exec> 08└─thanks. i thought mcas was disable-able.
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[19:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slack Warns Investors It's a Target for Nation-State Hacking - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:06] <exec> 08└─Their headquarters is in Melbourne. Of course their security processes can be subverted, it's mandated by law!
[19:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:25] <exec> 08└─or maybe they're just fucking dumb.
[19:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:26] <exec> 08└─developers too busy to modify the source and remove the tracking / usage reporting ...
[19:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:29] <exec> 08└─When I hear they use Visual Studio Code, my level of respect for them declines a slight bit. Do they just not know better? I suddenly have a slight bit of distrust. A knee jerk reaction created by decades of Microsoft behavior.
[19:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:31] <exec> 08└─It absolutely blows my mind that Python has become the new JS (piece of crap to work with, lots of unexpected behaviors and side effects etc) Meanwhile JS has morphed into a really good language if you need to do cross platform work.
[19:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:41] <exec> 08└─To be fair, blasting a bunch of light and then blocking what you don't want by twisting it is kind of a shitty technology. LEDs need to stop dicking around and get into all our cheap displays already.
[19:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:43] <exec> 08└─Boeing uses 737 MAX. Tesla uses self crashing cars.
[19:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:45] <exec> 08└─Twitter switched from Ruby to Java in 2012. Do most people care? Even if they know what Java is? Most people don't know what a Python is. oh, wait. They think it's something different.
[19:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:47] <exec> 08└─Python is the BASIC of the new Millennials?
[19:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:50] <exec> 08└─One of my former employers had this requirement that all programs had to be written in this proprietary language they were using for everything. I was able to dodge that requirement by using bash shell scripting, which management didn't seem to think counted as real programming. Also, one of the job...
[19:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:10] <exec> 08└─One of the old mechanical wind-up jobs, the only place it ever kept reasonable time was within a couple of miles of the city of it's 'birth', that was Dundee, Scotland. (Someone actually stole it from my desk when I worked down in London..thieves eh?, who can tell what goes through their twisty mind...
[19:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:11] <exec> 08└─"U.S.A. was once known as the home of the finest watches in the entire World." nope.. note the actual 'guts' of a Timex are Swiss.
[19:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Whale with Harness could be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:50] <exec> 08└─I see you took one to the knee. Here, let me "help" you with my KaBaR, you sniveling coward!
[19:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:32] <exec> 08└─It's not so Millennians can view portrait format video. It's just so that widescreen can be turned 90 degrees on its side. That way a millennial laying on the couch doesn't have to exert any effort to actually sit up in order to watch.
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[20:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in Prison for Bail Breach - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:17] <exec> 08└─"Julian Assange has never been charged with anything in Sweden. He was merely “wanted for questioning”, a fact the MSM repeatedly failed to make clear. It is now undeniably plain that there was never the slightest intention of charging him with anything in Sweden. All those Blairite MPs who seek...
[20:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in Prison for Bail Breach - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:18] <exec> 08└─He *could* have upto got 52 weeks, so he did get some clemency. It's largely moot anyway; the judge could have let him off with nothing at all because of his self-imposed house arrest, but since he's demonstrably a high flight risk and pending an extradition hearing (the exact same circumstances he...
[20:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in Prison for Bail Breach - 1505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:20] <exec> 08└─They will have to pull even more crazy stuff to bring expired laws back. Even then the main crime they started with in Sweden was a dead law their court threw out before that 2 experts back then said would be similar to "involuntary rape" in the USA which is why it failed to be successfully used bef...
[20:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in Prison for Bail Breach - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:22] <exec> 08└─Nah. The judge just averaged 52 (the number of weeks per year he could barely remember and wasn't sure about) and 48 (12*4) since they couldn't be bothered googling it up and were too embarrassed to ask. Ehe, I should probably post this anonymously...
[20:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in Prison for Bail Breach - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:25] <exec> 08└─I do appreciate the lie [bbc.com]. The wikipedia sources linking the text of the original warrant have fallen off the internet, but the media reporting at the time show pretty clearly there was a EU arrest warrant issued, the necessary item you're saying never existed.
[20:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in Prison for Bail Breach - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:27] <exec> 08└─His argument was that by being extradited to Sweden he would then get passed to the U.S.. It's a load off bullshit, as the U.S. could have just as easilly extradited him from the U.K The warrant that Sweden was using to get him to answer questions was a European Arrest Warrant, in the same way that...
