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[00:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The snake oil salesman - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:20] <exec> 08└─Has evolved and his markets more diverse.
[00:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Missing data - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:31] <exec> 08└─144 deaths from at least 1.7 million operations (probably more like 3 million) doesn't sound that bad. What type of operations were the robots involved in (high / low risk of complications)? It's almost impossible to say anything sensible about this.
[00:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02The figures are not "in for you to judge." - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:32] <exec> 08└─and now the figures are in for you to judge.
[00:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''since XP-sp1'' - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:43] <exec> 08└─gewg dont be a child... you can do better.
[00:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MSFT Has Biggest-Ever Quarterly Loss - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah their YOY declines have nothing to do with tablets or phones. Its because you can get 10 year old hardware for FREE!!!!
[00:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Note the wording - 06FCC Near Approval of AT&T-DirecTV Deal - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:04] <exec> 08└─That's one question. Another question is why we need to approve this merger to convince them to expand their markets. The only reason why any of the incumbents are expanding their fiber is because Google scared the crap out of them by doing it themselves in a few areas. Fiber has technically reached...
[00:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Weirdness about submissions in the queue (Coding) - 06NASA Robotic Servicing Demonstrations Continue Onboard the Space Station - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:14] <exec> 08└─Coders: There is no closing tag after "Original Submission". The fortune|QotD gets included in the link. [soylentnews.org] -- gewg_
[00:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:"Modern technology" - 063D Scanning Deciphers Ancient Hebrew Scroll - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:34] <exec> 08└─I don't know, does there? What does SoylentNews get out of it if I go and read the article? If all the pertinent Soylent-y info from an article can be condensed into a nice, concise summary, isn't that okay? In any case, if there should be some motivation to read further, it shouldn't be that the su...
[00:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:At first reading - 06Australian Government Wants to Tell Telcos How to Do Security - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:13] <exec> 08└─Well, AS STATED in the summary, they would only have that power if there were a security issue, so all the telcos need to do is ensure that there aren't ANY security holes, right?
[00:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Roswell - 06Astronauts' Skin Gets Thinner in Space, Scientists Say - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:44] <exec> 08└─So, it makes your skin thinner... and probably greyish (lack of sunlight?), and your body shrinks to compensate for the calcium loss? and makes your eyes bigger (so you can see in the dark (goto line 10: lack of sunlight). Does it make you want to phone home too? Does it make you boldly go where no...
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[01:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score:2, Funny) 02Just woke up - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:26] <exec> 08└─Boy did I read that title wrong. I thought it said "Livestock once again failed..." There's my morning moment of surrealism.
[01:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Really? - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:29] <exec> 08└─At Fort Knox - Do we really need security guards? At the MGM Grand - Do we actually need to lock the vault?
[01:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:30] <exec> 08└─At the hillbilly house - Do we really need birth control, Uncle Dad?
[01:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:They are also maximally wasteful - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:41] <exec> 08└─The FDA is actually irrelevant here. The barrier is higher, but I guarantee it would still be worth entering. Except that the DMCA - not the FDA - has allowed them to lock things up thanks to asinine "digital protections." I'm actually OK with a slightly higher bar to entry, but thanks to the DMCA t...
[01:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:The figures are not "in for you to judge." - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:44] <exec> 08└─That was my thought precisely. "Okay, that sounds 'bad', I guess. What are we comparing it to?"
[01:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's the 'Steve's fault' earnings report - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:02] <exec> 08└─Right. It's like the old joke about writing two letters for your successor. My big issue with this is that Microsoft destroyed Nokia's handset business. How many billions just when "poof" out of existence because of incompetent management? This is how big business operates today. One day, you've got...
[01:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:1) 02Re:Office has always been a main revenue engine - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:04] <exec> 08└─I might give it another try now that the histogram [soylentnews.org] function is supported. At work I use a VD only for Excel and that function is what kept me locked in. Functions returning multiple values (those that require to press F2 select a range then press CTRL+Shift+Enter to enter the formu...
[01:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Office has always been a main revenue engine - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:06] <exec> 08└─My mother still pines for the days of Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect on DOS. But Excel and Word are to some extent PowerPoint are required for modern business. I use a Mac for most of my day-to-day computing, and I had to generate some labels. So, I opened up Pages, Apple's word processing app, and I f...
