#comments | Logs for 2020-01-19

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[00:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 70 People as Non-Search Revenue Fails to Materialize - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:19] <exec> 08└─None of the major players offer built-in client side encryption.
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[00:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:18] <exec> 08└─Elves are Tolkien's nordic fetish. Funny thing, Legolas was played by a Spaniard with bleached blond hair.
[00:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:00] <exec> 08└─For a trip to the Earth's South pole, I can't recall anybody trying to get self sufficient. Interesting thought. Overall, Mars is more challenging than Antarctica but it beats our polar regions in one interesting way: You get daily Sun exposure, unless you're a real masochist and land in the Martian...
[00:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:01] <exec> 08└─You know how we’re going to find those fossils? A million people digging around
[00:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:15] <exec> 08└─We'd rather you do the construction in the rain.
[00:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:16] <exec> 08└─> I never noticed it because I have both settings set to -1. To TMB -- can you see how many soylentils browse at anything other than -1? My guess is very few. The only time I change the threshold is for stories with hundreds of comments.
[00:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:18] <exec> 08└─Right to your bottom, where you like it?
[00:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:20] <exec> 08└─If you don't log in, default is 0/2.
[00:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:39] <exec> 08└─Wonder what the carbon cost of winding up a company the size of Msoft would be.. Probably just lawyers and paper..
[00:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relief as Rain Falls Over Australian Bushfires - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:29] <exec> 08└─OK, the tally's at 50000, I'll be generous and round up to 100000, and we can agree koalas are now extinct. 999,900,000 to go. Please continue, I've got all night.
[00:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relief as Rain Falls Over Australian Bushfires - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:30] <exec> 08└─First they say they don't like the rain, then they want it to rain. Then when it rains, they say it's not enough rain. Then they complain when they can't start a fire. Then they say there's too much fire.
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[01:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:57] <exec> 08└─We got the most diversity! That's much more important than anything else.
[01:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:58] <exec> 08└─You just answered the problem.
[01:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:00] <exec> 08└─Clearly we need more positive discrimination [thecollegefix.com] to maintain a scientific lead.
[01:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:02] <exec> 08└─Americans genuinely believe that the entire world is controlled by some magic "god", which means science can not be real. China? Not so much. Besides, the management brochures say just to get all tech from China/India and buy one of their smart phones because trendy.
[01:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:04] <exec> 08└─> to a series of shorter reports issued more frequently. I guess no one was reading the big report issued every two years, so now they are going to spoon feed us? From tfl: > But while China's publication output exceeds that of the U.S. in terms of quantity, China trails the U.S. and the E.U. in ter...
[01:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:30] <exec> 08└─And many other elves. The few that are mentioned by name are Cirdan, Legolas' father Thranduil, Gildor, Lindir, Erestor, Galdor, and Haldir, Rumil, and Orophin. Possibly Glorfindel too, but there's no telling how long a "dirt nap" he took, so to speak. Other than that, I think you got them all. Smau...
[01:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:31] <exec> 08└─It's probably what killed him.
[01:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:33] <exec> 08└─Why don't they make a series from the point of view of the poor Orcs? How they were tortured and oppressed victims of genetic engineering, turned into monsters through no fault of their own, and how the smug, self-righteous, so-called 'heroes', instead of helping them, committed genocide every chanc...
[01:52:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 1601 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:42] <exec> 08└─Sounds like an excellent idea for a slave colony or rampant death cult living in windowless bunkers planning the end of the solar system. I liked those ad astra sceenes where brad pit is forced to go watch 4 wall TV for a few hours to 'get his sanity' back. Something to look forward to. /s WHY WOULD...
[01:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:18] <exec> 08└─Try to close your borders :-)
[01:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Euro Court Advised: Citing 'National Security' Doesn't Justify Widespread Surveillance - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:06] <exec> 08└─Suicide? I read that he entered the witness protection program and now works as a diversity quota enforcer for Mozilla.
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[02:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:04] <exec> 08└─Haven't been to the mainland, but in Taiwan I met a number of Chinese people that believed in all sorts of sky fairies. One of them bought a nice looking bamboo tool to scratch her skin, let out the demons the next time she got sick. Another burned fake paper money on a regular basis for good luck....
[02:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:06] <exec> 08└─Asians are too smart! That's not fair, let's foment discord between the Asians and the Blacks, with every other shade in between, While we Jews win!
[02:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Carbon Chomping FrankenBricks for the Moon, Mars, and Mainstreet - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:15] <exec> 08└─The moon? Not so much. The moon is annoyingly Carbon deficient. It's one of the big reasons why Mars is a better candidate for independent colonization.
[02:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:36] <exec> 08└─Make it stop!
[02:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:38] <exec> 08└─For starters, the pre-Orcs were subjected to endless rehashings of the same warmed over turds. Similar to never-ending saga of humanity, Bored of the Rings and the need for profit.
[02:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:40] <exec> 08└─The silmilarian is very clear that the Istari arrived in the third age.
[02:52:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:51] <exec> 08└─Sounds like an excellent idea for a slave colony or rampant death cult living in windowless bunkers planning the end of the solar system.
[02:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:26] <exec> 08└─The ones who get there first get to eat the ones who arrive later
[02:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:44] <exec> 08└─Correct, I'm logged in and defaulting to -1 (but have the AC box checked).
[02:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:45] <exec> 08└─My default is 0. Although I quite often change it to -1 if it seems I'm missing mismoderated posts.
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[03:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:54] <exec> 08└─What they actually want, is for every corporation in the US, and ultimately the world, to jump to attention, waiting at the beck and call of law enforcement. Cops don't want to do cop-work, they want it all handed to them, on a silver platter, by compliant servants. Fuck 'em all, I say.
[03:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:09] <exec> 08└─The Chinese have a god for money. Not even the Jews have that.
[03:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:10] <exec> 08└─And yet China has been getting more patents every year than the USA, EU, Taiwan and Japan combined for what, a decade now? All the fuss over Huawei, but the Brits did 3 reviews and concluded in each case that they're the most advanced and cost-effective G5 supplier, and to ignore US threats about us...
[03:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:12] <exec> 08└─Nothing like some racist stupidity! I'd get into a debate if it wasn't so pointless with you alt-righterz.
[03:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it could be worse. Tolkien wrote a few tales set in the 2nd age, but much more of the history is just an outline, and the studios are entirely too free to do whatever they want. I see no reason why they won't do the same as they do for everything else: pretty good eye candy, and horrible, horr...
[03:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:32] <exec> 08└─First step for Mars (or moon) is mole people and fertilizer. Digging holes in ground, MUSK KNOWS. This help protect against radiation and hold in "Air". Need lots of organic fertilizer to grow things, like food and CO2 processing. Large convertion and processing plants and organic material (both cas...
[03:54:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 423 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:01] <exec> 08└─Windows runs a quad core CPU at 100% for the first 5-10 minutes after booting, during any update which takes 10-45 minutes, during video playback, when playing any game, when opening email, when downloading any file, and when it feels like fucking with you when you're trying to get anything done. Wi...
[03:59:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Worried About Swearing Too Much? Science Says You Shouldn't Be - 219 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:27] <exec> 08└─If you don't do it too often. When you do, it carries that much more weight to those who know you. If you swear all the time, it simply becomes regular speech. And if you do it very often, it becomes tedious for others.
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[04:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:56] <exec> 08└─It is not really about cops catching criminals. While law enforcement would like to crack phones, that is just the public face patsy they put on it to get public support. Really they are after political and financial information and control.
[04:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:57] <exec> 08└─People are so much better behaved when they think they might be caught.
[04:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:15] <exec> 08└─It's not about diversity, it's about the quarterly report - what's our gross income and net profit in the next 90 days or less? How do you think long term investment looks on that report? Bad, almost always bad, at least for the next 90 days.
[04:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:16] <exec> 08└─The Jews have taken over banking/finance and entertainment... why do they need to bother with science when they've got all the money, and people willingly give money to them?
[04:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:18] <exec> 08└─This is happening primarily because the private sector has figured out that it's easier to just buy politicians that allow them to engage in anticompetitive practices than innovate. At the same time, there are an increasing number of areas in which the mouth breathers on the right refuse to allow go...
[04:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Carbon Chomping FrankenBricks for the Moon, Mars, and Mainstreet - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:29] <exec> 08└─They've found water at the poles, and likely could find more if they had enough infrastructure to sink deep mines. Pretty good chance they would find carbon compounds too, any moon formation process that doesn't boil off all the water is also going to leave carbon behind.
