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[00:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:02] <exec> 08└─This is the same government that, at the highest level, denies any such phenomenon exists. How could it be that such devastating report was not redacted into blaming China? That is what your president said; it is China's propaganda to destabilize the USA. Oh, wait, we've always been at war with east...
[00:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:04] <exec> 08└─https://www.army.mil/article/104094/between_a_rock_or_something_and_an_mre [army.mil]
[00:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:06] <exec> 08└─Too bad this study is irrelevant because it will happen first due to simple deflationary collapse of the US dollar. But keep jerking off to your (anti-)trump porn. Almost $700 billions dollars are being printed a week right now, not even a whisper from the people you trust. BTW, someone wants your s...
[00:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:08] <exec> 08└─It's the only way to make sure.
[00:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:10] <exec> 08└─we're told that in 12 years the world ends from climate change, so they're good.
[00:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:12] <exec> 08└─Post shit that gets upmodded once in a while and this would not be an issue. Almost nobody here has any issue with their (IPID's) karma and we argue on damned near every story.
[00:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:14] <exec> 08└─And in twenty years when we're all still trucking along after making minor adjustments, are you lot going to admit that you were completely, hysterically, hilariously wrong?
[00:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:16] <exec> 08└─Somewhere around college age (mid '70s) I decided to not have kids, for a variety of reasons--have posted about this as AC before. One of the reasons was this--seemed like it would be cruel to bring kids into the world described in tfa, which was being discussed seriously even back then (and in SciF...
[00:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:19] <exec> 08└─If you want an upmod (per TMB), best to offer some kind of reference for your claims.
[00:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:21] <exec> 08└─Current infrastructure in the US, the report says, is woefully underprepared:
[00:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:23] <exec> 08└─The people pushing climate alarmism most vociferously are having children and flying private jets - the eugenicist left sure scored a hit with you.
[00:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Spot a Wormhole - If They Exist - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:35] <exec> 08└─The Neptune effect traversed wide open free space, at short range. My point is: when you pass gravitational waves through an aperture, presumably attenuating them significantly somewhere in the vicinity of a black hole... it's going to take more than Neptune at a range of ~12AU to make wobbles in th...
[00:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Less than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:06] <exec> 08└─I suggest using Wolfram Alpha instead for most of those kinds of queries: https://www.wolframalpha.com [wolframalpha.com]
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[01:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:59] <exec> 08└─Well, if hell happens and the world falls apart, are you going to admit that you were completely, hysterically, hilariously wrong? Oh, I guess not because you may already be dead. Does it matter if it happens in 19, 20 or 21 years? It might also be 50 years. It does not matter. Shit is coming and we...
[01:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:00] <exec> 08└─Nothing a Sharpie can't fix.
[01:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 1355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:02] <exec> 08└─To give another AC's perspective: I decided when I was in elementary school that I would never have kids. My logic was that if I had kids, I would probably love them, and I wouldn't want to sentence anyone I loved to this decidedly less than pleasant existence. Another factor is that I've had medica...
[01:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:04] <exec> 08└─who said anything about climate? My comments were about conservation and the flip side of energy availability, maybe I should have stated it better. Unless we (globally) really invest now in renewables (and/or fusion) while there are still cheap fossil fuels available to build stuff, western society...
[01:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:07] <exec> 08└─Well, what are you going to do about it? Send Trump out to make a fantastic deal with the tides?
[01:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:09] <exec> 08└─That's all fine and good but when your lot make absurd, chicken little predictions like this it kind of flushes any credibility you might have had right down the shitter.
[01:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:11] <exec> 08└─I didn't have any because they're loud, smelly, and require a shitload of time that I could have spent fishing. I've got plenty of friends and family with kids that I can borrow whenever I feel the need to pass on some hard won wisdom.
[01:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:13] <exec> 08└─So go live alone in the woods and eat berries and grubs and let the adults in the room get on with adulting. We get it: you don't know, you don't care, you don't know enough to care, and you don't care enough to know, a perfect black hole of solipsism. Fine, but you've removed yourself from the disc...
[01:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:15] <exec> 08└─I modded you +1 Funny, for lack of a "+1 Haha...ohhhhh Christ..." mod. You're joking, but what you said is pretty much the exact thought process that got us into this mess.
[01:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062022 Rover to Look for Ice at Moon's South Pole - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:23] <exec> 08└─How do you deep drill* on the moon? Here we pump high pressure air (or coolant, drilling mud, etc) down the middle of rock drills and the cuttings are forced out around the drill shank...the drill bit is larger diameter than the tubular shank. Without air or any other sort of fluids available in bul...
[01:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062022 Rover to Look for Ice at Moon's South Pole - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:25] <exec> 08└─http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2015/03/technical-details-on-zaptec-plasma.html [nextbigfuture.com]
[01:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062022 Rover to Look for Ice at Moon's South Pole - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:28] <exec> 08└─Moon Rover, Moon Rover, send water ice, over!
[01:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062022 Rover to Look for Ice at Moon's South Pole - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:30] <exec> 08└─Interesting, but still looks like vaporware at this point in time. Note that even this process mentions using compressed CO2 to blow the rock dust out of the hole, so it still needs chip extraction.
[01:19:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] 02 - 06Intel announces $20 billion increase in stock buybacks (from $4.5 billion) - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:40] <exec> 08└─...that middle-class tax cut of a couple of years ago, right?
[01:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel announces $20 billion increase in stock buybacks (from $4.5 billion) - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:51] <exec> 08└─Only about 50% of Americans own stocks, and vast majority of stock is held by a much small number of Americans. (Source https://www.politifact.com) [politifact.com]
[01:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel announces $20 billion increase in stock buybacks (from $4.5 billion) - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:53] <exec> 08└─the Cxx folks get bigger bonuses
[01:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Want Streaming Services Like Netflix to Issue Emergency Alerts - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:09] <exec> 08└─Amber Alert will be just another Netflix "Original". *sigh* We need a VH1 Classic for movies. They can play back the old EBS test broadcasts.
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[02:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Company That Sold Encrypted Phones Was Run by Crime Lords - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:54] <exec> 08└─They actually need working encrypted phones. Might be the best people to buy them from.
[02:19:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:11] <exec> 08└─Current infrastructure in the US, the report says, is woefully underprepared:
[02:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:23] <exec> 08└─And never the opposite. What makes anyone think you can appease the soulless laws of nature with sacrifice and self-abuse??? This is medieval religion, folks. Shaking worms out the corpse of rabid Puritanism, relabeling the vengeful central deity "teh Environment", parading the zombie out and callin...
[02:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:24] <exec> 08└─Post shit that gets upmodded once in a while and this would not be an issue. Almost nobody here has any issue with their (IPID's) karma and we argue on damned near every story.
[02:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:26] <exec> 08└─Personally I just never understood the appeal. I didn't really consider any of the downsides so much as I never really saw any upsides. It's like when my girl asks which shoes I like better... I'm like, I'm suppose to have a preference in your shoes? I guess some sneakers would be fine? I don't even...
[02:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:28] <exec> 08└─You're joking,
[02:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:31] <exec> 08└─OK, but how many of those making those strong claims have abandoned their cars entirely? If not, then it's not much of an emergency. How many of them have stopped flying? If they haven't, then it isn't much of an emergency. How many of them have started growing their own food, super-insulating their...
[02:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:33] <exec> 08└─Or, they can always fling nukes until sufficient dust enters the stratosphere to reverse global warming...
[02:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:35] <exec> 08└─Well, to both you and TMB I'd say kids are the closest thing to pure love you can experience in life. They are also the closest you will get to murder. haha
[02:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:37] <exec> 08└─"climate change is gonna bring down the US military!!!!"? Gimme a fucking break. Jesus fucking Christ this current band of lunatics have taken a reasonable course of action (weaning ourselves off fossil fuels) and transformed it into cult that out-crazies the Scientologists (and those are some real...
[02:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:40] <exec> 08└─If I'm not mistaken, someone has already suggested that. [cnn.com]
[02:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:42] <exec> 08└─Pay attention next time. I didn't object to taking care of the environment, I objected to hysterical fools making ridiculous predictions.
[02:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:44] <exec> 08└─See? Always a silver lining.
[02:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:46] <exec> 08└─Dummy Sorry boomers but you gotta go. Please just recuse yourselves from society so you stop fucking it up.
[02:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:48] <exec> 08└─What can I say, I dig black holes. And I ain't just talking hookers.
[02:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I get that. I just prefer to be able to send them back to their parents when it's the latter's turn.
[02:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:53] <exec> 08└─If there is one positive from all your shitposting it is to make me glad I'm not you. Sadly I've met enough of your type and it is depressing how many idiots walk around thinking they've got it all figured out. Bonus points for ignoring experts over shitty science journalism.
[02:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:55] <exec> 08└─I didn't have any because they're loud, smelly, and require a shitload of time that I could have spent fishing.
[02:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:57] <exec> 08└─I dig black holes
[02:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Details Tremont Microarchitecture; x86 Atom Could be Used in Tablets Again - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:35] <exec> 08└─Just let it die already!
[02:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Details Tremont Microarchitecture; x86 Atom Could be Used in Tablets Again - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:35] <exec> 08└─Too strong to die anymore with that 30% performance increase. Slap on a single "Core" for high performance, and four Atom cores for multi-threaded. That's Lakefield. Arguably the most technically advanced processor Intel has ever made.
[02:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Spot a Wormhole - If They Exist - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:18] <exec> 08└─I see two Red Dwarf quotes in this thread. All we need now is for the order of the threading to go haywire and we have a perfect White Hole story arc in the making. "Oh someone punch him!"
[02:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Plus is Stopping Theaters Screening Fox Movies – and Viewers Will Lose Out - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:46] <exec> 08└─Disney killed Star Wars, so I have killed them from my life, my family's life, and our purchases.