[01:14:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02Oh..sure, ATT's word is it's bond. - 06FCC Near Approval of AT&T-DirecTV Deal - 331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:17] <exec> 08└─ATT has made lots of money making promises that it waffles out of or blatantly ignores: http://www.dslreports.com [dslreports.com] http://www.dslreports.com
[01:14:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02"Modern technology" - 063D Scanning Deciphers Ancient Hebrew Scroll - 363 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:45] <exec> 08└─It would have been nice - given the reasonably expected inclinations of the usual readership here - to have seen the techniques used described using more words than just "modern technology" in the summary. Spoiler alert: it was done with X-rays. Copying-and-pasting the opening paragraphs of an artic...
[01:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:"Modern technology" - 063D Scanning Deciphers Ancient Hebrew Scroll - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:54] <exec> 08└─Because others have complained in the past that submitters have put words in the mouth of the article or have somehow inaccurately or inappropriately abridged the content. So I try to pick representative paragraphs and maybe throw a conversation starter in at the end. If you have a better way to do...
[01:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Stallman is correct - 06Security Researcher Wants a Free Sofware License That Shuts Hacking Team Out - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:36] <exec> 08└─And notice how I get modded down for daring to point this out. What fucking good is this "freedom" if all you are doing is giving aid to someone working to take yours away? And does nobody here see the fricking irony that the guy that wrote "the right to read" is helping to spread the very police st...
[01:15:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:I usually find Stallman's positions too extreme - 06Security Researcher Wants a Free Sofware License That Shuts Hacking Team Out - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:45] <exec> 08└─Normally, I think Stallman takes a good idea, and applies it in such a broad way that it becomes ludicrous.
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[02:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:31] <exec> 08└─No son, that's what welfare and food stamps are for.
[02:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Doi! - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:32] <exec> 08└─A couple of things: (1) Nothing on the internet is completely safe. The only question is how much effort is required to crack it. (2) The data these guys collect from their customers is primo stuff. That makes them a target worth spending extra resources on cracking because of the high pay-off. (3)...
[02:13:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02They are also maximally wasteful - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 861 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:42] <exec> 08└─daVinci has a DRM element in every attachment. You use five attachments for each abdominal/pelvic operation (four arms + camera). Almost every other item in a surgical suite is aggressively cleaned/autoclaved and reused, but daVinci allows a total of 10 mounts of each attachment before it's scrap. W...
[02:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:The figures are not "in for you to judge." - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:49] <exec> 08└─Uh, wonkey_monkey was the one who posted the insightful comment. Nodding your head in the affirmative isn't insightful.
[02:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02"To cater to the majority American readers" - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:51] <exec> 08└─have their been complaints? the richness of the lingo is one of its most pukka qualities, no?
[02:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ever SUCKED your own PENIS? - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:00] <exec> 08└─No, but if I twist right, the fat rolls perpetually concealing my dick feel what I think a vagina feels like. The sweat lubes it nicely too. Cleaning up is a bit of a problem afterward, but I have a garden hose attachment in the shower that gets most of it out after about 10 minutes or so of angling...
[02:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''since XP-sp1'' - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:04] <exec> 08└─OK, since w95. Boy, that sucked.
[02:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Note the wording - 06FCC Near Approval of AT&T-DirecTV Deal - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:28] <exec> 08└─That's the problem. There's no incentive for the companies to invest in infrastructure unless there's going to be a huge payday in the future. On the merger front, the companies spend the money in order to look good with the regulators, get the deal done, take home the cash, and then drop everything...
[02:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stallman is correct - 06Security Researcher Wants a Free Sofware License That Shuts Hacking Team Out - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:42] <exec> 08└─What fucking good is this "freedom" if all you are doing is giving aid to someone working to take yours away?
[02:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:I usually find Stallman's positions too extreme - 06Security Researcher Wants a Free Sofware License That Shuts Hacking Team Out - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:06] <exec> 08└─Principled people are destroying the world.
[02:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I usually find Stallman's positions too extreme - 06Security Researcher Wants a Free Sofware License That Shuts Hacking Team Out - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:08] <exec> 08└─We have a severe lack of principled people. No (or very few) politicians willing to defend the US constitution or our fundamental liberties if it means that their political careers will be in danger or that they will have less power. Most people are seemingly not principled, either.
