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[00:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:53] <exec> 08└─Whether it's who to have sex with, who to marry, or terminating a pregnancy, if it's not your body that is being affected, it's not your choice. If men got pregnant, abortion would be available for free on demand and come with beer and pizza.
[00:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:54] <exec> 08└─Reproductive relating to or effecting reproduction.
[00:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:56] <exec> 08└─I don't recall vasectomy being free or covered by insurance, and it certainly doesn't come with beer and pizza (paid out of someone elses pocket)
[00:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:16] <exec> 08└─How does this thing bolt onto a car? https://www.moogparts.com [moogparts.com]
[00:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:18] <exec> 08└─This is my ponder... you could out-perform with a free open source software synth
[00:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:20] <exec> 08└─I still have my original Model 10 that I bought back in the late 1970s at a tiny fraction of what they want for this new model. And yes, you can emulate modular synths in software, but if you dream of wires like I do, you can also purchase very reasonably-priced Eurorack synth modules that are terri...
[00:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:22] <exec> 08└─The recent Moog modules are rock solid at holding tune. It's not like the old days where you could hear them drift while you were performing.
[00:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:24] <exec> 08└─I bought a MiniMoog back in 1985, and its components were... not very durable. It was fun while it lasted, made all kinds of cool sounds, but the repeatability was not great - lots of "fiddle time" to get back to something you liked the first time, and some things like the random source (think: the...
[00:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:40] <exec> 08└─I was 11 when Neil and Buzz landed on the moon. I had a stereo reel to reel tape deck recording, with a mic on both sides of the TV (yeah, I didn't quite get stereo. It was 1969 and I was 11, deal with it). Whatever, I was a space nut. This is the first I've heard of the Ranger program. Thanks for t...
[00:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:42] <exec> 08└─I thought the moon was harsh. Nobody said anything about hard!! :^)
[00:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:44] <exec> 08└─So more governments and private entities should be getting it right on their first try.
[00:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:46] <exec> 08└─I do recall the Ranger program, but only very sketchy details. The bits I heard at the time had no real impact on me. The manned missions were the only thing I cared about!! The same was probably pretty true of the media.
[00:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:48] <exec> 08└─That whole stretch before the Apollo missions is roadmap for doing unmanned missions right. Twenty missions which methodically got important technology and research right while simultaneously exploring a bit of the Moon.
[00:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:40] <exec> 08└─...Keep the "UFOs are aliens" weirdos busy hunting for green men instead of actually identifying secret aircraft and other things.
[00:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:19] <exec> 08└─Though there's the extra advantage from shell pipelines: free smp support. Each process is (obviously) a separate process so each stage of your pipeline can get its own core without writing multi-threaded code.
[00:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:37] <exec> 08└─Fare enough. However, given the complete lack of evidence that infinity is anything other than a conceptual absurdity, betting against the existence of infinite amounts of anything is generally the more respectable option. At the very least, nobody will ever be able to prove you wrong - there's not...
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[01:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:01] <exec> 08└─77% of the population approve decriminalization of abortion. The tactic by the News Corp newspapers and radio stations is to raise the level of noise by giving providing heaps of page space and air time to boneheads like Tony Abbot and Barnaby Joyce. They did the same with the same-sex marriage - un...
[01:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:02] <exec> 08└─As AC has already stated - bullshit. Men do not get any free services from the government. If men DID get free services from the government, women long ago would have demanded, and received, similar services. If you want to dig into inequalities mandated by government, maybe you should look at the d...
[01:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:04] <exec> 08└─State's upper house drags feet in passing law legalising abortion despite an overwhelming 75-percent support by voters
[01:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:06] <exec> 08└─Where are these doctors who are doing it for free? Where are these cost-free infrastructure? If there's free beer and pizza, wouldn't that end world hunger? Why give it to abortionists when you can give it to all the poor regardless of whether they are pregnant?
[01:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:09] <exec> 08└─Your comment is fake news. The truth is that the left wants as many abortions as possible. Crooked Hillary and the anti-American squad want to kill as many babies as possible.
[01:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:11] <exec> 08└─The truth is that the left wants as many abortions as possible.
[01:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 1511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:13] <exec> 08└─Nope, those conservatives dragging their feet are just posturing - the NSW Liberal Party (which is actually conservative) are experiencing some internal (intestinal?) power fights right now, and the challengers need a pretext [abc.net.au]. But they don't have enough numbers for a full rebellion [abc...
[01:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:15] <exec> 08└─That 77%. Who are they voting for that it doesn't match up in parliament? I mean, is it possible to be pro-choice and vote for anti-choice politicians? Does that seem logical?
[01:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:17] <exec> 08└─I mean, is it possible to be pro-choice and vote for anti-choice politicians? Does that seem logical?
[01:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hulu Hackathon Leads to Eye-tracking Controls for Roku - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:25] <exec> 08└─or gouge out me eyeballs
[01:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hulu Hackathon Leads to Eye-tracking Controls for Roku - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:28] <exec> 08└─They will lie and say this is really to track if you're paying attention and watching the ads. You people are lunatics.
[01:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hulu Hackathon Leads to Eye-tracking Controls for Roku - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:30] <exec> 08└─Is that you, FBI? Can I haz bacon cheezburger?
[01:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hulu Hackathon Leads to Eye-tracking Controls for Roku - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:32] <exec> 08└─WTF?
[01:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:51] <exec> 08└─It's not like the old days where you could hear them drift while you were performing.
[01:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:52] <exec> 08└─You're probably right, but are you sure it's made using lead-free solder?
[01:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:14] <exec> 08└─You have powerful computers and software that can simulate the entirety of the mission. You have a number of examples of past failures and successes. You can see where others messed up and learn from their mistakes. Private companies are now trying to land on the moon. A private company may have mon...
[01:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:06] <exec> 08└─I have also seen an impressive UFO that I was able to explain to myself later. Was it right or wrong explanation? I don't think it matters as it was plausible. However, here we are talking about cases where the US military investigated and was not able to come up with an explanation. I'd guess they...
[01:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:08] <exec> 08└─As I've said elsewhere in the thread, photographs aren't particularly high-quality intel, especially not comparable to technical details of imaginary super-tech that doesn't exist.
[01:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:48] <exec> 08└─My main choice for a long time was C (plain, without ++). For quick and dirty things I'd use AWK and I am talking here not about one liners, but full blown software of a few hundreds or even thousands lines of code. There was even an AWK compiler that one guy wrote and was selling for $99 that did a...
[01:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:49] <exec> 08└─From what I see the biggest problem with Perl is that it just works. I have mission critical half a million lines of code that was not maintained since developers were fired in 2008 crash and it still works. Nobody at the office realizes the miracle because the thing works and does not bother anybod...
[01:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:51] <exec> 08└─Not a huge help when they're run sequentially, as piped commands are.
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[02:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:16] <exec> 08└─re. The voters: It's probably not the main issue for most of them. I would guess at least 50%, maybe as high as 90%, vote on economic grounds. Many of the rest vote based on other issues. re. The Act: It's more about reducing stigma and improving access than stopping punishment. In the last 25 years...
[02:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:48] <exec> 08└─All in all, if I were to get back into it, I'd rather invest my time in a software based system that I could feed in a repeatable random seed
[02:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces Energy-Assisted Hard Drives - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:22] <exec> 08└─I'm reading this on my metal-assisted chair on my light-assisted display.
[02:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces Energy-Assisted Hard Drives - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:24] <exec> 08└─Reliability also matters.
[02:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:49] <exec> 08└─Depending on the use case, it can be, sure. If you're trying to serve up thousands of pages a second off that dataset or some such, I'd go with something a little more close to the metal so you can use an optimized function that does only what you need and does it in as few cycles as possible.
[02:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:50] <exec> 08└─Certainly not ours [github.com]...
[02:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:52] <exec> 08└─It was used for my IRC bot, MrPlow for maybe a month. Then it got too painful to use anymore and I rewrote him in C. He's currently written in Rust just because I felt like learning the language.
[02:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using an Optical Tweezer Array of Laser-cooled Molecules to Observe Ground State Collisions - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:00] <exec> 08└─Geez it would be nice if submitters gave some inkling of what the point of their new gizmo is. Right at the very end we learn: ...the optical tweezer array platform holds much promise for extending the applications of ultracold molecules. Which are...? This new gizmo will extend the use of gizmos. C...