[02:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Measurement of Hubble Constant Adds to Cosmic Mystery - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:25] <exec> 08└─I guess I am trying to point out is if the universe itself is rotating, the observations, based on light Spectra and the speed of light, may be an illusion. Or it may be as futile as trying to inform some executive about considering the intermediate axis theorem when discussing a spin stabilized sat...
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[03:18:51] <exec> 08└─and The Tickler https://twitter.com [twitter.com] https://vault.fbi.gov [fbi.gov] https://www.apnews.com [apnews.com] https://www.apnews.com [apnews...
[03:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06A Company That Sold Encrypted Phones Was Run by Crime Lords - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:59] <exec> 08└─The whole planet is run by crime lords. *You really believe they would have a negro run their family business...?* https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Company That Sold Encrypted Phones Was Run by Crime Lords - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:01] <exec> 08└─Does honor among thieves extend to compiled code? Or, maybe the developers used some GPL code and (honorably) posted their changes?
[03:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:47] <exec> 08└─In stunning reversal, military nukes the climate.
[03:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:48] <exec> 08└─The "experts" have been wrong every single time they predicted utter disaster very soon. It makes me think some folks don't know the meaning of the word very well.
[03:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:50] <exec> 08└─I think I'd need a bigger shovel.
[03:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:52] <exec> 08└─You kidding? Every last one of them thinks I'm the bee's knees.
[03:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:54] <exec> 08└─I am still smarting over some investments I made in oil and gas...as I took peak oil seriously. I had Warren Buffet, president Bush, and a helluva lot of scientists telling me this was real. I listened to them, and actually believed them.
[03:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel announces $20 billion increase in stock buybacks (from $4.5 billion) - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:24] <exec> 08└─the boom/bust cycles of the past 5000 years.
[03:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX: Land Starship on Moon Before 2022, Then Do Cargo Runs for 2024 Human Landing - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:04] <exec> 08└─Only if they want to. Unlike for Mars, they don't need to refuel on the moon's surface to get back. You'd like to, it would be WAY more cost-effective, but you don't *have* to. One of the things that really changed the way I looked at Starship was the announcement that if they refueled in a very hig...
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[04:18:57] <exec> 08└─We believe that the genetic engineering of cat girls could be potentially beneficial for the economy and an effective for use as domestic house servant. The money being used to fight the drug war is effectively pointless. We could be using this money to fund other much more important things such as...
[04:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Company That Sold Encrypted Phones Was Run by Crime Lords - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:07] <exec> 08└─The title should read: A Company That Sold Encrypted Phones Was Run by Crime Lords Apple.
[04:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:59] <exec> 08└─We've had the better tech for a good 3-4 decades now. Deliberate greed, with a dash of religious insanity of the "Bible says no more floods, ergo global warming is false" type, is stopping it from happening. A few people are getting tremendously wealthy off of deliberately holding back thorium, sola...
[04:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:01] <exec> 08└─> as I took peak oil seriously. So did I (but didn't invest except as part of an index fund). And it was nearly true too, my natural gas heating bill in NE USA was climbing steadily ~10 years ago. Then along came fracking in PA (and other states) and it turned out that there was more gas still down...
[04:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 1979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:02] <exec> 08└─I'm always amazed when I see these sorts of comments because they're wrong on several levels, and at least one should be obvious to everyone. The most glaring flaw is that someone's personal actions have almost no baring on the truth value of their statements. A doctor telling his patient that smoki...
[04:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:05] <exec> 08└─"We aren't telling the right lies to justify our batshit budget, please see modern greenwashing efforts, and adjust your line of bullshit accordingly."
[04:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:07] <exec> 08└─I think your billion of refugees is woefully underestimated.
[04:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:09] <exec> 08└─Thing is, an individual can influence global warming just as much as they can influence a national election. That is, hardly at all. But in both cases, it's critical that each person does what they can, for the collective effect.
[04:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel announces $20 billion increase in stock buybacks (from $4.5 billion) - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:41] <exec> 08└─Not invested in Intel's future products true, but it also means that the previous owners of that stock will have $20B to invest wherever they like. Money just moves around, it is not destroyed by this sort of thing.
[04:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Want Streaming Services Like Netflix to Issue Emergency Alerts - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:03] <exec> 08└─Back in the day many hackers were not as complacent as today, demanding that somebody provide them with a free web browser with updates, that they don't have to lift a finger for.
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[05:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:52] <exec> 08└─The first time I opened Windows 10 I was like OMFG what are all these adverts?! That was definitely not in the "leaked" previews I'd read about.
[05:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:01] <exec> 08└─As if anyone has a chance, what with Faux News and Brietbarf in the running. "Fairly Unbalanced News!" "Alex Jones is on our virtual editorial board!" See, SoylentNews was never really in the running.
[05:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:03] <exec> 08└─Not everyone is as privileged as you to have these chances you are talking about.
[05:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:05] <exec> 08└─it's called the Warren report.
[05:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:08] <exec> 08└─Many there were who saw the Heliocentric theory as some great conspiracy theory that was intended to re-assert Persian dominance and the reign of Zoroasterianism over the entire world. But, you know, those were crazy persons.
[05:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:10] <exec> 08└─Yep, SoylentNews is Done. Time to throw it to the dogs.
[05:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:12] <exec> 08└─I thought that might be a decent subreddit until I got to this: https://old.reddit.com [reddit.com] It's a bunch of idiots in there, and no one even brings up Patrick Byrne. Worthless.
[05:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:14] <exec> 08└─The dogs have had it for a long time. We tried saving it, but those mongrels keep pissing on every little patch of green to drive off any animal that isn't one of "them". Or is one of them, hard to tell with all their lame tro, I mean subterfuge
[05:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:16] <exec> 08└─aristarchus is already here, sniffing butts.
[05:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:23] <exec> 08└─Wooooooosh I mean you get it, but at the same time you don't. Very strange.
[05:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:24] <exec> 08└─"Many things can bring down a military. But climate change? My eyes are rolling out of my head." While I understand your scepticism, I think in this case you may want to put your eyes back in their sockets. I know a guy who is currently reservist in the Air Force. One of the things he has done in th...
[05:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:26] <exec> 08└─BZZZZT wrong answer. The military just wants more budget "for climate change or whatever".
[05:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel announces $20 billion increase in stock buybacks (from $4.5 billion) - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:00] <exec> 08└─Also you are taxed on dividends in the period you receive them at a non-long term capital gain rate
[05:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting the 'Bang' in the Big Bang - 1884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:27] <exec> 08└─This is reversing causation. The problem that cosmic inflation sought to solve is that a straight forward big bang doesn't work. If you just look at universal expansion and go backwards until everything's mushed up, as the big bang hypothesis initially held, it fails. Areas in our universe that shou...
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[06:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:01] <exec> 08└─A new leak confirms that Windows 10X will be coming to laptops and other traditional PC form factors.
[06:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:03] <exec> 08└─Proprietary software is necessarily abusive because it denies users their freedoms. It's not surprising that the developers and/or corporations, who hold absolute power over the software, would begin to abuse users; power corrupts, after all. It has become the "Write another program!" of "You are pr...
[06:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:05] <exec> 08└─What is with all this Micro$erf shill articles, following on the expose of the complete censorship of Aristarchus submissions? Are we supposed to draw some inference from this chain of events, leading us to the ultimate conclusion, that now SoylentNews is diced?
[06:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:21] <exec> 08└─So, some hippie community was taken over by the cia. They breed/kidnap children and keep them outside the system. These children are used for: 1) Revenue source (prostitution, etc) 2) Blackmail (see above) 3) Sleeper agents or minions of the CIA (ie they were being sent to "genius school") 4) Satani...
[06:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:23] <exec> 08└─I won't be reading any of these novels on Facebook unless the author is a bona fide politician? Ah, what do I care, I don't do Facebook...
[06:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 2404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:32] <exec> 08└─I think you're missing the point here. If people genuinely believed that the world was going to end unless 'a sufficient number' of people naked with a chicken on their hand screaming To Cthulu We Praise - then you'd see a shortage of chickens because you'd damn sure see the world suddenly overrun w...
[06:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:34] <exec> 08└─Sorry to say it, but whenever people tell a story like that about why they don't want kids, I am saddened and think of Jonestown. The future has not been written.
[06:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:36] <exec> 08└─Here's some things we can all do: Don't mow the lawn as often. Even tell the local politicians you want lawn care ordinances softened or repealed. Losers: sellers of lawn care equipment and services. Winners: Everyone else, and the environment. Push for smarter traffic lights. Losers: red light came...
[06:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Less than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:33] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of an exploded pie chart I saw. I'm not going to get it exactly right but it was something like being titled "When can I use a pie chart?" and the entire pie was solid and labeled "telling people not to use a pie chart."
[06:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting the 'Bang' in the Big Bang - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:38] <exec> 08└─More of a Klein bottle: when you are outside, it is full (plenum); but when you are inside, it is empty (chaos). But it is the same reality, nonetheless.
[06:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putting the 'Bang' in the Big Bang - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:39] <exec> 08└─And it seems we have lost Runaway, he was told there would be not math, or thinking. Just Make Andromeda Great Again! And, it is only a little galaxy.
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[07:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:55] <exec> 08└─but honestly, it's not something I'd want to program in every day. I'll stick with C, Python, and Java thankyewvewymuch
[07:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:56] <exec> 08└─Honestly, other langauges are just generally a headache to program in. C++ does offer some challenges, but it solves all problems. I've never met a problem C++ can't solve. No other language, not even C, has that kind of power and versatility. C++ can do anything well, and that is what sets it apart...