[04:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:39] <exec> 08└─It's very likely it would be a one way trip. You are emigrating, not visiting. What would be the point of leaving assets on Earth? You would buy your ticket and spend the rest of your total net worth on high-value/useful items and extra baggage allowance to carry them there.
[04:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:59] <exec> 08└─A slight plurality browse at 0 Threshold with -1 being barely behind it and about ten percent or so using all the other numbers combined. Not sure how many use TOS vs. TNG though.
[04:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:00] <exec> 08└─No worries, plenty of time for that later. I do live in TN after all. If it hasn't rained in the past three days here they declare it a drought.
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[05:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:58] <exec> 08└─As a rule, I'll agree with you. But, the shooters who make the news intend to be "caught" posthumously. Or, most of them, anyway. You've got to remember that not everyone is equally motivated by the same things.
[05:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:59] <exec> 08└─Fuck 'em all, I say.
[05:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:01] <exec> 08└─Android is secure...
[05:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:03] <exec> 08└─Thanks, SoyCow1337. I forgot to submit this exact article. The cat and mouse game continues. And it's probably a good thing because it will drive Apple to harden the design until it's nearly unassailable. That could also kill jailbreaking, but if that's your concern, you should probably buy somethin...
[05:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:23] <exec> 08└─And nobody goes into working in science for the money.
[05:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no. China might have had a nice period of 30 years where religion was all-but-banned and the particular vareties of magical thinking that we like here are less common, but other absurdities, like Traditional Chinese Medicine have huge inroads for similar levels of stupid. People are people eve...
[05:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:27] <exec> 08└─The Chinese have a god for money.
[05:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:29] <exec> 08└─It takes a while to build up a respectable faculty and refine quantity into quality by identifying shortcomings and purging(or more likely sidelining) those who produce mediocre results.
[05:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:31] <exec> 08└─The end result is that there's an increasing amount of research
[05:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:53] <exec> 08└─Hell is other people - Sartre He may have been right, but heaven is also other people. A neglected aspect in discussion of the viability of a Mars colony is the effect on the society of being a group of people who self-selected to go to Mars. Regardless of what Musk says about anyone can go, there w...
[05:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:55] <exec> 08└─The proper scientific method would be to test these things out first.
[05:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Euro Court Advised: Citing 'National Security' Doesn't Justify Widespread Surveillance - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:48] <exec> 08└─has just invoked "national security" as the reason they cannot give out Prince Andrews location on the dates he has been accused by Virginia Giuffre.
[05:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relief as Rain Falls Over Australian Bushfires - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:28] <exec> 08└─There were estimated to be 15,000 to 28,000 koalas in New South Wales before the fires. Australian Koala Foundation estimates that there are less than 100,000 Koalas left in the wild, possibly as few as 43,000 It's estimated that up to 30% of the koala population in NSW is now gone from the fires.
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[06:52:08] <exec> 08└─How difficult is it to crack these passcodes via brute force. These phone passcodes aren't exactly long and complicated or am I missing something?
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[06:52:09] <exec> 08└─its in the summary "limits on passcode attempts".
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[06:52:11] <exec> 08└─Or they just use other methods to achieve same goal.
[06:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:14] <exec> 08└─I've met a couple who turned me on. Little redhead in Kentucky, and a brunette in New York. And, can't forget the blonde in San Diego county, wearing a sheriff's badge, helpfully changing a flat tire for an elderly couple. I don't object to a little kink. It's the overall attitude of absolute author...
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[06:52:39] <exec> 08└─This is fair, though you should acknowledge there are mouth-breathers on the left who oppose research which may undermine their dogma, just like the right.
[06:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:40] <exec> 08└─First we shipped over all the manufacturing technology to China so that stuff could be "designed in California" or where ever because we wouldn't want Americans to have manufacturing jobs that pay well enough. Now China and other countries have been using this tech and seeing what it does and what w...
[06:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:05] <exec> 08└─In a world where money is the supreme god, any project without foreseeable economic return is unsustainable.
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[08:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Learning Resources for Blind Students - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:53] <exec> 08└─I guess genius happens often enough. And, genius takes different forms, of course. So, what happens when you're a genius, and lack the tools with which to communicate? Or, forget genius. You're just born lacking some of the tools necessary to contribute meaningfully. As a result, you spend much of y...
[08:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creating Learning Resources for Blind Students - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:55] <exec> 08└─that will get the money flowing
[08:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Learning Resources for Blind Students - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:57] <exec> 08└─AT&T had that covered long ago. Just reach out and touch someone.
[08:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 1591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:46] <exec> 08└─It's a generational problem. The public schools in the US are a faint shadow of what they were in the 50s, 60s, 70s when the US actually had a goal of leading in science and technology. Those generations are either dying off, retiring, or otherwise getting pushed out of the way by dogma pushing illi...
[08:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:47] <exec> 08└─they aren't morons.
[08:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:22] <exec> 08└─yeah, sure, but who even read that let alone understood it
[08:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:33] <exec> 08└─if I don't read at -1/-1 I feel like I'm missing something
[08:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:35] <exec> 08└─I have a complicated preference set where everything except spam gets a +1 boost, then I set the level at zero. Still see everything except comments modded spam.
[08:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:55] <exec> 08└─How many millions of iPhone 5 and below devices will be thrown out due to Apple's decision to cut support? How much waste is it to build devices that will be thrown out in a matter of years when they could be designed to last at least a decade?
[08:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Euro Court Advised: Citing 'National Security' Doesn't Justify Widespread Surveillance - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:10] <exec> 08└─"Contribute if I am right and you are not homeless." What do you have against the homeless?
[08:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Learning Enables Real-time Imaging Around Corners - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:29] <exec> 08└─If they are not "burn a hole through your face" then what is the point?
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[09:59:51] <exec> 08└─begone, tranny.
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[10:52:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 242 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:39] <exec> 08└─It's not about diversity, it's about the quarterly report - what's our gross income and net profit in the next 90 days or less? How do you think long term investment looks on that report? Bad, almost always bad, at least for the next 90 days.
[10:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:51] <exec> 08└─We need people of that time to time. Americans have always had a mindset that is stupid. In the '80's, I heard many a steel worker claim that nobody can steal like we can. In the time since, we've seen Europeans, India, and China go far down the road, and sometimes better than we ever did. Yes, even...
[10:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Carbon Chomping FrankenBricks for the Moon, Mars, and Mainstreet - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:02] <exec> 08└─What's the carbon footprint of whiteboard markers? Bring back blackboards into the classroom and recycle chalk dust as a building material!
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[11:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:49] <exec> 08└─With nuclear being phased out [dw.com] and now coal, what are they going to get power from? Natural gas is cleaner but it's not renewable and it emits CO2. Buying electricity from neighboring countries only sweeps the problem under the rug (not to mention it's a national security vulnerability). And...
[11:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:21] <exec> 08└─Then an easy solution would be to have phone manufacturers reserve one secret code for law enforcement (say "0666"), and entering this code turns off passcode attempt limits. Then users can have the security of a passcode and law enforcement can have the ability to access criminal's data. Win-win.
[11:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Living Carbon Chomping FrankenBricks for the Moon, Mars, and Mainstreet - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:02] <exec> 08└─What happens if you breath any of that stuff in whilst living in your nice new Moon or Mars structure?
[11:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:28] <exec> 08└─Just you wait.. this may make Star Wars look good.
[11:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:19] <exec> 08└─Given all of the other clauses you list, and the reasons you are listing them, you do realise that the "the rich" clause could be reversed. Don't envy the rich down on earth's surface, send them all to mars (on the B Ark).
[11:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Euro Court Advised: Citing 'National Security' Doesn't Justify Widespread Surveillance - 1553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:16] <exec> 08└─I read it the way I did specifically because I know of at least one homeless person who contributes (not on this site however) by using the free computers at the library. It's warm, dry and has access to water and restroom. He has mental problems and writes on several blogs concerning his specific i...
[11:55:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] 02 - 06Deep Learning Enables Real-time Imaging Around Corners - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:32] <exec> 08└─we are being spied on more than we can even possibly know and it is just gettting worse.
[11:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relief as Rain Falls Over Australian Bushfires - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:58] <exec> 08└─What they need is koala viagra because right now the little sods don't breed enough to keep their species alive.
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[12:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:01] <exec> 08└─oh wait, they panicked after Fukushima and decided to close all nuclear plants instead of revising the safety of the existing ones or replacing by newer more modern ones. In the end most will be replaced by natural gas, which is better than nothing, but still emits CO2 and makes them even more depen...
