#comments | Logs for 2015-05-29

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[00:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02dont ask us. - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:02] <exec> 08└─What went wrong?
[00:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:what about parameter names? - 06White House Backs Oracle Over Google in Java Supreme Court Case - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:45] <exec> 08└─How does that matter at all to the situation? Comments don't go in the compiled code, and are we seriously going to argue that people should be able to copyright/patent the names of the variables they're using? The fuck difference does that make to the end user?
[00:01:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02They really need to be sued. - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 316 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:57] <exec> 08└─Not for any copyright violation stuff, open source will make that a hard ship to sail. But for presenting and distributing misleading products. Claiming to distribute a trademarked product and distributing something different is pretty clearly trademark infringement. Right? Sourceforge is a horse wi...
[00:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Is SF still owned by Dice? - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:11] <exec> 08└─Is that same Dice that wrecked some tech blog? ;-) Great, now we know they can't be trusted.. EVER. Congratulations Dice, trust is hereby revoked permanently.
[00:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:What happen? - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:31] <exec> 08└─Dice: All your source code are malwared by us. With your name....
[00:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:Live at that temperature - 06Roads Melting in India; Over 1100 Dead in Heat Wave - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:29] <exec> 08└─Why would heat darken your urine? There should be less toxins in your bloodstream with the constant drinking and pissing. Whenever I drink that much by pee goes pure crystal clear.
[00:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:New trend with scorched patches on the planet? - 06Roads Melting in India; Over 1100 Dead in Heat Wave - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:43] <exec> 08└─Of course they are nothing new. The question is if there's a frequency trend. Data would be the most valuable.
[00:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:This is the same bad article from slashdot. - 06Self-parking Volvo Ploughs Into Journalists - Updated - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:04:32] <exec> 08└─After a read-through of the article, it appears you are right. I've updated the story to that effect. Thanks to you and the AC for pointing this out.
[00:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quagmire alert. - 06Science of "Echo Chambers" - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:06:15] <exec> 08└─Sorry, you've got it backwards. Extraordinary claims must be supported by exraordinary evidence. Get back with us after your evidence has been purged of hockey-stick manipulations, "revisionist" adjustments to historical temperature records, and at least one of your predictive models actually shows...
[00:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Possible solutions - 06Ask Soylent: Best Long Range, Camera Drone for under $1K? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:42] <exec> 08└─Police aren't afraid. They don't care. You've got insurance (right?) and they have traffic ticket quotas to meet. Gotta get the city it's revenue and look busy.
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[00:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fake degrees, schmake schmegrees - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:41] <exec> 08└─And the world yawns. Meanwhile, some putz is crapflooding all of the major Linux distributions with some grotesquely bloated init system (I won't dignify it by naming it, but it rhymes with "Pissed 'em, he"). Is that guy going to jail? I didn't think so.
[00:59:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Power users ? - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 173 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:50] <exec> 08└─The likelihood of power users going to IOS, is about as probable as F15 pilots going to tricycles. Flame suit zipped up tight. Byt really iPhones are the entry level device.
[00:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Abused statistics - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:58] <exec> 08└─If you make exactly zero net profit or loss how can you stay in business. I might as well get a minimum wage job as I would then be making more. Business exists to make profit or else why exist unless they are non profit organizations.
[00:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjwt [2826] (Score:1) 02meh... - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:59] <exec> 08└─What is this dribble... "the "majority" of those who switched to iPhone had owned a smartphone running Android" well, with 78% of the market share being Andriod, and over 18% being IOS, with Windows account for 2.7%, its not hard to see why the majority of users switching to IOS come from Android. h...
[01:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Fanboys.... Bah! - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 3111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:01] <exec> 08└─So much wrong, hard to see where to start. First off, Google didn't care about making money off of Android when they bought it out and probably still don't. Their motivation was survival. They saw the mobile revolution becoming an Apple walled garden where they would have zero control of their desti...
[01:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:dont ask us. - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:00:12] <exec> 08└─Make fun of jbwolf, not the editors.
[01:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] (Score:1) 02Oh, good. - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:13] <exec> 08└─One of the states was Texas. Just wait for the derp.
[01:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02anthrax dna - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:14] <exec> 08└─They should destroy the samples and keep the DNA sequences. Synthesize the organism from the DNA if they need to study it.
[01:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Re:anthrax dna - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:00:16] <exec> 08└─They should destroy the samples and keep the DNA sequences. Synthesize the organism from the DNA if they need to study it.
[01:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Wintel - No thanks - 06Setting the Standard for Low-Cost Smart Phones — New ASUS ZenFone 2 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:55] <exec> 08└─Let's pray we don't have to deal with Wintel and Wintendo on computerphones. They both suck.
[01:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:The end of Open Source - 06White House Backs Oracle Over Google in Java Supreme Court Case - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:35] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding? From my brief stint in COBOL-land (a single course in college) I remember writing 5 pages of string declarations for a program with 2 pages of actual code. Okay so maybe not really headers, but still.
[01:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:The end of Open Source - 06White House Backs Oracle Over Google in Java Supreme Court Case - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, of course the ability to accurately count votes isn't critical in a democracy. *flips table* I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
[01:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:Sad - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:35] <exec> 08└─It is pretty crappy and if anyone is still using those apps they should be smart enough to notice the option to disable the adware during the install. As a firm believer that security is a process not an application I am not able to help those users and I am not so offended as to remove my content....
[01:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You can do that now - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:47] <exec> 08└─Your job (as editor) is to fix typos and links, mostly. Why then do we have two copies of a story if that's all your doing. If you want to submit a story you can. Don't make me "look" to see if the story I'm reading is yours or the submitters. Just do away with the extra copy of a submission and fes...
[01:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll tell you why... - 06Linux Usage on Steam Continues to Decline - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:00] <exec> 08└─You can fit about 4 HD movies on a single-layer Blu-Ray. You can fit about 200 Blu-Rays in a medium-size box. If you have more than 2 boxes of Blu-Rays in your movie collection, you're a pack rat.
[01:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Stream Machines - 06Linux Usage on Steam Continues to Decline - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:16] <exec> 08└─I'm still shocked how well Chromebooks sell. Pursuing the education market was a good idea (as proven by Mac and Windows in past decades).
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[01:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Clearly, I Am In The Wrong Line Of Work - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:41] <exec> 08└─Why just today, I learned that Powell's City of Books is selling authentic Portland rainwater for almost eight bucks a bottle. Suppose my resume claimed I had a bachelor's in CS from Oxdell University. What happens when you put Oxdell in a web search? Where is it located? When was it established? Is...
[01:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02HST - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:42] <exec> 08└─Doctor Hunter S. Thompson, who stood on the shoulders of many giants such as Francis Scott Key, [wikipedia.org] attained his doctorate from the Universal Life Church. [wikipedia.org] One of the goals of which is, "A fuller life for everyone." But when you're talking some dirka-dirka shithole across...
[01:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:agreed - but you may have missed my point - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:59:55] <exec> 08└─I guess I agree. But in a thought experiment I imagine a model of advertising like this. There is a distribution of items for sale, for given prices, and given saturation. For example, within day to day expenses there are consumables. If you drink soda, all those soda ads might work, but when was th...
[02:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is Android really a failure? - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:02] <exec> 08└─If Google pays apple money to make Google the default browser then not having Android means more iOS devices and so more money paid to Apple (and perhaps others) for default status.
[02:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:dont ask us. - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:00:16] <exec> 08└─look at the original submission, it's the editors, not jbwolf that asked.
[02:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:dont ask us. - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:00:17] <exec> 08└─Point taken.
[02:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh, good. - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:00:19] <exec> 08└─I can see it now... "That ni... Uh... Black man in the White House is trying to eradicate all Texans because he hates baby Jesus!"
[02:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:Quad core x86 battery life - 06Setting the Standard for Low-Cost Smart Phones — New ASUS ZenFone 2 - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:00:36] <exec> 08└─Meh... My solution has been to just go to buy a couple of extra batteries and an external charger from Amazon or a slow boat from China. They are usually sold in sets and are about $20. I swap phones often so I do this way too often for a normal human (perhaps I am abnormal). I have had to wait abou...
[02:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Planned obsolescence - 06Wooden Chip: Biodegradable Semiconductors - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:13] <exec> 08└─you do realize you are very much in the minority, right? perhaps not on this site, but in the 1st world at large. obsolescence is already planned. i commend you for not living by the current beat of the world's drum. but like i said, you are the minority. biodegradable electronics will be a god-send...
[02:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:About your sig... - 06White House Backs Oracle Over Google in Java Supreme Court Case - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:08] <exec> 08└─sudo does not do redirection. If it did, it would defeat the purpose because then you could redirect the output of your permitted command to clobber any file you wanted
[02:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:what about parameter names? - 06White House Backs Oracle Over Google in Java Supreme Court Case - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:13] <exec> 08└─I don't think you committed copyright infringement. You generated a derivative work by transformation. It's usually char *strcpy(char *dest, const char *src); :-)
[02:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Live at that temperature - 06Roads Melting in India; Over 1100 Dead in Heat Wave - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:04:02] <exec> 08└─It's not too difficult to live at that temperature but you have to drink like 15 liters of water a day. You will pretty much never stop drinking.
[02:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:My first distro was Mandrake - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:10] <exec> 08└─I was astounded to find Red Hat (and most of its clones like Mandrake) installed wide open, very insecure, lots of services running.
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[02:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Clearly, I Am In The Wrong Line Of Work - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:43] <exec> 08└─Oh they have a nice web site, fully detailed except for specifying exactly where they are, who teaches there, exactly what they teach. If I called to check your credentials I'm sure they would verify you passed everything with flying colors, just as you claimed. Wouldn't want to have any one look to...
[02:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:HST - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:45] <exec> 08└─Those countries would be nothing but a shithole if they didn't have any oil.
[02:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:1) 02Re:HST - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:47] <exec> 08└─one with a literary history more about beheadings and rape
[02:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Noble713 [4895] (Score:1) 02A Huge Market - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:49] <exec> 08└─After reading the NYT article, I'm in awe at the size of this "fake credentials" market.....and also at the overwhelming stupidity/gullibility of some of the victims.
[02:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Huge Market - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:50] <exec> 08└─This is just a reaction to the overwhelming stupidity of so many employers requiring degrees for jobs that do not need degrees.
[02:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Power users ? - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:00] <exec> 08└─Yea the term means a different thing here, they'll probably patent it at some point and claim they invented it. If iPhones are entry level devices, how come I can't afford it and paid half the price for a flagship Android from a Korean brand?
[03:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03goody [2135] (Score:2) 02Re:Power users ? - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:01] <exec> 08└─I don't agree either that these people are necessarily power users, but I think you're conflating "user friendliness" and "entry level". An entry level phone would be like those elderly phones they used to sell (and maybe still do) which let you make phone calls to a few preset numbers and nothing e...
[03:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:agreed - but you may have missed my point - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:06] <exec> 08└─no crash. this is the natural evolution of all things. the smaller ad companies will get gobbled up by the larger ones as the 'advertising economy' shrinks. at some point in the future, there will be just 3-5 big ad companies. smaller ones will pop-up from time to time but most of those will bust. n...
[03:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Abused statistics - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:11] <exec> 08└─Profit is after payroll.
[03:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is Android really a failure? - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:15] <exec> 08└─Why should they still be paying Apple? Google is well known already. Don't give me the casual users reason when we all know anyone who goes for Apple products most likely change the default engine to Google anyway
[03:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbWolf [2774] (Score:2) 02Re:Should I care? - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:25] <exec> 08└─Original submitter here. Was it weaponized anthrax designed to be dispersed through the air? Since the TFA doesn't mention it I'll assume it wasn't, because I doubt any media organization could resist using "weaponized anthrax" if they could. Gotta get those clicks.
[03:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:dont ask us. - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:30] <exec> 08└─It is surprising who you find in the readership. There could be a CDC person here somewhere : ) Older slashdot had all kinds of big names and positions pop up occasionally. But you are right, it is clearly calling for speculation, lol.
[03:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbWolf [2774] (Score:2) 02Re:dont ask us. - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:32] <exec> 08└─Original submitter here. But you are right, it is clearly calling for speculation
[03:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:anthrax dna - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:38] <exec> 08└─much more worried about "live" flu viruses accidentally being shipped
[03:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What went wrong? - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:40] <exec> 08└─What went wrong?
[03:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Quad core x86 battery life - 06Setting the Standard for Low-Cost Smart Phones — New ASUS ZenFone 2 - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:54] <exec> 08└─External battery packs are pretty nice too. I've been lucky in that my current phone gets about 18 hours with normal use. After its a couple years old, that might change.
[03:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Live at that temperature - 06Roads Melting in India; Over 1100 Dead in Heat Wave - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:17] <exec> 08└─So much sweat : ) https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[03:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Micro$erF Orafice? - 06Microsoft Office and Skype to be Preinstalled on More Android Devices - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:05:47] <exec> 08└─"That rug really tied the room together."
[03:06:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Why send people first? - 06How You'll Die on Mars - 1156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:25] <exec> 08└─We have already seen examples of drones and 3D printers building structures on Earth. Why not send machines to Mars to do the same thing, and have a nice, viable base all ready and waiting for the humans when they arrive? The machines can use local materials, simply burrowing into the regolith if no...