[02:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:33] <exec> 08└─"Would it really be abnormal for a store to put its own brand up front?" Yes, it would be. Grocery stores, for example. Even a behemoth like Walmart is careful not to overshadow the popular name products area with its own house brands. No one encroaches on Coke's or PepsiCo's little fiefdom areas of...
[02:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:42] <exec> 08└─It's my penis and it is also melting quickly.
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[03:33:27] <exec> 08└─I personally prefer a safe for work liberal party.
[03:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:28] <exec> 08└─75 percent support baby murder. Interesting.
[03:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:30] <exec> 08└─75 percent support baby murder.
[03:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:02] <exec> 08└─As long as you're not getting the pins so hot the solder melts it'll be fine if it's fine on day one. (That's the pain though - the temp range to avoid cold joints is so much smaller) Lead+silver solder has problems too. The 1980s pinballs I restored had solder cracks around the power connectors fre...
[03:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:03] <exec> 08└─… Who will buy it are studios and instrument rental agencies who will then lease it out and advertise that they have one available. And the occasional person-who-has-way-too-much-money, or a band member who's already long since made and now living the good life. Then again, I bought way too much k...
[03:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:21] <exec> 08└─They may have tried hard, but sometimes the needed information just isn't available. So don't rule out noise as the explanation.
[03:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:08] <exec> 08└─Using spaces instead of tabs for indentation.
[03:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:09] <exec> 08└─R is terrible for text processing. Extracting matches from regular expressions involves compiling the expressions and parsing a list. Some of the newest tidyverse packages are greatly improving the syntax, but the speed for text manipulation still remains an issue.
[03:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:11] <exec> 08└─Perl 6 is a whole new language, and not a successor to Perl 5. Everyone is still using Perl 5 while trying to suss out 6. Repos are not going to drop 5 anytime soon for this reason.
[03:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:14] <exec> 08└─"Sorry but there it is. Perl has better OO than Python does." Perl 5's OO is surreal. You used to have to roll your own objects via 'bless', but now libraries abound for all kinds of crazy object systems. Sounds like a nightmare, but they all work together. If that's not having your cake and eating...
[03:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:16] <exec> 08└─Really? Perl was the first language to manage that properly for me. Yeah, sometimes you need to be explicit in unusual ways, but at least you _can_ without jumping through hoops. I think this gets thrown in the "tricks" category just because it so rarely comes up that you're probably going to need t...
[03:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:18] <exec> 08└─Yup. There are even changes involving unicode jumping hoops in perl since I bitchslapped SN into more or less supporting it.
[03:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:20] <exec> 08└─That you ask has outed you as a witch. Gentlemen, bring the firewood.
[03:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:22] <exec> 08└─If that's not having your cake and eating it too, I don't know what is.
[03:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:04] <exec> 08└─The front page that mostly shows pictures only, and when you mouse over it invites you for a "quick look" and doesn't even tell you what the damn thing is or any description at all until you click on it and thus invest time in it. I've lost count of the times I've specifically bought something from...
[03:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:05] <exec> 08└─Is not Amazon subject to the same pressure?
[03:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, for those with similar clout to what the mega consumer brands have. And in time it may have an impact. But "late last year" may not have been long enough for that sort of feedback to occur. Also, it's a lot harder to gauge search results (which may vary from user to user in our day of web track...
[03:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:10] <exec> 08└─Heh, retail is very gansta...
[03:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:46] <exec> 08└─That can and does already happen to many, sunshine. So what? It's not like you have a chance in hell of actually changing anything meaningful about it. Not without changing the ideal that if one is in public then one is, you know, in public.
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[04:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:59] <exec> 08└─Someone will buy.
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[04:33:01] <exec> 08└─That was always the problem. They can't compete with the services of the satellites in LEO because of bandwidth. HEO and geostationary is a pretty cool feature, but it doesn't lend itself well to low latency network communications and high bandwidth media. They needed to capitalize on what they do r...
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[04:33:08] <exec> 08└─Fairchild (ancestor to AMD) made a 'pong+' video game in the early 1980's. The whole thing was covered with a canary yellow rubber, and the controllers were a gun handle trigger with a UPLR joy-knob you could rotate that was mounted on the top so you had to use two hands. No color, no flicker, 12 ga...
[04:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Says TSMC Can Meet Epyc Demand; Launches New, Higher-Clocked 64-Core CPU - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:10] <exec> 08└─Just imagine, 128 concurrent games of Pong in the palm of your hand.
[04:33:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:19] <exec> 08└─Whether it's who to have sex with, who to marry, or terminating a pregnancy, if it's not your body that is being affected, it's not your choice. If men got pregnant, abortion would be available for free on demand and come with beer and pizza.
[04:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:34] <exec> 08└─People ignore the periphery at their own peril.
[04:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:36] <exec> 08└─Contradiction in terms detected. If it's laisser-faire (liberal), then it's not regulated thus not safe for work guaranteed.
[04:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:38] <exec> 08└─Exactly. As explained by the band Copstabber, More Abortions! [youtube.com] Really though, we want as many abortions as necessary; which will be decided by individual women and their physicians.
[04:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:14] <exec> 08└─2 oscillators.
[04:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:16] <exec> 08└─I have an Itialian SIEL DK600 made in 1980. It uses 8 analog oscillators, yet has a digital memory, velocity sensing, and MIDI. Great, fat tentacled sound!
[04:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:18] <exec> 08└─Disambiguation: https://www.moogparts.com [moogparts.com] Car (suspension) parts. According to company history, started in 1919 in St. Louis by brothers Alva and Hubert Prater (H.P.) Moog. No relation that I know of to the Buffalo Moog family below. https://www.moog.com [moog.com] Motion control (...
[04:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces Energy-Assisted Hard Drives - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:54] <exec> 08└─Beaten as in: got a headline first? When I buy something I'm generally happy if there are alternatives to choose from, and I couldn't care less which of the manufactureres managed to hit the market first with similar products. What makes it so relevant to you who was first?
[04:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces Energy-Assisted Hard Drives - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:56] <exec> 08└─SMR has quite a few problematic workloads but for serialized CoW the raw I/O speed is slightly higher that PMR on the same platform (which is not entirely surprising as there is a slight reduction in head movement). For HAMR/MAMR at such high density I'm more interested to know with the projected/ac...
[04:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:41] <exec> 08└─In Yakima, WA, 'UFO' stands for Unidentified Farting Object. How to steal an American city: Montes v. City of Yakima - https://www.aclu-wa.org [aclu-wa.org] Embezzlement & swindling at the state level: McCleary, et al. v. State of Washington - Supreme Court Case Number 8...
[04:36:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 1088 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:22] <exec> 08└─From what I see the biggest problem with Perl is that it just works. I have mission critical half a million lines of code that was not maintained since developers were fired in 2008 crash and it still works. Nobody at the office realizes the miracle because the thing works and does not bother anybod...
[04:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:36] <exec> 08└─In MS-DOS they ran sequentially, in Unix/Linux the programs run in parallel and consume each other's output as soon as it becomes available. Run 'find | cat' on a large directory tree. The output in the terminal starts appearing immedeately, which can only happen if cat runs parallel to find. Or run...
[04:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:31] <exec> 08└─up to two-thirds of the region's remaining glaciers are on track to disappear
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[05:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:06] <exec> 08└─I tried the Beyond Burgers and they are really very good. So after eating another couple I looked at the ingredient list to figure out how these new burgers differ from the old shitty veggie burgers. It's the fat - tons of it. Saturated peanut oil. Tastes like fucking Jesus.
[05:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:08] <exec> 08└─Why 12 oz? So the price is closer to 16 oz of lean ground beef? Won't that just not work for anyone wanting 1 pound of "beef"? Or are they targeting people who won't notice the quantity difference but will notice the price? (And won't they wonder why the impossible burgers are so much smaller...)
[05:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:10] <exec> 08└─Just like how the 12 oz fiber++ veggie pasta costs more than the 16 oz regular pasta. But 12 oz of Impossibru meat is $9, 8 oz of Beyond Burger (2 patties) is about $6. So it's about the same as the competitor.