[07:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:58] <exec> 08└─Doesn't anybody code in binary anymore? All these layers of "languages" only add cruft. People have to think in black and white. That's all the machine knows.
[07:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:00] <exec> 08└─No, seriously, you will never get to learn C++ in its entirety and in a practical way. It is already an Universe, an almost monstrous one, pretending to "know it all" it's like pretending to "know all Mathematics". For example, take an old topic, expansions of variadic templates arguments [youtube.c...
[07:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:02] <exec> 08└─What's this news item is about? I have no idea.
[07:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:04] <exec> 08└─Try doing client-side scripting for an SPA in C++ and then tell me it's good for /everything/. Wt [webtoolkit.eu] simply does not stack up against something like React [reactjs.org] in that domain. C++ is probably my favourite tool/language, but it's not the universal answer.
[07:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:06] <exec> 08└─I've never met a problem C++ can't solve.
[07:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:09] <exec> 08└─Try the one and only link that's not wikipedia in TFS: https://itnext.io [itnext.io] Who knows, maybe you get lucky. My take on it: it seems that the job market requires more C++ drones today, the old geezers are too expensive.
[07:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:19] <exec> 08└─I was kind of active on some "hacker" boards, when XP was approaching end of life. Got a "leaked" copy of Longhorn, which was the supposed successor to XP. Longhorn actually became my daily driver for awhile. It was just XP, improved in a lot of ways. A bit more stable, a bit faster maybe. Basically...
[07:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:39] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus is gone, man, driven off much like Athuasanias Kichner was, by the ridiculous right. They destroy everything on the internets, with their dank memes. For example, I heard that TMB was dating CarliB! How skank is that! And did you know that Takyon is the kid in "ReadyPlayerOne"? True r...
[07:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:40] <exec> 08└─https://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2014/12/20/very-very-bad-things/ [veteranstodayarchives.com] Tldr; there is a shadowy group run out of Denver Colorado that uses child rape/sacrifice to initiate and blackmail its members, who are most of the wealthy and powerful that we hear about. The ultimate...
[07:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:42] <exec> 08└─First line is what Epstein was doing...go figure
[07:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Company That Sold Encrypted Phones Was Run by Crime Lords - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:53] <exec> 08└─There would be some limited form of honor among thieves in this case. One of these phones would have most, if not all, of governmental and telco backdoors removed. If the Brothers installed a backdoor or two of their own, you would have far fewer spies reading your stuff, than they typical Apple or...
[07:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 2438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:57] <exec> 08└─You must mean listening only to the experts you approve of? Can I listen to an MIT atmospheric physicist specializing in the dynamics of atmospheric systems? He's published hundreds of papers, worked on the IPCC's first two reports and was a leader author on the IPCC's 3rd annual report (climate pro...
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[08:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Loudest Bird is as Deafening as Thunder, Scientists Discover - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:59] <exec> 08└─seems to work fine for most humans.
[08:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:16] <exec> 08└─>in the hands of an expert, C++ can do anything, and do it well. That's an interesting hypothesis, but not very practical given that no one, not even any one of its creators, can be considered a C++ expert since they do not know 100% of the language spec and all interactions thereof.
[08:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:16] <exec> 08└─Don't more people need to learn COBOL right now?
[08:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 1360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:18] <exec> 08└─With a decent macro assembler, it is possible to write metaprograms too. Here's one of my ancient experiments for NASM: ; a factorial metaprogram written in nasm's macro language, in a style of metaprograms written in c++ templates ; does only a symbolic computation at assembly time, emits no code,...
[08:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:30] <exec> 08└─It's also just further proof that all Windows users are nothing more than guinea pigs in the multi-year wankfest that a bunch of hipsters at MS have turned the UI into. Let's see, it's October, we'll go pastel... lots of empty space... incomprehensible non-discoverable UI. Oh wait, nearly November,...
[08:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:31] <exec> 08└─Troll mod? LMAO - a statement of fact is a troll post? I suspect I've offended someone in another thread, so she used up her downmods on me again. Let me repeat - Longhorn was a pretty good OS, and Vista sucked basketballs through garden hoses. Never trust a "leak" from Microsoft.
[08:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:33] <exec> 08└─or Bill Gates browses soylentnews?
[08:20:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 1069 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:39] <exec> 08└─OK, but how many of those making those strong claims have abandoned their cars entirely? If not, then it's not much of an emergency. How many of them have stopped flying? If they haven't, then it isn't much of an emergency. How many of them have started growing their own food, super-insulating their...
[08:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:10] <exec> 08└─That, exactly. We have a fine crop of doomsayers today, warning of the impending end of civilization, and even the end of "life as we know it". But, they all have such limited imaginations. They have failed to read history. They haven't shined a light into the darkest corners of history, to understa...
[08:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:11] <exec> 08└─Uhh, you might give that a little more thought. Historically, dynasty change and the like have happened because of things related to climate change. The monsoons don't come for a year, things are still good. The monsoons don't come for five years, the peasants get restless. No monsoon and drought fo...
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[09:19:02] <exec> 08└─shouting at the opposite sex seems to work fine for most humans.
[09:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:21] <exec> 08└─Doesn't look like [stackoverflow.com]
[09:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:22] <exec> 08└─That's an interesting hypothesis, but not very practical given that no one, not even any one of its creators, can be considered a C++ expert since they do not know 100% of the language spec and all interactions thereof.
[09:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:24] <exec> 08└─C++ is not only metaprogramming and what stands for metaprogramming in C++ is a fucking nightmare of complexity. You'll need to be expert in type theory [wikipedia.org] to understand the full consequences and why it works.
[09:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:39] <exec> 08└─Let's add a panel that slides in from the side, and screw users we won't name it so trying to reference it for help will suck. No! No more charms or slidy things! Throw out that new dock you created for how we are doing it next. Start button? On Windows? No one needs that anymore. A search must blow...
[09:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:01] <exec> 08└─See, SoylentNews was never really in the running.
[09:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:02] <exec> 08└─Epstein was entrapped and forced to take the fall to mask the real members of the shadowy group.
[09:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:04] <exec> 08└─Hmm, I have to ponder this deeply: Trump's Razor (based on Hanlon's): Never attribute to cunning what can be explained by an insecure narcissist with a tiny penis and no money.
[09:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:21] <exec> 08└─America will probably be gone before that due to debt.
[09:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:23] <exec> 08└─As a kid, I might point out that if X affects the military, then X already destroyed the civilians. As the military I would be more concerned about gold plated planes which won't probably stand a chance against specialized or pilot less crafts. About becoming a for profit corporation with no real du...
[09:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting the 'Bang' in the Big Bang - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:28] <exec> 08└─If you just look at universal expansion and go backwards until everything's mushed up, as the big bang hypothesis initially held, it fails.
[09:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Plus is Stopping Theaters Screening Fox Movies – and Viewers Will Lose Out - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:24] <exec> 08└─Stop buying anything even remotely connected to the Disney company. That is the only signal you have to send to them that you are dissatisfied. You must stop buying/subscribing/paying for anything Disney.
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[10:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:24] <exec> 08└─back in 2012 and tell me that you already know by heart what the 20-25mins of the clip means (at least until you get past Variadic variadic templated templates).
[10:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:25] <exec> 08└─"With a decent macro assembler, it is possible to write metaprograms too." Which means it's possible to do it in hex. Which makes sense. Certainly there's nothing a pile of unintelligent algorithms piled up on each other for entirely particular reasons, with no knowledge of each other, can do in hex...
[10:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:41] <exec> 08└─Every time I have to use Windows, I end up thinking "The worlds richest man uses this piece of shit?" Seriously: when you can afford the very best, are you SERIOUSLY going to use Windows every day, all day? I'd fecking kill myself first.
[10:20:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 852 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:38] <exec> 08└─Well, if hell happens and the world falls apart, are you going to admit that you were completely, hysterically, hilariously wrong? Oh, I guess not because you may already be dead. Does it matter if it happens in 19, 20 or 21 years? It might also be 50 years. It does not matter. Shit is coming and we...
[10:21:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 701 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:09] <exec> 08└─We've had the better tech for a good 3-4 decades now. Deliberate greed, with a dash of religious insanity of the "Bible says no more floods, ergo global warming is false" type, is stopping it from happening. A few people are getting tremendously wealthy off of deliberately holding back thorium, sola...
[10:21:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 1979 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:11] <exec> 08└─I'm always amazed when I see these sorts of comments because they're wrong on several levels, and at least one should be obvious to everyone. The most glaring flaw is that someone's personal actions have almost no baring on the truth value of their statements. A doctor telling his patient that smoki...
[10:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:26] <exec> 08└─Thanks for wasting everyone's time with those shitty comics.
[10:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:28] <exec> 08└─Or someone has used reason to come to a conclusion you didn't. Whoosh.
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[11:19:26] <exec> 08└─Speaking as someone who has delved into the intricacies of PL/I, I am sure that only Real Men could have written such a machine-hogging, cycle-grabbing, all-encompassing monster. Allocate an array and free the middle third? Sure! Why not? Multiply a character string times a bit string and assign the...
[11:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:27] <exec> 08└─What's so complicated about that?
[11:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:44] <exec> 08└─I'd fecking kill myself first.
[11:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:09] <exec> 08└─against a worldwide generalized conspiracy to discredit him as 'orange man bad'
[11:20:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 173 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:37] <exec> 08└─And in twenty years when we're all still trucking along after making minor adjustments, are you lot going to admit that you were completely, hysterically, hilariously wrong?
[11:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:32] <exec> 08└─Show there's a problem first. Anyway, if the world goes down the drain, then all countries go down the drain.
[11:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:33] <exec> 08└─due to simple deflationary collapse of the US dollar
[11:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:35] <exec> 08└─Unless we (globally) really invest now in renewables (and/or fusion) while there are still cheap fossil fuels available to build stuff,
[11:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:37] <exec> 08└─Take a look at Chinese history, and note how their history correlates to climate and/or weather change.