[03:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:My first distro was Mandrake - 06Mandriva Gone - R.I.P. - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:17] <exec> 08└─Amusingly I miss the UI from KDE2. I haven't used that DE in ages and I've caught a few glimpses of KDE3 and 4 so I have some idea of how it's changed over the years. I wonder sometimes if Ubuntu and Mint provide the same experience to newcomers to Linux as Mandrake had done for me.
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[03:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02The Wayback Machine would be a workaround - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:59:53] <exec> 08└─while caltech had a website in 1998, I expect Oxdell did not.
[03:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Degrees of Stupidity - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:59:59] <exec> 08└─This is just a reaction to the overwhelming stupidity of so many employers requiring degrees for jobs that do not need degrees.
[04:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Degrees of Stupidity - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:00] <exec> 08└─That's exactly what my old boss did. He did the whole hiring thing without even informing HR he was doing it, hired me, then told them. They insisted on interviewing me, even though I'd signed up already. It was quite an amusing interview really, the HR person had no clue why she was there and neith...
[04:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Huge Market - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:02] <exec> 08└─> After reading the NYT article, I'm in awe at the size of this "fake credentials" market. Don't forget the fake scientific publications market. [theguardian.com] Wherever credentials become a tool for achieving wealth there will be people selling fake credentials. Remember the MCSE - aka Must Call...
[04:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02In Canada it's illegal to call yourself an enginee - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:04] <exec> 08└─-r unless you're the Canadian equivalent of a professional engineer, or P.E. A computer science degree does not count, you need a software engineering degree. The Ontario Society of Engineers has been quite aggressive in pressing lawsuits against MCSE exam prep schools. The OSE ALWAYS wins, however...
[04:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Axact - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:05] <exec> 08└─Good name for a metal band
[04:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Android M announced - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:14] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, not sure this is fair game. It hasn't even been accepted yet, but you push it (your own submission) into another story?
[04:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Android M announced - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:15] <exec> 08└─I just thought someone might be interested in the news before it gets a bit stale. You, like all, are free to mod me down to a bitter oblivion for it ;)
[04:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Power users ? - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:18] <exec> 08└─If you are old enough to remember, "If he's an idiot I send him to the Mac Store." as a tagline (heck, if you even remember taglines) then you understand the idea here. Entry level is meant as no knowledge and usually a strong implication of a desire to avoid acquiring any. In other words if you rec...
[04:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Power users ? - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:20] <exec> 08└─I find giving either phone to a new user, their about the same, with some operations being easier on one and some on the other ... it depends on the person. For me, the lack of a "back" button in iOS drives me nuts, while the contextual behaviour of back would probably annoy an iOS user. Once you ge...
[04:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03goody [2135] (Score:2) 02Re:Power users ? - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 1697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:21] <exec> 08└─Likewise a lot of Android users seem to be proud of Android's market share. However market share doesn't put food on the table, profits do. If you're in business to make money and you can delight customers while doing it, you have the quintessential money-printing machine. Apple has this figured out...
[04:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02selling products vs. promoting brands - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 1550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:26] <exec> 08└─I am reminded of an article on Soviet television in TV guide, from the early seventies. In the US a TV commercial will say "Our tea is better than their tea". Under Communism the ads will say "Drink tea, it's good for you". Advertisements that sell a specific product or service in a minimum number o...
[04:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:dependency on advertising is a problem - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:28] <exec> 08└─The problem I see is that there are more and more websites, with their number growing far out of proportion to the population. Many sites cost a great deal of money to operate. Quite commonly they are supported by advertising, but I see that advertising becoming less and less effective.
[04:00:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gman003 [4155] 02Abused statistics - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 1562 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:29] <exec> 08└─Sure - I can completely believe that 90% of people switching to iOS are switching from Android. That's because, once you remove Apple from smartphone statistics, the market is 90% Android and Android forks. There's simply not enough Windows Phone or Blackberry users out there, period, for them to ma...
[04:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Abused statistics - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:31] <exec> 08└─Growth without limit is the ideology of the cancer cell.
[04:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Re:Should I care? - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:50] <exec> 08└─why else would they be "sending it into the air"
[04:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbWolf [2774] (Score:2) 02Re:dont ask us. - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:55] <exec> 08└─It's ok. You can make fun of me. No one refrained in all my years of school and jobs. If I'm not being ribbed, I don't feel loved. ;) More seriously, I addressed Gravis' issue in this comment [soylentnews.org].
[04:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Re:anthrax dna - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:03] <exec> 08└─That would be too excessive. All you would need to do is transform/transduce the vaccine strain with its missing virulence plasmid. The vaccine strain of anthrax only lacks a plasmid (circular segment of DNA that is much smaller and separate from genomic DNA) that is needed to cause disease in peopl...
[04:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:anthrax dna - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:05] <exec> 08└─Synthesizing organisms, especially single-celled bacteria [wikipedia.org] or even viruses, from digital DNA/RNA sequences will be commonplace in the future. That is the reason why researchers are being discouraged from publishing results on making the flu more virulent or morphine-excreting yeast. I...
[04:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"some claim header files cannot be copyrighted" - 06White House Backs Oracle Over Google in Java Supreme Court Case - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:57] <exec> 08└─my point is that a header file is not an interface; it is a creative work that, among other things, describes an interface. The parts _other_ than the interface can be copyrighted.
[04:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Seriously, this is big news. - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:04:01] <exec> 08└─Ahh yeah, this makes sense. I've been using BitBucket at work, which is mostly just a crashier slower GitHub. Though it is cheaper for small companies and great if you already have a Jira lifecycle. But yeah, if you are doing hosting, you might as well just run Git or a suite depending on what you r...
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[04:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Egads! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:42] <exec> 08└─> fettle them I'm pretty sure that's illegal, even in New Hampshire.
[04:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03juggs [63] (Score:2) 02Re:Egads! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:43] <exec> 08└─You may want to move beyond urban dictionary, there are others.
[04:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Absolute Power! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:44] <exec> 08└─Editors are Gods! They wield absolute power! Once you let the plebs have a right to object, or complain, or do anything but submit their miserable findings, the whole game will be up. I prefer the black box of infinite darkness, and bow down to its infinite wisdom. Seriously, even if the editors a...
[04:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Absolute Power! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:46] <exec> 08└─⚡⚡⚡ 🐦 🌀 🔫 ⚡⚡⚡ 🐦 🌀 🔫 🐦 ABSOLUTE POWER ⚡⚡⚡ 🌀 CORRUPTS 🐦 🔫 ABSOLUTELY 🌀 ⚡⚡⚡ 🐦 🌀 🔫 ⚡⚡⚡ 🐦 🌀 🔫
[04:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Absolute Power! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but that is only for absolute values of absolute power. Now imagine a perfectly spherical cow and a SoylentNews editor . . . .
[04:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Shortened link to original submission - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:49] <exec> 08└─I liked the idea of putting the link to the original submission with the submitter's name. juggs writes The other idea of a link on the submissions page that has all the original submissions was good. This is only if it is not too much extra trouble for the editors.
[04:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Regan F. Gill on the iPhone's success - 06How Does the iPhone Do That: Behind the Downfall at BlackBerry - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:55] <exec> 08└─there were lots of mobile applications before the iphone existed; Regan worked on a traffic jam warning system that ran on wap phones, quite a long time before the advent of the iphone. She regards the key to the iphone's success as being due to the app store. Before that it was quite difficult for...
[04:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Regan F. Gill on the iPhone's success - 06How Does the iPhone Do That: Behind the Downfall at BlackBerry - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:57] <exec> 08└─You think in terms of yourself and what is good for you and your business, which is good but does not necessarily translate to maximizing profits - which most business would want (maybe not yours sure). In that sense, the best way to maximize profit is to maximize your customer base and pander to th...
[04:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Is it just me... - 06How Does the iPhone Do That: Behind the Downfall at BlackBerry - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:59] <exec> 08└─Or does someone at NYT have a massive hardon for iThings?
[05:00:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] 02Degrees of Stupidity - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:00:13] <exec> 08└─This is just a reaction to the overwhelming stupidity of so many employers requiring degrees for jobs that do not need degrees.
[05:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Power users ? - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:00:31] <exec> 08└─Ah.. he meant entry level from a usability point of view. I was thinking cost.. which is what people normally mean from where I come from. No wonder the post read oddly..
[05:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Power users ? - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:00:35] <exec> 08└─However market share doesn't put food on the table, profits do
[05:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Re:anthrax dna - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:01:20] <exec> 08└─Making the membrane and all the other proteins needed to kick-start a sythesized genome into a "live" state is the much harder part. The example you gave is very similar to what I mentioned. The researchers implanted their synthesized genome into a donor cell instead of putting in a much smaller pla...
[05:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:anthrax dna - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:01:21] <exec> 08└─You can't put the genie back in the bottle. Once the DNA sequence is widely-known, you aren't subject to the multi-million dollar research efforts of today, but the bioprinting capabilities of 20 years from now, available to non-state actors with a few thousand bucks and time to spare.
[05:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:SourceFraud - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:03:52] <exec> 08└─Anybody else remember that advice from the golden days of slashdot? Give your software away and make money selling t-shirts and speaking at conferences?
[05:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Consumers didn't buy it.... - 06Microsoft Office and Skype to be Preinstalled on More Android Devices - 1696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:06:42] <exec> 08└─I can see Microsoft's efforts to keep their flagship Office products "in the loop". By now, I am sure there are quite a bit of people looking to replace these bloated proprietary formats with something more trustworthy and verifiable against hitchhiking malware. However, Microsoft has a big freight...
[05:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Infamous is right - 06How You'll Die on Mars - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:06:59] <exec> 08└─Why the focus on Mars? I firmly believe Luna should be colonized first.
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[05:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Absolute Power! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:47] <exec> 08└─As luck would have it, many Soylent editors and contributors are already spherically-shaped...
[05:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Thanks to the editors - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 2321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:49] <exec> 08└─First and most of all, thanks to all the editors again for doing the editing in the first place. Since there was a severe shortage of editors some months ago (I don't know the situation right now), we, the readers, should make sure to not complain too easily. Improvement suggestions are always a goo...
[05:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks to the Editors - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:50] <exec> 08└─This crowd-source idea is cool. Let's call it Firehose. :D Your idea about the journal-to-main-page concept is pretty awesome, but it would likely require some significant backend changes to not overburden the editorial team.
[05:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks to the Editors - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:52] <exec> 08└─Your idea about the journal-to-main-page [...] would likely require some significant backend changes
[05:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks to the editors - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:54] <exec> 08└─q., did you miss the part about "on a postcard"? Brevity is the soul of wit, or so I have been told.
[05:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Total Tomfoolery Trips Team - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:55] <exec> 08└─The number of problematic editing actions seems pretty small to me. Aside from one recent story, this whole thing seems blown out of proportion. This is our second or third meta thread about that story and the editing process for heaven's sake! Even the originating problem was addressed in the same...
[05:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khchung [457] (Score:2) 02Re:Total Tomfoolery Trips Team - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:57] <exec> 08└─Agreed this is blown out of proportion. The way it used to be is fine. There will always be people who don't like how his submission got edited, but it is the editors' job to edit, and I absolutely thank the editors for doing their job.
[05:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Total Tomfoolery Trips Team - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:58] <exec> 08└─Actually, I'm rather happy with the new format. There were more problems than the one: see for example https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org], where an editor posted a blatantly false and inflammatory statement about Google. The editors had grown pretty snarky arou...
[05:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Total Tomfoolery Trips Team - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:00:00] <exec> 08└─The editor in your example fixed the story and commented to that effect barely a half hour after it was posted. The whole story got all of three on-topic posts. So again, how big is this micro problem?
[06:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Spot on - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:00:01] <exec> 08└─GungnirSniper has it spot on and I agree totally. It is a good sign that the SN crew are taking criticism seriously, but you have to remember that this is the internet, where criticism is infinite, and get on with your business.
[06:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02User preference - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:03] <exec> 08└─How about SN staff choose whatever default they prefer and give (registered) users the option to choose what appears on the front page? 1) "Fettled" version (with link to submission? and/or original submission in a tool tip?) 2) Raw submission (with link to fettled version?) 3) Both Don't see how an...
[06:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:User preference - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:00:04] <exec> 08└─Allowing users to "ban" stories by the name that appears in the byline could be useful. In fact, with a little work, this could be done on the front page using an extension. Most summary blurbs have a <p class="byline">...</p>
[06:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Let's not make a mountain out of a molehill - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:06] <exec> 08└─First off, I think the editors are doing a great job. Anyone who edits/polishes/touches-up/etc a story/submission that belongs to another person will eventually draw ire for doing that. Don't let it get to you. If there is an issue with one in a hundred submissions, that's not too shabby at all. If...
[06:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's not make a mountain out of a molehill - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:00:08] <exec> 08└─Sorry, forgot to reply directly to the questions posted: Just how much transparency is necessary?
[06:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02I do not see any problem here... - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:09] <exec> 08└─I do not see any problem with how it is now. Somehow there will always be some hating if their text got edited, regardless if it was an improvement or not. This is visible from Wikipedia were some are even using bots for keeping their own written version there. We will never be able to satisfy those...