[05:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:20] <exec> 08└─extremely slow to catch onto the whole Netflix/Amazon Prime Ad-Free,
[05:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Says TSMC Can Meet Epyc Demand; Launches New, Higher-Clocked 64-Core CPU - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:30] <exec> 08└─Truly! That yellow rubber did not absorb the 'sweat'.
[05:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:57] <exec> 08└─If it's not your body that is being affected, it's not your choice.
[05:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03CheesyMoo [6853] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:35] <exec> 08└─"you could out-perform with a free open source software synth" Please be specific about which software synth you mean, and then we can discuss on which metrics it outperforms the replica. Is a digitally accurate wavetable lookup of a waveform better than an analog one? Perhaps if you are trying to m...
[05:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:59] <exec> 08└─If Bob Lazar is correct - well frankly, I hope not. My interpretation of inertia in physics implies that these objects are a special kind of "St. Elmo's fire". (Not the Estevez flick, or that maudlin song) No mass, just energy.
[05:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:55] <exec> 08└─Somewhere during the late 1990's I got a nice compliment from someone with the relevant experience for making it: my Perl code was among the cleanest and best structured he'd ever seen. Nowadays I strongly prefer Python. Why? Because it's cleaner in my perception. I remember reading somewhere that L...
[05:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:49] <exec> 08└─Well there's monopoles, dipoles, quadrupoles, octopoles, etc. You get the picture. Which pole are you sad about?
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[06:33:01] <exec> 08└─If one shoots or attacks the paste with any weapon, they can see that it actually bleeds. https://fallout.fandom.com [fandom.com]
[06:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:02] <exec> 08└─If burger joints or restaurant can't sell them enough at a marked up "novelty"or "deli" price, then of course them burgers get into groceries. How well they'll do there is to be seen.
[06:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:13] <exec> 08└─Lets face it. They don't do anything as well as their competition. Only their bulk keeps them afloat.
[06:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:15] <exec> 08└─They needed to capitalize on what they do really well, which is reach very remote areas that land based services will not service. That's not a trivial market.
[06:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:51] <exec> 08└─It should be free or covered by insurance. Happy?
[06:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:52] <exec> 08└─If you want to dig into inequalities mandated by government, maybe you should look at the draft.
[06:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:55] <exec> 08└─Where are these doctors who are doing it for free?
[06:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:57] <exec> 08└─Well put. The unborn baby has a major stake in the matter.
[06:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:54] <exec> 08└─I find grep and sed incredibly useful and intuitive, while never quite grokking awk. Don't know why.
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[07:33:06] <exec> 08└─Nah, this was always part of the plan and required FDA to sign off on it. There is a chicken and egg problem where it occupies a small niche and remains expensive due to low volume, and can only expand its appeal by competing with ground beef on $/kg.
[07:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:07] <exec> 08└─Hold on, for $9 one can get a medium quality steak... WTF?
[07:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it needs to hit $4/lb to really compete against ground beef, preferably less. $12/lb won't cut it. Sell a 3-5 lb frozen tube of the stuff if that lowers costs. They have to start somewhere, and some people could rationalize this purchase vs. something like expensive grass-fed beef. And people...
[07:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:21] <exec> 08└─My wife worked on "The DirecTV Project" before it launched. She managed a lot of the tech development. One night at dinner she said to me, "I'm going to look for a new job as soon as this thing goes up." "Why?" "I've been playing with the numbers. I don't see how this can ever make money. It's not g...
[07:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 2583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:01] <exec> 08└─I have 0 trust in the united states navy to tell the truth and I am completely suspicious about the timing of these 'well yup ufo's are real' press releases. If the public couldn't handle this in 1950 why would we be able to handle it now? I'd say everything is less stable, more confusing, more sick...
[07:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:03] <exec> 08└─also, the entire blink 182 connection is textbook mkultra type useful idiot stuff, it glows in the dark to high heaven. 'the government' does not contact lead singers in bands for help with ufos. roflmao
[07:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:00] <exec> 08└─There will be no ed/vi/nano in my house. Emacs is the only OS I use. Now if I only had a text editor...
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[08:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Officials Claim Confusion Over Scope Led to Arrest of Pen-Testers - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:59] <exec> 08└─The testers did everything right, and the state apparently did too. The problem, as usual, is with the local cops. Not sure why prosecutors haven't dropped all charges. They're clearly in the wrong and doubling down is just going to make the upcoming lawsuit worse.
[08:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Says TSMC Can Meet Epyc Demand; Launches New, Higher-Clocked 64-Core CPU - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:41] <exec> 08└─Amusing story, but Fairchild is now part of ON Semi, not AMD.
[08:33:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 501 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:52] <exec> 08└─77% of the population approve decriminalization of abortion. The tactic by the News Corp newspapers and radio stations is to raise the level of noise by giving providing heaps of page space and air time to boneheads like Tony Abbot and Barnaby Joyce. They did the same with the same-sex marriage - un...
[08:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:14] <exec> 08└─also, kindof ashamed this is an afterthought but... Other things that can be deduced about who or whatever is centralizing power and ruining the personal computer and internet, if not everything: -contempt for human rights, hatred of magna carta and un declaration -contempt and scorn for empathy, in...
[08:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:07] <exec> 08└─You do realise that you're talking to someone who's spent time in Lapland in winter? The only point I felt like I was at a pole was on my way back down south again, through Rovaniemi, and a quick diversion to Santa's workshop. The rumours it's in Greenland are a lie. Greenland's just a huge sheet of...
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[09:33:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe the courthouse building was less than 18 years old. Even if you get explicit consent for the penetration, it's still a felony.
[09:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating the Self-Attention Mechanism Behind BERT-Based Architectures - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:11] <exec> 08└─> Our manually constructed list of negation words consisted of the following words: > neither, nor, not, never, none, don’t, won’t, didn’t, hadn’t, haven’t, can’t, isn’t, wasn’t, shouldn’t, couldn’t, nothing, nowhere. Tell me it ain't so, except for a few wierdos we shan't mentio...
[09:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03knarf [2042] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:26] <exec> 08└─My wife is a 'pescetarian', i.e. she only eats cold-blooded slimy animals which are sufficiently alien from us mammals that eating them does not cause undue feelings of guilt for being instrumental in ending the creature's life for selfish purposes. I'm the one who does the cooking here and generall...
[09:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:28] <exec> 08└─It's not clear what product(s) you're talking about.
[09:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:57] <exec> 08└─I get that reference!
[09:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:21] <exec> 08└─I find grep and sed incredibly useful and intuitive, while never quite grokking awk. Don't know why.
[09:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:22] <exec> 08└─Why is this bad? I convert tabs to spaces because of inconsistent treatment of tabs amongst programs while spaces plus a monospaced font are.
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[10:32:54] <exec> 08└─malware runs on windoze.
[10:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investigating the Self-Attention Mechanism Behind BERT-Based Architectures - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:10] <exec> 08└─I woudn't've thought so.
[10:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:39] <exec> 08└─I have to admit, I don't see how free (though with advertisement) satellite TV can be profitable in Germany but not in the US? I am sure there are good reasons, but it seems really strange, especially since there are some REALLY niche channels on there. And the infrastructure isn't even shared, Fran...
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[10:34:20] <exec> 08└─Not without beer and pizza, no.
[10:35:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 250 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:10] <exec> 08└─When considering India and Israel's difficulty in landing on the moon, also keep in mind America's Ranger program [wikipedia.org]. Spoiler: We lost Ranger 3,4,5, and 6 before a successful impact mission. The moon is hard. Soft landing is really hard.
[10:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces Energy-Assisted Hard Drives - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:36] <exec> 08└─Hey! There's no words to describe the thrill of loosing your data at high speed.
[10:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces Energy-Assisted Hard Drives - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:37] <exec> 08└─on my metal-assisted chair on my light-assisted display.
[10:38:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 1715 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:28] <exec> 08└─I think you're misunderstanding the big bang. If there was a superconcentrated ball of material that exploded out into space - then yes, there should be an observable "origin point" to the bang - track all the remnants of a fire-cracker that exploded in a free-fall vacuum, and you can trace their pa...