[20:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in Prison for Bail Breach - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:29] <exec> 08└─It's a load off bullshit, as the U.S. could have just as easilly extradited him from the U.K
[20:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:59] <exec> 08└─I prefer Ninja for python. I am a self taught hack just trying to make my real job a little easier though. A competent pro may want some feature I never thought to look for.
[20:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:01] <exec> 08└─I've been coding using PyCharm and have been quite pleased. There's a Professional edition and a Free Community edition. I've not needed the Professional features.
[20:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Bumble Bee Got its Stripes - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:09] <exec> 08└─Sharp spines are a warning in of themselves, regardless of coloring. It's not so much vision doing the informing, but inquisitive poking and touching.
[20:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Bumble Bee Got its Stripes - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:11] <exec> 08└─If it looks scary (A tarantula hawk for one)... Run away.
[20:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:42] <exec> 08└─We were talking about Bud.
[20:20:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06 I Made a Smart Watch from Scratch - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:14] <exec> 08└─Wife tried to convince me that one day we'd be making phone calls and sending messages from wrist-mounted devices....not on my watch I said!
[20:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:22] <exec> 08└─Your mum's and dad's or grandma's not going to want to see text flying by.
[20:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:34] <exec> 08└─Except in both instances the pilots were unable to override the MCAS nose down. That doesn't sound like a simple change to how the stick feels - thats a full on override.
[20:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Defends 737 Max Flight Control System - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:36] <exec> 08└─That's absolutely the case. I'm not trying to say they're shifting the blame, only that they are working to limit their liability. As a corporation, they would rather lose $2 billion than $10 billion and keep it in the courts as long as possible. It's like saving the bank interesting on billions of...
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[21:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Say They've Created a Blood Test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:19] <exec> 08└─The actual testing performed on the small group of people can be viewed here [youtube.com], it's fairly incredible how accurate the test is.
[21:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in Prison for Bail Breach - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:34] <exec> 08└─So bankers fail and cost the economy GREATLY and get their wrists slapped....
[21:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in Prison for Bail Breach - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:35] <exec> 08└─In a letter to the court, Assange argued that he had fled to the embassy out of fear that he'd be extradited to the United States and wind up being held indefinitely at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
[21:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in Prison for Bail Breach - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:37] <exec> 08└─I disagree. I'm pretty sure that obtaining extradition on somebody not currently under detention requires filing an Interpol Red Notice in order to get the person detained, which may or may not work as expected. That requires the cooperation of Interpol. It has far less likelihood of working if the...
[21:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slack Warns Investors It's a Target for Nation-State Hacking - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:46] <exec> 08└─Just curious, since I have no interest in going to the blog post, but does this author make a point of starting every sentence, or at least paragraph, with " organized crime, nation-state, and nation-state supported actors"?
[21:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:11] <exec> 08└─A new order, not to your liking, imposed by others. That's the real enemy.
[21:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:12] <exec> 08└─Part of the problem is that there are two totally different but similarly named IDEs and their Python support. There is Visual Studio, which has their Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS), and there is Visual Studio Code, which has Python Extension for Visual Studio Code (PEVSC or PVSC). While simi...
[21:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:14] <exec> 08└─I don't agree with the "ideologically bent" categorization, at least not for those of a certain age. If one is old enough to have been very active in computers in the 90s and 2000s, then one could be forgiven for harboring very negative views of Microsoft for many many reasons that do not need to be...
[21:17:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Netflix: Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:19] <exec> 08└─The next time you're streaming on Netflix, you can thank popular programming language Python and the developers who use it for much of the experience.
[21:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:55] <exec> 08└─Around central California people started turning away from American water alcohol about 40 years ago. https://sierranevada.com [sierranevada.com] I started turning away over 50 years ago when I found Anchor Steam. One of the reasons I choose SF State over San Fernando State to finish my schooling....
[21:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:56] <exec> 08└─As the AC above has pointed out, I think you meant Switzerland. But by the late 1960's the best watches in the world were made in Japan by Seiko.
[21:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:38] <exec> 08└─However, if using it will provide "quality of life improvements," your life must suck pretty bad. I did boot up the live USB and went "Oh." The sheer lack of gee whiz stuff is actually reassuring, but at the end of the day I had to ask why I would bother abandoning Mint/Ubuntu in exchange for Fedora...
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[22:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Say They've Created a Blood Test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:13] <exec> 08└─Duh, they have anemia and giving blood for the test makes it worse. Stupid whiny bitches with imaginary diseases.