[12:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:02] <exec> 08└─You know that the atmosphere is the perfect playground for a world order. Because it inherently has no borders. Now, Germany decides to pollute less. Laudable and a step in the right direction. But, makes you less competitive with countries that don't or pretend not to care. This would not be a prob...
[12:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creating Learning Resources for Blind Students - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:13] <exec> 08└─This one's for you babs!
[12:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creating Learning Resources for Blind Students - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:14] <exec> 08└─they can just sue companies to force them to make it blind compliant [cnbc.com] equal rights and all that
[12:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:39] <exec> 08└─Security through obscurity is no security at all. How long do think it would take for criminals to find out the police passcode?
[12:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:47] <exec> 08└─JRR was much criticized for the simplistic good/evil portrayal - he apparently didn't care about how/why the good is/became good and the evil evil. The whole middle earth stories are just an extended adolescent fairy tale. Don't expect anything deep/reflective. I suppose tv/movie adaptations can go...
[12:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Euro Court Advised: Citing 'National Security' Doesn't Justify Widespread Surveillance - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:38] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes, ambiguity in spoken / written language strikes again. I think we both now see where the confusion came from. I think Hudson meant "contribute" in a monetary way while you interpreted it as non-monetary. It does lead to drastically different interpretations of the sentence. I have to admit M...
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[13:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:54] <exec> 08└─If only we had any examples of intelligent species that have lasted billions of years. Some of these arguments might make more sense then, right? With the limited examples that we have, it seems to take billions of years just to develop a semblance of intelligence.
[13:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:05] <exec> 08└─Can't Germany just build a wall? Oh wait.
[13:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:06] <exec> 08└─France obtains 71% of its energy from nuclear and is a net exporter of energy [wikipedia.org] The target Germany set for itself is 60% of energy from renewable resources in 2050 [wikipedia.org] A big "reserve" that sie Germans can tap on is increasing energy efficiency [cleanenergywire.org] - laggin...
[13:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:08] <exec> 08└─But, makes you less competitive with countries that don't or pretend not to care.
[13:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creating Learning Resources for Blind Students - 1587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:20] <exec> 08└─Here's one genius, nearly blind (2% vision) from birth: https://www.ieee.ca [www.ieee.ca] A sample of the longer article, The Converto-Braille: In 1961, his first major project came to him in a dream. Microcomputers had yet to be invented, and computers of t...
[13:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:47] <exec> 08└─NSL would get them what they want. Apple is controlled opposition and making "privacy focused" individuals (the most likely to actually organize and protest) to put on their blinders and purchase completely closed-source apple products. Fuck Apple.
[13:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:18] <exec> 08└─Tony Stark and Elon Musk - and at least one of them is fictional...
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[13:55:32] <exec> 08└─Free ad, plus you feel they REALLY CARE. There is of course no way of holding them accountable.
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[14:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:52] <exec> 08└─Other than the Fermi paradox paradox ("I discovered nukes: why won't aliens speak to us?"), we would be discussing an unproven premise, that aliens haven't contacted us. And making assumptions like, the only way to travel is to physically transfer matter, aliens share that same dimensional orders of...
[14:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:53] <exec> 08└─As described by Cixin Liu? Knowing it is not safe out there, the aliens keep well hidden like animals in a forest.
[14:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:43] <exec> 08└─Simple solution, criminals should not use smartphones. ... In the future, only criminals don't own smart phones. Not owning and using a smart phone is a criminal offense. Shit. [Cops knocking on door]
[14:53:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 1591 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:10] <exec> 08└─It's a generational problem. The public schools in the US are a faint shadow of what they were in the 50s, 60s, 70s when the US actually had a goal of leading in science and technology. Those generations are either dying off, retiring, or otherwise getting pushed out of the way by dogma pushing illi...
[14:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:15] <exec> 08└─The individuals on the left that oppose research are few and far between compared with the right and they mostly don't have any political clout. And they don't generally oppose anywhere near the amount of research that the ones on the right do. What's more, it tends to be based in actual understandi...
[14:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:17] <exec> 08└─That's an impossible question to answer, you don't know until the research has been done. Some inventions like the car are relatively easy for people to imagine a use for an estimate the value to society. But, asking people about things like the Internet, people just wouldn't have any sort of meanin...
[14:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:21] <exec> 08└─You say Traditional Chinese Medicine as if the government isn't spending tons of money on research into the safety and efficacy of those traditional practices. You also say that as if there isn't at least some access to more modern forms of treatment, which there is. There are issues with Chinese me...
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[14:53:32] <exec> 08└─we could take a hint from the "big cleanup" in fukushima: freeze water in the right shape then pour cement into shape and then thaw water. rinse repeat. should cut down on formwork material. also, maybe with some genetic manipulation and nano-mechanics we can get them pesky wasps to collect and depo...
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[14:54:52] <exec> 08└─Let me turn your ideas back to you. Given the state of the earth right now, do you really think humanity is on track to have workable solutions to our political and economic systems, our corruption, our oligarchy, within the next century? Within the next five centuries? I'm not optimistic. So one co...
[14:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:54] <exec> 08└─The ones who get there later get to eat the now-seriously weakened survivors who remain from the earlier parties?
[14:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:58] <exec> 08└─Microgravity is awful for the health of those who are not adapted to microgravity. It only takes a couple of dozen generations for significant physiological changes to kick in as long as there's enough r-like breeding behaviour. We know it's trivial for the female of the species to squirt out well o...
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[14:54:59] <exec> 08└─I like the way you think, we could get along. Sadly, this is well worn territory, Asimov's Daneel R. Olivaw had to travel once to another planet than earth and it was just rich people on vast manors surrounded by only robots because all human contact had become dirty and pedestrian to them. So when...
[14:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:00] <exec> 08└─> Sending just freaks is not an option. Justify that, please? Why not? I think sending just the freaks would be a fantastic choice. Change my mind.
[14:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but mars is a future story - what about the violations of non-contamination treaties that are being broken right now? https://bgr.com Jokes about certain countries and their willingness to ignore international treaties, and populate areas that are...
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[14:55:04] <exec> 08└─Recall Stranger in a Strange Land, they looked at every person on earth in combination for every other, for 6 people who would get along for the trip to mars, and found that any such combination would murder each other before the half-way point. I think that was heinlein's way of agreeing with satre...
[14:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:07] <exec> 08└─My take is that technology will eventually reduce that adaption time to zero generations.
[14:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:30] <exec> 08└─Not a real soylentil. 2: Threaded-TNG. I have to click to see AC comments.
[14:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:53] <exec> 08└─No major distro boots in 30 seconds these days.
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[14:55:54] <exec> 08└─i propose to hijack EVERY article that mentions m$ ('cause useless). so i "need" some suggestions on a smallish electro motor that is also a generator, runs on DC and has a corresponding controller that right-smartly drains or charges the connected battery. the system voltage should be something a b...
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[14:56:13] <exec> 08└─as a random internet user i was surprised to see the dialogue about someone having picked up on an unstated or implied bias. i can see why a person considered to be homeless, but maybe capable of contributing, could be insulted if taking the statement that homeless need not apply/do not donate was s...
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[14:56:15] <exec> 08└─I am facing homelessness. No one has contribted yet, ever, to anything I write. :( (well some people have pointed out typos or said it is too long, etc) You can imply that anyone who is on the brink, like you are describing, which has been by far the dominant experience I have had in the world too,...
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[15:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:13] <exec> 08└─>> Beats doing construction work in the rain I suppose. > >I'll give you that. Now I'm trying to decide which is worse: rain or the equivalent in snow... Snow every time, it makes the temperature go closer to 0 (not fahrenheit) and can be managed vs getting soaked with no recourse
[15:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:14] <exec> 08└─Do you really do construction work? Like with all the perl and all coding stuff, I mean... Really?
[15:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:16] <exec> 08└─Yep, Buzz is our resident developer. We have several who are part of the team but currently they are all unavailable because of real world priorities, and have been like that for quite a long time now.
[15:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine in Stage 1 Trials - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:24] <exec> 08└─I can't get the flu vaccines that they currently use because the only time I got vaccinated with it, it was also the only time in my entire life where I wound up with "the flu" whether it was technically the flu or not, I got most of the listed side effects on the box and missed an entire week of wo...
[15:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 1263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:35] <exec> 08└─I think beyond this some of the arguments don't make any sense, at least not as plainly described. It seems practically self evident that rapidly expanding civilizations would be vastly more likely to survive than more static ones. Life in this universe is just a never-ending game of Russian roulett...
[15:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:37] <exec> 08└─Only few hundred K years, or do you think dinosaurs would develop rockets?