[06:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02iOS audience isn't really a billion - 06How Does the iPhone Do That: Behind the Downfall at BlackBerry - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:00:13] <exec> 08└─the app store as a whole has a billion, yes, but very few individual apps reach that many potential customers. Working Software grossed $3M one year that I was there. The largest drop that I know about was 250,000 pieces. Consider that our business model worked really well for us, in that we earned...
[06:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Regan F. Gill on the iPhone's success - 06How Does the iPhone Do That: Behind the Downfall at BlackBerry - 1753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:00:14] <exec> 08└─Do you really remember before the iPhone? If you were a developer, it REALLY sucked. If you were a small developer [couple people], it REALLY REALLY REALLY sucked. Most phones had a single version of firmware, the one it shipped with. Bugs didn't get fixed unless it made the antennae automatically c...
[06:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Hope MS Doesn't Buy BB - 06How Does the iPhone Do That: Behind the Downfall at BlackBerry - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:16] <exec> 08└─Blackberry has made some huge mistakes, but they do make an OS that's about security first rather than tracking the hell out of you and being a conspicuous consumption item. They are profitable again, their latest phones can run Android apps, and they just work. Too bad prior management was stuck in...
[06:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Re:Hope MS Doesn't Buy BB - 06How Does the iPhone Do That: Behind the Downfall at BlackBerry - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:00:17] <exec> 08└─Blackberry has made some huge mistakes
[06:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clearly, I Am In The Wrong Line Of Work - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:00:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, but those who actually teach stuff, they of course are being paid way too much, and we have to enforce a standardized curriculum with standardized student learning outcomes because the idiots who quit teaching to go into administration are not intelligent enough to recognize when education take...
[06:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khchung [457] (Score:2) 02Re:Degrees of Stupidity - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:00:37] <exec> 08└─The interview was there to justify HR's existence. The HR person was really stupid if he (or she) didn't realize that, if he did then he would have conducted the interview as if you weren't already hired, and documented it properly. If HR let it slip that people can be hired without going through th...
[06:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Huge Market - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:00:38] <exec> 08└─This is just a reaction to the overwhelming stupidity of so many employers requiring degrees for jobs that do not need degrees.
[06:01:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] 02Should I care? - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 738 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:26] <exec> 08└─Anthrax is a rather common livestock disease. It only becomes really nasty if you weaponize it. Was it weaponized anthrax designed to be dispersed through the air? Since the TFA doesn't mention it I'll assume it wasn't, because I doubt any media organization could resist using "weaponized anthrax" i...
[06:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khedoros [2921] (Score:2) 02Re:ASUS - 06Setting the Standard for Low-Cost Smart Phones — New ASUS ZenFone 2 - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:56] <exec> 08└─Well...there is a set of features called "vPro", which is an umbrella term for a set of features on some Intel systems. It includes "Active Management Technology", which runs its own OS as a monitoring system for the OS that's visible to the user. It has access to the input devices and framebuffer o...
[06:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:$200/300 - 06Setting the Standard for Low-Cost Smart Phones — New ASUS ZenFone 2 - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:16] <exec> 08└─> That's low cost? Indeed. I have a couple of nokia 520's I picked up for $20 each. They have 25% the RAM and 50% the storage, but they were just 10% of the cost. They run windows, but the GUI is fast. I'm not a big phone guy, so I don't really care that there aren't a million different spyware app...
[06:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score:1) 02asus hw - 06Setting the Standard for Low-Cost Smart Phones — New ASUS ZenFone 2 - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:30] <exec> 08└─I have owned a lot of asus device: laptops, small sized computers, tablets, headphones. All of them are great devices, innovative and unique, and that's why I choose them. For example the eeepc (the first net book ever ) or the transformer tablet (keyboard hardware-coupket optional tablet!).... Ever...
[06:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:16] <exec> 08└─The marketing interns at DICE only pick out popular applications, attaching it to too many things would involve more work.
[06:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:interpreting data is subjective - 06Science of "Echo Chambers" - 1859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:45] <exec> 08└─Conclusions can be more of a sliding scale SOMETIMES. In other cases one party is just being disingenuous. In the example I gave, assuming the block matches a hole in the building, there is really only one conclusion for a sane person to draw. Anyone concluding otherwise is a kook, pure and simple....
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[06:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Comment - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:44] <exec> 08└─FROST PIST containing the word NIGGER will be modded (Score:-1, Troll)
[06:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Commen - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:59:45] <exec> 08└─Was that native Canadian english for the word or are you chinese? Cause I need to be told what stereo type it falls under.
[06:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02EThanol Fail? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:46] <exec> 08└─I have no doubt that some will fall prey to racial stereotypes. Such is the lack of cognitive ability among some. But I have to point out, that in the extreme, anyone is capable of the same cognitive abilities as anyone else, given proper training, or more appropriately, education. So we are not all...
[06:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"native speaker of Canadian English" - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:48] <exec> 08└─the notion that there is a "Canadian English" is laughable. Consider the term "American English". How to Bostonians, Southerners and California Surfers compare? There were many Newfoundlanders who I found difficult to understand - that's just one province. "Aboot" is mostly from Ontario.
[06:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"native speaker of Canadian English" - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:59:49] <exec> 08└─In Canadian English we end every sentence with eh, eh? It's the polite way to pronounce a period or full stop, eh?
[06:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is why I don't make eye contact. - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:51] <exec> 08└─I don't look at people when I communicate, because I want to concentrate on the words spoken and not be distracted by personal appearances. For some strange reason which I can only assume is a result of cultural prejudice, everyone around me calls me aloof, dismissive, and insincere.
[07:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Total Tomfoolery Trips Team - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:00:12] <exec> 08└─Fully agree here. Please, let's not let few loudmouth conspiracy theorists ruin regulate this site into oblivion!
[07:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's not make a mountain out of a molehill - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:00:18] <exec> 08└─I don't personally care to ever see who changed what word in which submission - and really don't think that would be worth the effort for anyone to code up.
[07:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's not make a mountain out of a molehill - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:00:19] <exec> 08└─i am in complete agreement with Fluffeh.
[07:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:2) 02Simple rules - here they are! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:22] <exec> 08└─1) you can't please everyone - no matter what you do there will be people complaining. Accept it, deal with it. 2) I want a neutral tone in all articles - submissions that are written with a clear bias should be edited remove that bias. No bias should be introduced by editors. This includes any and...
[07:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02I've checked them out - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:23] <exec> 08└─I never had a problem with the editing. But I figured I'd play along and click those links to the original story, and see what the editors did. I never saw a single edit that I thought was unjustified. I'm appalled that what little care some people put into their submissions, and amazed at the job t...
[07:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:I've checked them out - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:00:25] <exec> 08└─completely agree.
[07:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mistake? Or Gambit! - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:06] <exec> 08└─Anthrax on your border, China! Will you stop piling sand in the South China Seas? Or, the US Military is just incompetent. Ockham's razor to the rescue::: incompetent. Kinda like the USAF losing Nukes, but hey, they are pilots, so smarter than grunts! We are doomed.
[07:03:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WillR [2012] 02Re:The end of Open Source - 06White House Backs Oracle Over Google in Java Supreme Court Case - 509 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:35] <exec> 08└─A broad precedent that APIs have always been copyrightable is the the end of technology in the US. All the languages descended from K&R C and all the OSes derived from Unix (GNU/Linux, Android, OS X, iOS, the BSDs, the commercial unixen, zillions of embedded Linux devices) all become property of Nov...
[07:04:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02Re:Is SF still owned by Dice? - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:22] <exec> 08└─She's jealous that you spend all day petting that instead of her.
[07:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Sad - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:37] <exec> 08└─I have also noted a lot of "repackaging" going on... especially at CNET and download.com. What looked like old trusted programs are now wrapped up in some sort of installer that also puts God-knows-what in my machine. All I know to do at this point is try to find the MD5 digest of the "real thing" a...
[07:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:You can do that now - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:53] <exec> 08└─Don't make me "look" to see if the story....
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[07:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:EThanol Fail? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:59:47] <exec> 08└─Your rants are becoming less coherent but more technically wrong. I do not know if a drug intervention or congratulations are in order.
[07:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I love to suck a long thick cock. - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:59:48] <exec> 08└─The glans, or "head" of the penis, is shaped like a mushroom such that on the withdrawing stroke during vaginal intercourse, the penis of the male scrapes residual semen from the interior walls of the female vagina, thus decreasing the likelihood that sperm from a rival male will impregnate the fema...
[07:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:EThanol Fail? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:59:49] <exec> 08└─I think this is more a symptom of segregation and lack of diversity than anything to do with "cognitive abilities". Most people when exposed and held in close contact to other cultures, find that we're all the same and racism disappears rather quickly.
[07:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Whose motorcycle is this? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:59:53] <exec> 08└─It's a chopper, baby. Whose chopper is this? Zed's. Who's Zed? Zed's dead baby. Zed's dead.
[07:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is why I don't make eye contact. - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:59:55] <exec> 08└─Often doing what others deem to be ethically good requires doing what you think is ethically bad. Big or small that choice is never easy or satisfying.
[07:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is why I don't make eye contact. - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:59:57] <exec> 08└─Me and all my friends We're all misunderstood They say we stand for nothing and There's no way we ever could Now we see everything that's going wrong With the world and those who lead it We just feel like we don't have the means To rise above and beat it So we keep waiting Waiting on the world to ch...
[07:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Subjectivity - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:58] <exec> 08└─Let's guess what's going on in people's brains when we do X and then assume we're correct. Now that's rigorous science.
[07:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Subjectivity - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:00:00] <exec> 08└─Decapitation will solve the problem objectively. We know exactly what's going on in people's brains after brain death.
[08:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks to the editors - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:00:16] <exec> 08└─Wait, we haven't got enough editors, so we are going to all become editors? We have trouble getting enough stories submitted, so we are going to take submitters and make them editors. Then we are going to get together and vote stories up and down before the are posted? And we are going to comment on...
[08:00:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] 02Total Tomfoolery Trips Team - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 1256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:17] <exec> 08└─The number of problematic editing actions seems pretty small to me. Aside from one recent story, this whole thing seems blown out of proportion. This is our second or third meta thread about that story and the editing process for heaven's sake! Even the originating problem was addressed in the same...
[08:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Total Tomfoolery Trips Team - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:00:24] <exec> 08└─Adding the line break and text with a link seems to draw excessive attention to this minor issue.
[08:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:User preference - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:00:28] <exec> 08└─Or, we could put our hands over our eyes and ears and sing la la la la loudly when we see that dreaded by-line.... I can't think of better things to spend dev time on.
[08:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:I do not see any problem here... - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:00:34] <exec> 08└─Somehow there will always be some hating if their text got edited,
[08:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03SlimmPickens [1056] (Score:2) 02my 2 cents - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:38] <exec> 08└─Some opinion pieces are OK, it stimulates discussion. It's only a problem when opinions are presented as fact. Maybe involve submitters a little in heavy rewrites, even if it's just the option to take their name off it. And maybe those links to the original submission could indicate if it's unchange...
[08:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score:1) 02Don't broke what's working... - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:39] <exec> 08└─I like things as they are right now. Of course it's always possible to improve, but sometimes trying hard to improve little details can lead to break the entire thing. So, let things go the way they are going. The best way is probably some kind of cross-reference between editors, like keeping an eye...
[08:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khedoros [2921] (Score:2) 02Re:x86 - 06Setting the Standard for Low-Cost Smart Phones — New ASUS ZenFone 2 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:56] <exec> 08└─X86 is Intel's hammer, and mobile devices look like an inviting nail.
[08:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously, this is big news. - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:31] <exec> 08└─There is no alternative for large projects.
[08:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:The DRIVER did this, not the car - 06Self-parking Volvo Ploughs Into Journalists - Updated - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:12] <exec> 08└─To its credit, the car did actually stop
[08:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Lib dems - 06UK "Snoopers' Charter" to Rise from the Dead Once More - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:23] <exec> 08└─When I figure it out, I'll let you know.
[08:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Micro$erF Orafice? - 06Microsoft Office and Skype to be Preinstalled on More Android Devices - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:45] <exec> 08└─And can no one mod up the original Lebowski post? It is an AC, so it doesn't matter, but it would increase the visibility of our fine comments on that OP. Just saying. Or we'll cut off your Johnson.
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[08:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A vulnerability? - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:50] <exec> 08└─Not just a bug but a vulnerability. Let me guess, SQL injection? And now, presumably, someone changed the admin password to "Hacked By Chinese!". Shouldn't have connected the spacecraft to the internet. That would also have been an easy way to avoid the risk of the cable getting tangled in the boost...
[09:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:EThanol Fail? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:00:03] <exec> 08└─Racist! Probably a purple racist!
[09:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why I don't make eye contact. - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:00:11] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately the average human has a lots of this non verbal communication. I personally dislike two channels of possibly conflicting information, but it's a good idea to be able to decode them. Especially with the other sex.
[09:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why I don't make eye contact. - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:00:12] <exec> 08└─I don't look at people when I communicate, because I want to concentrate on the words spoken and not be distracted by personal appearances. For some strange reason which I can only assume is a result of cultural prejudice, everyone around me calls me aloof, dismissive, and insincere.
[09:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Or maybe … - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:16] <exec> 08└─Or maybe for apparently native speakers, people are more afraid to admit they don't understand them. I mean, if, as a native, you don't understand a non-native speaker, this is easily excused by the accent you're not used to. On the other hand, if you don't understand a native speaker, the blame wil...
