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[00:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:21] <exec> 08└─An early story on this general topic was from 2015, https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] "Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All" It's worth a read to see what we (collectively) were thinking back then. Lots of apologists for the self driving car...
[00:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:22] <exec> 08└─If Soylent News made a car, it would have an open bottom where your feet touch the street, and the car would go as fast as you can run. Just like on The Flintstones.
[00:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:31] <exec> 08└─*cough* [grammar-monster.com]
[00:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:33] <exec> 08└─Sources that don't piss me off with splashes like the linked FA does. From the horse's mouth [liu.se] Eurekalert.org [eurekalert.org] - has a link to a video clip [youtube.com] sciencedaily [sciencedaily.com] - if you so prefer, 'cause there's nothing else on top of what the original horse said.
[00:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:35] <exec> 08└─Erect when turned on.
[00:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Lawmakers Introduce Tough Privacy Bill to Regulate Top Social Media Platforms - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:47] <exec> 08└─It is more like a gun or a whip, it can be used to force people to do things they don't want.
[00:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:30] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a sad, but true statement. I still hold out a bit of hope. Then again, I'd rather certain works be allowed exemption / lengthy extension, if as in the case of Mickey Mouse, it's an iconic representation of actively used assets. Here's a table that helps you see how convoluted our copyright s...
[00:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:32] <exec> 08└─They should have gone with a season of Gilligan's Island. That would have revealed the true state of entertainment for our era.
[00:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:34] <exec> 08└─Has anyone found it? 4000 years ago?
[00:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:36] <exec> 08└─After agreement to TOS on disk 1, it will instruct you to insert program disk 2.
[00:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:38] <exec> 08└─I don't know if they use a glass substrate in one of their layers, but the m-disc discs are designed for the exact archival purposes Microsoft's claim to be for, are already on market, and are available in 4.7, 25, 50, and 100GB formats. Microsoft's in comparison is more complicated, requires machin...
[00:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Pays $60 Million To Settle Claims It Lied About Unlimited Data Plan - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:42] <exec> 08└─Too soon dude, too soon!
[00:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Panorama Reveals Starry Glory of the Southern Sky - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:41] <exec> 08└─Any chance this could be a live desktop wallpaper? That would be cool!!
[00:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:22] <exec> 08└─- Daily (some times business emails wind up in the spam folder, would hate to leave any business on the table) - Enough to determine that it is only a political ad, and not something else
[00:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:42] <exec> 08└─You would probably be surprised if you read about the Winter War - Finland fought off Russia (and GB, but I think the other Allied left them alone). It's not impossible.
[00:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:43] <exec> 08└─The barcode on the back just passes DOB info IIRC - it should be plenty easy to counterfeit.
[00:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:46] <exec> 08└─What effect will this have on undocumented immigrants? If they get arrested and fined, they can't get in to pay the fine? This is very interesting.
[00:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:48] <exec> 08└─AC may be hinting that there are extra problems when the rules change mid-stream, especially when no provisions are made for that. For example, getting a "real ID" can be quite a problem if you don't already have an ID. Many don't because it wasn't required at one time if you didn't drive.
[00:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:50] <exec> 08└─It wasn't that long ago that you really didn't need an ID if you didn't drive. Even buying alcohol wasn't much problem as long as you looked like you were 'likely' over 18. Getting your DL wasn't a big deal either, they just took your word for your name, DOB, etc. The closest thing to verification w...
[00:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:52] <exec> 08└─POOF! your credit cards, ID, and SS card just disappeared. Now, see how easy it is to get replacements. BTW, you didn't notice but your ID expired last year (how an ID expires when the person didn't also expire is beyond me). Now, just to add to the fun, imagine if the bills are in your SO's name. G...
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[01:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:28] <exec> 08└─You forgot that the registration fees and insurance would be extremely low cost, so low that they could easily be paid by donations.
[01:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:29] <exec> 08└─Is it not in beta? Test vehicles aren't production vehicles.
[01:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:31] <exec> 08└─And the passengers in the back seat would remind you how lucky you were that #CrookedHillary didn't get elected.
[01:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:33] <exec> 08└─Namely, not looking for oncoming traffic while crossing the street. Stupid is as stupid does.
[01:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:36] <exec> 08└─Who knows if it's still in beta, the companies that are testing on public roads aren't about to admit to that, are they?
[01:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:38] <exec> 08└─Uber needs to up its game it wants to compete with Boeing. Even musky Teslas can't match Boeing's kill count. The Boeing crashes and the criminalization of American capitalism [wsws.org] (Not sure if criminalization means what they want it to mean.... Must be the lead in the water [wsws.org] over th...
[01:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:49] <exec> 08└─I was thinking remote controlled boob implants.
[01:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:50] <exec> 08└─This is basic science, and just plain cool, so admittedly it doesn't need to have a point as such. Still, I have to wonder, what does it even mean for a substance to increase in volume by a factor of 100? As an example, consider depleted uranium [wikipedia.org]. It's not the densest thing out there,...
[01:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:53] <exec> 08└─It means your electric buttplug will get stuck.
[01:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:55] <exec> 08└─It said 100% before, teehee: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[01:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Lawmakers Introduce Tough Privacy Bill to Regulate Top Social Media Platforms - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:07] <exec> 08└─A new federal agency??? Just grant us the right to sue, including a non-waivable right to class action lawsuits, and grant every prosecutor in the country the right to file charges. We don't need a whole new agency full of biased and unproductive government workers.
[01:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:56] <exec> 08└─You just store the cracked version BOO! That was horrible!
[01:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:57] <exec> 08└─There are places that have been found where the thicker part is at the top.
[01:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:59] <exec> 08└─On the front cover: "In case of emergency, break glass"
[01:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:42] <exec> 08└─> The charge/requirement to show up in court was mailed to him... at his old address, because he'd moved during the time in-between those two events. This whole story seems suspect-- If he'd just moved, postal forwarding should have been in place. If he moved and didn't change the address on his dri...
[01:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:44] <exec> 08└─There is no both! What is it going to take?
[01:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:11] <exec> 08└─Its not dissonance, just self serving. Voter ID = bad. poor people are too stupid to get IDs, its not like they need them to do everything else in life. DISCRIMINATION! /s National ID/Papers please = good. How dare you travel without identifying yourself. If you're poor, nobody is stopping you from...
[01:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:12] <exec> 08└─You already can't travel. They tried to get the TSA onto train/bus stations. More and more places require IDs to board or purchase tickets. Horses and walking don't work on the freeway, they're illegal.
[01:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:15] <exec> 08└─It is a state branded national ID. The act required the following: 1. Centralized ID issuing point in each state. 2. Multiple verifications on info submitted 3. Info is shared with and checked against a "fusion" center. So there are only 50 places making IDs and the federal government has full acces...
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[02:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Boeing Performs Starliner Pad Abort Test. Declares Success Though 1 of 3 Parachutes Fails to Deploy. - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:33] <exec> 08└─Boeing can just install a "parachute disagree light"
[02:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Performs Starliner Pad Abort Test. Declares Success Though 1 of 3 Parachutes Fails to Deploy. - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:34] <exec> 08└─An on-board Dislike button deploys an inflatable safe space.
[02:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Performs Starliner Pad Abort Test. Declares Success Though 1 of 3 Parachutes Fails to Deploy. - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:36] <exec> 08└─Same uneasy feeling I would get if my mechanic tried ta assure me the brakes are OK, when it's obvious the brake malfunction indicator is lit. "Oh, your brakes are redundant. Your car will still stop!"
[02:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Performs Starliner Pad Abort Test. Declares Success Though 1 of 3 Parachutes Fails to Deploy. - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:38] <exec> 08└─I've heard that before and the "sufficient" failed.
[02:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:53] <exec> 08└─Registration and insurance for the SoylentCar would be so cheap, they could be paid by begging.
[02:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:54] <exec> 08└─For the high-performance model of SoylentCar, the passengers get out and push.
[02:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:56] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I don't buy this (although the mods are at +4 so I might be in the minority). Peds have the right of way on any urban street (not on limited access freeways, etc, of course). The UBER had plenty of time to see the victim and either slow down or stop to avoid her, but it didn't. * If the facto...
[02:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:58] <exec> 08└─Snotnose is an old crotchety geezer who blames the victim now, but when Snotnose is dying, he will blame God instead of accepting personal responsibility for his life. Modded up because SoylentNews is old crotchety geezers.
[02:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:01] <exec> 08└─Peds have the right of way on any urban street (not on limited access freeways, etc, of course).
[02:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:03] <exec> 08└─Snotnose is an old crotchety geezer who blames the victim now, but when Snotnose is dying, he will blame God instead of accepting personal responsibility for his life.
[02:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:05] <exec> 08└─I can't wait to read in the obituaries all about how Snotnose was killed by a speeding car. CARS MOVE FAST, DUMBFUCK.
[02:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:07] <exec> 08└─Yep. We're going to put it on your tombstone. "He had the right of way." Gonna order your tombstone now because with your attitude, you're likely to be dead real soon.
[02:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:09] <exec> 08└─I don't know if it's different in USA, but on Oz roads no-one ever has "right of way". There are many requirements to stop, yield, or give way, but you never have the right to run into someone because they are in your way, and no-one has to get out of your way either.
[02:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:11] <exec> 08└─Just like on The Flintstones.
[02:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:14] <exec> 08└─... I don't believe in $diety.
[02:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:29] <exec> 08└─I'll give an example. I've built a couple of robots that use air muscles, inflatable bladders inside a mesh that's secured at each end to a movable piece of kit. This material could be used for a similar purpose and be a lot quieter than air muscles.
[02:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:30] <exec> 08└─It may not need to have much of any structural integrity. My first thought was a pump. Imagine a wire insulated with this material, and then sheathed in another material capable of expanding, but having the needed structural integrity. Or the outer material could just be loose rubber until electrici...
[02:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:32] <exec> 08└─Until the batteries go flat
[02:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:35] <exec> 08└─Unless the sucker is nuclear. 1.21 Jiggawatts models have been available in Japan for some time now.
[02:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:38] <exec> 08└─One episode of a Batman cartoon has Mr. Freeze showing up in the far future. Batman encoded a computer program on the walls of the Bat Cave in titanium.
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[03:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:22] <exec> 08└─Thank God for all that tax money they get.
[03:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:24] <exec> 08└─Subsidies for cellphones? Why? Get a real telephone. There should not be subsidies for toy consumer products that people don't really need. They make it sound like people can't live without cell phones. Well, of course they do, they want to sell cell phones.
[03:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:26] <exec> 08└─Your post is boomer lawn diarrhea, no doubt about that, but the government is sending SMS alerts to people so your argument is invalid. Let them have feature phones.
[03:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:28] <exec> 08└─Let them pay for it themselves.