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[03:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02blood blow :-p - 06British Man Receives World's First Bionic Eye Implant for Macular Degeneration - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe blood flow?
[03:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They are also maximally wasteful - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:51] <exec> 08└─The FDA and patents are the problems, not the DMCA. You don't need attachment interoperability with an overpriced system, you need a competitor who will create a cheaper and freer version so you don't buy daVinci.
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[04:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Zoom lens? - 06British Man Receives World's First Bionic Eye Implant for Macular Degeneration - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:18] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this guy's eye has a zoom lens like the Six Million Dollar Man. (For you children here, that was a TV series in the 1970's.) On a serious note, this is great news. I know I fellow who has bad eyesight due to albinism. He's a brilliant coder and is able to function well despite his vision...
[04:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Doi! - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:38] <exec> 08└─Didn't the CEO get scammed years ago when he put his SSN on TV? Was that a myth? Did they get a new CEO since then?
[04:13:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02The figures are not "in for you to judge." - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:54] <exec> 08└─and now the figures are in for you to judge.
[04:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:1) 02Peripherals keep Windows relevent - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:25] <exec> 08└─About half of the customers that use our family owned computer shop for service would be able to switch from Windows to Linux if every new consumer printer came with universal Linux drivers. The lack of Linux printer drivers has been the sole reason that the customers that tried Linux, and later bou...
[04:14:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Alfred [4006] 02The dead sea scrools had one made of copper... - 063D Scanning Deciphers Ancient Hebrew Scroll - 229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:57] <exec> 08└─they didn't unroll it, they cut it open. So this kind of scanning is an improvement. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It was mostly copper with some tin, no word on if it was officially RoHS compliant.
[04:15:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:"Modern technology" - 063D Scanning Deciphers Ancient Hebrew Scroll - 435 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:07] <exec> 08└─Because others have complained in the past that submitters have put words in the mouth of the article or have somehow inaccurately or inappropriately abridged the content. So I try to pick representative paragraphs and maybe throw a conversation starter in at the end. If you have a better way to do...
[04:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Deuteronomy is nice - 063D Scanning Deciphers Ancient Hebrew Scroll - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:17] <exec> 08└─>>2679375 Deuteronomy 22 28-29, HEBREW. It does say child. Read Deuteronomy 22 28-29, in hebrew. Notice the word used for girl there, means from infancy till adolecence. #5291 na`arah {nah-ar-aw'} Feminine of H5288; a girl (from infancy to adolescence):\u2014damsel, maid (-en), young (woman). Also i...
[04:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JBanister [5195] (Score:1) 02Re:I usually find Stallman's positions too extreme - 06Security Researcher Wants a Free Sofware License That Shuts Hacking Team Out - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:18] <exec> 08└─Pragmatic considerations are both necessary and beneficial, even for those who do not have fewer principles. No part of the GPL covers code that modifies the act of creation of the parent code through recursive temporal looping, because that situation does not obtain. Using this license to attempt t...
[04:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Battle between the Telcos and the Gov? - 06Australian Government Wants to Tell Telcos How to Do Security - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:47] <exec> 08└─In a sense. They are losing the battle though because the Government essentially has a bottomless pocket. As an example, the government has been trying to get telcos to be non-neutral and apply filtering/censorship. They've been unsuccessful in the past, but the recent round they've been able to get...
[04:17:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gallondr00nk [392] 02Mudslides. - 06 El Niño Intensifying, Could Rival Strongest in Recorded History - 1107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:37] <exec> 08└─There were bad floods here in the UK a couple of years back, and one of the contributing factors was that farmers are no longer obliged to sow cover crops over their fields for the winter. A root system on a bare field not only soaks up far more water than bare soil, preventing run offs causing floo...
[04:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Weapons - 06America's Tweaks to Weapons Trade Pact 'Will Make Web Less Secure' - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:46] <exec> 08└─H bombs were miniaturized without much help from computers, fucking idiot.
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[05:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Alpha Centauri - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:17] <exec> 08└─Requires Unified Field Theory, Industrial Nanorobotics Leads to Quantum Power Enables Ability Cloaking Device
[05:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02wow! - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:18] <exec> 08└─This is very interesting - thanks for posting! I am curious, though - what kind of "real" energy savings can we expect, after the energy required to produce the materials and integrate them into various mechanical devices? Inquiring Minds Want To Know.