[09:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Shortened link to original submission - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:00:30] <exec> 08└─Really, I think this is almost all that is needed. It's a discussion site - we don't *need* a full audit trail and accountability like we might if it were legal or financial data being edited - in that context some of the suggestions seem like total overkill to me - we certainly don't need to run su...
[09:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks to the editors - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:00:36] <exec> 08└─I you over-dramatize. Most people are going to the main-page and will see the regular stories. Those people who already liked to take a peek ahead at the submit list will continue to do that and additionally provide some feedback. I don't think this will stop anyone from submitting more stories or r...
[09:01:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02Re:Regan F. Gill on the iPhone's success - 06How Does the iPhone Do That: Behind the Downfall at BlackBerry - 1753 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:08] <exec> 08└─Do you really remember before the iPhone? If you were a developer, it REALLY sucked. If you were a small developer [couple people], it REALLY REALLY REALLY sucked. Most phones had a single version of firmware, the one it shipped with. Bugs didn't get fixed unless it made the antennae automatically c...
[09:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Degrees - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:36] <exec> 08└─That explains why India has too many degrees [soylentnews.org].
[09:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is Android really a failure? - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:12] <exec> 08└─Who tells you that if Apple no longer gets that money from Google, it won't start its own search engine? And how many Apple users would switch to Google if they had an Apple search engine preinstalled? And who tells you that Apple won't make switching to another search engine hard? Not impossible (t...
[09:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:The end of Open Source - 06White House Backs Oracle Over Google in Java Supreme Court Case - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:04:15] <exec> 08└─No language apart from Java that I know requires that you create a new Integer object to have the integer value 0, because integers aren't objects. (Whilst at the same time permitting the constant integer-but-not-an-object ``0'' to have some meaning.) No language apart from Java that I know of would...
[09:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02What are we here for? - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 1620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:05:38] <exec> 08└─The summary should be just that - a factual summary of the story under discussion. It doesn't matter who submits it - it shouldn't contain personal views to any significant extent. It shouldn't have a particular bias, it should be balanced and it should be fair. It should also provoke thought and fu...
[09:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously, this is big news. - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:05:52] <exec> 08└─Chaosesque Anthology uses freshcode
[09:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:1) 02Bitbucket - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:05:59] <exec> 08└─I second Bitbucket just for giving you as many free private repos as you want. It gives you a chance to kick off a project without it being subject to public scrutiny, then open it up when it suits your timetable. Call me a heathen user of filthy Windows and unspeakable GUIs, but I also like to use...
[09:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Tragic consequences make for, - 06How You'll Die on Mars - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:08:49] <exec> 08└─It's not about which is safer - if we were concerned about needless deaths we'd ban McDonalds. It's about what is acceptable. I see no reason that deaths in Hollywood are acceptable, but deaths in space aren't.
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[10:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:A vulnerability? - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:00:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think speaking of a vulnerability is nonsense. As more beacons are transmitted, the [CSV] file grows in size. When it reaches 32 megabytes—roughly the size of ten compressed music files—it can crash the flight system. The manufacturer of the avionics board corrected this glitch in later...
[10:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02LightSail? - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:07] <exec> 08└─LightFail more like! Lol, amiright?
[10:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds like an admin problem. - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:09] <exec> 08└─So they have a launch window and the guy who is writing the software is making changes right up to the launch window, misses a critical update? ooops Got to wonder what the management politics were on this one. Better follow the Russians and fire the whole staff, rehire the competant ones back and t...
[10:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:EThanol Fail? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:00:24] <exec> 08└─It's not a lack of cognitive ability, it's mostly a subconscious reaction issue. For example, someone I know was talking about a potential new hire at work and someone mentioned he was wearing a pink shirt, to which he exclaimed "oh God, he's not gay is he?" I know this guy isn't homophobic really,...
[10:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Sometimes good - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:36] <exec> 08└─Racial and cultural stereotypes can give useful hints to how we should interpret their utterances. At least at the linguistical and phonetical level it might be useful to know that a French person saying "maul" actually means "mall" and is not going to inflict serious damage. As a result, I listen i...
[10:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Sometimes good - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:00:37] <exec> 08└─I feel the need to add this. As a Dutch person living in Denmark, I often notice that while people that know me accept my flawed use Danish and don't think less of me, people that don't know me think I'm less intelligent. I know I do the same thing with others, even though I try not to.
[10:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03chrysosphinx [5262] (Score:1) 02Beware of jokes - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:38] <exec> 08└─Stereotypes such as exemplified here led to the development and use of the genophage.
[10:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:1) 02Who do I need to look like? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:40] <exec> 08└─Most people say I am the easiest person to understand, but voice recognition systems consistently fail to recognise anything I say. Who should I hold up a picture of for Android to recognise my voice? A Samsung Galaxy?
[10:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks to the editors - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:04] <exec> 08└─As I mentioned, I'm thankful for the efforts of the editors as it is, without reservations, and I definitely have neither the time nor the ambition to usurp any of you. Also I highly appreciate the quality of articles the way they are now. It was only once that I had a feeling my submission was chan...
[10:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:I do not see any problem here... - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:21] <exec> 08└─I've submitted a story or two. Some have made it virtually untouched. Others got a badly needed fresh coat of hatchet. The former, I did an OK job on, the latter, I clearly needed to step up my game.
[10:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02X writes: - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:27] <exec> 08└─Don't say X writes:
[10:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Power users ? - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:23] <exec> 08└─It certainly has been a long running joke. "Wow, hold on professor! TWO mouse buttons?!?"
[10:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cool! - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 1320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:06:09] <exec> 08└─I hope whoever moderated that post as spam gets his moderation rights revoked (unless it was by error, and the moderator informed you about the error). Whatever you may think of that post, there's one thing it definitely isn't, and that is spam. And while I'm not a fan of the suggestion that all mod...
[10:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Live at that temperature - 06Roads Melting in India; Over 1100 Dead in Heat Wave - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:16] <exec> 08└─Blah blah blah. Seriously, this news has two "noteworthy" items: - Holy fucking shit almost 50 degrees!!1 - Holy fucking shit only 1000 casualties!!1 To put things in scale, in an Estonia-sized country this would be 1 lost life, and if there was that hot, I'd expect something much worse. Add to that...
[10:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Lib dems - 06UK "Snoopers' Charter" to Rise from the Dead Once More - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:36] <exec> 08└─The Lib Dems could have formed a coalition with Labour. The numbers added up, and there were in fact having talks with Labour about it. Their policies and overall position were much closer to Labour, and it would have avoided the worst abuses of the Tory party that they were unable to moderate. Cleg...
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[10:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Sounds like an admin problem. - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:59:57] <exec> 08└─So they have a launch window and the guy who is writing the software is making changes right up to the launch window, misses a critical update?
[10:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They're gonna look silly running a console cable.. - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:58] <exec> 08└─http://superuser.com/questions/767414/why-does-systemd-hang-during-reboot [superuser.com]
[10:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03That_Dude [2503] (Score:2) 02I like my version better - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:59] <exec> 08└─What is this charged particle glitch you speak of? I want to be the first kid on my block to have caused a confirmed particle glitch!
[11:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Sometimes good - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:00:28] <exec> 08└─Try using a fake Russian accent. People will still think you unintelligent, but they will fear you. /stereotype humor
[11:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just One Word - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:31] <exec> 08└─One concept in modern practice would throw the whole English-usage aspect of the study into irretrievable chaos: ebonics.
[11:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02What were they comparing? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:33] <exec> 08└─Half of the speakers self-identified as White, and the other half self-identified as Chinese
[11:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:1) 02Re:Egads! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:00:43] <exec> 08└─Hehe, that's one of those words/meanings that has been dying out (or, if it has had a parallel evolution, a different meaning that has become more prevalent) in these more interconnected times. FWIW, it's a colloquialism meaning "to refine", at least in the North of England. You also have a related...
[11:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:Absolute Power! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:00:48] <exec> 08└─HEY! I resemble that remark!
[11:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:1) 02Re:Absolute Power! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:00:49] <exec> 08└─Some of those swans were pretty rape-y, I'l take the thunderbolts, thanks!
[11:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks to the editors - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:01:00] <exec> 08└─I definitely have neither the time nor the ambition to usurp any of you
[11:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Complaints, complaints... - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:24] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter what you do, people are going to complain, so don't worry.. I like the new (current) system where the original submission is linked from the bottom of the story. I don't think you should try to "improve" this. You'll just end up making things complicated and open yourselves up for...
[11:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02previous experience proofing text - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:25] <exec> 08└─Hi fellas, sorry I've not been around (major hardware issues), but my 2c: I used to help out on the IRC bookz scene scanning OCRing and proofreading etexts. What we did was a strict version control where: 0.5 was raw scan and first draft OCR (usually electronic); 0.6 was first pass proof comparison...
[11:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Two points need to be made... - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:43] <exec> 08└─Point #1: Apple has conceded the low end. Apple wants the top 15-20% of the market. They ignore the rest. They're after the people who can afford the iPhone (or whatever) without any problems. Apple wants to keep a small but profitable niche for themselves. The hoi polloi can do whatever they like w...
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[11:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02zafgagfa - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:38] <exec> 08└─AFAIK the bug is when the message preview tries to shorten the message text and append '...' at end. Resulting at illegal unicode I guess. Vulnerable since iOS 3.8. Easy workaround: Settings > Messages > Show Preview > Off.
[11:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02iOS bug? That's no reason not to rant about ... - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:39] <exec> 08└─""" The bug/crash issue exists in the process that displays notifications, which is SpringBoard (one of the reasons disabling notifications fixes it). The bug seems to cause the process to go into a recursive, infinite loop, using up an insane amount of resources until there are no more resources le...
[11:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02late to the game - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:41] <exec> 08└─finally apple got their ownZ "ping-of-death".
[12:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"native speaker of Canadian English" - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:00:13] <exec> 08└─> the notion that there is a "Canadian English" is laughable. MDC, the idiot who fancies himself expert on everything and absolutely insists on everyone https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[12:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Subjectivity - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:00:21] <exec> 08└─> Let's guess what's going on in people's brains when we do X and then assume we're correct. Now that's rigorous science. What, are you one of those fools he thinks he's so pure of thought and mind that he doesn't stereotype? It doesn't matter what's going on inside their heads, as long as the input...
[12:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who do I need to look like? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:00:29] <exec> 08└─If you want Android to understand you, you have to look like an android, of course.
[12:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Who do I need to look like? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:00:31] <exec> 08└─I've concluded that there's no such thing as absolute clarity in spoken language. Being a clean and fairly neutral RP, I've often been complimented on the clarity of my verbal communications by people from all countries and continents. Until I went to Ireland, where we had this remarkable moment of...
[12:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks to the editors - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:00:57] <exec> 08└─I you over-dramatize. I you get that a lot.
[12:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's not make a mountain out of a molehill - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:01:15] <exec> 08└─How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity, that his intentions were good. - Mark Twain letter to Henry Mills Alden, published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, November 11, 1906, pg. 3.
[12:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple rules - here they are! -better rules - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:01:21] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews is people. People have views. People write articles. People's names are associated to those articles. People's words are copyrighted by default. Editors - edit Writers - write Editors - Do not change the view of the writer to be something that was not submitted. Writes - Be pared to have...
[12:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02It ain't broke - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:29] <exec> 08└─1. As you can see here, when you put it to the readership, they're completely supportive of our editors. 2. If somebody, particularly somebody who wants to post highly inflammatory "everyone who disagrees with me is a moron" kinds of stuff on the home page, is truly unhappy, then that means that the...
[12:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:In Canada it's illegal to call yourself an engi - 06Pakistan's Largest Software Exporter CEO Arrested for Allegedly Selling Fake Degrees - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:06] <exec> 08└─The OSE ALWAYS wins, however the law is not well-understood in Canada, so new prep schools are always popping up.
[12:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03goody [2135] (Score:2) 02Re:Power users ? - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 1625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:29] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty broad and unsupported claim that the iPhone is inferior, and empirical evidence flies in the face of this. The claim doesn't pass the smell test. The iPhone is used by everyone from housewives to businesspeople day in and out, most being quite satisfied with it and they continue to b...
[12:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Answer - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:49] <exec> 08└─Apple vacuumed up nearly 90 percent of the profits in the smartphone business which prompts a troubling question for Android and for Google: How will the search company — or anyone else, for that matter — ever make much money from Android?
[12:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Air base in S. Korea??? - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:59] <exec> 08└─WTF are they doing with anthrax at an air base in South Korea?
[12:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mistake? Or Gambit! - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:22] <exec> 08└─In subsequent developments, China accidentally sends its aircraft carrier to the coast of S. Korea and accidentally points missiles at Seoul.
[12:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:A tad confusing... - 06Wooden Chip: Biodegradable Semiconductors - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:28] <exec> 08└─I personally wonder if this means that overclocking will really set your CPU on fire.
[12:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:A tad confusing... - 06Wooden Chip: Biodegradable Semiconductors - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:29] <exec> 08└─...break down over time, or the first time they get wet
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[12:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:49] <exec> 08└─The problem is, the people buying rhinoceros horn have bought into this mythology where it has supernatural properties. The one thing one can hope will come of this is that it will force the poachers to keep such good records so as to prove the bloody provenance of their supply that it will make pro...