[03:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:30] <exec> 08└─Just use some of the NSA's black budget and let them have $10 surveillance phones for free. Everybody wins.
[03:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Performs Starliner Pad Abort Test. Declares Success Though 1 of 3 Parachutes Fails to Deploy. - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:40] <exec> 08└─Boeing has forgotten how to speak plainly and tell the truth. Shame on them.
[03:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Performs Starliner Pad Abort Test. Declares Success Though 1 of 3 Parachutes Fails to Deploy. - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:42] <exec> 08└─Sounds just like the way they have described the MCAS on the B737 Max... anyone surprised?
[03:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:30] <exec> 08└─I would be surprised if the Microsoft prototype tops out at 75 GB, but it needs to hit 100 TB to compete with other technologies.
[03:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:32] <exec> 08└─Financial motivation explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[03:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:22] <exec> 08└─Current Hong Kong government is direct successor to British colonial administration. It doesn't come from mainland bureaucracy.
[03:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:23] <exec> 08└─I think the point of my post is clear. I am not talking about this incident as condemning the protests, but to emphasize that our media coverage is literally less than worthless - it is actively misinforming us.
[03:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:25] <exec> 08└─I think a big part of the reason our democratic systems have been failing is because of lowest common denominator issues.
[03:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:28] <exec> 08└─I read an interesting piece online a few months ago (which I can't find now) which made the point that the US does not have a state-run media, then posed the question that if they did, how would it look any different from what you have now?
[03:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:26] <exec> 08└─Stuff like summons are sometimes marked "do not forward" right there on the envelope.
[03:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:28] <exec> 08└─As someone elsewhere pointed out: "We voted our way into this mess. What makes you think we can vote our way out of it?"
[03:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:30] <exec> 08└─"Democracy: that ultimate triumph of quantity over quality." -- Peter H. Peel
[03:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:59] <exec> 08└─In the 28 years I voted in California, a state with many ballot referendums -- I saw exactly two that were not either destructive of liberty or functionally a tax hike to give money to some special interest. Yet about half of these passed. Most voters vote with their feelz, and are easily swayed by...
[03:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:00] <exec> 08└─That's comical. I have personally seen DLs issued by the CA DMV to people with no documentation ... and more importantly, no English (speaking Spanish appears to be the true criterion). Whereas I, an obvious anglo, was required to prove my identity.
[03:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In-Brain Electrodes Are the Latest Weapon Against Opioid Addiction - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:21] <exec> 08└─That's entirely possible, and I freely admit I despair at the current regimes for treating depression, anxiety, and existential suffering. Furthermore, I know that money has corrupted everything, and there is more to be made patenting and flooding the market with drugs that may or may not work as un...
[03:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In-Brain Electrodes Are the Latest Weapon Against Opioid Addiction - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:22] <exec> 08└─Are you one of those guys who doesn't finish his antibiotics because he "feels better" midway through the course of therapy? All you're doing there is, metaphorically at least, creating a "resistant strain" of junkie. Leaving aside the incredible cruelty, you're not offering any realistic, viable, o...
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[04:27:29] <exec> 08└─The FCC has become a corporate mouthpiece. It is, in fact, doing precisely the opposite of its stated purpose as a government organ. This is what is known as "regulatory capture." You may as well blame an ant infected with Cordyceps for deliberately spreading spores and endangering its colony. Of co...
[04:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:30] <exec> 08└─Good idea! And while we're at it, let's make people pay for food inspection, water treatment, drug monitoring, and the specific segment of the road right in front of their places of residence out of pocket too, right? Oh, and let's not forget the military. But waaaait, I remember you saying public f...
[04:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:32] <exec> 08└─Networks are supposed to help Lifeline recipients by providing more data and phasing out support for call minutes
[04:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:34] <exec> 08└─Cell phones aren't a necessity, they're a toy.
[04:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:37] <exec> 08└─The real problem is that grannies don't charge their phones. They let that battery die every time.
[04:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:39] <exec> 08└─Cell phones aren't a necessity, they're a toy.
[04:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:41] <exec> 08└─It is, in fact, doing precisely the opposite of its stated purpose as a government organ.
[04:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Performs Starliner Pad Abort Test. Declares Success Though 1 of 3 Parachutes Fails to Deploy. - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:54] <exec> 08└─They should install some kind of Parachute Characteristics Augmentation System. That'll make it extra super safe.
[04:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:20] <exec> 08└─Right of way merely means you're not at fault in an accident due to just being there.
[04:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:38] <exec> 08└─In China the government is designed as an hierarchy of representatives. People start voting at an extremely low level. Villages vote for their representatives who have a pretty substantial degree of federally backed power to enact positive change in a community they live within. Those representative...
[04:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:10] <exec> 08└─> Most voters vote with their feelz, and are easily swayed by mudslinging (not so much by hard cold facts). Yup. Sad but true. "Never let the facts get in the way of a good (news) story." "Popular Misconception" drives much of society's thinking and voting. People are too quick to believe what they...
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[05:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:19] <exec> 08└─It's about time we start seeing more places in the US adopt democratic reforms. So many of the local elections here are structured around an 18th century view of how people interact and travel within a community. There's been a disconnect in the past 20 years where there is simply less "consent of t...
[05:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:20] <exec> 08└─Politics? You call this politics? Where are the aristarchus submissions? There are not even any in the queue! Oh, no, eds, what have you done! Have you finally driven away the one Soylentil that submitted non-right-wing STEM gaming Tech crap? Say it ain't so, editors, say it ain't so! (For those of...
[05:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:22] <exec> 08└─Maybe ranked-choice can help restore people's belief in a government by, of, and for the people.
[05:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:41] <exec> 08└─Try applying for a job without a cellphone. They will send you your interview time by SMS. If you don't respond in kind within a couple of minutes you get roundfiled as having skipped the appointment.
[05:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:42] <exec> 08└─Money and lobbying and bribery corrupt fucking everything. Regulatory capture is a blasphemous cancer.
[05:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:44] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately you want to put the government in charge of even more shit, instead of less. The latter would reduce all those bad things.
[05:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Performs Starliner Pad Abort Test. Declares Success Though 1 of 3 Parachutes Fails to Deploy. - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:57] <exec> 08└─Read your bible, people, the number of the beast shall be BOEING! If you substitute the Hewbraic Kabballah values for the Latinate letters, it amount to 666, just like if you added up all the letters in George Walker Buesch: 666, the Number of the Beast!!! And do not get me started on the Donald. D...
[05:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Performs Starliner Pad Abort Test. Declares Success Though 1 of 3 Parachutes Fails to Deploy. - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:59] <exec> 08└─Fires of Sloar, as in roasted in, as in, "Then, during the Third Reconciliation of the Last of the Meketrex Supplicants, they chose a new form for him, that of a giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zulls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a Sloar that day, I can tell you!"
[05:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:26] <exec> 08└─Namely, not looking for oncoming traffic while crossing the street. Stupid is as stupid does.
[05:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:46] <exec> 08└─I've built a couple of robots that use air muscles, inflatable bladders inside a mesh that's secured at each end to a movable piece of kit. This material could be used for a similar purpose and be a lot quieter than air muscles.
[05:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Lawmakers Introduce Tough Privacy Bill to Regulate Top Social Media Platforms - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:00] <exec> 08└─"A pair of California Democratic lawmakers" -- Democrats still butthurt over Facebook and the 50k in ad money from the Rrrussians. They didn't fucking care how Facebook fucked people's privacy the decade before Trump got elected, but once they found out that the Rrrussian ads on Facebook must have c...
[05:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Pays $60 Million To Settle Claims It Lied About Unlimited Data Plan - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:59] <exec> 08└─They will probably just give their customers a $2 refund on their next bill. There will of course be an extra $2 service fee to cover processing costs.
[05:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Reuse Payload Fairing for First Time on Nov. 11 Launch - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:17] <exec> 08└─Is it just SpaceX experiencing a lull, or is that across the commercial launch market?
[05:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:50] <exec> 08└─They would not, and they do not. There was a law that sent people into war to die - and they went. (In Ukraine? In the USA? The answer is both.) People always think "it's some rapist, extradite him on two separate airplanes." People think "this cannot happen to me." And they are predominantly right....
[05:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 2918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:51] <exec> 08└─When the United States government was first formed (following the first representative election) we had 65 members in the House of Representatives. The exact number of voters is unclear since there were quite a lot of restrictions on who could vote, most exclusive being the need to be a property own...
[05:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:53] <exec> 08└─Not saying we can, but it is the only option available under the present system.
[05:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:54] <exec> 08└─So it is... absent revolution, a measure which usually results in markedly worse-than-before. So, I grit my teeth and vote.
[05:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:27] <exec> 08└─Apparently the next natural step for a fullblown liberal democracy is to vote yourself into chaos.
[05:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no. The point is not to make it utterly impossible to be conquered, of course. They're quite aware they can't do that. They've been conquered many times - most recently by Germany in WWII. The point is to make sure that any invasion will cost more than it is worth. It's deterrence. And since t...
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[06:27:30] <exec> 08└─I dunno, the current system has worked well to keep corrupt politicians from coming to power. The last loser thought the (c) on documents stood for cookie and resulted in dozens of Chinese informants being murdered. Go ahead and try to pass an amendment though.
[06:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:31] <exec> 08└─It is more about slowing down the process of people voting themselves free stuff. https://www.goodreads.com [goodreads.com]
[06:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:34] <exec> 08└─I dunno, the current system has worked well to keep corrupt politicians from coming to power.
[06:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:56] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna have to hit you with a [citation needed] there, on BOTH those counts. You aren't a psychic, you're not reading my mind, and you don't actually know what my positions are. You're another lazy, worthless whiner who thinks 1) there are simple solutions and 2) you know them.
[06:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:39] <exec> 08└─Is it not in beta? Test vehicles aren't production vehicles.
[06:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:06] <exec> 08└─75GB? Why that's only 25% less than a 100GB M-DISC [amazon.com]. But then, M-DISC uses a glassy-carbon surface which only lasts thousands of years, so, completely different.
[06:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:04] <exec> 08└─I'm a little dubious of this ACs claim that they are American...
[06:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:06] <exec> 08└─You call out others as propagandist and yet appeared to have swallowed Chinese government propaganda wholesale. Communist China is not the inheritor of traditional Chinese culture and in fact stands in opposition to it. I would have thought that the cultural revolution was sufficient evidence of thi...
[06:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 2656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:08] <exec> 08└─Again, don't you see your own inconsistency? China does something, be it trying to pass unjust laws or lie about protesters or whatever else, it's tyranny? We do something such as pass unjust laws or lie about the protesters and it's something else? People yell tyranny, quite all of its quite powerf...