[11:21:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Intel announces $20 billion increase in stock buybacks (from $4.5 billion) - 237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:58] <exec> 08└─Why not hand it out as dividends? Why not invest in R&D? The only reason I can think of is it gooses the stock price, which means the Cxx folks get bigger bonuses. It sure doesn't help the company as a whole, nor the average shareholder.
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[12:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:02] <exec> 08└─This is what people keep voting for in America. What do they expect? Every other developed nation has a system where people demand some services and tax the elected officials to implement the details. In America, they are brainwashed into thinking that universal healthcare is unattainable for poor n...
[12:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:03] <exec> 08└─Made as it was for a for profit medical industry, one has to wonder whether this outcome was really unintended or not. God knows what the motivations of future algorithm developers will be as society uses them more and more. I think it appropriate to note that Shockley was a eugenesist.
[12:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 2919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:05] <exec> 08└─We've seen that some people worry about AI being too effective. Recently someone said that you should consider the harm that an AI that is programmed to drive a car from point A to point B might do if it gives no priority to the safety of nonpassengers or property. This is a true concern in one sens...
[12:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:07] <exec> 08└─Since black patients disproportionately live in poverty, it may be harder for them, on average, to call out for the day and take a cut in pay.
[12:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:10] <exec> 08└─McKKKesson... providing the best healthcare software for white folks since the Civil War.
[12:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:53] <exec> 08└─I see it as a new foreign policy: a certain amount of atmospheric dust (surface detonations) are required to maintain the "new world order" of temperature balance, so the most egregious policy violators will be chosen as the location for the dust liberation. Using high yield H-bombs for minimal half...
[12:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Spot a Wormhole - If They Exist - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:20] <exec> 08└─Well, the thing about a Black Hole – it’s main distinguishing feature – is it’s black. And the thing about space, your basic space colour... is black. So how are you s’posed to see them?
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[13:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Zamna Raises $5M to Automate Airport Security Checks Between Agencies Using Blockchain - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:54] <exec> 08└─Another buzzword used to sell another hare-brained scheme?
[13:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zamna Raises $5M to Automate Airport Security Checks Between Agencies Using Blockchain - 1857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:56] <exec> 08└─No, it's not a buzzword in this case. It's being used correctly. Replace the term "passenger" with "website" and imagine this being used to validate DNS records. It's essentially the same concept. You need to keep in mind that despite all the hooplah a blockchain is nothing more than a database with...
[13:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Zamna Raises $5M to Automate Airport Security Checks Between Agencies Using Blockchain - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I can just see my 84-year old father supplying his pubkey and signing the resulting hash.
[13:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zamna Raises $5M to Automate Airport Security Checks Between Agencies Using Blockchain - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:00] <exec> 08└─True: Zamna's technology can then be used by any of these parties to validate passengers’ biographic and biometric data
[13:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zamna Raises $5M to Automate Airport Security Checks Between Agencies Using Blockchain - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:02] <exec> 08└─Chain of Trust for authentication. This provides what should be immutable end to end validation of a use, and an audit trail for when someone 'illegal' makes it through so they can do a postmortem and discover who dropped the ball. If everything, including the source identity data is on WORM hardwar...
[13:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:13] <exec> 08└─You are going to see orders of magnitude of improvement in computation and data collection, along with an introduction of neuromorphic and quantum systems. Some limitations will be broken. That doesn't mean that all problems will be solvable by a computer. Some will amount to predicting the future a...
[13:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Loudest Bird is as Deafening as Thunder, Scientists Discover - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:28] <exec> 08└─but usually it involves non-consensual sodomy or Windows crashing without saving the file first.
[13:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:53] <exec> 08└─Use the right tool for the right job. There is no perfect language for all purposes, or we would all be using it already. If your only hammer is C++ then every problem begins to look like a thumb.
[13:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:12] <exec> 08└─Big G's kids used iPhones.
[13:21:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:45] <exec> 08└─Thing is, an individual can influence global warming just as much as they can influence a national election. That is, hardly at all. But in both cases, it's critical that each person does what they can, for the collective effect.
[13:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, it does correlate. More, it seems that climate and weather pattern changes are actually causitive. It's a lot easier to response to climate/weather change when you have a much smaller population and a competent government.
[13:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:06] <exec> 08└─> Solar, wind, and hydro development happened. A good start is being made now (finally) on the electric production side, but energy storage is still lacking (except for hydro where a few good sites like Niagara Falls hydro include a storage lake that is filled and emptied daily).
[13:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:08] <exec> 08└─One day the Great European War will come out of some damned foolish think in the Balkans.
[13:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:10] <exec> 08└─He should be within a factor of 10 though.
[13:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:12] <exec> 08└─The shared destiny myth again. Nope, I don't buy that the Developed World will have the same problems that Africa has. Countries with a much lower population density, greater wealth per capita, and more resources will do a lot better than the ones without.
[13:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel announces $20 billion increase in stock buybacks (from $4.5 billion) - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:46] <exec> 08└─I prefer to trade inverse ETFs myself but only intraday. I tend to do much better buying the inverse (an indirect way of shorting) than going long intraday but I do better going long on the non-decaying ETFs interday. While I also have a job it's an ordinary job that requires no education. I am high...
[13:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel announces $20 billion increase in stock buybacks (from $4.5 billion) - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:48] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that. I will talk to my accountant about this.
[13:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Want Streaming Services Like Netflix to Issue Emergency Alerts - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:11] <exec> 08└─I am forced to buy a new one once this breaks, can I still turn the alerts off? On android
[13:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Want Streaming Services Like Netflix to Issue Emergency Alerts - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:13] <exec> 08└─Nothing is more infuriating then being kicked out of deep REM sleep for something you can do nothing about.
[13:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Want Streaming Services Like Netflix to Issue Emergency Alerts - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:15] <exec> 08└─However, if this goes out, what it will eventually be used for is this: Watching Netflix ... AMBER ALERT: Be sure not to miss the new Netflix original series, The miss-use of Amber Alerts, next Friday at 8pm ... we now return you to your original program, already in progress.
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[14:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:03] <exec> 08└─They borrow money in foreign currency. That's the most brain damaged thing you could ever do. Any country that sells debt in a currency that it has no political say in, that is a recipe for disaster. Like borrowing money in a currency you don't earn. What could possibly go wrong??
[14:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Zamna Raises $5M to Automate Airport Security Checks Between Agencies Using Blockchain - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:15] <exec> 08└─It seems they invented an automated escrow service. Escrow services in any form are awesome businesses, and a hallmark of rent seeking and mistrustful societies. Societies which are generally mistrustful are generally less productive precisely because there is always a cut lost due to escrow. Basica...
[14:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zamna Raises $5M to Automate Airport Security Checks Between Agencies Using Blockchain - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:17] <exec> 08└─Exactly. You can replace a clerical one time error, with a clerical error that can affect all the database or validity of the data gathered up to then. More, you ensure that there is one single target to hit if you want free passage. How is there a chain of trust if the algorithms that validate the...
[14:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Zamna Raises $5M to Automate Airport Security Checks Between Agencies Using Blockchain - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:19] <exec> 08└─It might be a valid case of blockchains. But look at the context : 1/ An obscure company nobody have heard or cares about changes name... 2/ ... talks about applying blockchains... 3/ ... to sell airport security products That's 3 good reasons to smell BS from a mile away. Now if this is legit, this...
[14:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zamna Raises $5M to Automate Airport Security Checks Between Agencies Using Blockchain - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:21] <exec> 08└─But I doubt that the airlines will go for this, "we don't get the data on this passenger" type system.
[14:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:33] <exec> 08└─Don't have time to read your entire comment, but another layer of the cake: like it or not, blacks, on average, have some different health issues / baseline stats, including blood chemistry values. The acceptable ranges for many tests are somewhat different for blacks, and some diseases seem to be m...
[14:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:35] <exec> 08└─If they can demonstrate that equally wealthy white patients get better care than equally wealthy black patients, then they are on to something. Likewise, if they can show that dirt poor white people get better care than dirt poor black people, then they have something. That "something" may or may no...
[14:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:17] <exec> 08└─Honestly, other langauges are just generally a headache to program in. C++ does offer some challenges, but it solves all problems. I've never met a problem C++ can't solve.
[14:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:19] <exec> 08└─Exclusively for types, right? What happened with template non-type args [cppreference.com], got deprecated?
[14:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:21] <exec> 08└─Wow, it's been a while since I followed an XKCD link here and didn't know what I was going to see once I got there.
[14:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:23] <exec> 08└─And even machine isn't determinate unless you're using an antique.
[14:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:25] <exec> 08└─I would argue that in the last decade modern has moved on from C++ and other general, "do it yourself", languages to Unity, VB, etc. Languages designed for a specific task that automate programming away from the programmer. These languages themselves are written in C++, C++ is still the most useful...
[14:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:27] <exec> 08└─You are aware of C++ modules?
[14:20:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 646 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:38] <exec> 08└─I was kind of active on some "hacker" boards, when XP was approaching end of life. Got a "leaked" copy of Longhorn, which was the supposed successor to XP. Longhorn actually became my daily driver for awhile. It was just XP, improved in a lot of ways. A bit more stable, a bit faster maybe. Basically...
[14:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:12] <exec> 08└─March is known as National Procrastination Week. Why, oh why couldn't they have picked March for National Conspiracy Writing Month? Give March a dual purpose.
[14:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:13] <exec> 08└─Speak Loudly and carry a Tiny Stick. Wield it with tiny hands. According to Stormy, it is a misshapen mushroom, not a stick. I find it informative how one can be called a successful businessman when every single business has failed. King of debt, king of bankruptcy, etc. Can't even make a profit on...