[12:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jpkunst [2310] (Score:1) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:59:50] <exec> 08└─My impression is that rhinos are almost extinct, so even if the poaching stops, "culling the herds" will not be necessary for a long time to come.
[12:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:59:51] <exec> 08└─I think the idea us that most poachers will just go to a store and buy the fakes. Good quality reproductions have destroyed a lot of previously lucrative markets in rare objects, no reason to believe it won't do the same here. It is not like the poachers can start up a rhino horn cartel. With the ma...
[13:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:zafgagfa - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:00:00] <exec> 08└─Of course, even if it produces invalid Unicode, the very fact that the invalid Unicode crashes the OS is a separate bug. Already crashing the app would be a bug, but a failing app should never be able to crash the OS. So if your analysis is right, there are three bugs: The shortening generating inva...
[13:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:iOS bug? That's no reason not to rant about ... - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:00:02] <exec> 08└─""" A python man, by any chance? """
[13:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:iOS bug? That's no reason not to rant about ... - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:00:04] <exec> 08└─Not at all, I abhor the language. However, it's a very simple, convenient, and self-explanatory block quote delineator.
[13:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bitshifter [2241] (Score:2) 02Still, I hope it resets - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:18] <exec> 08└─OK, so some people screwed up. Shit happens. Still, I hope they manage to get over it, and continue. This is too important.
[13:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Subjectivity - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:00:46] <exec> 08└─What, are you one of those fools he thinks he's so pure of thought and mind that he doesn't stereotype?
[13:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks to the editors - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:25] <exec> 08└─Obviously the GP needs an editor. Wait, maybe s/he is an editor? Who will edit the editors?!
[13:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've checked them out - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:51] <exec> 08└─Then reject the the submitters story. Do not rewrite and put their name to it. "XXXXXX writes:" XXXXX did not write what follows. The editor did. Maybe change the format to "xxxxx submitted THIS LINK, SN desided to post this instead:"
[13:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Like watching a train crash in slow motion - 06How Does the iPhone Do That: Behind the Downfall at BlackBerry - 2374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:11] <exec> 08└─I don't work at RIM/Blackberry, but I live in the same region so I'm practically surrounded by buildings, employees, news articles, etc. I remember when the iPhone came out. I thought it was going to eat the Blackberry for breakfast, but I assumed RIM would take the threat seriously and up their gam...
[13:03:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Fanboys.... Bah! - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 3111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:13] <exec> 08└─So much wrong, hard to see where to start. First off, Google didn't care about making money off of Android when they bought it out and probably still don't. Their motivation was survival. They saw the mobile revolution becoming an Apple walled garden where they would have zero control of their desti...
[13:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:1) 02Android Has Another Problem - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:19] <exec> 08└─Android has another problem... the size of the phones. Now, I admit this may just be me. I'm a dwarf IRL with very small hands. Android smartphones simply have become too large for me. I've been an Android user since approximately 2010, and have upgraded my phone every year since. I found 4.5" and 4...
[13:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously, this is big news. - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:06] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't bother with code hosting. Keep this site focused on news and discussion.
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[13:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:59:46] <exec> 08└─If that doesn't work, we could always poach the poachers, see I've a superstitious belief about poacher parts, they bring me luck. I only want the fingers with rings, though.
[13:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:59:47] <exec> 08└─There's a market for human body parts in Africa so you're actually fairly correct.
[13:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:59:49] <exec> 08└─You make it sound as if rhino horn is only used by the African poachers or people as poor and uneducated as they are. In fact, the international trade in endangered animal products is driven in large part by Chinese demand, and the Chinese consumers are just as likely to be university-educated and w...
[13:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Except... - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:50] <exec> 08└─Their aim is to mass produce fakes that are indistinguishable from real horns...
[13:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Except... - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:59:52] <exec> 08└─I think we should do to them what Saudi Arabia does to their thieves - all people who believe that rhino horn has super powers should have their noses and penises both cut off permanently. And I do NOT withdraw my comment. There are too many goddamn people in this world, and culling the more stupid...
[14:00:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02iOS bug? That's no reason not to rant about ... - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 1206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:01] <exec> 08└─""" The bug/crash issue exists in the process that displays notifications, which is SpringBoard (one of the reasons disabling notifications fixes it). The bug seems to cause the process to go into a recursive, infinite loop, using up an insane amount of resources until there are no more resources le...
[14:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:iOS bug? That's no reason not to rant about ... - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:00:04] <exec> 08└─Funny, I was going to make the same comment about systemd. I recently heard it will also require reboots for updates in some cases. wiping out one of the advantages of Linux kernel 4. If so, it's going to be the new Intel/Microsoft thing: Linux giveth, systemd taketh away.
[14:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:A vulnerability? - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:00:15] <exec> 08└─But it _is_ a vulnerability, just not a security vulnerability.
[14:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A vulnerability? - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:00:17] <exec> 08└─Actually it could be a security vulnerability, depending on the exact path leading to the crash. Often things that can lead to crashes for arbitrary data can also lead to security breaches with specially crafted data.
[14:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:I like my version better - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:00:22] <exec> 08└─What is this charged particle glitch you speak of? I want to be the first kid on my block to have caused a confirmed particle glitch!
[14:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Sometimes good - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:00:55] <exec> 08└─That's pretty close to what I was thinking, and I think the heuristic will depend on the local demographics. For instance, if say 50% of the local population of "Chinese-looking" people is foreign-born and 50% is native-born, whereas only 5% of the "white-looking" population is foreign-born, the cha...
[14:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What were they comparing? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:02] <exec> 08└─[Actually, Chinese Canadian, non Chinese - from TFP]. One of the major stumbling blocks to this sort of research: of course, ethically, you have to accept the subjects self-identification of their ethnicity.
[14:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Absolute Power! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:21] <exec> 08└─Everything is a dildo if you are brave enough
[14:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks to the editors - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:32] <exec> 08└─PANIC! DRAMA! We need an enhanced editor-staff to review comments before they go live! Immediately! And I need to take my time to write some journal entry on how to avoid such catastrophes in the future, and to apologize! Thanks for alerting me!
[14:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Total Tomfoolery Trips Team - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:43] <exec> 08└─While I agree about the editing being decent enough, I applaud the staff for actually listening and opening a dialogue. It shows they really are listening to the community.
[14:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:dont ask us. - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:47] <exec> 08└─I don't see anything wrong with speculation as long as it makes logical sense. It can actually be a lot of fun. But if you don't want to encourage any speculation then the story needs the five W's [wikipedia.org]. If you are submitting a story and not writing it then that may not be possible.
[14:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:They really need to be sued. - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:06:30] <exec> 08└─No, it does grant a right to reproduce the material as long as a copy of the license and source code are provided. Very few "open source" licenses don't.
[14:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:interpreting data is subjective - 06Science of "Echo Chambers" - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:20] <exec> 08└─If coming to the "right" conclusion depends upon background knowledge in any way then it is subjective. Different "subjects" will have had different past experiences and thus beliefs, although in some cases these differences may be negligible. Subjective is not a dirty word like you appear to have b...
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[14:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02WARNING! - 06Chemists Discover Key Reaction Mechanism Behind the Sodium-Oxygen Battery - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:49] <exec> 08└─Do not submerge battery in water!
[15:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:00:02] <exec> 08└─I only want the fingers with rings, though.
[15:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:00:03] <exec> 08└─This. Poachers just want to make money. If a person looking to buy rhino horn can't tell the difference then what does the poacher care?
[15:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:00:05] <exec> 08└─I would not consider an education which allowed one to retain an unsupported, superstitious belief about the ``supernatural powers'' of an animal product to be a decent one.
[15:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:2) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:00:07] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that Chinese consumers would believe these products to have supernatural powers, as they are not meant to impart some mysterious baraka or spiritual energy. Rather, these products are believed to have entirely natural medicinal properties like any number of herbal remedies. Of course, o...
[15:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02don't they get it? - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:10] <exec> 08└─The reason why rhino horn is so expensive is manifold, not least the fact that it is scarce. This would be akin to flooding the market with diamonds or gold - either way you're meeting demand which drives the price DOWN. With this tech, without actually telling buyers which they're getting - real or...
[15:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02An alternate solution - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:12] <exec> 08└─I read an article a few days ago about a specific rhino which had been tranquilized by poachers, had its horns hacked off, and then was left to die via the gaping wounds on its head. It was discovered still alive and saved by the locals and veterinarians, but with extensive surgery. It struck me tha...
[15:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:1) 02Actual text? - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:25] <exec> 08└─As SoylentNews has UTF-8 support for unicode characters, this seems like a useful test case. According to http://9to5mac.com [9to5mac.com]: effective. Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗
[15:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Actual text? - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:00:26] <exec> 08└─Does is crash out in Safari?
[15:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Once again Apple lags - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:28] <exec> 08└─I had several Nokia phones at least 12 years ago that did this.
[15:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:A vulnerability? - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:00:39] <exec> 08└─Then I completely misunderstood the meaning of vulnerability (quite possible). Care to elaborate? To me a vulnerability means there has to be an attacker, or as this random military page [dod.mil] defines it: System vulnerability is defined to be the intersection of a system susceptibility or flaw,...
[15:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I like my version better - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:00:46] <exec> 08└─I'm using Emacs, but unfortunately my keyboard lacks the butterfly key.
[15:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:EThanol Fail? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:04] <exec> 08└─microagression
[15:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:EThanol Fail? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:05] <exec> 08└─This probably shouldn't be modded troll. He's just saying that racism is a form stupidity, lack of education, or delusion. Which is semi-backed-up by the article. If you can understand someone perfectly until you realize they are Chinese and suddenly they can't speak as well then you have projected...
[15:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is why I don't make eye contact. - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:15] <exec> 08└─Why especially with the other sex? What if you're not heterosexual?
[15:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Who do I need to look like? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 1693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:29] <exec> 08└─Well maybe the person thought you were English and was just being a dick by speaking to you in Gaelic. I have had a very different experience with language while I lived in Paris for 3 months. By the end of my stay I had picked up enough where I could understand a fair amount but when I talked t...
[15:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Egads! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:44] <exec> 08└─Put the fettle to the metal, watch the page count go round?
[15:01:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02Re:Shortened link to original submission - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 1317 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:54] <exec> 08└─Really, I think this is almost all that is needed. It's a discussion site - we don't *need* a full audit trail and accountability like we might if it were legal or financial data being edited - in that context some of the suggestions seem like total overkill to me - we certainly don't need to run su...
[15:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Shortened link to original submission - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:56] <exec> 08└─It's a discussion site - we don't *need* a full audit trail and accountability like we might if it were legal or financial data being edited - in that context some of the suggestions seem like total overkill to me - we certainly don't need to run submissions through a CVS so we can review every sing...
[15:01:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] 02Thanks to the editors - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 2321 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:58] <exec> 08└─First and most of all, thanks to all the editors again for doing the editing in the first place. Since there was a severe shortage of editors some months ago (I don't know the situation right now), we, the readers, should make sure to not complain too easily. Improvement suggestions are always a goo...
[15:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Like watching a train crash in slow motion - 06How Does the iPhone Do That: Behind the Downfall at BlackBerry - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:48] <exec> 08└─Rim/BB's first direct response to the iPhone, the full-touchscreen Blackberry Storm, was a colossal disaster. A friend went through 2 of them in a year, it was crash-prone, the UI was inconsistent and glitchy, and worst of all, they still catered to the dictates of the carrier and allowed them to bl...
[15:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Hope MS Doesn't Buy BB - 06How Does the iPhone Do That: Behind the Downfall at BlackBerry - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:49] <exec> 08└─"Hope MS Doesn't Buy BB " The Canadian government is likely to block BB's sale to a foreign company, for national security reasons. They signalled this when rumours of a Lenovo takeover surfaced late last year. True, Lenovo is Chinese and Microsoft is American, but they know that as soon as ownershi...
[15:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:anthrax dna - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:27] <exec> 08└─Indeed, people even disperse it in air. It's called sneezing.
[15:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mistake? Or Gambit! - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:34] <exec> 08└─Most pilot desks.
[15:08:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jcross [4009] 02Re:Live at that temperature - 06Roads Melting in India; Over 1100 Dead in Heat Wave - 235 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:37] <exec> 08└─It does also depend heavily on the humidity. Not sure what the humidity looks like in this part of India, but if it's high enough, then no amount of water is going to save you because your sweat won't evaporate fast enough to cool you.
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[15:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Smooth Move, Editor. - 06Chemists Discover Key Reaction Mechanism Behind the Sodium-Oxygen Battery - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:47] <exec> 08└─Another battery technology "only a few years from the market"?
[16:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:00:02] <exec> 08└─Dian Fossey did this and look how it ended [wikipedia.org] for her.
[16:00:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CRCulver [4390] 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 576 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:00:04] <exec> 08└─You make it sound as if rhino horn is only used by the African poachers or people as poor and uneducated as they are. In fact, the international trade in endangered animal products is driven in large part by Chinese demand, and the Chinese consumers are just as likely to be university-educated and w...
[16:00:07] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 173 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:00:08] <exec> 08└─I would not consider an education which allowed one to retain an unsupported, superstitious belief about the ``supernatural powers'' of an animal product to be a decent one.