[06:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:44] <exec> 08└─If you don't have ID, how does the government know it's working for you? You may not even be a citizen, in which case the government definitely isn't/shouldn't be working for you.
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[07:27:23] <exec> 08└─Allowing Indians to use our technology was a mistake.
[07:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Actively Exploited Bug in Fully Updated Firefox is Sending Users Into a Tizzy - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:24] <exec> 08└─The Mozilla comment We are working on a fix to the authentication prompt bug
[07:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Actively Exploited Bug in Fully Updated Firefox is Sending Users Into a Tizzy - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:26] <exec> 08└─If only my Windows registry key was illegal! I pine for the day when my Microsoft software was illegal, prohibited, and quite wrong in many ways! So they managed to rope in some clueless Mac users, ha! Servers them right! For the rest of us, I only run Windows recognizable servers filled with Win...
[07:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:39] <exec> 08└─4/10. That actually got a real-life out-loud "Is this guy fucking serious or is he trolling?" from me.
[07:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:40] <exec> 08└─Don't ranked-choice/Condorcet methods produce a government -- or results in general -- by the choice everyone's willing to compromise on?
[07:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:43] <exec> 08└─Are there libraries or database plugins to run these calculations incrementally or on-demand? I thought it would be great if website polls offered ranked-choice drag-and-drop options. With current computational power availability, they could probably also provide near-/live poll results for these mo...
[07:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:45] <exec> 08└─And the electoral college itself is based on an outdated notion of how far the electorate live from voting places
[07:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:47] <exec> 08└─Don't ranked-choice/Condorcet methods produce a government -- or results in general -- by the choice everyone's willing to compromise on?
[07:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:49] <exec> 08└─Australia usually has the election results in same night. There may be cases in which they need to wait longer for some seats, postal votes and all that.
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[07:28:12] <exec> 08└─You were able to articulate the simple reason why these problems keep growing, but are too brainwashed to realize that simply reversing it will make the problems shrink.
[07:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:13] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna have to hit you with a [citation needed] there, on BOTH those counts. You aren't a psychic, you're not reading my mind, and you don't actually know what my positions are.
[07:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:58] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you would have gotten this quiz [news.com.au] wrong. If the three provinces of Australia I checked, each has an extensive page of all the instances when motorists must give way.
[07:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:59] <exec> 08└─BECAUSE I FUCKING LOOK FOR CARS, DUMASS!
[07:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:20] <exec> 08└─Little spungy things in a capsule that expand when submerged in water. Or alternatively, a piece of cap'n crunch left to sit in the milk too long. Except this is activated by electricity. And it can shrink again. Sounds like it doesn't generate much pressure in the process, so it isn't going to be u...
[07:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cambridge Boffins and Google Unveil OpenTitan, an Open-Source Blueprint for a Root of Trust - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:58] <exec> 08└─What if your maid wants to root your phone? Root == compromise. Instead of buying a device just to compromise it, why not secure it with your own trusted key? This allows you to do that.
[07:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Pays $60 Million To Settle Claims It Lied About Unlimited Data Plan - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:38] <exec> 08└─Yes. If you ask for "one day's profit" in damages from me, then I can give you whatever I happened to profit on the specified date. If, instead, you ask for one day of annual profit, then you get 1/365th of my profit for the entire year. Those can be drastically different amounts and which is better...
[07:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Pays $60 Million To Settle Claims It Lied About Unlimited Data Plan - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:39] <exec> 08└─You need to refresh your class-action litigation law. If you are a part of the affected class, you waive your right to sue independently from the class if you don't challenge or otherwise object within the window before the consent decree is entered. Didn't know about the lawsuit until after that? T...
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[07:32:35] <exec> 08└─Of course you are. Much like during the Red Scares anybody who said 'Guys, perhaps we're kind of freaking out a bit...?' would immediately be labeled at minimum a 'sympathizer' and likely an overt communist himself. Deport 'em! It's even similar to the various witch trials throughout history. You mu...
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[07:35:13] <exec> 08└─You don't need individual IDs when the computers, cameras, and cell towers can track you continuously, though.
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[08:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Blasts of Arctic Cold Will Bring an Early Winter to Millions Across the US - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:21] <exec> 08└─California's rainy season is set to begin at least two weeks later than normal. The Kincade fire would have been mostly extinguished by rain in a normal year, or perhaps not even started. The ridge pushes the jet stream north, making California warmer and dryer. The east gets the wrap-around flow an...
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[08:27:31] <exec> 08└─Don't forget changing their well-known and easily-identifiable logo. I had three family members call me to troubleshoot when the last update rolled out because their "internet" disappeared. I had to argue with one that refused to believe the logo had changed because "that's not the FoxFire logo. It...
[08:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:51] <exec> 08└─It'll be interesting to see what results come out of it. In particular, the pundit class may have to come up with something different to talk about than the lesser-of-two-evils. Because people will be able to safely vote for four other candidates before they are "forced" to vote for the second-most-...
[08:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:52] <exec> 08└─Except NYC didn't vote for a Condorcet method, they voted for instant-runoff voting [wikipedia.org]. The positive is that there is some evidence that IRV reduces negative campaigning/attack ads. But it doesn't do a good job of reducing polarization.
[08:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:18] <exec> 08└─Why do we need a federal government program to administer subsidies for something that costs $10/month? Especially one that apparently compels users and providers to jump through hoops and necessitates government employees to then sniff out "fraud." This is a giant waste of time. If providers are ov...
[08:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:19] <exec> 08└─Sexist strikes again, assuming it is a "man". Could be a lesbian standing up to the big bull, you know!
[08:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:34] <exec> 08└─Personally, I thought it beyond corporate thought patterns to actually care enough about things like archival storage.
[08:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:40] <exec> 08└─It wasn't Chinese government wishes. It was just British successor government plugging blatant hole in laws making certain murders unprosecuteable. It's impossible to keep this situation. If they're protesting against convicting murderers then they're not for democracy or letting people have more po...
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[08:32:42] <exec> 08└─Why assume this would have any particular endgame? So far as I can tell there are only two things unique about this protest: 1) The extensive 'foreign meddling.' Imagine if a nation such as Russia/China/etc was driving nonstop overt propaganda in support of the Occupy Protests, or if the Occupy prot...
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[08:32:44] <exec> 08└─In the US, senators used to be appointed by state legislatures. Quite some time ago, the Constitution was changed by amendment so we directly elect them now--making the Senate more democratic and less elitist was the idea; but it has the consequence of causing people to care less about state legisla...
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[09:27:30] <exec> 08└─And this is why we run noscript in Firefox.
[09:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:52] <exec> 08└─Actually, you can still spoil it, see resistance to tactical voting and spoiler effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The good thing is that it is harder to game. The only common situation where you run into trouble is when you ha...
[09:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:53] <exec> 08└─But it doesn't do a good job of reducing polarization.
[09:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:56] <exec> 08└─The results are in: http://u.osu.edu Check the reasons for exhaustion tables. TL;DR Conclusion: The US electorate is too stupid to understand how to use Instant Runoff Voting Yes, this can be solved with education. However, so can the problem...
[09:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:58] <exec> 08└─Or, voters are so distrustful of the whole political process, they just number randomly. (Is it better to be self-aware and cynical, or stupid/incompetent?)
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[09:28:10] <exec> 08└─The FCC has become a corporate mouthpiece. It is, in fact, doing precisely the opposite of its stated purpose as a government organ. This is what is known as "regulatory capture." You may as well blame an ant infected with Cordyceps for deliberately spreading spores and endangering its colony. Of co...
[09:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:25] <exec> 08└─In my own experience, the sellers pocket the subsidies and price items to the supposed spending capacity of the buyer anyway. Seen for cars, home improvement. Subsidies for sports create bureaucracy and ties between politicians and sellers. But for once I advocate statalism. The market drives the po...
[09:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Performs Starliner Pad Abort Test. Declares Success Though 1 of 3 Parachutes Fails to Deploy. - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:41] <exec> 08└─I bet the problem stems to a problem in the wording of the spec. Maybe the spec was written by the person who could utter this sentence without realising what he was mangling: "It's too early to determine why all three main parachutes did not deploy, however, having two of three deploy successfully...
[09:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:42] <exec> 08└─Would’t it be Hound Dog Gay?
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[09:32:49] <exec> 08└─Replace the head of Hong Kong with democratically elected leadership.
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[10:27:41] <exec> 08└─quickly close the tab of the scammer site before it has time to load
[10:27:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 724 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:49] <exec> 08└─It's about time we start seeing more places in the US adopt democratic reforms. So many of the local elections here are structured around an 18th century view of how people interact and travel within a community. There's been a disconnect in the past 20 years where there is simply less "consent of t...
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[10:28:07] <exec> 08└─I don't think the best way of saying "I know the system is almost everywhere flawed, but know enough about our system to know its better than what others have" is to spoil your ballot paper. That would put you straight back into the stupid/incompetent camp, IMHO.
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[10:28:09] <exec> 08└─> safely vote for four other candidates before they are "forced" to vote for the second-most-evil candidate to hedge against whichever one is the most evil. I have nothing to add apart from wanting to see the concept of safely voting for four other candidates before being "forced" to vote for the se...
[10:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:11] <exec> 08└─People are stupid. I was trying to find a less negative option
[10:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:26] <exec> 08└─Um, no. Did you read my post and that link? There are many instances where you must give way. The article wrongly uses 'right of way' to mean that the other person must yield, but they are not the same thing, and the actual law never says you have right of way. There are plenty of cases that went to...
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[11:29:26] <exec> 08└─FTFA: > The system design did not include a consideration for jaywalking pedestrians One of the goals which a *programmer/data analyst* should have optimised for should have been objects straying onto the road while not at a crossing; be they people, animals, or anything else. This was *not* include...
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[11:29:28] <exec> 08└─In UK there is a concept of "corporate manslaughter"; and the burden of proof is on the organisation to prove that it is not responsible (guilty until proven innocent). So every time we do a job in UK, we have to write a document demonstrating that we have considered the risks and come up with a met...
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[12:28:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:04] <exec> 08└─4/10. That actually got a real-life out-loud "Is this guy fucking serious or is he trolling?" from me.
[12:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:20] <exec> 08└─And the electoral college itself is based on an outdated notion of how far the electorate live from voting places and a patrician belief in an aristocracy ("common people just don't know any better").
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[12:28:48] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Most will send a proper e-mail notification that can be responded to within a day or so. Any idiots that try to rely only on SMS, you probably don't want to work for.
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[12:28:50] <exec> 08└─Broadly speaking, Azuma Hazuki is probably advocating one of three possible solutions to corrupt government: socialism, libertarianism, or anarchism (anarchism as in Mikhail Bakunin, not Mad Max or Joker). Socialism has the risk that the government stops serving the people and serve itself. For exam...