[15:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:39] <exec> 08└─> It seems practically self evident that rapidly expanding civilizations would be vastly more likely to survive than more static ones. why is that so? maybe the thing that makes them 'reach out to the stars' is also the thing that annihilates them before that happens? If earth was just 1.7 bigger al...
[15:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:42] <exec> 08└─For the rest of your comment: imagine all civilizations are just developing intelligence, just like earth, we will learn about them the nudred or few K years from now, but it's all happening everywhere, now what? What are you even going to ask them? Do you also hate feminazis?
[15:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03oumuamua [8401] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.genolve.com/design/socialmedia/memes/The-day-the-Fermi-paradox-was-answered [genolve.com]
[15:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:46] <exec> 08└─The possibilities have all been explored at length, and the only plausible scenario is that we are the only technological civilization in the galaxy, probably in the whole Local Group. You can debate about why that is, but none of the other possibilities hold up.
[15:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:48] <exec> 08└─What are you even going to ask them?
[15:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 5333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:50] <exec> 08└─[ill bite, strap in.] Everyone: "J, Mr. Hudson, um," J: "J is fine." Everyone: "J, where are all the aliens?" J: "I think they are probably here already. I say this because I have watched and read everything on the internet. Where there is that much smoke, there is simply fire. I've seen a couple th...
[15:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 1606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:03] <exec> 08└─not sure about this, but my gut tells me that something in global financial book keeping is "off". if the germans (and anyone else trying to follow in their renewable foot steps) really want to become "energy self reliant" they have to take a very close look at how the numbers are added and tabulate...
[15:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:05] <exec> 08└─A big "reserve" that sie Germans can tap on is increasing energy efficiency
[15:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:07] <exec> 08└─With the cost of renewables on par with fossil nowadays
[15:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:09] <exec> 08└─So you're saying I should return to my old 486 with CRT screen, because all that energy efficiency of the new technology does not do me any good?
[15:54:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:11] <exec> 08└─The Chinese have a god for money.
[15:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:22] <exec> 08└─Things are gradually changing on that front, but there's still so much bullshit being taught to children. People keep teaching that race is a thing and that racism is the cause of where some of these communities are today. But, if you actually look at the history of the US, the degree to which a com...
[15:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:24] <exec> 08└─Lesson from the new world to the old world: Manufacturing follows cost Design follows manufacturing Science follows design Power follows all of the above Lesson from the new, new world to the new world: ditto, but why did you forget?
[15:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:26] <exec> 08└─Bad example with Musk. He could be vastly richer than he is today if he simply agreed to join the price fixing cartel with Boeing/Lockheed and the US Government. Part of the reason capitalism is in trouble now a days. It's a lot more profitable for the players to rig the game when there's barriers t...
[15:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:28] <exec> 08└─Are religions or social issues a more inhibiting force now a days? Try doing any research whatsoever in genetics or suggest anything that runs against tabula rasa / the blank slate hypothesis, and you'll get labeled, removed, and blacklisted faster than you can blink, literally even if you are the p...
[15:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ron [5774] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Living Carbon Chomping FrankenBricks for the Moon, Mars, and Mainstreet - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:42] <exec> 08└─Let's see what our house grows up to be in the next 30 years! Isn't the definition of life something about constant change, eventual death and decomposition? Doesn't sound like a stable structure.
[15:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Carbon Chomping FrankenBricks for the Moon, Mars, and Mainstreet - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:43] <exec> 08└─constant change, eventual death and decomposition?
[15:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:13] <exec> 08└─This is the worst thing I have ever heard. All prequels are bad storytelling. It hurts your brain. You know the entire story is no big deal, that it will all lead to this whole other thing, you have to literally keep two entirely different stories in your head at the same time. It is awful, I refuse...
[15:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 1347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:13] <exec> 08└─Understanding "Why?" should drive the choice of many folks to send first. There's a list above that may miss the point of why? (Primary reasons overpopulation underemployment, etc) I think the starting point is that humans learn a lot like other animals by trying random stuff and occasionally ge...
[15:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:15] <exec> 08└─I cannot acknowledge unproven and nonexistent technology.
[15:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but mars is a future story - what about the violations of non-contamination treaties that are being broken right now?
[15:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:19] <exec> 08└─This is normal. I half suspect there is something genetic within us in relation to exploration. I am one of the ones that would happily sell everything I have to afford a ticket to Mars just to go work my ass off even more once there. I'm also the sort of person that was perfectly happy in the US, b...
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[16:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:15] <exec> 08└─Used to way back when for a living. Currently do because I'm remodeling a church to live in.
[16:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:16] <exec> 08└─The american way: hire construction worker to do our perl job
[16:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:19] <exec> 08└─Not sure how many use TOS vs. TNG though.
[16:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:21] <exec> 08└─Shit just noticed it looks like snow is worse, EDIT: snow is better, rain is worse
[16:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:23] <exec> 08└─>way back when for a living Really cool part about you, most commenters are california-born-raised and never experienced normal life, but will preach about it, kudos
[16:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:25] <exec> 08└─I'm a code monkey by trade nowadays but I've done everything from construction, to HVAC, to plumbing, to convenience store clerk, to installing medical networks, to admining an ISP, to making oil well drill bits, to being a lot hand at a car lot, to being a Harley mechanic, to part-time admining mul...
[16:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:27] <exec> 08└─>Okay, I can't fix something that ain't broke Did you try switching it off and on again?
[16:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:29] <exec> 08└─Well, there weren't until now. Congrats on picking the name of the next comments view mode.
[16:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the opposing opinion, sadly SN is just like reddit a hivemind, even worse as if you want to keep your mod points you better behave or they will mod you out of the mod pool, on reddit you can keep posting no matter how many downvotes your comment got
[16:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:34] <exec> 08└─What...did Hillary order a pizza? ;)
[16:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:36] <exec> 08└─>Construction work don't leave you feeling like you have dirty gym socks for brains at the end of the work day. And this is why we NEED you, stay in shape bro
[16:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 1522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:01] <exec> 08└─Is the assumption that only a minority of star systems are habitable. In fact virtually all star systems are habitable. People who think otherwise are guilty of planet chauvinism. Any civilization that is capable of interstellar travel is pretty much by definition capable of building space stations,...
[16:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:03] <exec> 08└─Simple - any species that develops advanced technology end up killing itself off. The only example we have should be sufficient proof. Civilizations that are stable won't have any reason to do more than observe from a distance. And generation ships full of humans won't survive any more than any adva...
[16:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:05] <exec> 08└─But then what? We agree -1 can have a square root, now what? Do you have a jesus?
[16:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:07] <exec> 08└─I agree completely. Once we escape the gravity well we'll have precious little reason to return to it. HOMES are far more desirable than dirt colonies. https://www.lcas-astronomy.org (HOME on Lagrange)
[16:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:09] <exec> 08└─Btw my alien-kink is thinking CMB is all the civilizations sending their hello, now what? messages. Now what? If life is all over the place, now what? We still are earthbound and gonna suffer like all of them sending those texts thousands of years ago, I guess dab on christcucks? They'll just update...
[16:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:11] <exec> 08└─We agree -1 can have a square root, now what?
[16:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:13] <exec> 08└─What do you expect? Like literally 'what could you get from a transmission'? We made you? Ok, so what? Others made you? Cool, so what? It's all random? Ok now what? We're still fucked in this world no matter what message we get, we're not going anywhere (as a race, maybe, oh I just used the r word o...
[16:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:15] <exec> 08└─If life is all over the place, now what? We still are earthbound and gonna suffer like all of them sending those texts thousands of years ago, I guess dab on christcucks?
[16:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:18] <exec> 08└─it takes a small extrapolation from present human technology to get interstellar ships
[16:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:20] <exec> 08└─The only reason to go land on a planet is to burn enormous amounts of energy trying to get back off it again.
[16:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:22] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that Earth serves as an interstellar ship. We already have a working example.
[16:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:24] <exec> 08└─any species that develops advanced technology end up killing itself off. The only example we have should be sufficient proof
[16:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:26] <exec> 08└─And generation ships full of humans won't survive any more than any advanced civilization on earth has.
[16:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:29] <exec> 08└─We're still fucked in this world no matter what message we get, we're not going anywhere (as a race, maybe, oh I just used the r word oops)
[16:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:31] <exec> 08└─>Any civilization capable of communicating with us and having the intellectual inclination to try probably has something to offer. Like what? Hey guys we figured out DNA! There is no god. We're all fucked, make all you will with the brief moment you have? Or do you expect something like: if you blin...