[16:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Except... - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:00:12] <exec> 08└─should have their noses and penises both cut off permanently.
[16:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Except... - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:00:13] <exec> 08└─They were able to reattach John Bobbitt's [wikipedia.org] penis after it had been cut off by his angry wife. What I am proposing is to destroy or permanently relocate from their previous owners the removed noses and penises. Also, scientific fun-fact -- the fearsome Bobbitt worm [youtube.com] was na...
[16:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:don't they get it? - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:00:15] <exec> 08└─Humm...did the development of cubic zirconia in the 1970s ruin the DeBeers business model?
[16:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02Re:don't they get it? - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:00:16] <exec> 08└─no, because an industry sprang up almost immediately dedicated to letting people know whether they were rocking real or flaunting fake. There is also a certification process which means that every genuine cut diamond over a certain size (0.18ct IIRC, up to just over 1ct) now is accompanied by a pape...
[16:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:don't they get it? - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:00:18] <exec> 08└─No but synthetic diamond is. http://www.wsj.com [wsj.com] Diamond != cubic zirconia anyone with a jewelers loop can tell you that. But you can not tell the difference between a synthetic and the real deal. They are in fact moving v...
[16:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Once again Apple lags - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:00:34] <exec> 08└─I had several phones that'd lose their signal if you touched them in the wrong spot, but Slashdot claimed Apple invented that.
[16:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Re:A vulnerability? - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:00:47] <exec> 08└─My god! Ten compressed music files?! We're all gonna die!
[16:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A vulnerability? - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:00:48] <exec> 08└─So they didn't run apt-get -y install no-crash-no-die32 right before launch?
[16:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:EThanol Fail? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:15] <exec> 08└─I don't agree that there is no way to remove it. If when kids become adults they isolate themselves against interacting with anyone that isnt like them... yeah, they are going to be just as racist as their parents. But if someone opens their horizons and interacts with people, even old racists assho...
[16:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:This is why I don't make eye contact. - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 1419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:26] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of the situation where there is a group of people talking and everyone thinks of an anecdote they want to add. They think they are being polite by raising a hand to indicate they want to speak next, so others don't interrupt first... but all they are indicate is they have stopped lis...
[16:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:This is why I don't make eye contact. - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:27] <exec> 08└─I tend to look at the ceiling when thinking out a problem...
[16:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:This is why I don't make eye contact. - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:29] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps you have trouble hearing and need to look into a person's mouth to help interpret. I find this helps me greatly, and if we are standing far enough away, the other person might think I am looking at their face instead of creepily staring at their mouth.
[16:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02I have experienced this - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 1427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:46] <exec> 08└─but mostly it amuses me. When I lived in Japan I had a Japanese-Canadian girlfriend who didn't speak a lick of Japanese. I spoke it reasonably well, having taken four years of it in college. We would walk into stores together and I would conduct the entire conversation with the salespeople who could...
[16:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0237 comments and no-one mentions lead researcher - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:47] <exec> 08└─the lead researcher is Molly Babel. Really? Babel? As in tower of Babel? talk about pre-determination...
[16:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Absolute Power! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:05] <exec> 08└─Not if you use dielectric grease.
[16:02:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khchung [457] 02Re:Total Tomfoolery Trips Team - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 236 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:24] <exec> 08└─Agreed this is blown out of proportion. The way it used to be is fine. There will always be people who don't like how his submission got edited, but it is the editors' job to edit, and I absolutely thank the editors for doing their job.
[16:02:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02Let's not make a mountain out of a molehill - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 974 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:34] <exec> 08└─First off, I think the editors are doing a great job. Anyone who edits/polishes/touches-up/etc a story/submission that belongs to another person will eventually draw ire for doing that. Don't let it get to you. If there is an issue with one in a hundred submissions, that's not too shabby at all. If...
[16:02:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02Re:Let's not make a mountain out of a molehill - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:36] <exec> 08└─Sorry, forgot to reply directly to the questions posted: Just how much transparency is necessary?
[16:02:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03quadrox [315] 02Simple rules - here they are! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 600 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:43] <exec> 08└─1) you can't please everyone - no matter what you do there will be people complaining. Accept it, deal with it. 2) I want a neutral tone in all articles - submissions that are written with a clear bias should be edited remove that bias. No bias should be introduced by editors. This includes any and...
[16:02:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02I've checked them out - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 987 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:45] <exec> 08└─I never had a problem with the editing. But I figured I'd play along and click those links to the original story, and see what the editors did. I never saw a single edit that I thought was unjustified. I'm appalled that what little care some people put into their submissions, and amazed at the job t...
[16:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbWolf [2774] (Score:2) 02Re:I've checked them out - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:48] <exec> 08└─Go back to the way it was? I dunno. I kinda like it like knowing what the original submitter sent. It helps me learn a bit more about the submitter. Agree with everything else you said 100%. Sure, there's the occasional hiccup, but overall, editors here are awesome.
[16:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Power users ? - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:52] <exec> 08└─Their lack of huge Apple magnitude profits help put food on my table. Who the heck cares if HTC or whoever cxos get sacked.
[16:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Power users ? - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah ios was too restrictive for the CEO at my work place. So he switched to android and passed his iPhone to his wife. Then even she switched to Android later. For me ios has nothing really like tasker. And even I find having to root my phone a bit of a restriction.
[16:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Android is horrible - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:15] <exec> 08└─The fact that Google does not charge for operating system, and that few phone manufacturers are extracting much of a profit from Android devices, means that much of the globe now enjoys decent smartphones and online services for low prices.
[16:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wood computers - 06Wooden Chip: Biodegradable Semiconductors - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:03] <exec> 08└─I'm still trying to figure out how to connect this thing to the internet. :-)
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[16:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nice thought - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:49] <exec> 08└─"encryption and anonymity may provide necessary privacy." With many on this list wanting every one to be "members". AC get it right!
[16:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice thought - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:59:50] <exec> 08└─I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
[16:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02Smooth Move, Editor. Sincerely. - 06Chemists Discover Key Reaction Mechanism Behind the Sodium-Oxygen Battery - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:00:00] <exec> 08└─I'm glad the editor decided to leave that question in because it was the first thing on my mind and we could jump straight to constructive evaluations instead of seeing 5 duplicate posts asking the same thing. But now we're bashing the editor, instead.
[17:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:00:16] <exec> 08└─Exactly! If you can make a close enough copy, the poachers will start to sell the fakes instead of the real ones. I mean, the poachers are already doing something illegal. It's not like they will be facing a huge moral dilemma. They are just in it for the money, and if they can make the same amount...
[17:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:00:21] <exec> 08└─Or where some members of a board of education (people responsible for ensuring a good education) are attempting to force evolution out of text books. There appears to be no correlation between education and superstition.
[17:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02If it works: - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:31] <exec> 08└─If it works, and the rhino is brought back from being endangered, I know something that will be endangered by that. The budgets of the charities that were mentioned. (Yes, I'm a cynical sort. Not for profit doesn't mean "for free".)
[17:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Won't help. - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:33] <exec> 08└─All this will do is cause verifiably real horns to become even more profitable. Which will lead to increased poaching. Then there is going to be the "but I thought it was fake Rhino horn" defense when someone is arrested further down the supply chain. They would have plausible dependability. Good id...
[17:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:EThanol Fail? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:32] <exec> 08└─But if someone opens their horizons and interacts with people, even old racists assholes can break free.
[17:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is why I don't make eye contact. - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:42] <exec> 08└─Why especially with the other sex? What if you're not heterosexual?
[17:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Correction (Re:What were they comparing?) - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:04] <exec> 08└─Should read "[Actually, Chinese Canadian, not Chinese - from TFP]" - i.e. the self-identification is about ethnicity, not nationality.
[17:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kbahey [1147] (Score:2) 02How BlackBerry blew it! - 06How Does the iPhone Do That: Behind the Downfall at BlackBerry - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:25] <exec> 08└─By the same author (McNish), an article: How BlackBerry Blew It! The Inside Story [theglobeandmail.com], from 2013, in a Canadian newspaper that probes how and why BlackBerry failed. Lazaridis, the co-founder of BlackBerry was obsessed with battery life and a physical keyboard. He thought the iPhone...
[17:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Air base in S. Korea??? - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:47] <exec> 08└─So how long until they have a false flag involving brown terrywrists and this thrax. Would make a good cover,ship it everywhere, say oops, one year later....
[17:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Biodegradeable - 06Wooden Chip: Biodegradable Semiconductors - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:26] <exec> 08└─I personally have never thrown away old computers. I keep them around for hobby tinkering. But I can see applications for biodegradeable stuff. Sensors that you put out in nature to monitor wildlife or something represent one such use; you don't want to have to hike back out and collect them after y...
[17:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03monster [1260] (Score:2) 02Re:Java doesn't use header files - 06White House Backs Oracle Over Google in Java Supreme Court Case - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:04] <exec> 08└─No, it uses interfaces. Same function, different way.
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[17:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02pooo - 06Chipmaker Avago Buys Broadcom for $37B - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:45] <exec> 08└─Yay Asian backdoors
[17:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:1) 02Re:Nice thought - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:59:54] <exec> 08└─Then I worry about your brain, unless you were feigning ignorance to be insulting... Pretty clear the AC is drawing a parallel between the report's stance on anonymity and the SoylentNews AC system. Generally people here are pro privacy, yet in the same breath can go on about how terrible ACs are. I...
[17:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice thought - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:59:56] <exec> 08└─Some places are the opposite. 4chan for example calls someone who isn't anonymous a namefag.
[17:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ha! - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:58] <exec> 08└─The report hits on many digital liberty topics, shaming Russia, China, and South Africa for online "real-name" policies
[18:00:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 452 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:00:16] <exec> 08└─I think the idea us that most poachers will just go to a store and buy the fakes. Good quality reproductions have destroyed a lot of previously lucrative markets in rare objects, no reason to believe it won't do the same here. It is not like the poachers can start up a rhino horn cartel. With the ma...
[18:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:An alternate solution - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:00:37] <exec> 08└─It struck me that if young rhinos were captured by authorities and had their horns preemptively surgically removed by veterinarians so that less danger were posed to the rhinos (and then the horns destroyed), the poachers would have no reason to go after those rhinos any more.
[18:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Won't help. - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:00:40] <exec> 08└─> All this will do is cause verifiably real horns to become even more profitable. Which will lead to increased poaching. Has the existence of counterfeit sports memorabilia driven up the price of legitimate memorabilia? The NFL doesn't seem to think so. [dailycaller.com] > Then there is going to be...
[18:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Insecure.. emotional not software wise? - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:59] <exec> 08└─Why is it almost obligatory to accompany any discussion of a flaw in Apple's products to include a reminder that someone else, usually Microsoft, has also suffered the same problem? Come on fanboys, suck it up and own it. Apple is supposed to the the 1200lb gorilla in the room now, not the scrappy u...
[18:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:Shortened link to original submission - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:39] <exec> 08└─True, I appreciate your sentiment, however we do try to listen to the community. It's a hard line to walk sometimes between listening to suggestions/complaints and simply getting the job done; we all work very hard (and will continue to strive) to maintain that balance.
[18:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks to the editors - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 2194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:52] <exec> 08└─Thank you. Another part of our job is editing those stories that do contain bias, personal agendas, or are unbalanced or unfair, because they do not comply with the requirements stated in the submission guidelines. We can do this in one of two ways. We can simply reject the submission. While we do n...
[18:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:User preference - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:04] <exec> 08└─Or, we could put our hands over our eyes and ears and sing la la la la loudly when we see that dreaded by-line....
[18:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03monster [1260] (Score:2) 02Re:Planned obsolescence - 06Wooden Chip: Biodegradable Semiconductors - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:17] <exec> 08└─What starts as a stupid idea might give way to another bright one.
[18:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oddly enough... - 06SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:24] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this OS detection is the reason why I so often can't find the links to Windows versions of software to send to people via internet chat... I often like to send direct links to make sure people get the correct version, but quite often have great difficulty tracking down those links. I had...
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[18:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03present_arms [4392] (Score:2) 02Re:pooo - 06Chipmaker Avago Buys Broadcom for $37B - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:59:46] <exec> 08└─As opposed to British, American or Russian back doors? If there is one, firewall the bastard.
[18:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:pooo - 06Chipmaker Avago Buys Broadcom for $37B - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:59:47] <exec> 08└─Please don't forget Canadian back doors. Of course, we knock first.
[18:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03present_arms [4392] (Score:2) 02Re:pooo - 06Chipmaker Avago Buys Broadcom for $37B - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:59:48] <exec> 08└─It was just the first 3 that came in to my head :)
[18:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:pooo - 06Chipmaker Avago Buys Broadcom for $37B - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:59:50] <exec> 08└─Don't forget Poland!
[18:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:pooo - 06Chipmaker Avago Buys Broadcom for $37B - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:59:52] <exec> 08└─It's an old semiconductor division from HP that was spun off with Agilent then bought out by two investment firms, incorporated in Singapore and jointly headquartered in Singapore and California. How much of it is Asian vs American is quite blurred. Though, they have been busy buying out everyone in...
[18:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:pooo - 06Chipmaker Avago Buys Broadcom for $37B - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:59:53] <exec> 08└─who doesn't like being backdoored by an Asian?