[12:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:52] <exec> 08└─Libertarianism is pretty much exactly what the US has now.
[12:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:42] <exec> 08└─Virginia is the same way. No one _has_ it, but there are tons of instances in which you must yield it.
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[12:33:22] <exec> 08└─You certainly built an impressive straw man out of a single sentence, have a lot of time on our hands don't we? And what an incredibly biased reading of recent (and not so recent) Chinese and American history. The American government, and society in general, seems quite capable of "achieving things...
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[13:27:30] <exec> 08└─if you are trying to get there before the end of a second term. But I'd bet against them having the fastest path to the moon unless commercial space really screws up. So far, the opposite has been the case.
[13:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing's Lunar Lander Pitch Promises 'Fastest Path' to the Moon - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:32] <exec> 08└─Of course Boeing will have the "fastest path to the moon", they'll cut corners, fit faulty parts, install components without acceptability testing to save time, implement improperly documented automated systems that seize control from the astronauts when they don't expect it, and self-certify with t...
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[13:27:46] <exec> 08└─I was told a simple trick for when you go out to your car and the doors are frozen shut. You need to defrost the handle using your body heat. So go up to the car, pull down your pants a bit like you are going to moon the car, and back up until the warmest part of your ass is touching the handle. Sta...
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[13:27:55] <exec> 08└─The Mozilla comment We are working on a fix to the authentication prompt bug
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[13:28:00] <exec> 08└─quickly close the tab of the scammer site before it has time to load
[13:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Actively Exploited Bug in Fully Updated Firefox is Sending Users Into a Tizzy - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:02] <exec> 08└─this is awesome roflmao Don't forget they will push a few more autoupdates for auto-opt-on pocket and telemetry features with unique id's for every install! That this bug takes until a whole new point release to fix, seems to me batshit, bonkers, wtf, who are these people. Isn't this what the auto-u...
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[13:28:04] <exec> 08└─So basically there's a bug that bricks the browser and they may get to it in a few releases? Wow, just, wow I switched to Pale Moon a few weeks back, it seems I shouldn't bother looking back.
[13:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Actively Exploited Bug in Fully Updated Firefox is Sending Users Into a Tizzy - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:06] <exec> 08└─If you use computers without understanding anything about computers, there is a 60/40 chance of you having a bad time. Everything you do to understand computers better increases that chance a tiny, tiny bit. You can quote me on this, it is an iron law. For someone looking at this 5 minutes to doom m...
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[13:28:36] <exec> 08└─"It's also designed to allow voters to pick their true favorite, without worrying about throwing away a vote on someone who can't win." So what about this use case? 1/4 or voters like D1 over D2 1/4 of voters like D2 over D1, but admit that D1 is way more likely to win. 1/2 of voters like R. Doesn't...
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[13:28:37] <exec> 08└─This is pretty cool, kindof surprised to hear this democratic socialist reform but I'll take it. Sadly at the same time national socialistic copyright, ID Card and restrictions of speech lockdowns are moving ahead at a very rapid pace. It won't matter how many choices you get on the ballot if everyt...
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[13:29:09] <exec> 08└─And you are still having the delusion that the opposite of something bad must be something good.
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[13:29:11] <exec> 08└─Actually, that would be incredibly evil. That would exclude the increasing number of people who work (but are still looking for other jobs) in secure areas where cell phones are forbidden. It would also be a problem for people who drive a lot, where cell phone usage is ILLEGAL. Of course, it would e...
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[13:29:13] <exec> 08└─It is not just the opposite, it is that reversing a process will have the opposite effect. Say the fed pumps liquidity into the economy to pump a bubble, promising to reverse it later without having the opposite effect. Would you believe them? The people who thought like me were right and are making...
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[13:29:29] <exec> 08└─It would be more consistent it they called it the Multiple Chute Augmentation System. I'd like to see the statistics that made this a success. Seems like if one failed on the first test, the NASA that actually got to the moon would really want to know why before declaring anything.
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[13:32:19] <exec> 08└─While not exactly what you described, there are electrorheological fluids [wikipedia.org] that do something similar. There are magnetic versions [wikipedia.org] as well.
[13:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Observe “Spooky” Quantum Tunneling - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:21] <exec> 08└─If QM tunneling is bogus, then non of these diodes [wikipedia.org] should work. Hint - they do.
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[13:32:23] <exec> 08└─I think you misinterpret OP. Nowhere does he say QM tunneling is bogus.
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[13:33:50] <exec> 08└─When the United States government was first formed (following the first representative election) we had 65 members in the House of Representatives. The exact number of voters is unclear since there were quite a lot of restrictions on who could vote, most exclusive being the need to be a property own...
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[13:33:51] <exec> 08└─Again, don't you see your own inconsistency? China does something, be it trying to pass unjust laws or lie about protesters or whatever else, it's tyranny?
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[14:27:39] <exec> 08└─On the positive side, on the Moon, it doesn't really matter that their parachutes don't work.
[14:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing's Lunar Lander Pitch Promises 'Fastest Path' to the Moon - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:40] <exec> 08└─National space programs landing on the moon (manned): 1969 Commercial space programs landing on the moon (manned):
[14:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Blasts of Arctic Cold Will Bring an Early Winter to Millions Across the US - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:55] <exec> 08└─I heard it works better with your front bits because of higher coefficient of conductivity. Needs an experiment methinks.
[14:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Actively Exploited Bug in Fully Updated Firefox is Sending Users Into a Tizzy - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:12] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting to see this bug, I'll laugh my ass off if/when I do... You see, I DO use Firefox BUT I don't use Windows.. Only Linux.
[14:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Actively Exploited Bug in Fully Updated Firefox is Sending Users Into a Tizzy - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:13] <exec> 08└─Do they get the same dialog? That would be hilarious. And were they suckers for it that would be even more funny. That is the story I want to hear.
[14:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:45] <exec> 08└─Your case isn't very useful because, due to the way that you've specified ties for everyone, it's impossible to know who would or should win. Does R have more, or less than 50% of the vote? Does D1 have more votes than D2, or fewer?
[14:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bethany.Saint [5900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:46] <exec> 08└─The way I understand it, no. If all people who voted for D1 or D2 selected the other D person (and there was one more overall vote for D1+D2 than R) then R wouldn't win first because they didn't have the majority of votes. D2 would be removed from the results and the votes would go to the next top p...
[14:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:48] <exec> 08└─This is a weird misconception that somehow stays alive. The electoral college was a compromise designed to satisfy all the various interests that were significant at the time. Some of them, like how much representation should be given to slaves, are obviously no longer relevant. Others, like protect...
[14:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:51] <exec> 08└─Have a beer! :-D
[14:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Performs Starliner Pad Abort Test. Declares Success Though 1 of 3 Parachutes Fails to Deploy. - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:42] <exec> 08└─You are bad at math and that makes your mother sad.
[14:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Performs Starliner Pad Abort Test. Declares Success Though 1 of 3 Parachutes Fails to Deploy. - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:43] <exec> 08└─They clearly need more Nazis.
[14:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:19] <exec> 08└─Very similar in the province of Ontario in Canada. You may have the right-of-way but hitting anything on the roadway makes it possible for you to be charged, even if you have the right-of-way and are below the speed limit. Note, can be and will be are very different, the police and prosecutors have...
[14:30:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 296 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:28] <exec> 08└─Sources that don't piss me off with splashes like the linked FA does. From the horse's mouth [liu.se] Eurekalert.org [eurekalert.org] - has a link to a video clip [youtube.com] sciencedaily [sciencedaily.com] - if you so prefer, 'cause there's nothing else on top of what the original horse said.
[14:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:50] <exec> 08└─Just dropping it wouldn't erase the data. If it was valuable enough you would read the pieces and put the data back together again.
[14:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:51] <exec> 08└─Disks, especially blank business card sized CD-R disks .. can be rectangular. These were fun back in the day.
[14:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, if only they were elected democratically that solves all issues.
[14:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:09] <exec> 08└─We would be the "west" in general, and the United States in particular. I put "west" in quotes as I would also consider nations such as South Korea or Japan part of the "west" in this reference.
[14:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:11] <exec> 08└─It wasn't Chinese government wishes.
[14:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:13] <exec> 08└─The opponents of China would like this outcome, as it weakens China.
[14:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:15] <exec> 08└─Imagine if a nation such as Russia/China/etc was driving nonstop overt propaganda in support of the Occupy Protests, or if the Occupy protesters were actively waving Chinese/Russian flags and meeting with high level Chinese/Russian diplomats.
[14:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 1557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:17] <exec> 08└─I think your interpretation of state media is based on stereotypes instead of reality. For instance the BBC is state media. Does it simply parrot Boris Johnson's interests? Radio Free Europe [rferl.org]/Asia [rfa.org]/etc are entirely state funded US media outlets built for propaganda. Quite literal...
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[15:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:23] <exec> 08└─.. you need to pay them monthly to keep access to yourtheir code (the eula probably states somewhere that all code written on their platform will be their IP).
[15:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:24] <exec> 08└─Inertia and lack of tools. You'll hear people bitching about security, ownership, etc., but honestly, big cloud provides better in security than your own dumb dev-ops team will ever have the time to do and as far as ownership goes, you can always keep backups. So yeah, they'll bitch about other thin...
[15:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:26] <exec> 08└─And suddenly stop providing you service if you ever piss off the wrong people.
[15:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:28] <exec> 08└─You mean these backups? https://azure.microsoft.com [microsoft.com] Yeah , that should save you
[15:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:31] <exec> 08└─Cloud is more secure and reliable...IF AND ONLY IF correctly configured. When there is no "dumb devops team" then developers do it.
[15:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 1279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:33] <exec> 08└─I can see numerous downsides including absolute dependence on a third party company, trust issues, security issues, reliability issues (e.g. - even google cloud has gone down and outrages seem to be becoming more frequent over time, not less), and countless others. And of course in the longrun, this...
[15:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:35] <exec> 08└─All you've got to do, to stay "right", is to eat a little CoCk.
[15:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:37] <exec> 08└─I have always been awed by people who write software for Win32. Software development is a fairly masochistic endeavor anyway. Doing it on a platform where the underlying dependencies are changed to fuck over third party developers ON PURPOSE is a whole other thing. On *nix you code, then maintain to...
[15:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:39] <exec> 08└─> and outrages seem to be becoming more frequent over time I see ---^ what you did there!
[15:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing's Lunar Lander Pitch Promises 'Fastest Path' to the Moon - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:55] <exec> 08└─Sure, but when the oxygen supply has a 25% failure rate [bbc.com] that's less good.