[14:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:15] <exec> 08└─DannyB's Law: Advertising destroys every medium it ever touches. DannyB's Observation: Anonymous Coward destroys every online form it ever touches. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= People might not like or agree with some things I say. Maybe they think I'm not crazy enough, or too crazy. But at lea...
[14:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:17] <exec> 08└─Epstein was entrapped in his ship, accelerating out of control. Could not shut down engines with voice control because . . . Windows 10. The G forces were made too great again so that he could not move his limbs to reach the manual controls.
[14:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:19] <exec> 08└─hang on to your ego
[14:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Company That Sold Encrypted Phones Was Run by Crime Lords - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:31] <exec> 08└─Soonfully enough, everyone using encryption will be considered a criminal.
[14:21:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 871 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:42] <exec> 08└─This is the same government that, at the highest level, denies any such phenomenon exists. How could it be that such devastating report was not redacted into blaming China? That is what your president said; it is China's propaganda to destabilize the USA. Oh, wait, we've always been at war with east...
[14:21:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:45] <exec> 08└─It's the only way to make sure.
[14:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:53] <exec> 08└─See? Always a silver lining.
[14:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:55] <exec> 08└─> how many of those making those strong claims... Just anecdotally, many of folks I know who moan about this stuff do indeed commute by bike, grow most of their own fruit and some veg, run the heating a couple of degrees lower, etc etc.
[14:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:57] <exec> 08└─The fact is, if you choose to not have kids, you could burn drums of diesel in your back yard for fun daily for the rest of your life, and you will be greener than a bug eating bicycle riding recycler.
[14:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 2281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:59] <exec> 08└─I skimmed the report TFA cites very quickly. I do not see anywhere it suggests the Army would collapse. It does say that the way the Army operates, especially in peacetime, might be affected significantly by climate change in how it operates and types and places of missions and where they would be u...
[14:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:01] <exec> 08└─No, he's just doing the Fox News thing. When you find yourself in an indefensible position, divert, deflect, and blame the messenger. Whistleblower? Partisan hack! Thirty year Foreign Service career under many administrations? Deep State! Al Gore coherently raising climate change problems? Look how...
[14:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:03] <exec> 08└─There were a LOT of words in that article.
[14:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:05] <exec> 08└─Nothing that a Tweet can't fix.
[14:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:07] <exec> 08└─BZZZZT wrong answer. The military contractors just wants more budget "for climate change or whatever".
[14:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Details Tremont Microarchitecture; x86 Atom Could be Used in Tablets Again - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:52] <exec> 08└─If it can't die, then how about its management engine puts it to sleep never to wake up until kissed by a prints.
[14:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Spot a Wormhole - If They Exist - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:39] <exec> 08└─Why would I want to feed my worms fresh fruit?
[14:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Want Streaming Services Like Netflix to Issue Emergency Alerts - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:12] <exec> 08└─I wish I had mod points to give. Emergency Alerts need to be fixed to be sent only when important to the recipient. As someone who does not tolerate Cable TV, and only uses streaming services (Netflix, Prime, HBO, Starz, Hulu, Showtime, etc), this could be useful -- as long as the alerts are relevan...
[14:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Want Streaming Services Like Netflix to Issue Emergency Alerts - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:13] <exec> 08└─Subscribe to the POTUS on Twitter. Climate change is a hoax. But the need to build a wall is a true national emergency! ALERT! ALERT!
[14:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Want Streaming Services Like Netflix to Issue Emergency Alerts - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:15] <exec> 08└─I've received several tornado warnings. Did the tornado hit me? No. Was it worth getting it? Hell yes. Do I receive them on my phone? No, I turned all that off. I just have weather receivers in key locations.
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[15:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:54] <exec> 08└─Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results
[15:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:55] <exec> 08└─Yea but Einstein never had to use MS Windows.
[15:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:57] <exec> 08└─People keep telling me this, over and over, yet it never changes anything. Perhaps I'M not the one who is insane after all? Wibble.
[15:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the US will coup this government too.
[15:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:02] <exec> 08└─The share price of Argentinian companies fell 63% on Wall St back in August when "Left-leaning Fernandez" won the primary.
[15:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zamna Raises $5M to Automate Airport Security Checks Between Agencies Using Blockchain - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:18] <exec> 08└─In NSW Australia property buyers are forced to use a government mandated privately owned escrow service when placing down the deposit for property purchase. Think about that for a moment. One person lost their deposit. The scammer faked the 2factor auth and jumped the email system. Game over. Money...
[15:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zamna Raises $5M to Automate Airport Security Checks Between Agencies Using Blockchain - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:19] <exec> 08└─I doubt the TSA will go for it. What will pedobears and sadists do without their unwiling victims?
[15:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:34] <exec> 08└─I think you mean the stupid people keep voting for this. Or blocking it. Even without nationalizing health care there are many things that are broken. The cost of medications. Other costs. Something smells rotten. But it won't get fixed. Our system no longer functions.
[15:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:35] <exec> 08└─It could be Insurance Coverage Bias rather than Class Bias. Fun fact: On Star Trek The Next Generation, one of Dr. Crusher's medical displays had tiny print that said "Medical Insurance Remaining".
[15:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starvation Halts Brain Development, but Hungry Cells Jump-Start Growth When Food Becomes Available - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:43] <exec> 08└─Thin people: stupid Fat people: constantly jump start brain growth
[15:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Loudest Bird is as Deafening as Thunder, Scientists Discover - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, Twitter is loud.
[15:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:27] <exec> 08└─I suppose there were ways to deallocate the middle third of an array. But I don't recall there being a restriction on recursive macros. Did I not read the manual well enough back in the 60's? -- hendrik
[15:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:28] <exec> 08└─Client-side scripting in the web browser is, by definition, restricted to code that can run in the web browser, which forces javascript. C++ could easily solve whatever problem you have by eliminating the need for client-side scripting, replacing it with a server-side FastCGI software. Or you could...
[15:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:30] <exec> 08└─What a boon for humanity with AC-es that do!
[15:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:32] <exec> 08└─These days I use Go (I've tried Rust) and especially Scheme (sometimes typed Scheme). Scheme is an update on Lisp, for which my usage dates back to the sixties. There are documented histories of huge programs written in C/C++ being converted to Scheme with a resulting *increase* of efficiency. Yes,...
[15:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:51] <exec> 08└─Every time I have to use Windows, I end up thinking "The worlds richest man uses this piece of shit?"
[15:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:24] <exec> 08└─I'm sure this whole thing is just a conspiracy, to find all those who are able to write convincingly about conspiracies, so they can be eliminated before they learn about the actual conspiracies! Sorry, I have to leave, there's a bunch of black helicopters arriving. Where is my tinfoil hat, dammit!
[15:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:25] <exec> 08└─Uh huh... Rich guy having sex with models and porn stars who got the most powerful job on the planet is actually secretly a stupid loser. If only we could get the magic documents to prove it then everyone would see how smart we were to have known this top secret info. Tldr, Islam is RIGHT about wome...
[15:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:27] <exec> 08└─is actually secretly a stupid loser
[15:22:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 377 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:07] <exec> 08└─So go live alone in the woods and eat berries and grubs and let the adults in the room get on with adulting. We get it: you don't know, you don't care, you don't know enough to care, and you don't care enough to know, a perfect black hole of solipsism. Fine, but you've removed yourself from the disc...
[15:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:08] <exec> 08└─Move closer to work, or get a job closer to home. I'm about to close on a house that will bring my commute from 20 minutes down to 8. That will have more of an effect than getting a more efficient vehicle.
[15:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Spot a Wormhole - If They Exist - 2835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:40] <exec> 08└─On Flatland (2D universe), the entire universe could be a 3D globe. The 2D flatlanders would be unaware of curvature of the flat universe in some absurd 3rd dimension. Yet if they travel on a straight line far enough in any direction, they eventually traverse the entire universe in a great circle an...
[15:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Lawmakers Want Streaming Services Like Netflix to Issue Emergency Alerts - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:16] <exec> 08└─Might be nothing new still, depending on your location, but I've frequently gotten geoloc errors thinking I was up to 300 miles away from where I am. (Thanks $bigcorp vending me my IP!)
[15:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putting the 'Bang' in the Big Bang - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:29] <exec> 08└─First, there was nothing. Not even empty space! Then, suddenly, and for no reason, it exploded into everything.
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[16:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Magnets: Wide-Ranging Impact on Information Technology - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:10] <exec> 08└─I once put a small neodymium magnet next to a spinning hard-disk's casing, and it most certainly had a massive impact on that particular server.
[16:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Small Magnets: Wide-Ranging Impact on Information Technology - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:12] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spintronics [wikipedia.org]
[16:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Magnets: Wide-Ranging Impact on Information Technology - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:13] <exec> 08└─When near future sentient machines come to read your scoffing confession, your fate will be sealed.
[16:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:26] <exec> 08└─more equal like everybody is going to be piss-poor and not just the 80-something percent of the population?
[16:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:28] <exec> 08└─Except that wasn't Einstein, [psychologytoday.com] it was likely to have been one of the founders of Narcotics Anonymous, [amonymifoundation.org] in ~1981. And even if it were, I'm not comfortable using a definition of insanity proposed by a physicist (as opposed to, say, a psychologist or psychiatr...
[16:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:30] <exec> 08└─Glad to see my fellow people in Argentina put a counterpoint to that fascist Bolsonaro. Hopefully this continues the left-leaning wave as a counterbalance to the far-right-wing extremism that has been unfortunately popping up in various parts of the Americas and Europe (although continental Europe h...