[10:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:47] <exec> 08└─Actually, you can see that yourself. Google the question "How big is the universe?" It will come back with 93 billion light years in diameter... so 46.5 billion light year radius. (That's the known universe we can see.) Then google "How old is the universe?" It will come back 13.8 billion years. If...
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[11:32:51] <exec> 08└─Interesting hypothesis to consider: Possibly, some of the benefits that some people sometimes get from a low carb diet are essentially the same as cutting out a low continuous alcohol dose. You read a lot of reports of "oh, I have more energy" "Suddenly I can think more clearly" "Fewer headaches" an...
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[11:32:59] <exec> 08└─If you Linux folks don't want to feel left out and want to experience the full Windows Experience[tm] too, you can always place a notice.txt file on your desktop yourself and send a voluntary payment to Flower Harris.
[11:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TFlower Ransomware - the Latest Attack Targeting Businesses - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:01] <exec> 08└─What if my window manager does not support a desktop? Checkmate :^)
[11:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iowa Officials Claim Confusion Over Scope Led to Arrest of Pen-Testers - 1376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:11] <exec> 08└─Well, I wouldn't go that far. The state and the penetration testers should have had an explicit contract, but from what I'm reading in TFS, they both know they messed. Ok. Mistakes happen. Annoying, but live and learn. These two sods get locked up for a couple of days while things get sorted out the...
[11:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Officials Claim Confusion Over Scope Led to Arrest of Pen-Testers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:13] <exec> 08└─They will make you suffer as an example, thus reestablishing who is on top.
[11:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iowa Officials Claim Confusion Over Scope Led to Arrest of Pen-Testers - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:15] <exec> 08└─My guess would be, given these guys were security theater practitioners and those are hard to get along with, that we're looking at a failure of social skills more so than legal contracts. Possibly, they pissed off the cops (tried to run, told the cops to F themselves, maybe other stuff?) in additio...
[11:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iowa Officials Claim Confusion Over Scope Led to Arrest of Pen-Testers - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:18] <exec> 08└─What stops the state from sending personal to destroy or modify court documents while carrying pen-testing credentials in case they get caught? This procedure needs rethinking... No?
[11:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:55] <exec> 08└─Well, those are exactly the people who aren't going out to the club on saturday night because the closest club is 500 miles away, so ... Ditto pro sports, etc.
[11:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:57] <exec> 08└─I once worked at a financial company place that used them for telecom, if your bill is less than six figures they are pretty crap at commodity service delivery, but if your bill is six figures or larger they're really a pleasure to deal with. Kinda like IBM; If you have five mainframes and more 3745...
[11:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:59] <exec> 08└─Is direct TV as hard to cancel as cable? If so, the FTC should enforce a punishment where the CEO of Elliot has to argue with "Bob" in an Indian call center for a minimum of three hours before they'll graciously permit him to disconnect direct TV from ATT.
[11:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:41] <exec> 08└─Men do not get any free services from the government.
[11:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:42] <exec> 08└─USA is no longer a first world country by most any definition. Back when it was, maybe when boomers were young in the 60s, health care was incredibly cheap and not an issue.
[11:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:46] <exec> 08└─Awk is really good at stuff you would normally have to pipe sed and grep for, you can use one simple awk statement. It also has some formatting capabilities so I like to use it when writing shell functions.
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[12:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria Could Cause Liver Damage Even in People Who Don't Drink - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:57] <exec> 08└─Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the build-up of fat in the liver due to factors other than alcohol. It affects about a quarter of the adult population globally, but its cause remains unknown. Now, researchers have linked NAFLD to gut bacteria that produce a large amount of alcohol in th...
[12:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria Could Cause Liver Damage Even in People Who Don't Drink - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:58] <exec> 08└─This is also possibly the reason china is rich but Induana is poor.
[12:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria Could Cause Liver Damage Even in People Who Don't Drink - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:00] <exec> 08└─That seems to be medical jargon as in: As from the anamnesis, the patient does not consume alcohol. There are biomarkers for drinking though and I am wondering whether these bacteria can slip under those radars.
[12:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating the Self-Attention Mechanism Behind BERT-Based Architectures - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:30] <exec> 08└─Anyone know what BERT is without reading TFA? I bet it's not Bit Error Rate Tester.
[12:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:04] <exec> 08└─Ought to go down in the blaze of glory, and become the first cable company to offer a-la-carte service. It would give them a significant amount of appeal over other providers.... excluding any time where it happens to be raining.
[12:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:49] <exec> 08└─Is there a racial component? In Germany Hitler only got six million or so Jews, but in the USA since Roe v Wade we've killed off nineteen million blacks. The abortion rate is staggeringly higher for minorities than whites, so... I'm sure it would just be a coincidence in AUS if the abortion rate wer...
[12:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:50] <exec> 08└─Abortions dont get counted in the life expectancy stats, if they did it would immediately drop it by 20-40 years. The aborted babies were the most likely to die young.
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[13:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:58] <exec> 08└─Im not going to bother with NPR. They never know wtf they are talking about, and do it in the most elitist and smug way. But how did he die?
[13:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:00] <exec> 08└─That's about how it works.
[13:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:02] <exec> 08└─Indeed, whether it is valid or not.
[13:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:04] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to bother posting the cause of death here, for someone who doesn't care to RTFA but wants to comment so everyone can see how elitist and smug he is.
[13:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria Could Cause Liver Damage Even in People Who Don't Drink - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:15] <exec> 08└─I think I need one that produces caffeine inside my gut.
[13:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria Could Cause Liver Damage Even in People Who Don't Drink - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:16] <exec> 08└─If the hypothesis is that alcohol is going from the gut to the liver, then it should show up in a blood test as it would when you drink normally. Have they established a correlation between a high "resting" BAL and non-drinking patients with NAFLD?
[13:33:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Iowa Officials Claim Confusion Over Scope Led to Arrest of Pen-Testers - 132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe the courthouse building was less than 18 years old. Even if you get explicit consent for the penetration, it's still a felony.
[13:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03knarf [2042] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:04] <exec> 08└─Those 'incredible' burgers of course, these things have been on sale here in Sweden for quite a while now. One version is called 'Incredible burger', the other goes by the name of 'impossible burger'. Both aim at copying meat smell, colour and texture. Both fall off a cliff down into the the uncanny...
[13:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:09] <exec> 08└─Well of course the technology isn't ready for commercial deployment because it's unreliable. If you're having malfunctions, you've got a reliability problem. If you are completely losing contact, you've got the worst reliability problem of all because you can't get any telemetry to give you a clue a...
[13:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:17] <exec> 08└─if you were asked to replace a huge Perl project with something modern that fresh college kids would like, what would you recommend?
[13:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using an Optical Tweezer Array of Laser-Cooled Molecules to Observe Ground State Collisions - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:25] <exec> 08└─I'd guess that making the molecules ultracold makes them easier to observe and contain-- the less Brownian Motion the better. Why they are looking at molecular scale collisions, though, I have no idea.
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[14:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:06] <exec> 08└─How did he die?
[14:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:07] <exec> 08└─Im a ve, not a he...
[14:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 1205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:10] <exec> 08└─Well, it doesn't really matter... I only bothered to skim the article but basically it's not "mysterious" at all. The guy died, he was full of all kinds of prescription and non-prescription drugs, and the coroner couldn't find a *specific* cause, but that doesn't mean much. Including one particular...
[14:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:12] <exec> 08└─Agreed, suggest that you don't read tfa -- it's too surreal for you to grok. Hint--there is a photo of Lamo driving a 4-wheeler (ATV) in the middle of Kansas, yes, it's that surreal.
[14:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria Could Cause Liver Damage Even in People Who Don't Drink - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe a breathalyzer could show it?
[14:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TFlower Ransomware - the Latest Attack Targeting Businesses - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:35] <exec> 08└─What about machines that feel left out because they have no GUI? No Widow Mangler? If I install systemd and other Potteringware, will I feel less left out?
[14:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Officials Claim Confusion Over Scope Led to Arrest of Pen-Testers - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:48] <exec> 08└─It doesn't cost the prosecutors any money.
[14:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:16] <exec> 08└─The same reason that you can't get a half-gallon of ice cream any more (they're 1.5 qts now), most bacon is 12 oz instead of 16 oz, it is hard to find a pound of coffee, yogurt used to be in 8oz cups, then 6oz, now 5.something oz, etc., etc. It is entirely all about dealing with rising prices by mak...