[05:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doi! - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:49] <exec> 08└─Why does this information need to be on the internet at all?
[05:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:Value? - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:23] <exec> 08└─The most substantive argument against Windows is that it's proprietary, closed-source, software from a US-based company with close ties to the US government and a demonstrable history of cooperation with the NSA over and above what they are required by law to do.
[05:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:Peripherals keep Windows relevent - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:36] <exec> 08└─The lack of Linux printer drivers has been the sole reason that the customers that tried Linux, and later bought a new printer, went back to Windows.
[05:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:They deserve each other. - 06FCC Near Approval of AT&T-DirecTV Deal - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:46] <exec> 08└─Comcast and Verizon have both thrown their hats in the ring to be Satan's minion.
[05:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Doesn't matter - 06Studies Find Genetic Signature of Native Australians in the Americas - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:45] <exec> 08└─Tony Abbot, and most Aussie politicians from the 2 major camps (sounds like the U.S. doesn't it?), will ask "How much?" if an American politician says "Get bent!".
[05:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score:1) 02Some of the best lyrics of all time: - 06 For “smaller” Eruptions, Yellowstone Can Wake Up Quickly - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:20] <exec> 08└─Burning through the forest, where red hot lava flow, Rolls down the island's body, and into the ocean below! When it meets the cool cool water, here's your main sludge of living rich Magma flowing into a subaqueous environment produces pillar lava Hydrostatic pressure of sea water tends to inhib...
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[06:13:21] <exec> 08└─Perfect world: Motors. Realistic world: Never hear of it again.
[06:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score:2) 02Re:wow! - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:23] <exec> 08└─Motors, bearings, U and CV joints. Even if they all go to 0 loss tires are still friction on purpose. That can never be fixed without destroying the cars usefulness. Flying is simply too inefficient.
[06:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:wow! - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:24] <exec> 08└─Isn't it obvious? Waterslides!
[06:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03carguy [568] (Score:2) 02Re:wow! - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:26] <exec> 08└─Isn't it obvious? Waterslides!
[06:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"To cater to the majority American readers" - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:13] <exec> 08└─As an American, even after reading the original PDF--which came from an American study--I'm still wondering what exactly has been changed. The only thing confusing here is that single line in the summary.
[06:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Transition year - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:35] <exec> 08└─I think its all gonna depend on how seamless they can pull off the integration. One thing that has irritated folks for ages at the shop is how many services they have to deal with and hoops they have to jump to get what they want done. if MSFT can have it set up so you just log in to your Windows 10...
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[07:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02this is news? - 06Information Can be Rescued From a Black Hole - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:15] <exec> 08└─Of course Bob's genetic information will come out of Alice's back hole as soon as she takes a dump after anal.
[07:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02Information wants to be free! - 06Information Can be Rescued From a Black Hole - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:16] <exec> 08└─Viva la revolu..... la informacion!
[07:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If you think AMD is bad - 06British Man Receives World's First Bionic Eye Implant for Macular Degeneration - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:38] <exec> 08└─Wait till you hear of INTEL!
[07:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The snake oil salesman - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:55] <exec> 08└─Haha, exactly! It's somewhat hard to feel sorry for the suckers they fleeced... How the hell do you think you're info is more protected if you spread it wider? On the other hand somebody should be looking for some lovely time behind bars for a fraud like this.
[07:13:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Doi! - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 469 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:00] <exec> 08└─A couple of things: (1) Nothing on the internet is completely safe. The only question is how much effort is required to crack it. (2) The data these guys collect from their customers is primo stuff. That makes them a target worth spending extra resources on cracking because of the high pay-off. (3)...
[07:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:Value? - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 3931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:37] <exec> 08└─If you truly believe what you are selling? Then steeep right up and take the Hairyfeet Challenge, celebrating 8 years of watching Linux puke on its own drivers and die hard! Take ANY mainstream consumer oriented (not LTS, because even Ubuntu advises against mainstream users using LTS) from FIVE year...
[07:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Windows 10 looking good - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:39] <exec> 08└─I agree: I'm occasionally playing around with Windows 10 in a VM, and it looks pretty good. Still has the 2-D disease, but that's not a technical problem. That's just designers trying to keep themselves employed. I think the only thing I dislike is the unified search. If I just want to find a locall...