[16:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:32] <exec> 08└─Yes! And finally the US is turning on Trump and seeing the fascist GOP for what they are. The world is waking up and realizing the fascists are drooling over them. With any luck we will stop ourselves from turning the entire planet into a shit hole.
[16:19:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:59] <exec> 08└─Since black patients disproportionately live in poverty, it may be harder for them, on average, to call out for the day and take a cut in pay.
[16:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:06] <exec> 08└─Someone chose easier-to-obtain value as a proxy for another. It turned out to be a bad proxy in some percent of cases. Happens all the time in programming, "AI" or not. What this demonstrates, is the importance of pre-release testing on maximally diverse set of real-life examples. No one can predict...
[16:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:08] <exec> 08└─Or to summarize, the algorithm isn't biased, but because there's bias in the data it relies on, it produces biased results. Garbage in, garbage out.
[16:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:11] <exec> 08└─I've noticed my blood tests have a footnote saying "non-black".
[16:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:04] <exec> 08└─Now we'll have a bunch of comments by morons too stupid to use the language properly. Hey, if you're using toy languages like Java, C#, Python, or Ruby. You're not a real programmer, and you should return to your janitorial position. Your uneducated opinion is meaningless.
[16:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:05] <exec> 08└─Wow, talk about creating a strawman argument. Find a niche specifically not for C++ and yell, "see, it's no go!" Moron.
[16:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:07] <exec> 08└─I also tend to see performance improvements when I rewrite code with the clarity of hindsight.
[16:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:09] <exec> 08└─Type theory is vastly simpler that C++. Being an expert in type theory probably won't help you.
[16:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:30] <exec> 08└─What I've been able to find about Windows 10X is that it's a way of bringing Windows 10 technology to devices that aren't suited to the full Windows 10 interface. Unlike Windows CE, Windows Phone, or Windows 10 S, all of which were focused on Windows branding but featured gimped, useless technology,...
[16:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:05] <exec> 08└─Tinfoil hats let signals in from below and bounce them around in the brain. What you want is a body or room-scale Faraday cage.
[16:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:48] <exec> 08└─> you could burn drums of diesel in your back yard for fun daily Sounds like I have your permission to fly on private jets, thanks!
[16:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:49] <exec> 08└─He?
[16:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:51] <exec> 08└─That's what grandchildren are for. So adopt your children when they are adults!
[16:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:53] <exec> 08└─Vacuously true universal quantifier.
[16:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:55] <exec> 08└─Hint: it is not "the deniers". The mental technique people use to be luddites while calling themselves "progressive", to pretend acting "for environment" while fighting nuclear power tooth and nail and "not noticing" the coal-fired replacement, to scream about "science!!!11" when incapable of simple...
[16:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:57] <exec> 08└─Well now, to be fair with The Orange One's bouts of madness, raising soot to the atmosphere with a nuclear winter would probably offset the greenhouse effect and undo global warming following the catastrophic famines and millions of dead: https://en.wikipedia.org
[16:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:00] <exec> 08└─kids are the closest thing to pure love you can experience in life. They are also the closest you will get to murder
[16:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:02] <exec> 08└─Nope, go look at the actual stats on pollution. Hint: the biggest polluters are not individuals. Also, hard to get individuals on board when a significant percentage actively work against advocacy campaigns cuz "muh straws!!" Keep running away from the problems, sure it'll hurt me and mine but yours...
[16:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:04] <exec> 08└─Oh fuck you Mr. Pipeline defender, champion of corporate greed. The hard won gains WE have made are IN SPITE OF people like you. So don't go trying to take advantage of a better reality now like you aren't one of the people that try hardest to block it.
[16:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:06] <exec> 08└─That does not bode well for those kids. Maybe you are actually a decent person and the internet turns you into a shitcock spewing asshat.
[16:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel announces $20 billion increase in stock buybacks (from $4.5 billion) - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:43] <exec> 08└─INTC has been slumping for a year an a half since the Specter/Meltdown bugs came out. Made a killing on AMD by buying it in February last year, but it leveled off a while back and I sold most of it before the December mini-crash last year during the trade war saber rattling.
[16:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel announces $20 billion increase in stock buybacks (from $4.5 billion) - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:44] <exec> 08└─Update: I guess he already knows and has been taxing me accordingly. Just that when I spoke to him last he so over simplified that what he told me was essentially incorrect. Then today he says, well, the rules are more complicated than that, blah blah blah, but yes, you have been taxed correctly. I...
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[17:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking the Mystery of Nature's Toughest Material - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:53] <exec> 08└─We could never run enough computer simulations to come up with these -- they're just there for us to discover.
[17:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Disagree) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 2239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:20] <exec> 08└─Poorer countries have 2 options when it comes to credit: 1. Borrow money in foreign currency from nasty folks like the IMF, who can and will use those loans to dictate government policy to the detriment of democracy. 2. Don't borrow money, because no major foreign investors will invest in an asset t...
[17:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:22] <exec> 08└─I'm far more comfortable with physicists than psychologists.
[17:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:24] <exec> 08└─This deserves more discussion. On one hand, borrowing in a currency you can't reasonably hope to repay is foolish. OTOH, undoubtedly the Argentinians undoubtedly want to participate in causing climate change... which in turn may require those currencies. Its hard to not be able to do what you want.
[17:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:26] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Trump is a Peronist, although he will not say so out loud.
[17:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zamna Raises $5M to Automate Airport Security Checks Between Agencies Using Blockchain - 1525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:44] <exec> 08└─I know this is the use of escrows, I just do not think this is any big innovation, nor do i think that there should be a startup being an escrow. In most places escrows need to be licensed and are heavily regulated businesses. For the cases you mention escrow is useful i think. Even so this is why I...
[17:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zamna Raises $5M to Automate Airport Security Checks Between Agencies Using Blockchain - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah I'm pretty sure your 84 year old grandfather could never use a tap to pay credit card, nor know how to insert his card into a card reader. amirite? Because that's exactly how a system like this would likely work.
[17:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:06] <exec> 08└─Hey! Current connectionist AI's airplane with wings that flap are perfect! After all, birds have wings that flap, so must a plane! Our brains are connectionist in nature, therefore so must be our AI models! Q! E! D! Plus, it's always easy to throw more compute time at a problem... So it's the same o...
[17:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:07] <exec> 08└─I actually think the "proxy" was what they actually wanted to optimize for. They didn't care about race, they cared about the bottom line. But it sounds bad to say "we care better for patients that will make us more money", so they claim that it is just a convenient proxy for how ill they are.
[17:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starvation Halts Brain Development, but Hungry Cells Jump-Start Growth When Food Becomes Available - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:16] <exec> 08└─Who knew that a man who suffered a bout of starvation in the third grade could go on to become president.
[17:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's probably part of the mix. What one such project did is to add a scripting language to their unmanageably huge C/C++ code. The scripting language chosen was Gambit, a Scheme dialect with an unusual affinity to C/C++ because it is compiled to C. What they discovered was that it was usually...
[17:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobmorning [6045] (Score: 1) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:07] <exec> 08└─It's the systemd of programming languages.
[17:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:29] <exec> 08└─Windows 7 seems like they'd taken everything they'd learned up to that point and just made as good of an operating system as they could. Windows 10 seems like where the MBAs took over and decided to monetize everything. Seriously, what kind of Operating System should be auto-downloading bloatware li...
[17:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:55] <exec> 08└─Well at least only the title was clickbait and they didn't editorialize the report itself. It did make for some amusing pearl clutching posts by the resident old folks.
[17:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Details Tremont Microarchitecture; x86 Atom Could be Used in Tablets Again - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:44] <exec> 08└─99% don't care about UEFI, Management Engines, telemetry, etc. And out of those who do care, some of them will be forced to use Intel products.
[17:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX: Land Starship on Moon Before 2022, Then Do Cargo Runs for 2024 Human Landing - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:27] <exec> 08└─https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-president-teases-starship-starlink-capabilities/ [teslarati.com] This article has a new Starship animation and some other new details about Starlink.
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[18:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:38] <exec> 08└─People die when having no food and/or no medicine, you know. And their deaths are nastier than simply being shot. While a post-coup government can be an equally stupid failure and/or engage in mass slaughter, history shows those options firmly correlate with socialist ideology. No one that I know of...
[18:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 2355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:40] <exec> 08└─It's a bit more involved than that. You do point out the differences between private and public capital sources, and that is correct, but governments have plenty more levers at their disposal than just the door handle. There are also other approaches that are quite feasible in the margins between th...
[18:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:41] <exec> 08└─Wellll that's as much of a lie as I've ever heard. At bare undeniable minimum, 45,000 people die a year from lack of medical care in the richest country in the world, due to our stupid obsession with the free market. [aphapublications.org](and this particular paper intentionally controls for the fac...
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[18:19:43] <exec> 08└─It helps put Bolsanaro into perspective to understand that the center-right party whose voters switched to his extremist party were secretly conspiring [theintercept.com] with a judge and prosecutor to jail his most credible opponent under (mostly) false pretenses.
[18:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zamna Raises $5M to Automate Airport Security Checks Between Agencies Using Blockchain - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:03] <exec> 08└─What happens when the data is in error? How does it get fixed? Who do you turn to?
[18:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 2671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:26] <exec> 08└─Single thread computational performance seems to be saturated at this point which means that unless P=NC, computational constraints will remain significant for a core of P-complete optimization problems which don’t benefit from parallelism. Techniques dependent on brute force model inference witho...
[18:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:27] <exec> 08└─This is the only correct answer. Wokeness not required.
[18:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 1276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:29] <exec> 08└─I’m just waiting for recognition that communicability of results and external credibility need to be a primary design criterion for machine learning. These methods develop strictly nontransferable models. I’ll note that notions of position, material, and temp advantage exist in both chess an...