[14:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Says TSMC Can Meet Epyc Demand; Launches New, Higher-Clocked 64-Core CPU - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:43] <exec> 08└─What you describe sounds naughty. I mean, really, really naughty. Probably not where I was going, because of the limitation of 4 players and only 12 games.
[14:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:20] <exec> 08└─Quite sure he meant free services that are beneficial to the person they are effecting. As opposed to say, a bank robber's free services by the FBI to track them down.
[14:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:22] <exec> 08└─Just like there is no right to borrow or take someone else's organs or blood to keep yourself alive, there is no human right to reside in someone else's body against their will. So, it has a stake in nothing. And that's really the only question: Is there a general human right to forcibly use someone...
[14:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:01] <exec> 08└─Maybe the 70's model would experience a problem known as 'tin whiskers'?
[14:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:02] <exec> 08└─Can that be a control option introduced via a firmware update?
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[14:36:05] <exec> 08└─Never had an analog synth. My first was a DX-7. Still got it. In excellent condition.
[14:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 3859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:07] <exec> 08└─Miscellaneous Comments, hence top post. I have developed a vintage-style poly-analog synthesizer myself. If you're curious, core voice signal path and analog power supply are precisely "J8" topology, remainder is all by myself. All with off-the-shelf parts, through hole components (a bitch these day...
[14:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 1731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:02] <exec> 08└─I have always wondered about that. Clearly that remote matter would not be observable, at least, not for another 46.5 billion years. But I wonder how relativistic distance-dilation is taken into account when calculating the 46.5 billion light-years. Is it indeed taken into account? Or is it compensa...
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[15:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Alter Mouse Gut Microbiomes by Feeding Good Bacteria Their Preferred Fibers - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:53] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Bytram feels he needs to have his pipes cleaned.
[15:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Alter Mouse Gut Microbiomes by Feeding Good Bacteria Their Preferred Fibers - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:54] <exec> 08└─If this research bears out then it may be possible to alter the population of gut bacteria with a simple fiber supplement. That is much less icky than the current approach, fecal transplants.
[15:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:10] <exec> 08└─We usually release RIP stories for someone who has had a significant influence upon our lives - be it scientific, cultural or political. I just don't feel the Lamo deserves our attention in quite the same way. I suppose it depends on whether you belong to the 'death penalty for Assange' team or the...
[15:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:11] <exec> 08└─There is no "middle of Kansas". Like the cake, the "middle of Kansas" is a lie.
[15:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:13] <exec> 08└─How about the, Assange is kinda iffy, Manning was a metoo, and Snowden was a stand up guy team?
[15:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 1460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:15] <exec> 08└─Fucking long-ass article, near the bottom: On March 14, 2018, the manager of Shadybrook Senior Apartments found Lamo's body. He was lying on a pile of clothes in the bedroom and when she saw the blood pooling under his fingernails, she pulled a medical alert cord in the apartment. The first responde...
[15:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:18] <exec> 08└─Klan meetings have been known to be more than 50% infiltrated/attended by various levels of law enforcement for decades now. I would assume that established "hacker communities" are much the same. Statements by the deceased's "friends" and "comrades in hackery" are just as likely to have come from t...
[15:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria Could Cause Liver Damage Even in People Who Don't Drink - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:31] <exec> 08└─I had a friend growing up that couldn't drink Coke. If she had one she would behave like she was drunk. Now I wonder if this was in play in her gut and she really was drunk after a dose of dark sugar water. Very interesting.
[15:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TFlower Ransomware - the Latest Attack Targeting Businesses - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:42] <exec> 08└─If I install systemd and other Potteringware, will I feel less left out?
[15:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TFlower Ransomware - the Latest Attack Targeting Businesses - 3292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:43] <exec> 08└─Microsoft Vulnerability Memories from 1999. Before I used Java. Just getting started learning Linux. But primarily working with several Microsoft technologies. (VB, VFP, COM, ODBC, etc) I got this new project dumped in my lap. Microsoft was sponsoring an interoperability project and my company was o...
[15:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TFlower Ransomware - the Latest Attack Targeting Businesses - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:45] <exec> 08└─UGH! SN tries to "nicely" URL-ify those URLs. Please try to ignore when comprehending what I wrong.
[15:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TFlower Ransomware - the Latest Attack Targeting Businesses - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:48] <exec> 08└─Doh! IT was more like: http://10.xx.yy.zz [xx.yy.zz] Not enough caffeine yet. (Java dependency injection is NOT about caffeine.)
[15:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Officials Claim Confusion Over Scope Led to Arrest of Pen-Testers - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:01] <exec> 08└─I found something unusual in a Windows programs .ini file... My personal email address and logon credentials. The thing that confused me is that the (well known) program was registered with my other email address. I went to Windows forums and asked why, and immediately got banned from them. I asked...
[15:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Officials Claim Confusion Over Scope Led to Arrest of Pen-Testers - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:02] <exec> 08└─Can the state agency give consent for a county courthouse to get broken into? That would be like catching the janitor going through your purse, and the janitor says "It's ok, your boss told me I could."
[15:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating the Self-Attention Mechanism Behind BERT-Based Architectures - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:13] <exec> 08└─Having read the summary, the article, and the linked "for further information" article, I still don't know what BERT is or what self-attention is. But I do get the impression that it has something to do with linguistic connexions between various parts of sentences.
[15:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:32] <exec> 08└─> There is a chicken and egg problem where it occupies a small niche Or it is just very expensive to manufacture such highly processed food.
[15:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:33] <exec> 08└─The in-laws served up some vegetarian chicken that they said was the impossible foods version of chicken. Apparently, it wasn't Impossible Foods, because they've not put anything out. I'm going to have to ask what kind of veggie chicken it was, because it was some really good vegemeat. I don't care...
[15:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:35] <exec> 08└─Apparently some people really like it, though. I've not had one, so I can't tell. Also, it's something like $8 a burger for one at Burger King. That's an expensive sandwich, from a fast food place that's not really known for their quality. Personally, I'd go with a nice black bean burger, like serve...
[15:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:53] <exec> 08└─Ahh...., I don't use Amazon Prime, but yeah that would definitely be annoying to me. I don't even like Netflix's auto-play previews for the shows I am actually looking at. They also have an auto-play advertisement for something on the main page. I give it a pass, because they're trying to keep thing...
[15:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:54] <exec> 08└─That would be some schadenfreude worth watching, could end up being drama or comedy gold!
[15:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:56] <exec> 08└─If they had their heads in the game, they would've changed to all on-demand programming and ditched the scheduled bullshit that only really works for people 50+.
[15:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:58] <exec> 08└─kinda like IBM ... if you bought a single desktop "IBM" PC at walmart, its gonna be phone support hell.
[15:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 1217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:30] <exec> 08└─The system in question does not have any firmware :) Two sources of drift: 1.) when you have a fully analog keyboard, the pitch voltage goes to sample/hold in some designs. If that is a bit lossy, you'll hear the note drift while you play. 2.) the exponential converter that converts from convenientl...
[15:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:31] <exec> 08└─You'll never take my tubes!!! Russian made, individually selected and tuned for that perfect soft/warm feel, and the emotional feedback of the visual glow and even physical warmth when you put your hands over them, ever so slightly distorting their gains... It's emotional, it's irrational, it's art....
[15:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:03] <exec> 08└─I've used Perl Python Ruby and Java, and Python. Python looks clean. But the top down constraints built into it make it bloody murder to refactor. If you code yourself into a corner in Python you have to refactor from the top down. If you code yourself into a corner in Perl, you can can cut the othe...
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[16:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Alter Mouse Gut Microbiomes by Feeding Good Bacteria Their Preferred Fibers - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:03] <exec> 08└─My money is on oats -- most days I start out with a mix of granola and muesli (and milk, blueberries). Touch wood, everything in my gut has been fine for over 60 years. Yes, my parents started me on lots of roughage as a kid in the 1950s. Hope that we can revisit this research in a year or two, to s...
[16:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:23] <exec> 08└─That's a seriously large tinfoil hat, like Sombrero size tinfoil hat.
[16:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:25] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between infiltrating and being a member.