[07:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windows 10 looking good - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:41] <exec> 08└─"I'm occasionally playing around with Windows 10 in a VM" sure. when all else fails, Plan9.
[07:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Received Wisdom - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:55] <exec> 08└─"No one ever got fired, or lost money, from going with Microsoft." Just glad I moved my 24 Billion from MSFT to LINUX stocks. We can always trust the Market to sort these things out, unless it is riddled with monopolies, unethical business practices, collusion with covert agencies, or Micro$oft. Y...
[07:15:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02Note the wording - 06FCC Near Approval of AT&T-DirecTV Deal - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:06] <exec> 08└─If the conditions are approved by my colleagues, 12.5 million customer locations will have access to a competitive high-speed fiber connection.
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[08:13:48] <exec> 08└─Ask and ye shall receive: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[08:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Mountains~ - 06Image: NASA'S New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto's 'Heart' - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:57] <exec> 08└─Sharpening my crampons! But the real question is what mechanism makes mountains on Pluto? Plate techtonics? Tidal heating? Does Pluto have a molten core? OMG, the possibilities!
[08:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mountains~ - 06Image: NASA'S New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto's 'Heart' - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:59] <exec> 08└─I think the mountains are less interesting than the albedo and craters. Notice how there are two types of region : dark and light. The light regions have no craters while multiple are in the dark. However a few craters seem to be filling in with the light material or losing the dark material from th...
[08:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:They are also maximally wasteful - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:28] <exec> 08└─You do l know that a superbug has been floating around recently due to improperly sanitized yet complicated machinery, right? If you're going to bitch about disposable hardware due to DRM, this isn't the topic to do it in.
[08:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hankwang [100] (Score:2) 02Re:Value? - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:54] <exec> 08└─You conveniently left out that Ubuntu recommends non-LTS because you're supposed to update every half year. Your challenge would be like trying to run Windows XP SP1 without further updates. This is not to say that I haven't had my share of annoyances with Linux on new laptops, but it usuallly wasn'...
[08:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stallman is correct - 06Security Researcher Wants a Free Sofware License That Shuts Hacking Team Out - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:42] <exec> 08└─And does nobody here see the fricking irony that the guy that wrote "the right to read" is helping to spread the very police state in his story by refusing to do anything about it?
[08:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:I usually find Stallman's positions too extreme - 06Security Researcher Wants a Free Sofware License That Shuts Hacking Team Out - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:17:06] <exec> 08└─In general the “hanging on tightly” part becomes the core problem¹, extremely exaggerated it is as if once they've done “1 + 1 = 2” they decide all arithmetical questions must be “1 + 1” and thus always answer “2” or compare any actual or given result with “2” :D ¹ And it appli...
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[09:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Not amused. - 06Boa Constrictors' Lethal Secret Revealed - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:17] <exec> 08└─Still cruel to run such experiments. For what? An interesting factoid? It doesn't even have a medical application.
[09:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not amused. - 06Boa Constrictors' Lethal Secret Revealed - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:18] <exec> 08└─Now we know the best person to send into a boa infested area is one of those monks with extremely slow and weak heartbeats.
[09:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Doesn't sound practical - 06Information Can be Rescued From a Black Hole - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:28] <exec> 08└─This procedure requires 1) Measuring the spin of a blackhole along different axes until total projected anglular momentum is zero. 2) Dropping a single qubit into a black hole. 3) Knowing when this particle has resulted in the two hawking photons so that spin state of the black hole can be measured...
[09:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alice in quantum gravity wonderland - 06Information Can be Rescued From a Black Hole - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:31] <exec> 08└─Alice followed the quantum rabbit into the black hole.
[09:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Alpha Centauri - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:40] <exec> 08└─Burma Shave? Or: worst Haiku ever.
[09:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wow! - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:46] <exec> 08└─And more importantly, when. I bet the answer is "it's 20 years away". (eternally) So by the time we get fusion energy, flying cars, computers that don't hang...
[09:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02SuperGlide! - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:47] <exec> 08└─Of course, zero friction means zero sensation. Just saying.
[09:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Faster Code - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:49] <exec> 08└─by overcoming a performance bottleneck that doubled the speed of the team's code.