[22:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Say They've Created a Blood Test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:14] <exec> 08└─I would look into it further, but I'm too fatigued and tired. I just don't have enough energy right now.
[22:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Say They've Created a Blood Test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:16] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Was listening to this [youtube.com] just before following your link... Not sure what wires got crossed but I haven't laughed this hard in years...
[22:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in Prison for Bail Breach - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:34] <exec> 08└─They got their wrists slapped? When?
[22:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in Prison for Bail Breach - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:35] <exec> 08└─You say that like its a bad thing.
[22:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in Prison for Bail Breach - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:38] <exec> 08└─Turns out the cat had no outstanding warrants and was released."Thank God", said the cat, "A year cooped up with that moron used up six of my lives. He never flushed the toilet, left dirty socks lying around and cooked smelly ethnic cuisine like vegemite all day long".
[22:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in Prison for Bail Breach - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:40] <exec> 08└─Slap on the wrist? They gave them the opportunity to get free money via on trillions of dollars they deposited with the Fed: But excess reserves increased considerably in 2008, as the Fed expanded the money supply to finance unconventional monetary policy measures such as quantitative easing. As of...
[22:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:16] <exec> 08└─Ya, I'm the AC you're replying to, and I was working during most of the 90s. The funny thing to me is that the vast majority of those people never had anything happen to them as a direct result of MS that wasn't just about the same from any other source. If anything, MS is *worse* now, but not becau...
[22:15:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Revek [5022] 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:39] <exec> 08└─This post is hardly offtoptic. Its not about the weapons its about the individuals who will resort to violence to serve themselves. The weapons in this case are knives. They are just a symptom of the problem.
[22:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Timex Is Making Watches in America Again, and Here’s the First One - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:59] <exec> 08└─They, unfortunately, have the Swiss Movement now. As you saw, as you see. They call it Movement, otherwise referred to Guts. Used to be made, very proudly in Connecticut. Those Guts had GLORY. When America was Great. And America, believe me, WILL be Great Again!!!!
[22:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:01] <exec> 08└─Don't drive your own car on epic road trips; rent one. Its cheaper per mile, cheaper on your (mileage based) car insurance.
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[23:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06OCR4all: Modern Tool for Old Texts - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:13] <exec> 08└─With an animated version of "Narrenschiff" in production, it's only a matter of time before Disney's lawyers put an end to this nonsense.
[23:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OCR4all: Modern Tool for Old Texts - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:15] <exec> 08└─Where's the fun in that [youtube.com]?
[23:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OCR4all: Modern Tool for Old Texts - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:17] <exec> 08└─With previous tools of this kind, user-friendliness was not always a given, as the users mostly had to work with programming commands.
[23:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Say They've Created a Blood Test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:27] <exec> 08└─You may have Lyme disease, better discuss it with your chiropractor.
[23:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Say They've Created a Blood Test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:29] <exec> 08└─I know right. They just need to work out a bit. Lazy gits. We should send them off to the army. That will straighten them out.
[23:14:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in Prison for Bail Breach - 1001 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:46] <exec> 08└─I disagree. I'm pretty sure that obtaining extradition on somebody not currently under detention requires filing an Interpol Red Notice in order to get the person detained, which may or may not work as expected. That requires the cooperation of Interpol. It has far less likelihood of working if the...
[23:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in Prison for Bail Breach - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:51] <exec> 08└─I don't see him being shipped to Gitmo.
[23:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:29] <exec> 08└─Expect the 'extend phase' soon.
[23:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Bumble Bee Got its Stripes - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:38] <exec> 08└─They all the same to me.
[23:15:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06Stores to Stop Selling Kitchen Knives After Spike in Violence in London - 327 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:48] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_London [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Homicide rate is down by 50 % since early 2000. Homicide rate is about a third that in New York. [sarcasm]OTOH there are lots of foreign sorts about in London, so crime...
[23:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Electric Vehicle on Sale in the US for 2019 and Its Range - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:18] <exec> 08└─I drive an '07 Golf now (well, Rabbit. same diff.) and rather like it. The e-Golf has enough range for my commute. The stickler for me is price. They're still a lot more than an ICE car. Though if a late-model low-milage electric is about the same as a new gas model, I'll take a real hard look at it...
[23:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:58] <exec> 08└─Oh!, come on. I have not had a chance to sacrifice it and possibly never will. Besides, Star Trek under OS360 was my thing.
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