[16:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 1202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:27] <exec> 08└─well said. I am more inclined to believe that NPR is being manipulated to tell a convenient story. I believe everyone like adrian lamo, and myself, are under extreme surveillance regimins. He was in kansas. There is no way someone could have murdered him without the government knowing about it and f...
[16:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:29] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I've only driven across Kansas a few times (once on Rt 36--beautiful rolling 2-lane), seemed like there was a middle to that long drive... Anyway, update my comment to "middle of nowhere in Kansas"(grin).
[16:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:31] <exec> 08└─What do you mean "metoo"? If it was not for Manning, we would not know about the complete disregard for life as shown in the "collateral damage" video.
[16:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:33] <exec> 08└─The entirety of Kansas is the middle of Kansas.
[16:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iowa Officials Claim Confusion Over Scope Led to Arrest of Pen-Testers - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:17] <exec> 08└─But if they are elected or appointed by an elected official, it could cost them their jobs.
[16:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.samsclub.com/p/gardein-meatless-seven-grain-crispy-tenders-frozen/prod22411607 [samsclub.com]
[16:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:13] <exec> 08└─ADVERTISING It destroys every medium it ever touches. It may start out okay. Then ads get more frequent. Then longer. But there is no outer limit. No sense of restraint. None. It eventually becomes abusive. A once beautiful country roadway littered with billboards as far as the eye can see. And now...
[16:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:03] <exec> 08└─Whether it's who to have sex with, who to marry, or terminating a pregnancy, if it's not your body that is being affected, it's not your choice. Who's body do you think you're killing anyway?
[16:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:04] <exec> 08└─We tried that the first time and the government fell apart. The current United States of America is our second attempt at a government. Please learn your history before pushing for things that have been shown not to work.
[16:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:19] <exec> 08└─Your .sig is appropriate for this discussion.
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[17:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:56] <exec> 08└─Why not runway 00, 10, 20, etc.?
[17:33:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:22] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to bother posting the cause of death here, for someone who doesn't care to RTFA but wants to comment so everyone can see how elitist and smug he is.
[17:33:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 525 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:31] <exec> 08└─Klan meetings have been known to be more than 50% infiltrated/attended by various levels of law enforcement for decades now. I would assume that established "hacker communities" are much the same. Statements by the deceased's "friends" and "comrades in hackery" are just as likely to have come from t...
[17:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:39] <exec> 08└─Your complete disregard for life still continues, see Yemen. Manning self-inflicted victimization had no observable effect on operations.
[17:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:42] <exec> 08└─On I-70, once you are West of Salina, there is A LOT of nowhere to be in the middle of.
[17:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:44] <exec> 08└─That word "mysterious" in the headline. That's raw meat for the conspiracy theorists. I think it unwise to provoke them with that kind of language. What is NPR trying to do? As a publicly funded news organization, they shouldn't have to resort to sensationalism. As for Lamo, being ostracized can be...
[17:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:46] <exec> 08└─Klan meetings have been known to be more than 50% infiltrated/attended by various levels of law enforcement for decades now. I would assume that established "hacker communities" are much the same.
[17:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:48] <exec> 08└─Assange is kinda iffy
[17:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GeminiDomino [661] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:50] <exec> 08└─"Metoo" predates the hashtag by a few decades. Also often expressed in the olden days as "AOL" Nice job dragging your identity politics into things, though.
[17:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:52] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between infiltrating and being a member.
[17:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:54] <exec> 08└─What motive did the government have to kill Lamo? I've consistently argued (here and elsewhere) that they probably killed Michael Hastings. I believe that the US government kills certain undesirable citizens, I just don't see a clear motive here.
[17:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:57] <exec> 08└─Please explain what "metoo" meant before the hashtag, and how it applies to Manning.
[17:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:59] <exec> 08└─NPR manipulated, say it isn't so. Next you will be hinting that they are biased.
[17:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:01] <exec> 08└─Where's the "sunny optimist" mod? I hope you are right, doubt, but hope. Also, what kind of reporting is: "People hated him," said another of his friends
[17:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:03] <exec> 08└─you conjecture that there exist law enforcement officials that know that HTML and HTTP are not the same thing?
[17:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria Could Cause Liver Damage Even in People Who Don't Drink - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:18] <exec> 08└─Such a species of gut bacteria would definitely be patented. Then marketing would concoct some horrific brand name.
[17:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria Could Cause Liver Damage Even in People Who Don't Drink - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:20] <exec> 08└─Pro-coffeeotic™ Top up your friendly 'feines NOW!
[17:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria Could Cause Liver Damage Even in People Who Don't Drink - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:22] <exec> 08└─yes I think we had a story a while back about someone with ABS fighting a DUI
[17:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Iowa Officials Claim Confusion Over Scope Led to Arrest of Pen-Testers - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:53] <exec> 08└─Actually, pen testers are the opposite of security theater. They're the ones that go in after the security theater is in place and reveal the man behind the curtain. Depending on their organization, they might then make sensible suggestions for improvement, or someone else on their team may suggest...
[17:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iowa Officials Claim Confusion Over Scope Led to Arrest of Pen-Testers - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:54] <exec> 08└─Dallas County really needs to argue with the state and not the people they hired who were doing their jobs. BUT, in Dallas County's view, they are not in the wrong... the county sherriff pointed out that the county courthouse is not state property, the state did not pay for it, so the state can hire...
[17:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iowa Officials Claim Confusion Over Scope Led to Arrest of Pen-Testers - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:56] <exec> 08└─Back in the 1980's, "pen tester" would have meant something completely different.
[17:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iowa Officials Claim Confusion Over Scope Led to Arrest of Pen-Testers - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:59] <exec> 08└─Just imagine for a second. Suppose that all pen testers were to turn down this courthouse, or anything connected with the local jurisdiction -- forever. No more pen testing or security assessments for you. But I can daydream.
[17:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:45] <exec> 08└─If men got pregnant, abortion would be ...
[17:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hulu Hackathon Leads to Eye-tracking Controls for Roku - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:56] <exec> 08└─Blind people are allowed to be passangers in cars... As for this eye-tracking controller? A breakthrough idea? Hell no! It's two steps forward and three steps back. Just improve the general eye-tracking mouse-based drivers and ensure the software can be used by a mouse. That improves everything and...
[17:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:32] <exec> 08└─Mind you, Russian tubes were frowned upon not long ago. It had to be genuine RCA, GE, or whatever first world odd-brand just was en vogue. Only now, that the main alternative is Changsha or Shuguan from China, the eastern-bloc stuff from New Sensor and JJ has become fashionable. While conjuring imag...
[17:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:34] <exec> 08└─A doctor friend gave me a Perreaux Class A amplifier from his old HiFi - I think it was 100W/channel output, 2 channels, 19" rack mount about 6" tall, deep aluminum heat sinks down both sides, weighs 40+ pounds - those beefy handles are important. Solid state, no tubes, but quite the piece of gear....
[17:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:36] <exec> 08└─Im my opinion, DSPs have nailed the tube sound. Mind you, it's not only tubes, the interactions of the output transformers also play a significant role, but I guess that's been done as well. I have mentioned Pod HD pedal and its JCM800 emulation was entirely convincing to me. It had exactly the soun...
[17:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces Energy-Assisted Hard Drives - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:17] <exec> 08└─It uses "The Force", ya know. Midichlorians rotating at 7200 RPM.
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[18:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:03] <exec> 08└─If they rename runway 10L to 09L, does that mean they will have to tear it up and lay new surface on the correct heading?
[18:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:05] <exec> 08└─Instead of 10-01, how about 10-02?
[18:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:07] <exec> 08└─The runways are numbered according to the direction they face in degrees. Runway 01 faces ten degrees east, runway 18 faces due south, etc. Due north is numbered 36, not 00. If there are multiple runways facing the same way, they'll be marked left and right (and occasionally center). This is done so...
[18:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:09] <exec> 08└─The reason aviation is ridiculously safe worldwide is that there has been a longstanding global effort to make it that way. Every accident and near-accident gets investigated, equipment is constantly tested and inspected, and there are agencies from multiple governments constantly on the lookout for...
[18:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:11] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/2030/ [xkcd.com]
[18:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:13] <exec> 08└─It's risky behavior. It's like doing intersection takeoffs. All that runway behind you does no good. The best practice is to use maximum thrust at take off, regardless of the available space. Get as high as you can as fast as you can, and your chances of hitting anything are greatly reduced.