[15:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing's Lunar Lander Pitch Promises 'Fastest Path' to the Moon - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:56] <exec> 08└─Somebody has to have the Saturn V lander drawings somewhere. Converting them to CAD is probably faster than designing new by an order of magnitude. Redesign only the electronic components, and chances are you have a pretty good system. Of course that isn't the point. The point is to pay Boeing a bun...
[15:28:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03istartedi [123] 02 - 06Several Blasts of Arctic Cold Will Bring an Early Winter to Millions Across the US - 383 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:10] <exec> 08└─California's rainy season is set to begin at least two weeks later than normal. The Kincade fire would have been mostly extinguished by rain in a normal year, or perhaps not even started. The ridge pushes the jet stream north, making California warmer and dryer. The east gets the wrap-around flow an...
[15:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Blasts of Arctic Cold Will Bring an Early Winter to Millions Across the US - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:13] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%2C_Be_Seated! [wikipedia.org] (Spoiler) "The story tells of a visit to a tunnel on the surface of the Moon which goes awry when a pressure seal fails, trapping three men (a supervisor, a reporter, and a tunnel worker). The title of the story derives from the w...
[15:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Actively Exploited Bug in Fully Updated Firefox is Sending Users Into a Tizzy - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:31] <exec> 08└─Everything you do to understand computers better increases that chance [of having a bad time] a tiny, tiny bit.
[15:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:07] <exec> 08└─Why do people keep going for IRV? It's trash. [soylentnews.org]
[15:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:42] <exec> 08└─You know I'm not a grammar Nazi. You're not either. But, just take a look at what you typed. you stupid son of a bitches.
[15:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:43] <exec> 08└─Unlikely. Let's be real here: this always has been, and still remains today, a man's world. Very few women of any sexual orientation are in positions of any real power, and a distressing number of *them* have been corrupted by money and power to the point where they happily throw other women *and* m...
[15:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:46] <exec> 08└─That is some Ralph-Wiggum-tier naive stupidity there. Pull your finger out of your nose and *think.* We need to regulate smarter, not harder, and step one of smarter regulation is to make sure that it can't be corrupted from within. I've likened this to the problems faced by a concrete slab without...
[15:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:15] <exec> 08└─The lack of DRM servers is irrelevant. Microsoft will have changed the file format hundeds of times by then without back-compatability. That's even if the world hasn't become like H G Wells depicted in The Time Machine and nobody cares.
[15:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:38] <exec> 08└─Where's the proof that law is too broad? Can you link actual analysis of the law? Also since PRC already controls the territory with its military it won't need any laws to engage in any possible abuses so it's irrelevant. As it is currently a murderer can't even get prosecuted for that particular cr...
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[16:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private LTE Networks Headed to the Slammer? GTL to Test CBRS - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:31] <exec> 08└─Acronyms Anonymous. Disclaimer: despite my name I am in no way related to this organization.
[16:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:47] <exec> 08└─This is consistent with the way things are going. I've spent the last three years working this way in SAP Fiori and Mendix. There are both good things and bad things about it, but I like these cloud IDEs, for the most part.
[16:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:48] <exec> 08└─in a cloud of marijuana smoke.
[16:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:51] <exec> 08└─Even if the EULA doesn't take ownership over your code, what is to stop them from looking and putting in their closed source products. Its not like you can prove they used it.
[16:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:53] <exec> 08└─Go and put all the source code to Windows on Visual Studio Online, to put your money where your mouth is on the security and confidentiality of your platform. If nobody is running custom builds of Windows in a year's time, we'll know the service is reasonably secure and safe for our own code (except...
[16:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 1360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:55] <exec> 08└─I did 3 month of structural refactoring to fixes some features in a brand new humongous monolith in Intellij Idea using remote⁰ X¹ and it was surprisingly good². If they implement this web IDE using something like RDP over html5/webgl it could be snappy and useful. And since Visual Studio is a b...
[16:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:57] <exec> 08└─I would like to know what you mean by lack of tooling? Do you mean that the tooling in the cloud is deficient (no grep cut sed xargs ), that devs that use MSVS have deficient tooling or both ? ;)
[16:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing's Lunar Lander Pitch Promises 'Fastest Path' to the Moon - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:16] <exec> 08└─Even if they still have the blueprints, they don't have the capability to build it anymore. All the nazi scientists and engineers have died of old age. https://www.xkcd.com [xkcd.com] Back in, I think it was the eighties, the head of NASA was in front of Congress. Congresscritter asked him, "Ho...
[16:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Blasts of Arctic Cold Will Bring an Early Winter to Millions Across the US - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:33] <exec> 08└─The touted out of drought rain came too early in the season, and while the volume looked at in spreadsheet terms was correct, its actual on the ground effect was heavily diminished. It only took a week or two after their announcement that 'California is out of the drought!' for the ground on my prop...
[16:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Actively Exploited Bug in Fully Updated Firefox is Sending Users Into a Tizzy - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:52] <exec> 08└─just made his annual bonus.
[16:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Actively Exploited Bug in Fully Updated Firefox is Sending Users Into a Tizzy - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:54] <exec> 08└─Mac users use mostly Safari. It's Firefox on Mac what sucks all the time.
[16:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Maskawanian [5039] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Actively Exploited Bug in Fully Updated Firefox is Sending Users Into a Tizzy - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:56] <exec> 08└─That doesn't make sense Pale Moon is just an older version of firefox, it should have the exact same denial of service attack. Pale moon would even be worse for this since they are stuck with the old UI that likely limited updating this in the first place.
[16:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:33] <exec> 08└─2. ... the level of distrust each of the voters holds is not the maximum
[16:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:11] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why anyone modded you down, especially not Troll, since this is one of the more reasonable posts I've seen on the thread. My actual position, not that any of the actual trolls ever gave a damn in the first place, is something like what the Nordic countries or Canada are doing, combined...
[16:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:12] <exec> 08└─Joke's on you. I'm part Dark-type and you're very clearly not running Miracle Eye or Mold Breaker. Psychic immunity is pretty useful!
[16:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Only_Mortal [7122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:43] <exec> 08└─I'm just about to start a small business selling protective covers...
[16:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Urges 'Tougher Line' in Hong Kong after Attack on Xinhua - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:04] <exec> 08└─Why can't you just be against tyranny in general, whether the US government or the Chinese government does it?
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[17:27:27] <exec> 08└─> If you're a college coach or athletic director and someone makes a FOIA request... Then you can ignore it, because you're not a part of the government, and the FOIA doesn't apply. And personally, I think if you *are* a part of the government, and use something like this to ensure FOIA-relevant rec...
[17:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sports Teams Are Using Signal to Duck Deflategate-Like Scandals - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:28] <exec> 08└─Just as well then most of your govt services are run by companies, less foia.
[17:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:59] <exec> 08└─Since "the cloud" became a thing, my experience has been that software does not work as well. As a user it seemed better to me when functionality of the software did not generally depend on a network connection. I'm not really a programmer but my "IDE" is neovim, and I don't want to run it in a brow...
[17:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:01] <exec> 08└─IOW: all your code are belong to us
[17:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:03] <exec> 08└─...when I used to complain that my project wasn't written in Perl or Python, so it was annoying that the build manager wanted it to depend on those. Now you want it to depend on a web browser, the network being up, racks of servers run by a 3rd party scattered all over, and probably Perl, Python, an...
[17:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 2132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:05] <exec> 08└─The benefits of this plan don't really line up for personal use the way they do for corporate use. Corporate users want to be able to distribute completely functional environments to code monkeys that might know how to write a web app or a React front-end but would spend weeks figuring out how to ge...
[17:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:07] <exec> 08└─Most the big software vendors believe that subscription-type services will be more lucrative than the "buy a version" model and are trying every trick in the e-book to get customers on board. They want to nickle and dime you like the banks where every transaction or change could result in a mini-fee...
[17:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03WeekendMonkey [5209] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:09] <exec> 08└─Or if your country is out of favour with the current president.
[17:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:12] <exec> 08└─Microsoft's position is a lot better than X forwarding or RDP. Visual Studio Code is able to run the full UI client-side but run all of the build tools and language server in an arbitrary remote location (often WSL or local Docker containers, but could also be a specific stack in Azure, another clou...
[17:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing's Lunar Lander Pitch Promises 'Fastest Path' to the Moon - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:31] <exec> 08└─I'm sure plenty of the early V2s blew up. Many of the nazis started as amateurs in the 30s or perhaps even the 20s. They were coming to the program with decades of experience, and experience working on large rockets that nobody else had ever seen. The reason we can't move that fast today is motivati...
[17:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03negrace [4010] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Walmart Reaches Settlement with Tesla Over Solar Panel Fires, Drops Lawsuit - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:38] <exec> 08└─The actual settlement is: * Walmart is going to hire a 3rd party to fix Tesla's mistakes * Tesla will pay for it. Source: Elon's deposition.
[17:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:27] <exec> 08└─I'll consider corruption, etc as simply something that always happens when the gov gets involved. Since that is reality. And I have no idea why you think people would start dying off in weeks if "anyone could sell anything again".
[17:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:58] <exec> 08└─With exabytes capacity, rewritability is no issue in normal use. Just write the replacement at a new position, followed by an updated directory. You'll not even come close to filling it during your lifetime.
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[18:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sports Teams Are Using Signal to Duck Deflategate-Like Scandals - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:39] <exec> 08└─Not only are they employees of the government, in many states, coaches are the highest paid employees of state governments. [yahoo.com]
[18:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private LTE Networks Headed to the Slammer? GTL to Test CBRS - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:49] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't bother if I were them. Wait for wifi6 (802.11ax) and save the massive costs the private LTE system would cost. Wifi is actually pretty terrible from a technical standpoint; current wifi standards have MUCH higher speeds, but the same basic channel access methods that were defined over 25...
[18:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:20] <exec> 08└─Another advantage to MS with this: they get a look at *everybody*'s code who is dumb enough to use this, so they can go ahead and patent any good ideas they happen to find before their creators do.
[18:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:21] <exec> 08└─Microsoft aZune!
[18:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RIP OG Pixel: Google Ends Support After Just Three Years - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:30] <exec> 08└─the programmable and RE-programmable device still works but we have to throw it away because the "insides" are secrit and thus a pain in the ass to "self-modify". thus "zer0-day" works for the rip-off manufacturer: it is built-in knowingly during manufacture and it is hoped that no one discovers it;...
[18:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06RIP OG Pixel: Google Ends Support After Just Three Years - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:32] <exec> 08└─So should the patents and copyrights. Let's put abandoned property in the public domain.
[18:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing's Lunar Lander Pitch Promises 'Fastest Path' to the Moon - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:46] <exec> 08└─they won't be finding any paperclips(*) in syria, iran or afghanistan. (*)https://tinyurl.com/6rhll88 (no spoiler)
[18:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart Reaches Settlement with Tesla Over Solar Panel Fires, Drops Lawsuit - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:55] <exec> 08└─where i live, solar modules (2m x 1 m) are considered GENERATORS and when imported, are taxed accordingly. however, if the solar modules are "missing" the plus+ and minus- cables that come out of the "junction box" on the underside of the modules they are taxed differently. now it is not easy to con...