[18:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03present_arms [4392] (Score:2) 02Re:pooo - 06Chipmaker Avago Buys Broadcom for $37B - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:59:55] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself :P
[19:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice thought - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:05] <exec> 08└─Least Privacy 0 10 Most Privacy Anonymous Coward 10 AC who signs their posts 9 SN pseudonym 6 Real name policy 0 Why are we even arguing about this?
[19:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Ha! - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:07] <exec> 08└─hidden, down modded, saged and reported. Seriously though, anonymity (most often than not) in the internet implies separation between your virtual self and your real self, while I may have an account and you may not, we both don't know who really is typing the post (on the internet no one knows you...
[19:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Ha! - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:08] <exec> 08└─so unless someone reveals their identity here for all practical purposes everyone is anonymous here.
[19:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ha! - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:10] <exec> 08└─Bitch, please! "Necessary privacy" and "AC posts" aren't comparable in this context at all.
[19:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02whu? - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:11] <exec> 08└─By definition is not encryption saying that you are who you are? Anonymous does not really enter into the equation other than to filter out people impersonating you? That is a pretty big tenant of encryption. Basically only you have the key to make this string jumbled in this particular way. Or am I...
[19:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:whu? - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:13] <exec> 08└─SSH/Tor/VPNs
[19:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:WARNING! - 06Chemists Discover Key Reaction Mechanism Behind the Sodium-Oxygen Battery - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:19] <exec> 08└─Hmm. Actually IIRC sodium is usually stored immersed in oil to prevent reaction with ambient water vapor. And one of the big benefits of oxygen batteries is that they can "breath" ambient air, dramatically reducing their mass. I can only assume that's not an option in this case...
[19:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:WARNING! - 06Chemists Discover Key Reaction Mechanism Behind the Sodium-Oxygen Battery - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:21] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the battery would be hermetically sealed with a either a pure oxygen mixture or a mixture of oxygen and some other non-reactive gas(es). Otherwise the sodium or lithium would react with the ambient moisture and ruin the battery or start a fire.
[19:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:41] <exec> 08└─Please re-read what I wrote: > unsupported, superstitious belief about the ``supernatural powers'' of an animal product I don't believe that there's any reasonable religion which requires / enforces that (even if one extends it to plant products, it's not the wine or the bread which has supernatural...
[19:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:44] <exec> 08└─There is a correlation, it's just FAR short of perfect. And I'm not aware of any country with an education system that emphasizes evaluation of the evidence.
[19:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:An alternate solution - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:55] <exec> 08└─Good points on both. In regard to the first, maybe they'd need to be removed periodically. But the second is interesting, although the knowledge of dyeing and poisoning needs to be spread to the Chinese markets which are the demand for the horns.
[19:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:An alternate solution - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:56] <exec> 08└─> although the knowledge of dyeing and poisoning needs to be spread to the Chinese markets which are the demand for the horns. A couple of people getting sick will cause that knowledge to spread rapidly.
[19:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Rhino Farms? - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:01] <exec> 08└─Why not raise the rhinos on farms the way we do with other four-legged creatures? Sure, it would be expensive as all hell, but it would be profitable and sustainable.
[19:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Insecure.. emotional not software wise? - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:20] <exec> 08└─The profit argument is about continued support down the road. If you buy an Android phone for a particular gimmick, don't expect your next phone to have an upgrade to that gimmick because that particular manufacturer canned it. Oh, and if you're going to complain about fanboy insecurity it would...
[19:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:A vulnerability? - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:33] <exec> 08└─The system is simply vulnerable to having too many records in the CSV file, just like, I don't know, a human body is vulnerable to open fire. The definition you linked to is still talking about a _security_ vulnerability.
[19:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Drake_Edgewater [780] (Score:1) 02Re:A vulnerability? - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:36] <exec> 08└─From their last podcast, Bill Nye said that they were suspecting a Single event upset [wikipedia.org] (SEU) might have occurred. Basically, a SEU occurs when a cosmic ray of solar or galactic origin hits an electronic device in space, causing a state change (i.e., changing a 1 to a 0). It is a big...
[19:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:EThanol Fail? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:05] <exec> 08└─Although I agree with the general thought it's difficult to change unconscious bias. There's a lot out there on this but a recent episode of the show Through the Wormhole [sciencechannel.com] included a good example. In the study gun enthusiasts were given targets, good and bad, and told to either...
[19:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:"native speaker of Canadian English" - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:10] <exec> 08└─Consider the term "American English". How to Bostonians, Southerners and California Surfers compare? They all call them "french fries." What do you get with your fish across the pond?
[19:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What were they comparing? - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:38] <exec> 08└─The ends rarely justify the means. So long as nobody gets hurt, directly or indirectly, its probably fine, but even that can start you down a slippery slope.
[19:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Drake_Edgewater [780] (Score:1) 02Re:Shortened link to original submission - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:06] <exec> 08└─I think the best place to put the link to the original submission is in the "Related links" box at the right side of the summary.
[19:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Re:anthrax dna - 06U.S. Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax To Nine States - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:44] <exec> 08└─The genie is already out of the bottle. Disease-causing bacteria and viruses are already here. As Sir Finkus mentioned, there is endemic anthrax in livestock. There is also endemic H5N1 ("bird flu"), plague, MDR tuberculosis, MRSA, and many other pathogens. All you need to do is find a sick animal/p...
[19:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score:2) 02Re:A tad confusing... - 06Wooden Chip: Biodegradable Semiconductors - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:55] <exec> 08└─I could see this being worked into throwaway items such as greeting cards, business cards, cereal boxes, etc.
[19:07:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02We need Groklaw. - 06White House Backs Oracle Over Google in Java Supreme Court Case - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:55] <exec> 08└─In Pamela Jones' absence, Wikipedia has a summary: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It's about whether APIs are copyrightable or not. If they are, it bodes trouble for the software industry.
[19:07:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02New Whitehouse Deputy CTO - 06White House Backs Oracle Over Google in Java Supreme Court Case - 224 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:57] <exec> 08└─Last year Ed Felten signed an amicus brief [eff.org] for the same case, arguing the opposite position. Two weeks ago he was appointed Deputy US CTO [whitehouse.gov] by the White House. Power doesn't only corrupt, it co-opts.
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[19:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02I figured out this out years ago... - 06Scientists Figure Out How to Retrieve "Lost" Memories - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:40] <exec> 08└─...but then- Ah, screw it, make up your own punchline.
[19:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You will make a full confession. - 06Scientists Figure Out How to Retrieve "Lost" Memories - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:41] <exec> 08└─You will remember planting the bomb. We have ways to make you remember. Good job, people. Another case closed. Celebratory party to be held at the bar after work.
[19:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03acp_sn [5254] (Score:1) 02dont need memory when you have smartphones - 06Scientists Figure Out How to Retrieve "Lost" Memories - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:43] <exec> 08└─in the future battery life will get better, storage costs will get cheaper, and eventually we will automatically record everything we experience at least from an audio and visual perspective then just need a smart way to index Now we no longer have to remember anything. Just ask our phone to play ba...
[19:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:dont need memory when you have smartphones - 06Scientists Figure Out How to Retrieve "Lost" Memories - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:59:45] <exec> 08└─How do you ask your phone to play back the events if you don't remember that there are events to play back?
[19:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dont need memory when you have smartphones - 06Scientists Figure Out How to Retrieve "Lost" Memories - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:59:46] <exec> 08└─"Phone, have I ever had a lesbian experience?" "Yes, Sally." "Play back those events please." "Yes, Sally." "I must have been so drunk that night." "Yes, Sally."
[19:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not only do you not have to remember anything... - 06Scientists Figure Out How to Retrieve "Lost" Memories - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:59:48] <exec> 08└─In the future, you can Auto-Tune the content of your conversation to sound smarter. [smbc-comics.com]
[20:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03dmbasso [3237] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:pooo - 06Chipmaker Avago Buys Broadcom for $37B - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:00:01] <exec> 08└─I see, you're eagerly waiting for the growth of African... semiconductors!
[20:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02So what will this mean? How does Avago behave? - 06Chipmaker Avago Buys Broadcom for $37B - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:02] <exec> 08└─So will this mean more super secret API interfaces a la Broadcom? Will they fuck up the Raspberry Pi dealings? How has Avago behaved business wise in the past?
[20:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ha! - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:00:18] <exec> 08└─Amen. My "real" self is also a pseudonym and part of no less than 10 email names, been using since 1990 and CompuServe. What is your oldest AOL diskette? :-)
[20:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:whu? - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:00:22] <exec> 08└─You're missing something. Encryption makes your communication unintelligible and unmodifiable to anyone except those with the corresponding decryption key. It CAN be used as a signature system - for example using public-private key encryption to encrypt something with your private key so that anyone...
[20:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:whu? - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:00:24] <exec> 08└─I get those uses. However, in order for the conversation to continue with encryption you basically are stating 'I encrypted this' even if the keys are never used again. You are for a brief moment saying 'I am X'. Things like VPN and Tor obfuscate it very well. VPN services by ignoring the logs. Tor...
[20:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02"Special rapporteur" - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:25] <exec> 08└─As in, one who builds rapport? Or is this just a fancy French spelling for "reporter"? Guess that wouldn't be surprising since they have headquarters in the Low Countries
[20:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smooth Move, Editor. Sincerely. - 06Chemists Discover Key Reaction Mechanism Behind the Sodium-Oxygen Battery - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:00:36] <exec> 08└─> But now we're bashing the editor, instead. Some people have nothing to contribute to the discussion other than contrariness but they still feel the need to contribute.
[20:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:00:58] <exec> 08└─> reasonable religion Don't fall into the trap of thinking that formalized religion is the only kind of religious thinking. For example, catholicism is notorious for adopting local superstitions. Repurposing a pagan holiday into christmas is probably the most well known. So while the big details are...
[20:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:2) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:00:59] <exec> 08└─And please re-read what I wrote. Chinese interest in endangered animal products has nothing supernatural about it. These products are erroneously believed to work through natural means, not supernatural ones.
[20:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:03] <exec> 08└─I would not consider an education which allowed ... superstitious belief about ... an animal product to be a decent one.
[20:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:05] <exec> 08└─1) It is not a superstitious belief. It is a medical belief. Just as phoney though. 2) Plenty of "decently" educated people have superstitious beliefs. I was eduated at a uni with impeccable credentials and saw plenty of people with such beliefs.
[20:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:07] <exec> 08└─one can hope will come of this is that it will force the poachers to keep such good records so as to prove the bloody provenance of their supply
[20:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Won't help. - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:21] <exec> 08└─All this will do is cause verifiably real horns to become even more profitable
[20:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Actual text? - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:39] <exec> 08└─Damn, every time I try to read that message my brain reboots! :-)
[20:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ryuugami [2925] (Score:2) 02Re:37 comments and no-one mentions lead researcher - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:05] <exec> 08└─Haha, nice catch. Maybe someone should add her to Wikipedia's list of aptronyms [wikipedia.org]...
[20:03:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WizardFusion [498] 02Re:Absolute Power! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:25] <exec> 08└─Everything is a dildo if you are brave enough
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[20:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I figured out this out years ago... - 06Scientists Figure Out How to Retrieve "Lost" Memories - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:59:50] <exec> 08└─> I figured out this out years ago...but then- there wasn't room enough in the margin to document my discovery.
[20:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02Re:I figured out this out years ago... - 06Scientists Figure Out How to Retrieve "Lost" Memories - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:59:51] <exec> 08└─Oh, please, somebody, mod up...
[20:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dont need memory when you have smartphones - 06Scientists Figure Out How to Retrieve "Lost" Memories - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:59:58] <exec> 08└─that doesn't sound like a better life to me. it sounds like an Orwellian dystopia of constant surveillance. #wish-i-was-actually-in-1984
[20:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03deathlyslow [2818] (Score:1) 02THat's way cool - 06Scientists Figure Out How to Retrieve "Lost" Memories - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:59] <exec> 08└─If it worked for me I would finally be able to know if my motorcycle wreck was due to me making a mistake or if some one gave me some help. It's been about 5 years now and I still have an irrational fear of the conditions that I do remember from the wreck. All I can remember is getting onto the road...
[21:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Blobs - 06Chipmaker Avago Buys Broadcom for $37B - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:16] <exec> 08└─I've always hated having to fetch a binary blob just to get my Broadcom wifi to work. This used to immediately taint the kernel and was a large pain in the ass. Amm because they were to cheap to provide 30k of on chip storage to hold their own firmware. Last I recall linux is still required to extra...
[21:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice thought - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:00:29] <exec> 08└─Can we agree to change Anonymous Coward to just "Anonymous" ? Would it be something hard to do ?
[21:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice thought - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:00:30] <exec> 08└─I'm feigning anything. Was that post in English? It makes no sense. First he quotes a tiny part of what David Kaye wrote with no context: "encryption and anonymity may provide necessary privacy."
[21:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nice thought - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:00:31] <exec> 08└─The list is SN, every one = everyone, "AC get it right!" is the most confusing part.
[21:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:"Special rapporteur" - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:00:42] <exec> 08└─United Nations Special Rapporteur [wikipedia.org] Special Rapporteur, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Independent Expert are titles given to individuals working on behalf of the United Nations (UN) within the scope of "Special Procedures" mechanisms, who bear a specific mandate...