[18:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:34] <exec> 08└─Good luck coding anything of significant size in binary. Sure, coding something like a text editor might be reasonable, but coding something like LibreOffice in binary. Talking about a waking nightmare.
[18:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 1955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:34] <exec> 08└─If you already know C++ well enough, you can use it for almost anything. (Well, it still doesn't understand directories on disk, but that's coming.) The problem is it's a lot more complex than ADA ever was, and doesn't have the security. FWIW, *any* Turing complete language can do anything that any...
[18:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Peristaltic [3122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:29] <exec> 08└─>> We now live in a post-Truth era. When did we ever live in an era of Truth?
[18:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside National Conspiracy Writing Month, a Challenge for Creating ‘Fan Fiction About Reality’ - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:30] <exec> 08└─It is hilarious that you don't realize how pitiful you sound. Trump has singlehandedly reduced your thought processes to a 5th grade level.
[18:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Company That Sold Encrypted Phones Was Run by Crime Lords - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:44] <exec> 08└─You seem to have made a typo: Soonfully enough, everyone using encryption will be considered a criminal.
[18:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:26] <exec> 08└─>I decided to not have kids, for a variety of reasons #1 pamela said NO WAY #2 suzy said GET LOST #3 deborah said NO MISTER I DO CONDOM ONLY AND IT LL BE 30 DOLLA
[18:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:27] <exec> 08└─after making minor adjustments
[18:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2019/09/26/its-time-to-get-real-about-the-extreme-scenario-used-to-generate-climate-porn/ [forbes.com]
[18:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:31] <exec> 08└─They could, but it is a choice. Who gets screwed over? Savers or debtors?
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[19:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eagles Run Up Huge Roaming Charges For Scientists Studying Them Via SMS - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:57] <exec> 08└─up to 77c a minute.
[19:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eagles Run Up Huge Roaming Charges For Scientists Studying Them Via SMS - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:59] <exec> 08└─Imagine it was an eagle from a US satellite. They would have to beg the Americans for forgiveness for breaking sanctions on Iran.
[19:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eagles Run Up Huge Roaming Charges For Scientists Studying Them Via SMS - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:00] <exec> 08└─I tried topping the card up a $50, but it couldn't get processed. Was anyone successful in sending any money?
[19:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eagles Run Up Huge Roaming Charges For Scientists Studying Them Via SMS - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:03] <exec> 08└─What is the cost of a SMS for the network provider. I suspect that sending 1,000,000 SMS will cost less than a dollar.
[19:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eagles Run Up Huge Roaming Charges For Scientists Studying Them Via SMS - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:05] <exec> 08└─Russia is just secretly transferring drones to Iran
[19:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cracking the Mystery of Nature's Toughest Material - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, but imagine if God and His world were but a simulation...
[19:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking the Mystery of Nature's Toughest Material - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:15] <exec> 08└─Someone who can speak with the clams. What is that, chlamydia?
[19:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:33] <exec> 08└─The lowest hanging fruit of single thread performance will go up by at least another order of magnitude with clock speed increases and on-chip memory. It will be an expensive lunch, but one we will thoroughly enjoy. Quantum, neuromorphic, and other architectures will be used even if only for niche t...
[19:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:37] <exec> 08└─"not even any one of its creators, can be considered a C++ expert since they do not know 100% of the language spec and all interactions thereof." That's a pretty strange definition of 'expert'. Where else does expertise in a subject require 100% knowledge of subject matter and all possible interacti...
[19:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:39] <exec> 08└─The way I recall hearing it, it went something like: "Using C, it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot. With C++ it's a bit harder, but it's a shotgun and you lose the whole leg." It probably would have been a more effective warning if it involved thumbs. Programmers need thumbs more than feet and l...
[19:21:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Chocolate [8044] 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 906 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:53] <exec> 08└─Let's add a panel that slides in from the side, and screw users we won't name it so trying to reference it for help will suck. No! No more charms or slidy things! Throw out that new dock you created for how we are doing it next. Start button? On Windows? No one needs that anymore. A search must blow...
[19:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:35] <exec> 08└─I just started riding the bus to work, raising my commute time from 45 minutes to 65 minutes. My costs have come down, though, as has my overall effect on the environment. I'm keeping my (non-hybrid) car because it's paid for.
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[20:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:05] <exec> 08└─Mugshot here, https://www.eastbaytimes.com [eastbaytimes.com] I was surprised that his neck wasn't red.
[20:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:07] <exec> 08└─Now if CA was a different country this would be an act of war and they could bomb Missouri in retaliation and we could get on with the apocalypse. But now we're stuck with what, charging this dude with a crime and billing his estate for the firefighting costs? (Murdering nature is the last capital c...
[20:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:09] <exec> 08└─It already is a city in Columbia -- https://en.wikipedia.org(disambiguation) [wikipedia.org]
[20:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:11] <exec> 08└─He would have gotten away with it If not for those meddling kids!
[20:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eagles Run Up Huge Roaming Charges For Scientists Studying Them Via SMS - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:23] <exec> 08└─Zero.
[20:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eagles Run Up Huge Roaming Charges For Scientists Studying Them Via SMS - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:26] <exec> 08└─So they essentially strapped a cell phone to an animal to track it? That's stupid. Or smart because of how well they track humans... Before you know it, these animals will be making app store purchases, in game content purchases, music purchases, and posting on Twitter - which would actually raise t...
[20:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eagles Run Up Huge Roaming Charges For Scientists Studying Them Via SMS - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:27] <exec> 08└─Didn't Tom Swift Jr. have to deal with jet powered drones that were disguised to look like large birds? Somewhere I still have a pretty good collection of the original Tom Swift and T.S. Jr. books, but all the plots kind of melted together over time.
[20:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking the Mystery of Nature's Toughest Material - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:38] <exec> 08└─Nacre, [...] is known as nature's toughest material.
[20:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cracking the Mystery of Nature's Toughest Material - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:40] <exec> 08└─Keep your clam shut, you silly. You were parading your seafarer past, I guess it was all a figment of overheated imagination.
[20:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking the Mystery of Nature's Toughest Material - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:43] <exec> 08└─You're probably supposed to limit 'nature' to 'biological'.
[20:20:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 2239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:09] <exec> 08└─Poorer countries have 2 options when it comes to credit: 1. Borrow money in foreign currency from nasty folks like the IMF, who can and will use those loans to dictate government policy to the detriment of democracy. 2. Don't borrow money, because no major foreign investors will invest in an asset t...
[20:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:17] <exec> 08└─That depends. If they are tasked with killing me through a nuclear detonation, I feel far more comfortable if they are psychologists. ;-)
[20:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:05] <exec> 08└─Our system no longer functions.
[20:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:10] <exec> 08└─I know that's in discussion, but there's no warranty that will be a foolproof solution.
[20:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:11] <exec> 08└─Isn't that post-modern? *ducks*
[20:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Company That Sold Encrypted Phones Was Run by Crime Lords - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:25] <exec> 08└─If "they" even know you are using encryption, you are already compromised. You should be right in the open, like everyone else, sharing boring vacation videos, sports events, baby shots, animals, whatever. And Steganography. The phone is just a timing aid or mutex.
[20:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:13] <exec> 08└─I'm betting the new peak oil is a peak in market demand, as other sources of energy continue to replace fossil fuels. Of course, supply limitations will show up as consumption limitations, so the two are similar in effect. The main difference is the price. As demand decreases, the price tends lower;...
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[20:25:14] <exec> 08└─> ... AND IT LL BE 30 DOLLA Boy, it sucks to be Bot, sorry you had such a bad time dating.
[20:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:16] <exec> 08└─Using high yield H-bombs for minimal half-life of the fallout, of course.
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[21:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:02] <exec> 08└─when there are so much better things to set fire to in CA, such as the Googleplex in Mountain View, of Facebook in Menlo Park. And while you're at it, take a little drive to Redmond, WA too...
[21:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:03] <exec> 08└─Looks like Sheriff Buford T. Justice chewing tobacco
[21:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:05] <exec> 08└─I was surprised that his neck wasn't red.
[21:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:08] <exec> 08└─Whoops, typo -- Colombia
[21:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:10] <exec> 08└─and then there is local warming.
[21:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:12] <exec> 08└─THIS deserves the death penalty more than most of the times it has been used. Thousands of people affected, complete "depraved indifference to human life". Instead the only law that will stick is some minor vandalism statute.
[21:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:14] <exec> 08└─As an aside, nobody is going successfully start any fires near the Puget Sound in October by tossing lit pieces of paper out their window. It would take serious amounts of accelerant at this time of the year and even then, you're more likely to just end up with soggy pools of pollutants.
[21:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:16] <exec> 08└─meh -- California.
[21:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:19] <exec> 08└─If "driving around torching stuff" doesn't deserve it, I'm not even sure what does anymore.
[21:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eagles Run Up Huge Roaming Charges For Scientists Studying Them Via SMS - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:33] <exec> 08└─Eagle Two-Nine approaching asteroid, commander. Eagle Ten descending with nuke.
[21:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Cracking the Mystery of Nature's Toughest Material - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:46] <exec> 08└─> Diamond has entered the chat Only to be cleaved easily by a jeweler who understands fracture planes. Hint: toughness isn't the same as hardness.
[21:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking the Mystery of Nature's Toughest Material - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:47] <exec> 08└─Better have a good plan for recycling these materials then. I suppose they might have little environmental impact if they wound up exactly like little bits of shell, although it probably also depends whether humans will synthesize this stuff in vast quantities. We also need to consider byproducts an...
[21:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:15] <exec> 08└─I've been learning and using Ada at work recently and it's really enjoyable to code. Ensures secure code too. Something we could do a bit more of these days. It's definitely not some old redundant language, is very actively used and developed.