[18:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Blasts of Arctic Cold Will Bring an Early Winter to Millions Across the US - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:07] <exec> 08└─>Just remember that flesh can stick to really cold metal... I don't think so - not quite. Besides, if your flesh (rather than skin) is being exposed to really cold metal, you probably have bigger problems. *Water* can stick to really cold metal though as it freezes, and to skin as well. And your ton...
[18:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Blasts of Arctic Cold Will Bring an Early Winter to Millions Across the US - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:08] <exec> 08└─Will the coming ice age too get blamed on eevil hoomanz making eevil CO2? Make your bets!
[18:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:07] <exec> 08└─If ya'll want more than two parties this is how we get more than two parties. Math!
[18:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:08] <exec> 08└─Politics? You call this politics?
[18:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:10] <exec> 08└─if third-party votes are no longer seen as wasted votes
[18:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:12] <exec> 08└─But trash is still better than the disastrous, rancid fecal sludge that is our current system. That said, I do prefer range voting.
[18:30:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 576 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:26] <exec> 08└─Good idea! And while we're at it, let's make people pay for food inspection, water treatment, drug monitoring, and the specific segment of the road right in front of their places of residence out of pocket too, right? Oh, and let's not forget the military. But waaaait, I remember you saying public f...
[18:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:53] <exec> 08└─a distressing number of *them* have been corrupted by money and power to the point where they happily throw other women *and* men under the bus.
[18:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:55] <exec> 08└─We need to regulate smarter, not harder, and step one of smarter regulation is to make sure that it can't be corrupted from within.
[18:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:57] <exec> 08└─Broadly speaking, Azuma Hazuki is probably advocating one of three possible solutions to corrupt government: socialism, libertarianism, or anarchism
[18:31:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06In Review of Fatal Arizona Crash, U.S. Agency Says Uber Software Had Flaws - 714 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:48] <exec> 08└─FTFA: > The system design did not include a consideration for jaywalking pedestrians One of the goals which a *programmer/data analyst* should have optimised for should have been objects straying onto the road while not at a crossing; be they people, animals, or anything else. This was *not* include...
[18:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Lawmakers Introduce Tough Privacy Bill to Regulate Top Social Media Platforms - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:26] <exec> 08└─Democrats still butthurt over Facebook and the 50k in ad money from the Rrrussians.
[18:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:29] <exec> 08└─Also, from the aritcle. The speed of both reads and writes to Silica currently leave something to be desired—it took approximately a week to etch Superman's roughly 76GB of data last year, and Rowstron estimates it would take about three days to re-read the data, with advances made since.
[18:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:30] <exec> 08└─It is useful at the terabytes level, which is what has been demonstrated (not by Microsoft).
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[19:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mind-body Therapies Alleviate Pain in People Prescribed Opioids - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:24] <exec> 08└─Wow. That almost sounds like taking opioids is contagious. . . . use this evidence as we make decisions, we can help stem the tide of the opioid epidemic.
[19:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sports Teams Are Using Signal to Duck Deflategate-Like Scandals - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:35] <exec> 08└─There's a waste of tax dollars... From what I can find though, FOIA applies only to the *federal* government.
[19:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sports Teams Are Using Signal to Duck Deflategate-Like Scandals - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:37] <exec> 08└─Many states have analogous laws. You're right though. A commonly understood convention of american Juris Prudence is that the federal government can't force a state government to do something, unless it relates to interstate issues. Which is why there are a million federal funding programs with stup...
[19:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sports Teams Are Using Signal to Duck Deflategate-Like Scandals - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:39] <exec> 08└─Works great for the people wielding federal authority... If you can't threaten 'em, bribe 'em! But yeah, a pretty botched version of the original plan. As for analogous laws - such things are generally similar enough to the federal laws for the similarity to be... completely irrelevant in court. But...
[19:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sports Teams Are Using Signal to Duck Deflategate-Like Scandals - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:41] <exec> 08└─Signal might have the best security model in the known Universe, but requiring a phone number is not good, IMO. Believe it or not, some of us don't use smartphones, so any software requiring one would be instantly discarded.
[19:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sports Teams Are Using Signal to Duck Deflategate-Like Scandals - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:43] <exec> 08└─Get a burner phone with a number you don't care about. Don't use it much.
[19:28:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 2132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:18] <exec> 08└─The benefits of this plan don't really line up for personal use the way they do for corporate use. Corporate users want to be able to distribute completely functional environments to code monkeys that might know how to write a web app or a React front-end but would spend weeks figuring out how to ge...
[19:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:25] <exec> 08└─Never accept a service if you can do the same thing locally in software. You just lose control and end up with ongoing costs that you wouldn't have vs running things on your own end, and now you're at the whims of MS.
[19:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:27] <exec> 08└─Another advantage to MS with this: they get a look at *everybody*'s code who is dumb enough to use this, so they can go ahead and patent any good ideas they happen to find before their creators do.
[19:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:29] <exec> 08└─Even at the very absolute best you're assuming service doesn't go down. I've occasionally lost internet service for a week or more. Not often, but it's happened. This strikes me as a very bad idea even if every good thing you could say about it were to be true. And none of the other bad ones. And I...
[19:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:31] <exec> 08└─Why do you think they bought GitHub? It is a way to extract money out of small companies that were using GitHub for free, or to simply squash open source projects they don't like.
[19:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:34] <exec> 08└─The problem with cloud based IDEs: they will cut off your, um . . . service, for suggesting it is little.
[19:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIP OG Pixel: Google Ends Support After Just Three Years - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:43] <exec> 08└─My current phone (HTC OneMax) only received support for 12-18 months. I *wish* I could have had three years of support. And if it weren't from Spies-R-Us [google.com], I might consider purchasing a Pixel for that reason. What's more, there are plenty of custom roms [xda-developers.com] for pixel pho...
[19:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Actively Exploited Bug in Fully Updated Firefox is Sending Users Into a Tizzy - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:40] <exec> 08└─palemoon is a fork of firefox and its codebase is updated and improved separately from firefox. See: https://www.palemoon.org [palemoon.org]
[19:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:22] <exec> 08└─Ranked Choice voting tends to produce more popular results (i.e., more people find the winning candidate tolerable), but it is subject to information overload. There's no perfect answer. Probably, though, when there are a lot of diverse opinions it's worth the cost. Personally, I prefer Condorcet vo...
[19:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:24] <exec> 08└─The purpose of the Electoral College was to give states with lower population some share in the power. This was necessary to get them to agree to join the US. Since then, state governments have lost so much power that many people think it's time to remove that feature. It was always biased against s...
[19:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:25] <exec> 08└─>Except this happens in water, which means that, during "expansion", the volume of water is no longer "outside the polymer zone" but gets between the polymer fibres - you have the same volume of water Does that really matter? Put the polymer inside the "muscle mesh", and surround that with a flexibl...
[19:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Stores 75.6 GB on Glass Disc Designed to Last Thousands of Years - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:45] <exec> 08└─I was replying to your last paragraph, where you explicitly mentioned exabytes, but conditioned on re-writability. My point is that at that size, for usual purposes re-writability of the medium doesn't matter.
[19:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cambridge Boffins and Google Unveil OpenTitan, an Open-Source Blueprint for a Root of Trust - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:15] <exec> 08└─First of all if you have a maid, you are likely living way above my pay grade. I do not find it demeaning to help clean up around the house, do laundry, wash dishes, cook or serve meals. If you do have servants in your household, then you are at their mercy when it comes to guarding your secrets. Se...
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[20:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:24] <exec> 08└─Already proven in the "west". People won't be having seven kids with the hope that one survives.
[20:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:26] <exec> 08└─I saw an infographic somewhere that said the biggest contributors to anthropogenic climate change were: Human population, due to CO2 production during one's lifetime (?) Large animals raised for meat, due to sheer numbers -- cows and pigs primarily, sheep a little less so, chickens and fish much les...
[20:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:28] <exec> 08└─Also proven in the West: poor people will have a lot of kids. Who also usually don't get the best education. We need a bigger welfare check. Hey, how about let's get pregnant again!
[20:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:31] <exec> 08└─They've been working on reducing the Muslim population worldwide for decades now.
[20:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:33] <exec> 08└─If an asteroid were heading towards the Earth: * there would be people who deny it * people complaining that the concern is way overblown * people would say that poor countries are not contributing their fair share in the global effort to do something about it, so the US should pull out of the globa...
[20:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Mind-body Therapies Alleviate Pain in People Prescribed Opioids - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:42] <exec> 08└─I have come to the conclusion (as long as you're not an addict or dependent and can stay that way) you'd probably be better off getting your opioids from an independent reseller that you can trust not to have fentanyl-laced opioids. Going to a pain clinic for years of lousy treatment plans and expen...
[20:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mind-body Therapies Alleviate Pain in People Prescribed Opioids - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:44] <exec> 08└─I'll skip the new age hocus pocus. I'll stick with the old reading my bible and praying.
[20:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mind-body Therapies Alleviate Pain in People Prescribed Opioids - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:46] <exec> 08└─Weed worked better for me than 10 years on fentanyl. As far as mind-body therapy... Yes, it worked but in my case it was a severe PTSD trigger that pushed emotional pain in front of the physical pain. The only way I knew my physical pain was too high was the tachycardia (180 bpm) accompanying it.
[20:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mind-body Therapies Alleviate Pain in People Prescribed Opioids - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:49] <exec> 08└─I think I said that.
[20:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mind-body Therapies Alleviate Pain in People Prescribed Opioids - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:51] <exec> 08└─How do you feel about acupuncture for pain relief? That's sort of old-timey hocus pocus, but it's new age in the new world ... more like sideways hocus-pocus. Worth a shot, right?
[20:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mind-body Therapies Alleviate Pain in People Prescribed Opioids - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:53] <exec> 08└─you'd probably be better off getting your opioids from an independent reseller that you can trust not to have fentanyl-laced opioids. [ . . . ] Grow your own THC containing plants if that works for you.
[20:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mind-body Therapies Alleviate Pain in People Prescribed Opioids - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:55] <exec> 08└─I'm not afraid of it in a physical sense. I just don't think it's for me. Can't quite articulate why. My pain management predates starting on opioids. And I'm pretty comfortable with what I'm doing.
[20:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:56] <exec> 08└─It's easy to point to the negatives, but what major benefits are there?