[18:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:16] <exec> 08└─It's 1 degree. It's not that important.
[18:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:18] <exec> 08└─The best practice is to use maximum thrust at take off, regardless of the available space.
[18:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:20] <exec> 08└─While I don't think intersections are that big an issue, in general you are absolutely right. Taking off with full power is the best tactics for many reasons. My favorite one - I want my engine to blow up while I am still on the ground and running it at full power while it is still not very warm inc...
[18:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:22] <exec> 08└─It's ten degrees, and it is important.
[18:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:24] <exec> 08└─No, it just means you check and replace them a bit more often. Reduced take off thrust is all about the bean counters. Noise regs don't cover the take off itself.
[18:33:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 1205 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:51] <exec> 08└─Well, it doesn't really matter... I only bothered to skim the article but basically it's not "mysterious" at all. The guy died, he was full of all kinds of prescription and non-prescription drugs, and the coroner couldn't find a *specific* cause, but that doesn't mean much. Including one particular...
[18:33:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:53] <exec> 08└─We usually release RIP stories for someone who has had a significant influence upon our lives - be it scientific, cultural or political. I just don't feel the Lamo deserves our attention in quite the same way. I suppose it depends on whether you belong to the 'death penalty for Assange' team or the...
[18:33:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:56] <exec> 08└─How about the, Assange is kinda iffy, Manning was a metoo, and Snowden was a stand up guy team?
[18:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:17] <exec> 08└─I'm glad someone was brave enough to post that. We need to call-out the phony pseudo-civil-rights philosophy where leaking any government document == automatic hero. There's a lot of gray area around what these people did. Snowden blew the whistle on US government domestic surveillance and exposed t...
[18:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:18] <exec> 08└─NPR is clearly trying to rouse sympathy for that snitch and rehabilitate him in the public eye.
[18:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:20] <exec> 08└─It most certainly is not! And it has the advantage of being equally convenient to both coasts!
[18:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:23] <exec> 08└─Oh, that's easy. It meant, and still means, to the best of my knowledge, me too... But don't take my word for it, ask your local language professor... I think somebody was saying Manning is a copycat... But don't take my word for that either
[18:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─Explaining a pre-hashtag meaning of "me too" is easy, but you didn't explain how it relates to Manning. Care to explain how Manning was a copycat in a manner relevant to this discussion? Until somebody does, I'm gonna keep assuming that Freeman's comment was a transphobic dogwhistle.
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[18:34:33] <exec> 08└─Interesting hypothesis to consider: Possibly, some of the benefits that some people sometimes get from a low carb diet are essentially the same as cutting out a low continuous alcohol dose. You read a lot of reports of "oh, I have more energy" "Suddenly I can think more clearly" "Fewer headaches" an...
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[18:34:44] <exec> 08└─The problem with ABS is that your BAC level will vary with diet... and a jury of your peers (and most judges) are going to think you and your doctor are making it up.
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[18:34:45] <exec> 08└─The non-alcoholic part of the name refers to the patient, not the syndrome itself. To be more concise, they should have said "due to factors other than excessive alcohol intake".
[18:35:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03knarf [2042] 02 - 06Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores - 1178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:44] <exec> 08└─My wife is a 'pescetarian', i.e. she only eats cold-blooded slimy animals which are sufficiently alien from us mammals that eating them does not cause undue feelings of guilt for being instrumental in ending the creature's life for selfish purposes. I'm the one who does the cooking here and generall...
[18:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:53] <exec> 08└─These things smell of a combination of liver sausage and/or cat food, the fake blood is over the top, the greasy texture is unappealing and the whole thing just shouts 'processed food is unhealthy'.
[18:36:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:56] <exec> 08└─Well put. The unborn baby has a major stake in the matter.
[18:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 1921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:07] <exec> 08└─Abortion (Meriam Webster): a medical procedure used to end a pregnancy and cause the death of the fetus. Fetus (Meriam Webster): an unborn or unhatched vertebrate especially after attaining the basic structural plan of its kind. Baby (Meriam Webster): of, relating to, or being an extremely young chi...
[18:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:09] <exec> 08└─Eh. Just delete my post. The formatting is non-existent and I can't edit it to fix the formatting.
[18:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:11] <exec> 08└─Just because vasectomies aren't free in the USA doesn't mean they aren't free in more civilized countries with universal health care. Go beat up your Congress critters and senators until they respect your basic human rights to health care - or move. Free vasectomies, free treatment for prostate dis...
[18:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:13] <exec> 08└─Last time I looked, slavery was still illegal. You cannot morally require a woman to bring a pregnancy to term. Back when you had the draft, you housed, fed, paid, and provided free health care and education to draftees. You want to require someone to be a mother for 18 years, be ready to pay for t...
[18:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:15] <exec> 08└─Health insurance usually covers vasectomies, although you may be required to use an in-network doctor and/or pay a copay or coinsurance costs. If you do have to pay out of pocket, vasectomies may be more affordable than many other types of care procedures, and you may be able to finance the operatio...
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[18:40:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, my thoughts exactly.
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[19:32:56] <exec> 08└─At what point does taking things from a grave become ok?
[19:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:15] <exec> 08└─The best practice is to use maximum thrust at take off
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[19:33:16] <exec> 08└─All sounds good, until this article the other day in NY Times -- according to the author* the regulatory agencies in a number of countries, including Indonesia and Ethiopia, are more than a little corrupt and investigations may be halted or otherwise influenced by money. Available here, https://www....
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[19:33:19] <exec> 08└─How about using GPS to confirm that the plane is on the runway that the pilot specified? The error could be announced as soon as the engines were at high/takeoff power and the plane rolled a little bit.
[19:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Identify a Possible New Treatment for Diabetic Retinopathy - 1196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:27] <exec> 08└─Diabetic retinopathy is characterized by the growth of delicate blood vessels on the surface (the "wrong side") of the retina. There are two ways to combat this currently. The first is injection of anti-vascular epithelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) into the eyeball , quick but painful, and has to be...
[19:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:19] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna keep assuming that Freeman's comment was a transphobic dogwhistle. Yes, of course you will. Might explain why you don't see the relevance
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[19:34:21] <exec> 08└─Can you explain the relevance? I honestly googled for #MeToo stuff related to Manning before replying to Freeman, I'm open to being wrong here. I just don't think I am, and none of you have presenting a convincing alternate explanation of the comment.
[19:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:23] <exec> 08└─What motive did the government have to kill Lamo? Can it be more obvious [fineartamerica.com]?
[19:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:25] <exec> 08└─Assange... Manning says, (look at) *Me* too!
[19:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:27] <exec> 08└─Arguably, the untrustworthy actions outlined in the cables weakened the illusory ability to trust, exposing the cables just let the rest of us know of the villainy so we could act accordingly.
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[19:34:29] <exec> 08└─+6, but also add in that we apparently know that the benzos were prescribed and there are other hints in the story that has depressive elements, plus the Kratom factor throwing in a whole dimension of potential interactions. No conspiracy theory needed.
[19:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:32] <exec> 08└─Really, every whistleblower but the first one is a "metoo"? Given that Snowden's leaks hit after Manning's, why isn't Snowden a "metoo" in this context?
[19:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:34] <exec> 08└─Also, Manning didn't come forward until Lamo doxxed her, so claiming that it was a cry for attention seems absurd.
[19:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iowa Officials Claim Confusion Over Scope Led to Arrest of Pen-Testers - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:27] <exec> 08└─Back in the 1980's, "pen tester" would have meant something completely different.
[19:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:22] <exec> 08└─Even NFL RedZone now has this crap. So much for it being a "premium channel".
[19:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 1318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:20] <exec> 08└─3/4 of all abortions in the USA are performed on women who identify as Christian. That's what happens when you demonize sex education. Look at the contrast between Obama's kids and Sarah Palin's kids. It was the white Christian trash having illegitimate kids. Not the black folks. It's the right wi...
[19:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:22] <exec> 08└─Liberal != libertarian. Quite the opposite. Libertarians are extremely right wing.