[16:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:33] <exec> 08└─Hey guys we figured out DNA!
[16:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:35] <exec> 08└─>So if we talk to aliens who aren't fucked, then we could at least find out a way to unfuck things, right? That assumes they are in possression of some magical knowledge? What if all universe is fucked and having same trump issues right now? Are you gonna beam bernie sanders commercial to aliens fro...
[16:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:37] <exec> 08└─That assumes they are in possression of some magical knowledge?
[16:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:39] <exec> 08└─Your life is a brief moment, so brief you will never receive a reply from an alien, who woud've thunk eh? Oh god they have different DNA? Amazing, now what? Uranium based aliens use uranium in their DNA, amazing discovery
[16:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:56] <exec> 08└─So you're saying I should return to my old 486 with CRT screen
[16:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:58] <exec> 08└─Sure, we could cook the books so that activities I like are rewarded and activities I don't like are penalized. But what would be the point of the exercise? What's off about the book keeping? What value do fossil fuels have in the ground? the other problem is that renewable are ... well infinite.
[16:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:39] <exec> 08└─Journalists, anyone that the current cultural hegemony does not like, including me. Criminal/terrorist expanded by about 10000% around 2012. This is my life. This is not a drill. It is not fun. It is not a matter of fashion whether or not to use these products, it is one of safety both physical and...
[16:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:40] <exec> 08└─I get that but the passcode (or hash for the passcode) is still on a chip that the authorities still have physical access to. Can't that hash be extracted from that chip, put on a faster computer, and cracked in seconds?
[16:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:42] <exec> 08└─Cellebrite's updated software allows it to communicate with the chipset used on certain iPhone models, apparently regardless of the iOS version that the phone in question is running. This new technology could be very useful. hm who is cellebrite...click click click...."Cellebrite is headquartered in...
[16:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:21] <exec> 08└─That's an impossible question to answer, you don't know until the research has been done.
[16:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:22] <exec> 08└─The individuals on the left that oppose research are few and far between compared with the right
[16:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:24] <exec> 08└─China might have had a nice period of 30 years where religion was all-but-banned
[16:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 1900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:27] <exec> 08└─The best explanation of this is the book "dumbing us down" by John Taylor Gatto. The second best, I think, is this diagram showing how wealth has been sucked out of the bottom 90% of the american economy, which is where inventions and scientists come from. https://archive.is [archive.is] Why a...
[16:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Carbon Chomping FrankenBricks for the Moon, Mars, and Mainstreet - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:43] <exec> 08└─I hate to be the spoil sport, but water is also in short supply on the moon, at least until we prove out the reserves at the poles. I don't understand the hesitation to use basalt as a building material. It's literally everywhere. The closest analogy I have for not using it would be like landing in...
[16:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:16] <exec> 08└─Has Mr Musk been secretly working on nuclear rocket engines?
[16:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:17] <exec> 08└─I have to find the right links, but no, you can theoretically do this with just chemical rockets like Starship. Musk was already anticipating 30-day (one-way) trips back during the ITS days: Powerful rocket missions to Mars in 30 days one way and fast mission to other solar system destinations [next...
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[17:52:31] <exec> 08└─To help California secede and we'll be happy to not live real lives isolated from you lot! #freecaliforniatoflop :-D
[17:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:17] <exec> 08└─>If they figured out those answers then yes, by whatever you mean by magical, they got it. You are trekkie? Still hoping there is a better and wiser out there galactic federation? Sorry to burst your bubble but we'd have discovered it by now, it's either all galactic species are hostile, or we're al...
[17:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:18] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what the purpose of that would be, except as a multi million year science experiment or a colossal vanity project. It seems like what you're saying is equivalent to "no one can live in a city because if the plumbing and roads stopped working people would die!" They would, so people keep...
[17:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:20] <exec> 08└─And what proof would demonstrate it to you that could not simply be faked?
[17:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:23] <exec> 08└─Your life is a brief moment
[17:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:25] <exec> 08└─Why not? Sorry to burst your bubble but we'd have discovered it by now, it's either all galactic species are hostile, or we're alone
[17:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:27] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what the purpose of that would be, except as a multi million year science experiment or a colossal vanity project.
[17:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:29] <exec> 08└─Earth is bound by gravity. My definition of a spaceship includes the ability to escape planetary and stellar gravitational wells.
[17:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:31] <exec> 08└─Are you still counting on it? Noone fucking cares if you live for a 100 or a thousand years, galactic evolution takes place in the billions, again pls answer what do you expect aliens to tell you? Like what we sent in pioneer plaque? Yo: we have like 9 planets and only two genders. Fucking message i...
[17:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:33] <exec> 08└─Hmm... Humanity has only had space flight for less than a century... Biologically humans aren't particularly well suited for it... Except for a brief window of a decade or so, investment in space travel has been less than 0.1% of global GDP... Most of which hasn't gone toward anything that actually...
[17:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:35] <exec> 08└─Like I said CMB is all intergalactic homo-sapiens saying hello, noone cares, we need 25B$ tool to disprove that or realise no matter how many billions we spend we're fucked like the rest
[17:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:38] <exec> 08└─“ some people *with wicked-freaky patents to their name* are at least REPORTING them with pictures” Wicked-freaky patents for things that make for interesting atmospheric propulsion but do absolutely fuck-all for extra-terrestrial propulsion at any distance, let alone interplanetary, much less i...
[17:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:40] <exec> 08└─Earth is bound by gravity.
[17:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:42] <exec> 08└─Why should it be relevant that I be the one to live a billion years? Noone fucking cares if you live for a 100 or a thousand years
[17:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:44] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you have an opinion. What's it based on?
[17:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:46] <exec> 08└─On all you drake-equation fetishists, omg multicellular life, omg dinosaurs, omg intelligence, you're planet denylists of our time (like yeah seriously 30 years ago people said our sun was special and there were no planets outside of solar system, how weird haha. this is you)
[17:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:48] <exec> 08└─Let me speak of the generations later on, we have 9 planets and two genders, you will be laughed at as you are now
[17:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:51] <exec> 08└─Let me speak of the generations later on, we have 9 planets and two genders, you will be laughed at as you are now
[17:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:53] <exec> 08└─The idea is whatever you think will be 'deep and meaningful' was just raped by last decade of 'intelligents', the whole pioneer message is now fucking problematic, go figure one that will not get ruined by ideologues of future?
[17:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:55] <exec> 08└─Applying moral values of the future us is harder than fucking launching rockets
[17:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:57] <exec> 08└─(Title from the comment about the Fermi paradox in Greg Egan's Disapora - "It's what bacteria with spaceships would do.") They also argued that being a long-lived civilization is inconsistent with being a rapidly-expanding one, so any species bent on settling the galaxy would not last long enough to...
[17:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:59] <exec> 08└─So in other words, it's not based on evidence. Cool story, bro, but you're missing the mark. My take is that there is a huge potential to speaking to any intelligent life that has developed under different circumstances. Maybe they solved better the common problems we have and made discoveries that...
[17:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:01] <exec> 08└─Or I can just ignore the ideologues. Works better for me.
[17:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:04] <exec> 08└─Applying moral values of the future us is harder than fucking launching rockets
[17:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:06] <exec> 08└─OMG! Did khallow just cop to Anthropogenic Global Warming?
[17:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:08] <exec> 08└─>My take is that there is a huge potential to speaking to any intelligent life that has developed under different circumstances. Maybe they solved better the common problems we have and made discoveries that aren't a proper subset of our own. If they live under radically different environmental circ...
[17:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:10] <exec> 08└─(3) Generation ships - so only your great-great grandchildren can reach the stars, provided they don't revert to savagery and start worshipping the engines.
[17:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:12] <exec> 08└─Is that what you're trying to sell lol
[17:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:14] <exec> 08└─>The problems aren't going to change that much. Says the white male launching rockets in 2020, very problematic already right now. Dude just think for a second about the pioneer plaque, it had totally zero wrongthink in the 70s, but now is totally problematic, you will be the same, thrown to the sid...
[17:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah like what exactly? Can you give us an example what people of earth could send without getting raped for it 40 years later and thinking about cosmic scales? 2 genders and 9 planets ain't it my friend, think of something more inclusive, but you'll end up a bigot anyway, so have fun
[17:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:18] <exec> 08└─I got bad news for you, cop types are into thugs. No, really. The reasoning behind why should be obvious.
[17:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:01] <exec> 08└─Western medicine is driven by unthinking application of a catalog of assumed probabilities. Just read about a case where a thirteen year old girl was vomiting up her food and losing a lot of weight. They gave her psych pills, because girls like that must have bulimia. A year later she comes back wit...