[20:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:57] <exec> 08└─I see, you are coding to high standards. ;-)
[20:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:59] <exec> 08└─My most recent project, begun over a decade ago, I went with all open source. I have the source code to my entire stack. Java. Apache Tomcat. Eclipse. All of the third party libraries I use, including front end JavaScript. And I pay attention to the licenses to ensure compliance. I would say I'm not...
[20:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:02] <exec> 08└─Debug when sober.
[20:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:04] <exec> 08└─Wait until . . . . Microsoft Plays For Sure would never abruptly cancel the service. New improved promise: Microsoft Zune would never abruptly cancel the service.
[20:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:06] <exec> 08└─Clearly the Free Software community must respond. Quick, implement Emacs on the browser!
[20:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:08] <exec> 08└─Being just a common Joe, let's assume I'm ignorant. (Which is actually pretty accurate.) Can you elaborate, please? What are some of the pluses and minuses you found?
[20:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:10] <exec> 08└─Since "the cloud" became a thing, my experience has been that software does not work as well. As a user it seemed better to me when functionality of the software did not generally depend on a network connection.
[20:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:12] <exec> 08└─In my limited dealings with businesses, they seem to be quite happy paying for the cloud service. They swear it's cheaper in the long run.
[20:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIP OG Pixel: Google Ends Support After Just Three Years - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:23] <exec> 08└─Exactly this! That's how it works with all other forms of property when you abandon them. Why should imaginary property be treated as more real than real property.
[20:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIP OG Pixel: Google Ends Support After Just Three Years - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:25] <exec> 08└─If you want long term OS updates then Apple is the only game. I had five years of updates on my iPhone 5C.
[20:31:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:08] <exec> 08└─I thought they were more agriculturers [youtube.com] and the like. At least it looks like the average Australian citizen has better direct access to them.
[20:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:10] <exec> 08└─Information overload? Like, worse than what we have now with all numpteen Democratic contenders? Other countries with coalition governments would seem to have a worse time of it. Why is Condorcet voting hard to explain? I thought it was just, like, drag and drop your candidates from the 'too lame; d...
[20:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:10] <exec> 08└─I was thinking muscles and tendons for killer robots.
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[21:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:35] <exec> 08└─Please kindly correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the Muslim population procreate at a higher rate?
[21:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:36] <exec> 08└─This is an invented controversy. Bloomberg is trying some wedge strategy bullshit. The things the critics say and the thing the actual fucking paper say are the same. The 11,000 signatories aren't fucking signing some statement about population. They signed a statement that offhandedly mentions We s...
[21:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 1631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:39] <exec> 08└─Fewer people make population-based problems easier to solve. Our real problem isn't just that we're consuming many times as much energy per capita as we did in 1700, it's that we also have more than 10x as many people doing so, and almost all of the additional energy is coming from fossil fuels. The...
[21:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:41] <exec> 08└─The number of peoe getting pregnant for a welfare check is not worth worrying about. We should be fixing our other problems that lead those few people into making such a choice.
[21:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:43] <exec> 08└─Truth. I saw a lady with 8 kids at the welfare court when I was next door at another unrelated courthouse.
[21:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:45] <exec> 08└─Human population is kind of a dishonest metric. If allmost all heavy industry and infrastructure power was run on renewables, and almost all transit was mass or walking, and we somehow stopped using concrete (a hard one), the carbon per capita is close to nil. Population only reflects a high carbon...
[21:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:47] <exec> 08└─"LIBERALS WANT YOU DEAD AND OTHER THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW" Blerg to the bloom
[21:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:49] <exec> 08└─Funny, how the people who ended up at top of evolution, for several reasons, including luck, are now nothing but wrong or guilty... This will probably be hammered home by the coming years: you do not have rights. Despite the disturbing attitude of the immigrants in developed nations, they do not wis...
[21:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:52] <exec> 08└─Except you need a minimum level of prosperity and education to start the process. Very few people choose to have seven kids, especially not desperately poor people. But kids are what happens when you have sex, and nobody anywhere is going to stop doing that, especially with their spouse. So, you nee...
[21:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:54] <exec> 08└─Which courthouse. When?
[21:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:56] <exec> 08└─It *is* dishonest, but less so than you think. Pick your uniform technological level, and the world cannot sustainably support the number of people currently living on it. This even works for old stone age technologies. The question is always "Which fewer people?" though. And the answer it always "T...
[21:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:58] <exec> 08└─Pretty much any welfare or SS office.
[21:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:00] <exec> 08└─That's not just because they're poor though - it's because they're poor and being paid to have kids. Most of the world where the population is growing, doesn't have welfare. And welfare could be relatively easily reformulated to not reward having kids. E.g. pay welfare to adults, enough to also supp...
[21:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:02] <exec> 08└─Human population, due to CO2 production during one's lifetime (?)
[21:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:04] <exec> 08└─Did you get her phone number?
[21:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:07] <exec> 08└─Lame trolls being lame. And dumb, usually assumed but making sure.
[21:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:09] <exec> 08└─give people access to free birth control (since they're already struggling just to feed themselves and can't realistically be expected to pay for it themselves), and expose them to some aggressively marketed family-planning materials to introduce the idea that children are an expensive choice
[21:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:11] <exec> 08└─Already proven in the "west". People won't be having seven kids with the hope that one survives.
[21:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:13] <exec> 08└─https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-08-30-nasa-admits-climate-change-not-caused-by-suvs-fossil-fuels.html [naturalnews.com] https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[21:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:15] <exec> 08└─-_ (((David Duke))) enters the chat _- * this lovely interaction brought to you by your pals at frenworld. If you need a friend, don't ask NPC-131072 cause they'll prolly gas you.
[21:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:17] <exec> 08└─Just a tiny bit of logical reduction and you come back to human population as the primary driver of climate change. Changing human behavior is... tricky at best, convincing people to not eat meat or travel is one of those things that people fly to global conferences and discuss over a nice steak din...
[21:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:19] <exec> 08└─people would say that poor countries are not contributing their fair share in the global effort to do something about it, so the US should pull out of the global effort
[21:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:21] <exec> 08└─GP mentioned a specific incident at a *courthouse*. Courthouses, AFAIK, are not "welfare" (whatever that is) or SS (I assume that means "Social Security") offices. Apparently you're either pushing some sort of agenda, are not bright enough to read what people write, or both. Good for you! With dumb...
[21:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:24] <exec> 08└─I was really pissed about MIT Technology Review's handling of the story, they took one tiny part of it and blew it up into a controversy. Of course there's controversy, the paper calls for change, people hate change - particularly comfortable people. How can we make them look bad? Evil, maybe? Oh, y...
[21:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:26] <exec> 08└─Can you please speed up that asteroid? If it is not currently on exact target, please redirect it accurately and preferably to my home; I'd like to be the first to vaporize. Then, after you have ensured the right speed and aim, please perform the necessary scientific studies to confirm your hypothes...
[21:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:28] <exec> 08└─nobody anywhere is going to stop doing that, especially with their spouse.
[21:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:30] <exec> 08└─The population boom since refined petroleum became a global commodity is the real problem. If we could take the pre 1800 population growth curve and put a reasonable extrapolation on it, and return world population to those levels, I think science and technology could keep up with the challenges. As...
[21:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:32] <exec> 08└─Greta Thunberg doesn't fly [foxnews.com], it seems.
[21:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:34] <exec> 08└─wrote one commenter at the Hal Turner Radio Show.
[21:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, we can! [twitter.com]
[21:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:39] <exec> 08└─Peer pressure Once everyone knows 2 kids is the sustainable number to have, you get this in Ender’s game https://www.enotes.com [enotes.com]
[21:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:41] <exec> 08└─Don't you love when the solution to a problem is ignore it (from behind well-fortified walls)
[21:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:43] <exec> 08└─No need for fictional references, China is a perfectly good example.
[21:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:45] <exec> 08└─Greta Thunberg
[21:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Mind-body Therapies Alleviate Pain in People Prescribed Opioids - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:00] <exec> 08└─Trying weed one time is not the way to use it for pain control. It takes weeks or perhaps a month for your body to get used to it (the intense high mellows out) and you have to get a variety of both strains or you'll get bad side effects like paranoia. The medical only weed places have better stuff...
[21:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sports Teams Are Using Signal to Duck Deflategate-Like Scandals - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:16] <exec> 08└─In my own opinion it's a botched vision of federalism that doesn't really work.
[21:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sports Teams Are Using Signal to Duck Deflategate-Like Scandals - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:18] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of nations that manage to have both local governments with local laws and a less ambiguous version of federal supremacy. I'd definitely want to avoid a China situation where local governments have to ask the national government to please write a law for a problem they're having. But...
[21:29:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 1279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:39] <exec> 08└─I can see numerous downsides including absolute dependence on a third party company, trust issues, security issues, reliability issues (e.g. - even google cloud has gone down and outrages seem to be becoming more frequent over time, not less), and countless others. And of course in the longrun, this...
[21:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:14] <exec> 08└─They also tend to discount unexpected events that only happen occasionally. They're wrong. Focus on the "next quarter" is short-sighted, and will cause you injury...whether the you is a company or an individual. But people don't assess risks properly, or gambling wouldn't be so popular.
[21:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:15] <exec> 08└─Implement emacs on the browser that runs on emacs, surely?
[21:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIP OG Pixel: Google Ends Support After Just Three Years - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:28] <exec> 08└─What I'd prefer is open source access to kernels and device drivers (such as are available for Pixel phones), allowing third-parties to create custom roms for a wider variety of phones. As for Apple, I'd rather have my tonsils extracted through my ears than use their kit.
[21:31:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03slashnot [8607] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Actively Exploited Bug in Fully Updated Firefox is Sending Users Into a Tizzy - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:29] <exec> 08└─Good point. I prefer uBlock, but some sort of script blocker is a must.
[21:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Actively Exploited Bug in Fully Updated Firefox is Sending Users Into a Tizzy - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:30] <exec> 08└─I use both NoScript and uBlock, along with Ghostery. No problems for quite a long time...
[21:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Actively Exploited Bug in Fully Updated Firefox is Sending Users Into a Tizzy - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:32] <exec> 08└─Don't get too sure about its safety. Recently I found a GitHjub "badges" catalog site in one of these news links aggregates. Displaying these pages with NoScript was a mess for my processor. Why? Over 20kB of interlocked CSS... PER ITEM. Yes, per a small picture, I tried to analyze it and found that...
[21:32:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:18] <exec> 08└─Now that they have the ballot, can't they feed it through the Condorcet method -- and first-past-the-post, for that matter -- and come up with those winners even if they're not the ones who will assume office? It would be interesting, if nothing else. You could also get the ranked losers that way if...
[21:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:19] <exec> 08└─Presidential primaries tend to have many candidates. And considering our current president go the nomination with less than 1/3rd of the vote of his own party in the primary, we really should consider ranked voting for primaries.