[19:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:24] <exec> 08└─I don't see why Bible thumpers are against abortion and infanticide. Even Jesus said that children are not under judgment, so golden ticket to heaven. Don't they want all those innocents to go to heaven rather than grow up and become heads of Facebook, Amazon, Oracle, Google, Twitter, or president o...
[19:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 1713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:26] <exec> 08└─Actually, the only folks saying children are innocent (of sin) are those who don't read their Bible or are speaking from a different context. The Bible clearly teaches we were born in to sin. An example might be: No one needs to teach a child to steal. But we spend a lot of time teaching them not to...
[19:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:28] <exec> 08└─That 77%. Who are they voting for that it doesn't match up in parliament?
[19:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:52] <exec> 08└─In Linux/*BSD they effectively run sequentially as well in most cases as well. There's a pretty small subset of commands that output useful information as they run.
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[20:33:04] <exec> 08└─When you put on your leather jacket, fedora, and bullwhip.
[20:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:26] <exec> 08└─I think there's a sort of "uncanny valley" of partial automation, where much of a task is automated but it still relies on human inputs with insufficient error correction which can throw the whole process off. In this case, the plane should either figure out which runway it's on and adjust according...
[20:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:28] <exec> 08└─See also: Tesla Autopilot.
[20:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Alter Mouse Gut Microbiomes by Feeding Good Bacteria Their Preferred Fibers - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:44] <exec> 08└─Can researchers really classify certain types of bacteria as "health-promoting"? Is it really that simple? For example, is bacteria that's "health-promoting" for one person "health-promoting" for every person?
[20:34:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:24] <exec> 08└─NPR is clearly trying to rouse sympathy for that snitch and rehabilitate him in the public eye.
[20:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:37] <exec> 08└─Hey, I'd like to have a comfy government job with healthcare benefits? Where do I sign the fuck up?
[20:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigating the Self-Attention Mechanism Behind BERT-Based Architectures - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:43] <exec> 08└─From TFS: Aware of this gap in the literature, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Text Machine Lab for Natural Language Processing have recently carried out a study investigating the interpretation of self-attention, the most vital component of BERT models.
[20:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:33] <exec> 08└─The Bible clearly teaches we were born in to sin.
[20:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:23] <exec> 08└─Someday, let me tell you the story of when I worked support for a crazy project John Eaton and Bob Moog were working on. I was just a kid, but they treated me like I was somebody, which is nice.
[20:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:00] <exec> 08└─We're using Vertica (a column-oriented SQL database) for the high performance queries. But for loading the data into Vertica, we use Perl.
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[21:33:00] <exec> 08└─Exactly what he deserved, but plea deals/plea bargaining is one of the worst facets of the US criminal justice system. Plea deals/bargaining allow prosecutors to be much less discriminating in who they indict, as cases rarely go to trial. What's even worse is that prosecutors generally pile on quasi...
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[21:33:01] <exec> 08└─sounds like the kind of voter the democrats love to attract
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[21:33:03] <exec> 08└─I don't know. Indians have varied opinions on politics once they become citizens. Neither party is making a platform on offering free eventual citizenship for the extended families of Indians living in the US. Perhaps the prosecutors should make another deal with him: Sit five years, then get early...
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[21:33:05] <exec> 08└─Indians and Latinos are ripe for conversion to Republican. It just hasn't become necessary yet.
[21:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:36] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that there are aviation agencies that can be bribed. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if Boeing tried to bribe their way out of the problems in the 737 Max. And you know what? It didn't work for very long. The entire fleet of 737 Max planes has been grounded for some time, and at most t...
[21:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:46] <exec> 08└─Marshal witness protection.
[21:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:48] <exec> 08└─Your tone, focus and representation of yourself sounds very much like my late nephew. Not just in this comment, but in most of the stuff you've been posting here. I know it's really difficult dealing with schizophrenia. My nephew (he was only 20 when diagnosed) had the choice to take his meds and fe...
[21:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:50] <exec> 08└─URL gives an expired cert error, which could exasperate schizophrenics? The Epstein saga has been like cotton candy to people like J-Hud. But there are more reasons than ever to be paranoid, at least in America. May we live in interesting times.
[21:34:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria Could Cause Liver Damage Even in People Who Don't Drink - 428 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:59] <exec> 08└─Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the build-up of fat in the liver due to factors other than alcohol. It affects about a quarter of the adult population globally, but its cause remains unknown. Now, researchers have linked NAFLD to gut bacteria that produce a large amount of alcohol in th...
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[21:41:13] <exec> 08└─Don't they run in reverse sequence for all shell redirection? If you run 'echo "test" | less' , less starts first, opening the fd that echo then prints out to.
[21:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:15] <exec> 08└─For a value of "run" meaning "start up and then do nothing at all until the other thing we're about to start sends you some data" you mean?
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[22:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackable Ham Radio Multitool Contributes To Long Term Survival Of The Hobby - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:06] <exec> 08└─When I was into amateur radio growing up, I lived in the country 5hrs drive from a major city. So it was about the thrill of real time chat with people on the other side of the world. Then in 96, a local cyber cafe opened up and the internet provided that capability. Was mind blowing but I lost a bi...
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[22:33:07] <exec> 08└─This new, cheap tech will keep the hobby alive. For $30-$150 you can get software defined radio equipment with capabilities far surpassing what was available decades ago. Capable of running with a single-board computer. The new post-Snowden and Cambridge Analytica paranoia will push more people into...
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[22:33:10] <exec> 08└─You can defeat the locked frequency's off PLL chips very easily.
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[22:33:20] <exec> 08└─Better idea. Cut off his head and shit down his neck. Ship his corpse back home unrefrigerated. People that take advantage of vulnerable populations with scams like this deserve no less.
[22:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Greek Archaeologists Uncover Riches Overlooked by Robbers - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:29] <exec> 08└─As soon as the sun sets.
[22:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:55] <exec> 08└─"Well, I don’t think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error." - HAL 9000 computer
[22:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:07] <exec> 08└─URL gives an expired cert error, which could exasperate schizophrenics?
[22:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:08] <exec> 08└─Were you paying attention to the media firestorm in the days before, and particularly after, Epstein's death? It was the joke everyone was in on. Even mainstream media outlets found the death to be fishy, especially when irregularities about inattentive guards, broken security cameras, and the rest...
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[22:36:04] <exec> 08└─Not wrong. But look to who got embarrassed and who is over-reacting, the sheriff. This should be along the lines of 'misunderstanding we will however be suing someone, free to go'. To keep them in Jail this long is just grand standing. But why? Because guess who's job it is to keep that building sec...
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[23:33:15] <exec> 08└─It may not be dead, but the local club meetings I attended were held in a senior center, and I would be willing to wager most members were qualified to move in. There was some great information, but it was interspersed with raffles and old timers vacation slides. Good for them, this is their club an...
[23:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackable Ham Radio Multitool Contributes To Long Term Survival Of The Hobby - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:17] <exec> 08└─You used to need a license to use CB radios until about 1977. So many people were abusing it (linear amps, over 100% modulation mikes, extra channels, no license, garbage mouths, etc) they took away the license requirement. The same will probably happen to the HAM bands.
[23:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call-Center Scammer Loses $9m Appeal in Stunning Moment of Poetic Justice - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:29] <exec> 08└─I kinda agree with you.... But You get charged with something you didn't do. You're looking at bankruptcy if it goes to trial, plus probably 10x jail time if found guilty. If you go to trial and are found not guilty you don't get those legal fees back. If you agree to a plea deal you just go to pris...
[23:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Greek Archaeologists Uncover Riches Overlooked by Robbers - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:39] <exec> 08└─... or imagine what they took if this is what they left behind.
[23:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SFO: The Typo that Almost Crashed a Plane - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:06] <exec> 08└─More or less. They can also be shifted by one (10 degrees) if you have enough of them, especially more than 3 like O'Hare which has a 9L, 9R, 10L, 10C, 10R (and the reverse also), which are all on a 093 final heading except for 10R which is 094 but still a couple degrees short of a 10 designation. T...
[23:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:20] <exec> 08└─Oh. I see. So now I should worry about what conspiracy theory nutters and the batshit crazy think? There are already enough problems in the world and in my life that have actual evidence. I won't ignore those in favor of half-baked ramblings and paranoid bullshit. Want me to care about your pet buga...
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