[17:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:53] <exec> 08└─You also get dust storms that last for months and cut the amount of solar energy arriving at the surface way down. Long term they're going to need something like nukes to supply steady energy.
[17:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:55] <exec> 08└─Eventually, assuming we don't filter ourselves out of existence, I agree that that tech's on the cards. However, whether it becomes a reality before or after it could be relevant for space conquest is a matter better discussed in a lively chat in a pub over a beer, because we really can't extrapolat...
[17:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:57] <exec> 08└─False: https://sma.nasa.gov
[18:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vietnam's Battalions of 'Cyber-Armies' Silencing Online Dissent - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:53] <exec> 08└─Are they the ones who put the American Indians in re-education schools? Perhaps the ones who enslaved whoever they could?
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[18:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:02] <exec> 08└─Was I alone in mistakenly reading the headine as something like "Original HP laser printer dies, aged 81." Which, if you're of a certain age, seems entirely plausible. As Jerry Pournelle used to advise, "Just buy the most expensive HP printer that you can afford." The assumption being that it will w...
[18:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine in Stage 1 Trials - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:48] <exec> 08└─"The other end of the protein—the "stem"—is much more resistant to mutations." If this is so conserved and such a good target for the immune system and so easy for the immune system to target through vaccination wouldn't the immune system have already been exposed to it naturally and have natura...
[18:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine in Stage 1 Trials - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:50] <exec> 08└─Phase I does not amount to much. It is safety evaluation and dose finding. When the vaccine enters phase III there would be hope as some indication of efficacy would exist (phase II). The chance of making it from phase I to market is very low ( 10%, I believe).
[18:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:58] <exec> 08└─I've stated for years that there is AGW. I've also stated for years that there is habitat destruction, pollution, and desertification. It's like I've actually thought about these things for a long while. Weird huh?
[18:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:59] <exec> 08└─Not for me. The brain suckers don't stick to you, if you don't let them.
[18:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:01] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia, for example.
[18:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:04] <exec> 08└─Constantly squawking and howling?
[18:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:06] <exec> 08└─Is this a joke? Maybe a wikipedia history of any problematic article?
[18:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:08] <exec> 08└─Oh, glad you are the one that will write all the bbc/cnn articles about pioneer plaque in the future, problem solved, just have a dictator for life, what happens when you die tho linus torvalds?
[18:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:10] <exec> 08└─> Our robots will still be exploring the universe long after we either kill ourselves or genetic drift means we are no longer humans. What do you mean "still"? We have no robots exploring the universe currently.
[18:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:12] <exec> 08└─> space stations, which is where the majority of the population will reside, simply by virtue of available real estate and resources. There are no resources on space stations. They were resources before you mined them and put them on the space stations, now they're very finite supplies.
[18:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:14] <exec> 08└─Kudos
[18:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 1939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:17] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but it's only a small advance for the "hard tech". The real problem is maintaining social stability in a small (only a few million) society inhabiting a fragile vehicle for a large number of centuries. I still think it's doable, but my guess is that by the time the vehicle gets to the next st...
[18:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:36] <exec> 08└─Why do we refuse? Who knows? I think it's an antipathy thing.
[18:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:57] <exec> 08└─Read your link. First, this is a policy by NASA concerning its own missions. It's not a treaty. As to the actual treaties, NASA has the following [nasa.gov] to say: 2.2.1.3 These activities shall be performed consistent with US obligations under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. 2.2.2 NASA shall provide...
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[19:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:53] <exec> 08└─Unless they ban knives with pointy tips this is stupid. The type of person who tends to get stabby will buy knives with pointy tips, while the type who slices tomatoes will be fine with a flat tip. Me? I cook a lot, a knife without a pointy tip is useless.
[19:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:54] <exec> 08└─It's clear reading this that we on the morally superior left have gotten gun control wrong. If the Brits can stop people being slashed by removing points from knives, why do we not remove points from bullets and use softer material?
[19:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:03] <exec> 08└─The primary reason Xerox printers got replaced was more resolution, color, ppm, media types, or postscript functionality. Sadly Xerox chose to follow the consumer printer market into crappy cartridge based designs and didn't focus enough on innovating where the future lead (away from printers) and p...
[19:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:43] <exec> 08└─one suggestion - the topic search icons at the top of the site would be a tad more useful if they defaulted to showing new content first rather than old content.
[19:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine in Stage 1 Trials - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:54] <exec> 08└─only time I got vaccinated with it
[19:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine in Stage 1 Trials - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:55] <exec> 08└─The fixed regions have managed to stay conserved/have been selected to stay conserved partly because of the immune system's limited ability to combat them naturally. The variable regions need to change because the immune system is much better at targeting them if they don't.
[19:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine in Stage 1 Trials - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:57] <exec> 08└─While your illness might have been related to getting the shot (it's possible) there are other more typical scenarios to consider also. 1) Already infected when you got the shot (too late) 2) Simply not protected from that strain by that shot 3) Protected, but weakened by other factors and infected...
[19:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 1970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:15] <exec> 08└─I think it *may* be becoming clear that progress is not incremental, but punctuated. Physics at the start of the 20th century was seen as basically solved. It's somewhat ironic that it was Michelson, of the Michelson-Morley experiment (which set the stage for the discovery of relativity), who said t...
[19:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:16] <exec> 08└─You can't become a spacefaring species if you don't start with Elon Musk. Once you have that, you're ready to take over the galaxy if you can find enough suckers to back you.
[19:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:19] <exec> 08└─We already know that machines are fit to explore the universe, and humans aren't.
[19:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:21] <exec> 08└─It seems peculiar to suggest we'd have little reason to return to planets, when the long-term goal of a space station would be largely to provide passable replications of the 'real thing' - fresh air, biodiversity, atmosphere, weather, oceans, various activities such as exploring unknown areas, rock...
[19:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:23] <exec> 08└─I didn't conclude that it's strictly impossible. Just that it's a huge speculation, not a small extrapolation, to assume that kind of technical progress. Maybe governments would try a little harder at space exploration, if the Outer Space Treaty did not exist. If nations were competing to establish...
[19:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:43] <exec> 08└─Ach, where did we put that list of Jews?
[19:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:44] <exec> 08└─Questionable analogy. My 486DX4-100 with 24MB RAM, 1MB VLB SVGA, Sound Blaster 16, ethernet, and 2.5GB Quantum Fireball only uses 30W. The desktop system I'm on now uses 48W when it's in *standby*. The old 16" CRT used 5W more than the 20" LCD.
[19:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:46] <exec> 08└─Germany doesn't need tariffs, they have the ECB.
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[20:51:58] <exec> 08└─Remove the tips of Ice Picks.
[20:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:59] <exec> 08└─Well, if you want people to live, then you'd better buy ammunition with not only blunt points, but hollow points. And then discharge those rounds into every Arab you see raise a knife within a few feet of you. The royal family is compromised 100% by Arabian goatfuckers, as is the rest of the leaders...
[20:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:01] <exec> 08└─The best material for that is likely lead. The problem is that has some negative environmental impacts. A hybrid approach where the tip is soft but the remainder of the bullet is covered in something that helps protect the environment (e.g. copper or brass alloy) might be best.
[20:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:04] <exec> 08└─I cannot remember the last time I used a knife. My caramel soy latte - does it use a knife? No. Does my Afghan cauliflower and tofu tikka kebab need a knife? No, again. Knives are only useful for two things: killing people and violating the bodies and flesh of other animals who never consented to su...
[20:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:06] <exec> 08└─When you support Trump and other kiddie diddlers anyone else is automatically morally superior. Except maybe Hitler, but you get pretty upset when that gets pointed out.
[20:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:08] <exec> 08└─To stop this most serious of crime waves, all they need do is remove the hands from all new babies. Children with no hands will most definitely not grow up to commit violent knife crimes! And, if that idea isn't absurd enough, you might consider removing baby's head.
[20:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:10] <exec> 08└─Some people might well have the best of intentions, but the ease of production of pointy weapons makes this a bit, well, pointless, really. Anyone who wishes to go out and cause lethal harm to someone will go equipped with a sharpened screwdriver, which is basically a stiletto [wikipedia.org] knife;...
[20:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:12] <exec> 08└─Have carried a knife for over 25 years and somehow no one was every stabbed by it. The are looking at the wrong problem. When knives become useless, these individuals will switch to screwdrivers, clubs, hammers, pipes, and other things to accomplish the same task. Many things can be used as weapons...