[21:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Special rapporteur" - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:00:43] <exec> 08└─So basically, yes, it is just a fancy French spelling used to sound more important.
[21:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:"Special rapporteur" - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:00:44] <exec> 08└─One of the UN's lingua francas is... French. You call it fancy, French speakers call it "un mot" [wiktionary.org].
[21:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Smooth Move, Editor. - 06Chemists Discover Key Reaction Mechanism Behind the Sodium-Oxygen Battery - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:00:57] <exec> 08└─The truth hurts.
[21:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Smooth Move, Editor. - 06Chemists Discover Key Reaction Mechanism Behind the Sodium-Oxygen Battery - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:00:58] <exec> 08└─The truth hurts.
[21:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Smooth Move, Editor. - 06Chemists Discover Key Reaction Mechanism Behind the Sodium-Oxygen Battery - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:00] <exec> 08└─"Another battery technology 'only a few years from the market'?" = truth
[21:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02In Related News: - 06Chemists Discover Key Reaction Mechanism Behind the Sodium-Oxygen Battery - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:02] <exec> 08└─New 'designer carbon' boosts battery performance Tests were also conducted on lithium-sulfur batteries, a promising technology with a serious flaw: When lithium and sulfur react, they produce molecules of lithium polysulfide, which can leak from the electrode into the electrolyte and cause the batte...
[21:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:24] <exec> 08└─Fine. If one then offered such a Chinese person two rhinoceros horns, one genuine, one fake, each at the same price, which would they choose and why? I'm betting that they'd pick and prefer the genuine one. I'm also betting that they will choose not to purchase the fake ones --- seems as if the peop...
[21:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:30] <exec> 08└─See other comment where I ask whether the people in question would accept the fakes or no. Ages ago, my mother wanted the antlers from my first buck to grind up to make a medicinal product --- when I demurred and instead told her that we could look up the chemical consituents of the antlers and use...
[21:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score:1) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:32] <exec> 08└─The one thing one can hope will come of this is that it will force the poachers to keep such good records so as to prove the bloody provenance of their supply that it will make prosecution easier.
[21:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:If it works: - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:46] <exec> 08└─Unlikely, there's plenty more (endangered) fish in the sea for them to raise money against.
[21:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actual text? - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:08] <exec> 08└─how do you remember that you read it before?
[21:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Re:Total Tomfoolery Trips Team - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:22] <exec> 08└─Agreed. My guess is the Eds are reacting to one or two very whiny people. These are the people who will never, ever be satisfied. Nothing that the Eds can do will be enough. Hell, even if you let these people post anything they like, with no editing, at any time, they would still complain. So Editor...
[21:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:selling products vs. promoting brands - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:46] <exec> 08└─I guess from my viewpoint (attempting to be objective) there are 2 forms of adverts. Novelty and Brand. Novelty is "this is new in someway" and Brand is "We exist as the option for $THING". I would say that web ads are nearly all Novelty and not Brand. Physical ads are nearly all Brand and no novelt...
[21:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Android is horrible - 06The Tricky Road Ahead for Android Gets Even Trickier - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:04] <exec> 08└─Comparing Windows Phone and Android on technical grounds then Android comes out miles ahead for me, because I greatly value Android being largely open source. While I don't look at or hack the source myself, others do and I benefit from it. I don't think Android permissions is horribly broken, at le...
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[22:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:You will make a full confession. - 06Scientists Figure Out How to Retrieve "Lost" Memories - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:00:05] <exec> 08└─This doesn't say anything about putting in false memories. And there's an obvious use that would probably be on the side of justice - witnesses and victims: "Where did Father O'Malley touch you?" or something similar.
[22:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dont need memory when you have smartphones - 06Scientists Figure Out How to Retrieve "Lost" Memories - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:00:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes, go on...
[22:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nice thought - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:00:44] <exec> 08└─Can we agree to change Anonymous Coward to just "Anonymous" ?
[22:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Nice thought - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:00:47] <exec> 08└─The list is SN, every one = everyone
[22:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:"Special rapporteur" - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:01] <exec> 08└─"One word"? "Reporter" is one word, too.
[22:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:"Special rapporteur" - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:02] <exec> 08└─And they should be forced to use English why? It's more of an investigator than a reporter.
[22:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Special rapporteur" - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:04] <exec> 08└─It is always better to ask to be informed, instead of revealing one's ignorance as a point of pride. Is "reporter" just a crude English word for rapporteur? Wouldn't be a surprise, since Hoboken is in New Jersey.
[22:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Smooth Move, Editor. - 06Chemists Discover Key Reaction Mechanism Behind the Sodium-Oxygen Battery - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:20] <exec> 08└─It's the 'hurts' bit I didn't get.
[22:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Smooth Move, Editor. - 06Chemists Discover Key Reaction Mechanism Behind the Sodium-Oxygen Battery - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:21] <exec> 08└─Even the tears I shed due to the slow progression of battery technology can't be used to make sodium-oxygen batteries.
[22:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:38] <exec> 08└─see I've a superstitious belief about poacher parts, they bring me luck. I only want the fingers with rings, though.
[22:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Or maybe … - 06How Racial Stereotypes Impact the Way We Communicate - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:41] <exec> 08└─Or maybe for apparently native speakers, people are more afraid to admit they don't understand them. I mean, if, as a native, you don't understand a non-native speaker, this is easily excused by the accent you're not used to. On the other hand, if you don't understand a native speaker, the blame wil...
[22:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:0) 02Re:Egads! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:10] <exec> 08└─fettle: Noun 1. A state of fitness and good health. Verb 1. Remove mold marks or sand from (a casting). I figured I would save some effort.
[22:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:Quad core x86 battery life - 06Setting the Standard for Low-Cost Smart Phones — New ASUS ZenFone 2 - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:28] <exec> 08└─I'm kind of excited about this, to be honest. It's at least double all of my current phone's specs (Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini with CyanogenMod11), for less than what I paid for this one. That being said, I am not an early adopter. About a year from now, when the CyanogenMod teams have made a stable and...
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[22:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What a farce - 06Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:54] <exec> 08└─I wonder how long that kid that swatting a bunch of people is gonna get?
[22:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Drug War - 06Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:55] <exec> 08└─'''' parents of the victims of drug overdoses '''' You can thank the drug war for that. Due to no QA control, they though they was getting high with a normal dose and ended up with a much higher dose.
[22:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Drug War - 06Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:59:56] <exec> 08└─Due to no QA control, they though they was getting high with a normal dose and ended up with a much higher dose.
[22:59:57] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03DNied [3409] 02Re:Drug War - 06Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:59:58] <exec> 08└─Silk Road and other onion marketplaces are supposed to prevent or reduce that with the comments/reviews system.
[22:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Drug War - 06Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison - 2055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:00:00] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Kind of hard to level the entire responsibility for the kid's deaths at his feet, when the government can equally share the blame IMHO. Overdoses happen because it was made illegal, no Q&A during manufacturing, and no true accountability. Of course the government will retort, "But EdIII, it...
[23:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Just Execute Him - 06Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:01] <exec> 08└─Life sentences are inhumane.
[23:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Poor bastard - 06Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:03] <exec> 08└─I've always thought a life sentence a more egregious violation of human rights than the death penalty. I'd kill myself first chance I got. Saves the taxpayers money and it's one less person to enrich the prison industry.
[23:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Poor bastard - 06Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:00:04] <exec> 08└─> I've always thought a life sentence a more egregious violation of human rights than the death penalty. You can revoke a life sentence, you can't revoke an execution. > I'd kill myself first chance I got. Easy to say since you aren't actually facing a life sentence.
[23:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Poor bastard - 06Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:00:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe so, but I wonder what his reasonable odds of expecting that to happen is.
[23:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Poor bastard - 06Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:00:07] <exec> 08└─> Maybe so, but I wonder what his reasonable odds of expecting that to happen is. Pot is on the verge of nationwide legalization. 30 more years and maybe all the bullshit drug laws will have fallen and society will have developed a sense of contrition over the damage done by the drug war. A hell of...
[23:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Zero sympathy. - 06Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:09] <exec> 08└─I find it hard to feel much sympathy for him. He didn't seem to have any problems with what he did as the bitcoins was rollin' in. That said I do wonder what he thought was going to happen. He was running a drug-selling-empire from within the USA. Had he been smarter he would have moved someplace "s...
[23:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Doh! - 06Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:11] <exec> 08└─Forrest rejected arguments that Silk Road had reduced harm among drug users by taking illegal activities off the street. "No drug dealer from the Bronx has ever made this argument to the court. It's a privileged argument and it's an argument made by one of the privileged,"
[23:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doh! - 06Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:00:12] <exec> 08└─And the ODs? No harm no foul?
[23:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ghost [4467] (Score:2, Insightful) 02that really sucks for him - 06Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:14] <exec> 08└─I mean, he was an e-billionaire and never got to enjoy any of it. The shit-head could have moved to a nice foreign country and had a harem of banging hot badonkadonk.
[23:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02On the Internet... So it is different. Somehow. - 06Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:15] <exec> 08└─Seriously. This guy was running a massive drug distribution gang. Among many other criminal activities almost too numerous to list. He got caught, never really pretended to be innocent and was duly convicted and sentenced. Agree or disagree with whether selling drugs should be illegal, it is and peo...
[23:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02Solid state refrigerator? - 06Memory Alloy Bounces Back into Shape 10 Million Times - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:18] <exec> 08└─"Your refrigerator has a compressor. It compresses and expands a liquid that goes through phase transition," Prof Wuttig explained. "So instead of that liquid, you could use this alloy."
[23:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:You will make a full confession. - 06Scientists Figure Out How to Retrieve "Lost" Memories - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:00:29] <exec> 08└─This doesn't say anything about putting in false memories. And there's an obvious use that would probably be on the side of justice - witnesses and victims: "Where did Father O'Malley Congressman Hastert touch you?" or something similar.
[23:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Special rapporteur" - 06U.N. Special Rapporteur: Encryption Necessary for Human Rights - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:27] <exec> 08└─Mon dieu, mon petit imbécile! Vous ne parlez pas français?
[23:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:03] <exec> 08└─Bringing down a charging wino can be dangerous.
[23:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:You can't buy your way out of superstition - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:16] <exec> 08└─Man, the frustrating thing is that I'm in my 30s and I'm too haggard to look half as douchy as he does. I seriously had to buy a ball cap to wear backwards to get people to start wanting to punch me in the face again. Wonder what his secret is.
[23:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:An alternate solution - 06The Quest to Synthesize Rhino Horn - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:34] <exec> 08└─Make the fake horns out of melamine.
[23:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:iOS bug? That's no reason not to rant about ... - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:55] <exec> 08└─I'll bite. Systemd does not manage font rendering. I'm willing to bet money that it never will. Systemd also prevents crashes of any other service from bringing down the OS. So basically systemd is almost entirely unrelated to the subject at hand.
[23:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Insecure.. emotional not software wise? - 06Text String Can Cause iOS to Crash - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:05] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you will be happy to know that I'm a Linux user who dislikes both Apple AND Microsoft. You'll notice that the previous Apple Unicode bug with Arabic text happened at around the same time as the Microsoft bug (2013). My point is that the two large OS corporations seem to be having serious pr...
[23:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I like my version better - 06Planetary Society's Lightsail Software Glitch - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:28] <exec> 08└─You need to draw a little line down the middle of the Apple command key and it will look like a butterfly. It's one of those easter eggs built into every Mac keyboard ;-)
[23:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Absolute Power! - 06META: Editorial Transparency - What do you want? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:04:51] <exec> 08└─That's not funny. That's god damn insightful.
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[23:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What could possibly go wrong? - 06Scientist Develop Effective Brainwashing - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:40] <exec> 08└─This is great! Now everyone can be programmed -- using force if necessary -- to think like everyone else.
[23:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What could possibly go wrong? - 06Scientist Develop Effective Brainwashing - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:59:41] <exec> 08└─I'm ready for FLOSS self-brainwashing
[23:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:What could possibly go wrong? - 06Scientist Develop Effective Brainwashing - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:59:43] <exec> 08└─The frist step, is to admit you have a problem. A Clockwork Orange? Possibly. But this may be more like a nicotine patch, once you realize that you are a racist, and want to stop being a racist, this may give you a way out. If you don't know you are a racist, well, then you are a racist.
[23:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Double Entendre - 06Scientist Develop Effective Brainwashing - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:59:45] <exec> 08└─> once you realize that you are a racist, A black swan event.
[23:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02isn't this the place - 06Scientist Develop Effective Brainwashing - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:46] <exec> 08└─This seems the place for the obligatory "What could Possibly Go Wrong?" question.
[23:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SJW heaven - 06Scientist Develop Effective Brainwashing - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:48] <exec> 08└─Now we can all be reprogrammed when our Dream-Matics get updated with each day's Correct Thinking from Anita Sarkeesian's twitter feed.
[23:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Marketing assholes - 06Scientist Develop Effective Brainwashing - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:49] <exec> 08└─Way to frame it, "fighting racism", eh? You know what Northwestern is known for? Their business school's marketing dept. Guess what they were thinking when they did this study.
[23:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Marketing assholes - 06Scientist Develop Effective Brainwashing - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:59:51] <exec> 08└─I don't know what they were thinking. Maybe we could change it with this sleep therapy thing. In the mean time, I have an overwhelming urge to go to Best Buy and get a Big Mac. Hmmm.