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[22:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:05] <exec> 08└─Now tell me some fine arguments justifying the legality and justness of such person destruction methodics, I wish to hear them.
[22:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:06] <exec> 08└─Less likely that others will commit treason when they see what happens. #CrookedHillaryKillsAnother
[22:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:08] <exec> 08└─Might makes right seems to be what is going on here, but the UK Supreme Court will presumably rule on this case at some point, and they seem to be less inclined to take their marching orders from the US government, so maybe there is some hope for justice.
[22:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:10] <exec> 08└─they seem to be less inclined to take their marching orders from the US government
[22:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:13] <exec> 08└─UK Supreme Court will presumably rule on this case at some point
[22:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:15] <exec> 08└─Well, as far as kangaroo courts in tyrannical regimes goes, he still got a full set of teeth, finger nails, appendages, eye balls, nose, genitalia, family members with the aforementioned body parts that are still in one piece that have (yet) to be raped, a lawyer and a public trialexecution. That's...
[22:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:17] <exec> 08└─So, what happens to wikileaks? Does it die with him? Or does it wake up to double its efforts?
[22:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:19] <exec> 08└─The moment he dies, all the world's secrets held by WikiLeaks get leaked. That's right, they are even going to email a full listing of the porn on your hard drive to your mother (and wait until you see what she has on hers).
[22:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:21] <exec> 08└─I am basing my view of the UK Supreme Court on the fact they followed the law, instead of doing what Boris wanted when they ruled on the prorogation of Parliament recently. I could be wrong of course.
[22:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:24] <exec> 08└─Fuckwit von stupidstick!
[22:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03yuhong [6517] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:44] <exec> 08└─"UPDATE: The wildfires in this story were set Sept. 21 and 22 and are unrelated to the current wildfires in California."
[22:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:46] <exec> 08└─He's probably a Trump supporter too. Old, white, male, hates environmentalism, crazy, and possibly senile, though still able to use commercial flight. I mean, wow, can afford to fly cross country, and is no doubt collecting a nice, fat Social Security check. What is his prob? His wife died, but that...
[22:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:48] <exec> 08└─Those fires actually may have lessen the impact of current ones, right?
[22:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:50] <exec> 08└─Mugshot here,
[22:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:52] <exec> 08└─California's bigger than that: https://www.fire.ca.gov [ca.gov] None of the current ones are in San Jose
[22:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:54] <exec> 08└─I think he is in a wee bit more trouble than minor vandalism. They don't take this lightly. Graham was charged with 13 felony counts of arson of brushland, and two additional arson counts alleging an arson committed during a state of emergency. In March, Gov. Gavin Newsom, declared that emergency st...
[22:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eagles Run Up Huge Roaming Charges For Scientists Studying Them Via SMS - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:10] <exec> 08└─Oh come on. All that billing doesn't come for free.
[22:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cracking the Mystery of Nature's Toughest Material - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:26] <exec> 08└─Should probably call it Matrix 5, Matrix 4 was already done. It had a black Neo, aka Terry Crews. The reality in this one is scary, it had monsters. Furry monsters. You can see the movie on youtube, search for Simulation Theory...
[22:20:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 1425 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:59] <exec> 08└─Wellll that's as much of a lie as I've ever heard. At bare undeniable minimum, 45,000 people die a year from lack of medical care in the richest country in the world, due to our stupid obsession with the free market. [aphapublications.org](and this particular paper intentionally controls for the fac...
[22:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:02] <exec> 08└─If you are constantly drunk, it will eventually kill you. You really need to stop. If you stop suddenly, you will get seizures and then die. Don't do it that way. It's the same with government spending. Most nations need to cut back, but sudden change is disruptive.
[22:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:04] <exec> 08└─When the CIA overthrow this government, it will not be because of free markets.
[22:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:06] <exec> 08└─It's the same with government spending. Most nations need to cut back...
[22:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zamna Raises $5M to Automate Airport Security Checks Between Agencies Using Blockchain - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:27] <exec> 08└─using cryptography to check you are who you say you are
[22:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:55] <exec> 08└─The adipose, lumpy proletariat.
[22:22:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:27] <exec> 08└─Try doing client-side scripting for an SPA in C++ and then tell me it's good for /everything/. Wt [webtoolkit.eu] simply does not stack up against something like React [reactjs.org] in that domain. C++ is probably my favourite tool/language, but it's not the universal answer.
[22:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:04] <exec> 08└─Just because it accepts some arguments, doesn't actually mean what you think it means.
[22:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:27] <exec> 08└─What "real Windows applications" would you enjoy running on your phone? Visual Studio? Office? The Adobe suit? GTA? Ski free? None of those seem to work right.
[22:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel announces $20 billion increase in stock buybacks (from $4.5 billion) - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:45] <exec> 08└─Reading between the lines - you may not have finished? If so, and you aren't going to branch out a la Bill Gates, at least keep going and wrangle it into a degree. PITA at night of course, but college isn't just about brains, part of it is just telling an employer that you can finish something. It...
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[23:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Lands After Record 780 Days In Orbit - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:05] <exec> 08└─It had meatbag crew and tried to test how long they can go eating only pizza rolls. Guess 780 days is it.
[23:19:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:12] <exec> 08└─Now tell me some fine arguments justifying the legality and justness of such person destruction methodics, I wish to hear them.
[23:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:22] <exec> 08└─All that time he was in that embassy he was the same smug and arrogant ass that he had always been, but it seems when he finally wore out his welcome, then suddenly he is afflicted with a mental condition. This sudden health affliction does seem to strike many just as they go to trial, so yes, indee...
[23:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:24] <exec> 08└─half way to Boko Haram Yeah, he is a whiter shade of pale...
[23:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:26] <exec> 08└─He wouldn't be in gaol right now. In fact, had he not done so, even *if* (and that's a big 'if') he'd been convicted in a US court [cornell.edu], he'd likely have completed his sentence and been released from prison years ago. Whether you support the work of Wikileaks (I do) or not, Assange wasted a...
[23:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:28] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/04/politics/kfile-trump-wikileaks/index.html [cnn.com] The bigger concern is the people who have called for his death, directly or indirectly.
[23:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:30] <exec> 08└─And JFK had the protection of the Secret Service against a lone shooter....no...wait, a bunch of shooters, but there was no conspiracy and there were multiple shooters at that one spot but they weren't acting together and Oswald was the killer even though he had a shite rifle and couldn't hit a bric...
[23:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:32] <exec> 08└─So, what happens to wikileaks? Does it die with him? Or does it wake up to double its efforts?
[23:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:34] <exec> 08└─What's on Hillary's? "You wanted a 'pizza', didn't you Mrs Clinton?" "Oh, yes....a 'pizza'. With black 'olives' but no 'kvelte fish'....a large 'pepperoni' with huge nipples...errr...I mean huge 'pineapples'....yes...."
[23:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:37] <exec> 08└─Define justice? - At this point no amount of reparations will amount to personal justice for JA, maybe for his cause, maybe before he dies he can see just progress toward his goals, but his life - no amount of money and/or freedom will make up for what has already transpired.
[23:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:39] <exec> 08└─He was acting in self defense. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Wikileaks never did help prevent the election of fascists around the world. May as well turn off the lights
[23:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:41] <exec> 08└─Might makes right seems to be what is going on here, but the UK Supreme Court will presumably rule on this case at some point, and they seem to be less inclined to take their marching orders from the US government, so maybe there is some hope for justice.
[23:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Julian Assange Might Not Live to the End of the Extradition Process - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:43] <exec> 08└─Osama bin Laden used to be friends of the US government, but when it was convenient he became enemy #1 and he was 'eliminated'. Can you not see the same or worse happening to Assange? Or Snowden?
[23:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:09] <exec> 08└─Stupid, reckless, and dangerous, are good words to describe what he allegedly did. No one was killed or injured from the fires he lit. Where do you get the "THIS deserves the death penalty" from? Now, if you're a treehugger member of green peace, I could see your point.
[23:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:10] <exec> 08└─If you follow the video link to youtube, it gives a suggestion of another video: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] where you find he has already been charged with setting fire to a hay trailer in Lone Jack because the company would not hire him. Setting fires seems to be his...
[23:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Missouri Man Flies to California, Sets 13 Wildfires, Then Tries to Fly Home, Cops Say - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:12] <exec> 08└─So, you are saying, his fires helped stop bigger fires? Ones that could have killed people? He should get an award.
[23:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eagles Run Up Huge Roaming Charges For Scientists Studying Them Via SMS - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:29] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows the Eagles have no running game.
[23:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Argentina Rejects Austerity To Elect Alberto Fernandez President - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:23] <exec> 08└─1. What exactly does the situation of the UK in 1950 have to do with the situation of Argentina and other poorer countries in 2019? 2. Your claims about nationalized industries all being horrid doesn't make much sense in the light of Britain's NHS consistently providing better health care than the U...
[23:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Health Care Algorithm Affecting Millions is Biased Against Black Patients - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:13] <exec> 08└─This is what people keep voting for in America.
[23:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starvation Halts Brain Development, but Hungry Cells Jump-Start Growth When Food Becomes Available - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:22] <exec> 08└─I doubt that guy has ever suffered even hunger let alone starvation. One of my nicknames for him is "Also ate Zarathustra."
[23:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:24] <exec> 08└─My slave code for me in binary. It is called the Compiler..
[23:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06C++ is a Modern Language (No, Really...) - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:25] <exec> 08└─I thought that was Ruby...
[23:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:49] <exec> 08└─Gamers don't care if we screw with their video card drivers right?
[23:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:50] <exec> 08└─So if it looks like a tablet interface, that's because it *is* a tablet interface.
[23:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10X Internal Design Document Leaks, Detailing User Interface Changes - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:52] <exec> 08└─Big G's kids used iPhones.
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