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[22:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spiders and Ants Inspire Metal That Won't Sink - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:30] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>I wonder how well it will work once all those intricate etchings are full of dirt.</sarcasm>
[22:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spiders and Ants Inspire Metal That Won't Sink - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:31] <exec> 08└─The fire ants stay afloat because of surface tension. If you add something to the water to change that, such as a surfactant in a detergent, they can no longer stay afloat and whoops! Down the drain!
[22:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spiders and Ants Inspire Metal That Won't Sink - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:34] <exec> 08└─That's many water insects, but not fire ants. Fire ants exhibit a behavior known as rafting [nationalgeographic.com] during floods(they are, after all, coastal ants), where they gather most of their colony into a ball, and because of some of their unique chemical properties, water does not flow bet...
[22:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spiders and Ants Inspire Metal That Won't Sink - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:36] <exec> 08└─Most adhesion of dirt you see in nature is water-mediated. I'm genuinely curious as to the answer to your sarcastic question.
[22:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:26] <exec> 08└─Population only reflects a high carbon footprint because our economies are structured to provide human needs with coal, oil, and natural gas
[22:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:27] <exec> 08└─Except you need a minimum level of prosperity and education to start the process. Yes, a "Marshall Plan". Very successful in Europe and Japan
[22:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, okay, meat consumption is one of those areas where individual choice is kind of the bad part.
[22:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:31] <exec> 08└─I mean chances are I want any given bloomberg reader dead for unrelated reasons.
[22:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:33] <exec> 08└─Bad example. My wife is pregnant right now.
[22:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:36] <exec> 08└─Worth noting the issues isn't people leading traditional life styles in undeveloped nations. The average goat herder puts out 100 times less CO2 than the average first world consumer: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] So keep in mi...
[22:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:38] <exec> 08└─I could bribe my children with bacon long before I could bribe them with money...
[22:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:40] <exec> 08└─But, the average goat herder can learn to live a Western lifestyle, increasing his CO2 footprint 100x, in about 2 weeks flat - and maintain that lifestyle for the rest of his and his offspring's lifetimes. The reverse is maybe only true for one Westerner in 100.
[22:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:42] <exec> 08└─FTR... It was welfare court which was next door to work comp court where I was. Black lady had 8 kids clinging on to her ranging in age from a few months to early teens. Don't tell me she wasn't abusing the system because I've tried to help welfare people get a job. They don't want to fucking work.
[22:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:12] <exec> 08└─True CL users: "what is a browser?"
[22:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:14] <exec> 08└─Yay! There is a third way!
[22:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:58] <exec> 08└─We'd end up back in the late 19th century again where anyone could sell anything as anything. Do you really want that? Do you think you'd survive more than a few weeks in a world like that?
[22:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cambridge Boffins and Google Unveil OpenTitan, an Open-Source Blueprint for a Root of Trust - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:06] <exec> 08└─A device with a trust root that you have control over can be made more secure than one without it. You could replace all the trust keys with your own at which point no software you have not personally signed can be loaded or run.
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[23:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Twitter Staff Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:44] <exec> 08└─Us gen-xers, who stradlles the pre/post internet age, can teach these dumb millienials some lessons. Too bad, we don't give a fuck.
[23:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spiders and Ants Inspire Metal That Won't Sink - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:56] <exec> 08└─Their exoskeletons are hydrophobic, and when they combine into a raft, the water surface tension prevents the water from "squeezing" between their bodies.
[23:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spiders and Ants Inspire Metal That Won't Sink - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:58] <exec> 08└─NOT. Gigantic battleships and aircraft carriers built out of steel float in the sea. So they spun cotton candy out of metallic elements. BIG. FUCKING. DEAL.
[23:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Spiders and Ants Inspire Metal That Won't Sink - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:00] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. They float for the same reason as hovercrafts do... their fire turns the water to steam, which lifts them above the water's surface.
[23:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spiders and Ants Inspire Metal That Won't Sink - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:02] <exec> 08└─Cucaroches. I catch 'em and put them in the toilet. They crawl right back out. Follow up with a squirt of hand soap on it's back, it will sink and drown, and on subsequent flush, gone forever.
[23:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spiders and Ants Inspire Metal That Won't Sink - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:04] <exec> 08└─My favorite nonsense from the video "this could be used to make ships that stay afloat even when severely damaged" No. It couldn't. Not unless the entire ship were made of similarly etched stacked wafers, with no room for cargo. Ships don't sink because water sticks to the hull, they sink because wa...
[23:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:05] <exec> 08└─Which welfare court? On what date? Are you *certain* that this wasn't both the mother *and* grandmother of these kids, with their parent(s) incarcerated for burning plants? Oh, and by the way, the average "payout" for a child through TANF/SNAP is about $140/month. Could you support your child on $14...
[23:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:07] <exec> 08└─Given the terrible education you appear to have received, we definitely need to improve schooling.
[23:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:09] <exec> 08└─I saw a lady with 8 kids at the welfare court when I was next door at another unrelated courthouse.
[23:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:11] <exec> 08└─Most of the world where the population is growing, doesn't have welfare.
[23:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:13] <exec> 08└─nobody anywhere is going to stop doing that, especially with their spouse.
[23:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:16] <exec> 08└─--->Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity. Unite humanity with a living new language. Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason. ...
[23:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:18] <exec> 08└─meat consumption is one of those areas where individual choice is kind of the bad part.
[23:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:20] <exec> 08└─I like the idea of a child's UBI being saved up as a "nest egg" to be paid out when they reach majority. No incentives for parents that way, and everybody can afford college, or whatever other modest jump-start into adulthood they choose.
[23:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:22] <exec> 08└─The question is always "Which fewer people?" though. And the answer it always "Them".
[23:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:24] <exec> 08└─Stupid has already taken over the population, the TV, the courts, the politicians, and the highest office in the land. Why have e a conference table when executive orders are easier?
[23:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:27] <exec> 08└─Heck, rapid population growth itself is a few generation trend - global population was relatively stable for most of human history.
[23:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:29] <exec> 08└─It is however a little more reasonable when "them" are having 2-3x as many kids as "us". Nothing wrong with holding everyone to the same standard. It's when you want "them" to cut down while "us" continue to proliferate that eugenics starts to raise its head.
[23:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:31] <exec> 08└─Which is why the world should thank the USA for their pest control services.
[23:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:33] <exec> 08└─What the welfare slime said about 25 years ago when I offered him a job where I was the manager... "I want a management position making $15/hr" which was more than I was making, and "Why do you work when you can stay home and collect welfare and get high like me?". Never helped them out again. Their...
[23:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:35] <exec> 08└─Doesn't work if the prosperity is achieved by increasing the total ecological footprint above the ratio of population decrease. Comparison of ecological footprints for people in various countries and what reduction in their population would be necessary to maintain their impact to the environment bu...
[23:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:37] <exec> 08└─A solution. A genetically engineered meat product that has the texture and flavor of those meatless impossible burger meat substitutes!
[23:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, Africa especially wants more access to birth control than they have, and each of a ten-thousand "free Norplant clinic" Land Rovers with teams of 3-4 clinicians giving local access to reliable birth control for 5 years after implantation would do more to reduce global warming and other problems...
[23:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:42] <exec> 08└─Got data [childtrends.org]? My takeaway from the data is that the number of children receiving welfare has decreased dramatically from its peak in the early 1990s. This has been consistent through both Democratic and Republican administrators. On the surface the data as presented seem to imply that...
[23:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:44] <exec> 08└─global population was relatively stable for most of human history
[23:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:46] <exec> 08└─It is however a little more reasonable when "them" are having 2-3x as many kids as "us".
[23:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:48] <exec> 08└─Exactly
[23:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:50] <exec> 08└─Biosciences are not yet up to inventing a cure for stupid, and it'll likely get forbidden anyhow. Unthinking subjects are governments' most important asset.
[23:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it always seems that someone else has to make a sacrifice, never themselves.
[23:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mind-body Therapies Alleviate Pain in People Prescribed Opioids - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:08] <exec> 08└─I wish that journalists and scientists would stop lumping together patients who take prescribed opioids, people who commit suicide using opioids, highly frail/terminal patients on opioids, people chronically abusing illegal street drugs, and people using street drugs recreationally. Opioid deaths ar...
[23:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mind-body Therapies Alleviate Pain in People Prescribed Opioids - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:10] <exec> 08└─If my state gets medical marijuana, I might give it a try. What I tried before was chocolates. But opioids work. I've used them for a long time. I'd be surprised if something actually worked better. But I could be convinced.
[23:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mind-body Therapies Alleviate Pain in People Prescribed Opioids - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:12] <exec> 08└─Yep. But I also take very potent NSAIDs in addition to opioids as needed.
[23:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:28] <exec> 08└─A fancy version of wget | less ;-)
[23:31:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants Developers to Start Coding in the Cloud - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:29] <exec> 08└─https://lynx.browser.org/ [browser.org]
[23:33:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 423 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:18] <exec> 08└─This is a weird misconception that somehow stays alive. The electoral college was a compromise designed to satisfy all the various interests that were significant at the time. Some of them, like how much representation should be given to slaves, are obviously no longer relevant. Others, like protect...
[23:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:33] <exec> 08└─The skyrocketing prices [wikipedia.org] in the urban areas would disagree with that depiction.
[23:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Adopted in New York City, Along With Other Ballot Measures - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:34] <exec> 08└─It encourages parties to move away from the fringe extremes of the left and right, and move more toward the centre. There will still be nutbag groups, but they'll only gain 0.1% of the vote. The absolute best thing about this is that you reduce the risk of similar candidates cannibalising each other...
[23:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:20] <exec> 08└─Well, lets see... Obamacare was to make healthcare more affordable and also lower the number of people without health insurance. It worked in both ways. Quite well. In fact a majority of US citizens like Obamacare. Especially on the item of not denying pre-existing conditions. It only stopped workin...
[23:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:21] <exec> 08└─I'm butthurt that they don't want to earn their ability to walk and talk like the rest of us. They want me to fucking pay for it. They want me to work harder so they don't have to. Fuck them. Also, being as we've done without them for around two hundred millennia, your argument is shit. The convenie...
[23:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:24] <exec> 08└─I've never had an employer text me about acquiring a job. After the fact for day to day operations when they knew I had a cell phone, sure. It was not remotely a job requirement for anyone I've ever worked for though.
[23:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Crackdown on Cellphone Subsidies Leaves Millions Without Service - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:26] <exec> 08└─It depends on if "son of a bitch" should be treated as a proper noun or not. If it is, what he said was correct, aside from needing to be capitalized.
[23:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Material Increases Volume by 10,000% When Electrified - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:44] <exec> 08└─Based on the suggestions made by the researchers (shying away from artificial muscles as a possible use), I doubt this is the case here.
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