[20:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:14] <exec> 08└─To stop this most serious of crime waves, all they need do is remove the hands from all new babies. Children with no hands will most definitely not grow up to commit violent knife crimes! And, if that idea isn't absurd enough, you might consider removing baby's head.
[20:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:17] <exec> 08└─Look at this racist stuff they printed - The scaling back of “stop and search” because it’s “racist”. – The ongoing emasculation of UK police forces who are being trained that mean words and ‘hate crime’ is more important than people dying. – Fatherless black homes. – UK street g...
[20:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:19] <exec> 08└─Looking at the pictures in the article, that knife looks perfectly serviceable for horizontal throat or vertical wrist slicing ! It's not not lethal enough, it needs a duller blade ;)
[20:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:21] <exec> 08└─No tip: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Doesn't fit everything but works fine for most things. I also have a 6" Santoku, 8" western chef and 10" western chef around but I keep reaching for the Chinese whenever I can and end up using a pairing knife...
[20:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:31] <exec> 08└─+1 Sad
[20:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:33] <exec> 08└─He just ran out of toner. Jeez, no need to be so dramatic. He takes HP type 01 cartridges, which last almost for-frickin'-ever, but even those need to be replaced now and then.
[20:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:46] <exec> 08└─There's a much better explanation in my opinion: pleasure. Few people take on children as a feeling of a public responsibility. Most do so either accidentally or because their biological clock kicks in and you face this overwhelming desire to have a child. I'm sure some fools also get into thinking...
[20:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:47] <exec> 08└─They all got hacked and died. The End.
[20:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:49] <exec> 08└─Sound does not give away your exact position, as those trying to find a singing bird can attest to.
[20:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:12] <exec> 08└─I thought they built the "Atlantic Wall"?
[20:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:14] <exec> 08└─It is a branding issue and as such, brilliant people working in marketing should use their skills to rebrands nuclear power instead of creating artificial needs.
[20:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:40] <exec> 08└─Sure, because the rise of fundamentalism, the constant anti-intellectualism, the corporate hegemony, and the profits-uber-alles mentality that stifles research and perverts grant funding aren't things. No, surely not. None of those. It's only the fact that people are trying to get more women or ethn...
[20:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:58] <exec> 08└─If you think LA in 2020 has “smog” you must be under 35yo, blind, or just staggeringly unaware or all of the above. The improvement in air quality since 1980 in Los Angeles is damn near fucking miraculous to anyone who has resided on this planet for longer than that.
[20:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:59] <exec> 08└─Apple is in the same boat. The days of the openfirmware macs are gone.
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[21:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:08] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the country is crawling with super-violent limeys! Football Hooligans! Angled Saxophones! And Royals. Maybe it is time to have England just exit the rest of the planet, we could build a wall around it. And have
[21:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:10] <exec> 08└─And have "Local shops, for local people!" [youtube.com]
[21:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, precisely (and concur on the non-pointy knives for cooking - I dropped one of mine and knocked the point off, now it just gets used for cutting cake). Except, that if you don't have a pointy knife you will simply find a way to do what you want with a non-pointy one. After all, machetes (often/...
[21:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:14] <exec> 08└─They've already done that. With their stiff upper lip mentality and shield of dry wit, they have an extremely low murder rate. You can never entirely remove the human potential for violence though.
[21:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:16] <exec> 08└─I use a knife for everything. Tip: Don't try to give yourself a Brazilian with a Buck Knives 110.
[21:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:18] <exec> 08└─Machetes are really bad at peeling tomatoes, though. I like knives with a point.
[21:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:21] <exec> 08└─Correct. One of the first things we invented as a species was the pointy stick. I've been carrying a pocket knife any time I had pants on since I was a six year old Cub Scout and never cut anyone but myself with it. Yes, in school. Yes, in church. Yes, even on airplanes. The last was even post-911....
[21:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:23] <exec> 08└─You're right. That Buck will be too dull to cut anything after passing through 3 pubes.
[21:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:25] <exec> 08└─You're being paid by the tomato lobbyists, eh?
[21:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, a bigass cleaver could never hurt anyone.
[21:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:29] <exec> 08└─No, the UK should legalize the ownership of AR-15's. Much more efficient as they could kill lots more in far less time and at far greater distances. That way knives would be seen as a non problem again. Works here in the good 'ole USA, doesn't it.
[21:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:32] <exec> 08└─Here's a tip: they still seem to work quite well for killing humans Just one example: https://edition.cnn.com [cnn.com] Removing the tip is just pointless.
[21:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:34] <exec> 08└─Teeth are really good at eating tomato skin. Just sayin'.
[21:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:24] <exec> 08└─You can here too. Anyone who's been here a month or more and isn't mod-banned gets ten points a day unless they have "willing to moderate" unchecked in their settings, karma has nothing to do with it.
[21:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:25] <exec> 08└─Is it broken on firefox? I click this button and it just reloads the page with button at top, used to get a dropdown so assumed that's what broke it?
[21:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:27] <exec> 08└─No, works fine in Firefox. It redirects you to the page you just left, to an anchor at the comment with the highest cid that you moderated. You don't get a message, just returned to where you left off with your shiny, new moderation applied to the comment. PSA: You can select several moderations on...
[21:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:30] <exec> 08└─Doesn't work for me, I really thought it was because I dropped under 10 karma, it just brings the 'moderate' button to the top of the page and that's it
[21:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine in Stage 1 Trials - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:42] <exec> 08└─What are the chances of getting the flu? 10 % [webmd.com]. If you get the flu it's 5 %. Is it better to get 20 flu shots or one illness? The benefit-to-cost ratio seems rather modest.
[21:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:09] <exec> 08└─(like yeah seriously 30 years ago people said our sun was special and there were no planets outside of solar system, how weird haha. this is you)
[21:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:11] <exec> 08└─You might be wasting your time with that one. His worldview seems to be too small to really think about the issues in the article clearly.
[21:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:13] <exec> 08└─*double checks* We seem to still be alive.
[21:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:15] <exec> 08└─I am unsure why someone would mod your comment "troll", so I fixed that. I am also unsure I agree with your premise, but I need to think about it some more to be sure.
[21:57:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:06] <exec> 08└─The set of things that stupid people deem religions is quite large. Thank you for your contribution to the list though.
[21:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Carbon Chomping FrankenBricks for the Moon, Mars, and Mainstreet - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:24] <exec> 08└─Long term habitation should use the same techniques as Mars. Dig tunnels deep enough to stop radiation and line them to stop air leakage. Initially you would probably use plastic liners or spray sealant from earth, but once you have onsite refining you would switch to metal. The main problem seems t...
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[22:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:52] <exec> 08└─A computer cannot determine whether it will ever be able to finish booting with the init system it's currently trying to init itself with.
[22:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:30] <exec> 08└─Someone could just as easily hole themselves up in a Las Vegas hotel and throw knives at 500 concert goers. Could easily happen. There's fundamentally no difference between guns and knives. That's why the military only uses knives. Cheaper and just as effective as guns.
[22:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:31] <exec> 08└─Don't tell me how to cook!
[22:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:33] <exec> 08└─First they banned guns, now it's onto knives. It's the exact same story too. Anti knife marches, ridiculous laws and harassment of the law abiding population: eg, workman getting arrested for knives used on the job. While it takes some effort to make your own firearms, knives are super simple. Every...
[22:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:36] <exec> 08└─Unless they ban knives with pointy tips this is stupid.
[22:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:38] <exec> 08└─Someone can easily make a bomb or just drive through the crowd. And they have... none of that matters when there is agenda to push.
[22:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:40] <exec> 08└─Wait a minute, are you telling me a cleaver is JUST as deadly as an assault knife (unnecessarily pointy tipped knife)?
[22:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:42] <exec> 08└─Uh... you know the Brits invaded just about every other country in the world? I think the violence was already there.
[22:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:44] <exec> 08└─Best troll this year. Well done.
[22:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:46] <exec> 08└─Uhh, ball ammo is already round and hollow points /do/ have the points removed and are as a result much more effective at creating trauma... Keep in mind the UK is the place that also brought us polycarbonate laminated pint glasses that are impossible to shatter and cut people with. Sounds like that...
[22:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:49] <exec> 08└─The scaling back of “stop and search” because it’s “racist”.
[22:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:51] <exec> 08└─Use a serrated / scalloped knife to cut tomatoes. The flat edge of a knife just squishes them. Seriously, get away from it. My "vegetable" knife was in the dishwasher when I was cooking a burger -- needed a tomato slice on the quick. Used the finely serrated knife, have never looked back. No need to...
[22:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:53] <exec> 08└─are you muslim?
[22:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:55] <exec> 08└─I cook a lot, a knife without a pointy tip is useless.
[22:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:57] <exec> 08└─You haven't noticed? In many places throughout the US it's illegal to repair your home. Even if it's not, apparently doing plumbing or electrical work yourself will void your insurance policy. The movement is explicitly toward preventing you from being able to do _anything_ -- and so if you can't do...
[22:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:59] <exec> 08└─Speed cameras? People still speed. Lots of money in it through. Red light cameras? Apparently the sign does more than the camera. Smoke detectors at bus stops? People still light up next to a queue of people waiting to catch public transport. CCTV? Idiots still one punch others in the street. Helps...
[22:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:01] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the screwdrivers! Anyone wanna be stabbed with a wood chisel? I guess they'll have to go back to dousing people with acid...
[22:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:04] <exec> 08└─How do you make carrot sticks?
[22:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:06] <exec> 08└─The ongoing emasculation of UK police forces who are being trained that mean words and ‘hate crime’ is more important than people dying.
[22:53:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:17] <exec> 08└─He just ran out of toner. Jeez, no need to be so dramatic. He takes HP type 01 cartridges, which last almost for-frickin'-ever, but even those need to be replaced now and then.
[22:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:19] <exec> 08└─That must have been BC (Before Carly).
[22:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:47] <exec> 08└─And yet as soon we realised life happened 1 bil year on earth, we are still debating life outside of earth
[22:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:48] <exec> 08└─The Voyagers are still exploring, and will be for a few more years. There's nothing to stop humanity from building explorer bots designed for interstellar missions taking thousands of years (except, of course, for the lack of short-term payback).
[22:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:50] <exec> 08└─No-one is debating whether life outside our solar system is possible, it quite obviously is. What we are doing is actively looking for it. We haven't found it yet, but it is early days, and we're not putting much effort in are we?
[22:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:52] <exec> 08└─You must have a bloody weird definition of both "robot" and "exploring" IMHO.
[22:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:54] <exec> 08└─>What we are doing is actively looking for it lol, so untrue, you had an experiment in 70s that said yes, life on mars, what did NASA do? Send a follow up? Noooope, why even bother, jesus is great
[22:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:20] <exec> 08└─then there's no problem that needs to be solved at the national level
[22:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:21] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the Scandinavian idea to reduce car fatalities
[22:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:23] <exec> 08└─thank you for reply. nevermind the ongoing tos or whatever the problem is with weighting the threads. i hope they can find a satifactory solution. anywyas, it is true your arrgument. fossil fuels are still a safe usb power bank, a go to in emergencies so to speak. i agree totally. but my totally loo...
[22:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:26] <exec> 08└─no, the documents were destroyed. nukes makes time turn backwards ... nobody wants a inexhaustable power supply they canjot survive AND makes everthing "start new gaame".
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[23:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:54] <exec> 08└─So as to relieve fnord of editing duty.
[23:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:55] <exec> 08└─I'll volunteer but only if we put an ever-present and autoscrolling smoloko.com
[23:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:57] <exec> 08└─Vato loco that thinks he's a gringo.
[23:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:59] <exec> 08└─Evidently, Complexity Theory is too heavy duty for the AC above, LOL. I have studied Complexity Theory, and it's pretty cool stuff. There's also a million dollar prize for anyone who can prove that P=NP or not. Yes, the class of NP-complete problems had been all linked together by transforms from on...
[23:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:01] <exec> 08└─For nearly a century Proof and Quantum have been mutually exclusive.
[23:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, a bigass cleaver could never hurt anyone.
[23:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:58] <exec> 08└─Looking at the pictures in the article, that knife looks perfectly serviceable for horizontal throat or vertical wrist slicing !
[23:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:00] <exec> 08└─>Many things can be used as weapons and you can't outlaw them all. You think that will stop the UK? I've got one word for you: Brexit.
[23:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:02] <exec> 08└─Careful with that line of argumentation, sounds a lot like "if it's not perfect, then it doesn't worth doing", which is dumb. Better focus on "if we do something chasing an advantage, how close we get to our target and at what cost".
[23:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:04] <exec> 08└─Uh, the front tip of the blade is a tip. Unless it's rounded like a frosting knife it has a tip (a place where force can be concentrated at a single point).
[23:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:07] <exec> 08└─it's harder to cause a fatal wound by slicing than by stabbing
[23:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:09] <exec> 08└─Ban BIC pens.
[23:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:11] <exec> 08└─Hot glue guns?
[23:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, because machetes are protected by a cloak of invisibility and the second amendment. And, so true, if a solution is not perfect then it's useless.
[23:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:15] <exec> 08└─Remove the tips of Ice Picks.
[23:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:28] <exec> 08└─Few would have thought that an African American born in the Deep South in 1938 would rise to the heights that Gary Starkweather did.
[23:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:29] <exec> 08└─Well, he's not a vampire. The inventor of ink jet printers, now, definitely a first class blood sucker.
[23:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:31] <exec> 08└─FTFA By the new millennium, it was nearly ubiquitous in homes
[23:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:15] <exec> 08└─Ok, forget it, I'm retarded
[23:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I got what you meant. I think it depends on what you're doing. Some work requires precision finger dexterity, and my premise was that it's colder if snowing. I've done work in the rain with tools getting wet, but they survived. I've also done work in the snow, and somehow it melts on me and I...
[23:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine in Stage 1 Trials - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:31] <exec> 08└─No, it's not possible. You can't get the flu from the flu shot because the flu shot does not contain live virus (the nasal spray does). You can get weakend, flu-like symptoms, which is your immune system reacting to the particles of the virus, but it wouldn't put you out for a week.
[23:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:07] <exec> 08└─>What we are doing is actively looking for it. cope, NASA has still not followed up on labeled release, but we're actively looking, nope
[23:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:09] <exec> 08└─They never escape from medieval thinking so kill each other perpetually never reaching the stars.
[23:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:11] <exec> 08└─They have come. They see we have things like islam so they stay away to prevent mental infection.
[23:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:13] <exec> 08└─you had an experiment in 70s that said yes, life on mars
[23:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:15] <exec> 08└─Is there any chance you could write in sentences, and use proper words? It will make your comments easier to understand.
[23:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:17] <exec> 08└─Robot definition: A robot is a machine which is programmed to move and perform certain tasks automatically. And Voyagers' programming is ... drumroll ... Exploring!
[23:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:19] <exec> 08└─it's now purely ballistic, I deny that's exploring. Nor is it looking for anything any more. There's no exploring at all, I'd say. Musk's martian Tesla could have a better case made for it.
[23:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:49] <exec> 08└─Why do we refuse? Who knows? I think it's an antipathy thing.
[23:57:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:34] <exec> 08└─secure storage is typically inside the cpu, and typically hanging off a different bus (so you can't even use attacks like rowhammer). The operations that may be performed are also retricted, as there's a separate embedded CPU that acts as a gatekeeper. This is all from the marketting fluff - core de...
[23:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:20] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what you mean. Maybe we have differing definitions of "scientist", and I'm okay with that. I don't think of Elon Musk as a scientist. I'll definitely call him an engineer, entrepreneur, capitalist, marketer, etc., and I think highly of him. He creates and operates in markets that use sc...
[23:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:21] <exec> 08└─Bizarrely, it's less of a "profits uber alles" attitude then most cynics/critics think nowadays. For at least a decade, perhaps two, though the data is less clear, it's been a "shareprice uber alles" attitude. For the institutional investors and C-levels who are simply biding their time before cashi...
[23:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:24] <exec> 08└─Elon is a celebrity rich guy who makes money doing smart things - it's inevitable that Elon the man will be a "leader type" with less than stellar hands-on abilities (see also: Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, hell even Zuck & Gates...) However, Elon's endeavors - as much or more than Thomas Edison's -...
[23:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:26] <exec> 08└─Great example. Clearly they should have gone straight for the tiger penis.
[23:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:28] <exec> 08└─>They use TCM because it often times works. People pray to God because it often times works. We forget when it doesn't. As a previous poster stated, people are people, i.e. stupid and so very fallible. The Chinese are very good at double think. They praise TCM, but when shit hits the fan, they go to...
[23:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:14] <exec> 08└─Correct, which has nothing to do with their age actually. Technically, they don't have one. They were very much alive during the 2nd age, and indeed the 1st age. Gandalf was Olorin, a Maiar. If they wish to represent Saruman, Gandalf, Radagast, etc., in the 2nd age, it's going to be as the primordia...