[09:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Zoom lens? - 06British Man Receives World's First Bionic Eye Implant for Macular Degeneration - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:58] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this guy's eye has a zoom lens like the Six Million Dollar Man.
[09:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The figures are not "in for you to judge." - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:42] <exec> 08└─i think someone is out to bug you :)
[09:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"To cater to the majority American readers" - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:45] <exec> 08└─Yes there have been. Apparently The Register is incomprehensible to USians... indeed two countries separated by their common language...
[09:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Value? - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:06] <exec> 08└─The Hairyfeet suck your own challenge? No thank you, in fact, no "thank you", just "NO!" How long (pun intended) do we have to endure the hairypenis challenge? Will not it sumday subside, like a pimple on the arse of humanity that is not cancerous? Or will it endure in the face of billion dollar los...
[09:15:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02Re:Peripherals keep Windows relevent - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:21] <exec> 08└─The lack of Linux printer drivers has been the sole reason that the customers that tried Linux, and later bought a new printer, went back to Windows.
[09:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Still cheaper - 06NASA Robotic Servicing Demonstrations Continue Onboard the Space Station - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but still cheaper than a house-call, if you are a sick satellite. The question will be what about entities places at LaGrange points, or further out? Will repair still be cheaper than replacement? Right now, it seems it is cheaper to just replace a whole Galaxy and move up to the next Samsun...
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[10:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02it should be more like hololens - 06Google Glass 'Enterprise Edition': Foldable, More Rugged and Water-Resistant - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:37] <exec> 08└─Peripheral display sucks.
[10:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Memo to Google: - 06Google Glass 'Enterprise Edition': Foldable, More Rugged and Water-Resistant - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:38] <exec> 08└─Does it not occur to you that unlike the the Asian factories where you make your stuff, most American and European manufacturing plants require primary eye protection on the shop floor, i.e. safety glasses with side shields. How much political grease will it take to get the ANSI Z87 or Directive 89/...
[10:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not amused. - 06Boa Constrictors' Lethal Secret Revealed - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:47] <exec> 08└─The Rebel Base is guarded by boa constrictors. Emperor Omaba recruits Those Monks to infiltrate the boa infested area. But as it turns out Those Monks are extreme pacifists who refuse to serve evil Emperor Omaba. Rebels win for a Nude Republic!
[10:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wow! - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:13] <exec> 08└─The reason we don't have flying cars is not that we couldn't build them. All the needed technology exists. Indeed, even prototypes have been demonstrated. If they were economically viable, we could start production in a short time frame. However they are simply not economically viable. Also the reas...
[10:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:1) 02Re:It's the 'Steve's fault' earnings report - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:45] <exec> 08└─That's a little unfair, given that he passed away four years ago [wikipedia.org]. Oh, is that not what you meant?
[10:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:Peripherals keep Windows relevent - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:53] <exec> 08└─ay my car's running a bit rough, so I buy some new spark plugs. I get them home but they don't fit in the holes. So I take the car back to the dealership and tell the salesman: "I'd like a car that runs with these spark plugs!" Welcome to the world of the Windows user!
[10:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02So.. where are the Nokia patents now? - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:57] <exec> 08└─Nokia invented a large number of basic stuff about mobile phones. They owned a large amount of basic patents. In september 2013, the Elop-controlled hollowed-out husk of Nokia sold most of its business directly to Microsoft, but not these valuable patents. Microsoft only licensed those, for 1.65 bil...
[10:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Deuteronomy is nice - 063D Scanning Deciphers Ancient Hebrew Scroll - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:50] <exec> 08└─How is this a troll. Fucking SJWs ignore what they even mention in the summary.
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[11:13:51] <exec> 08└─I don't think the enterprise version will be ad supported. Companies are used to pay for their stuff.
[11:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Memo to Google: - 06Google Glass 'Enterprise Edition': Foldable, More Rugged and Water-Resistant - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:52] <exec> 08└─These glasses would be quite useful in a pharmaceutical manufacture setting where you strictly follow procedures while doing tasks, and record a lot of results in an Electronic Batch Record. Often you cannot have paper in these areas (they shed particles) and you will have to work out of sight of yo...
[11:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Not amused. - 06Boa Constrictors' Lethal Secret Revealed - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:03] <exec> 08└─Use the horse, Luke. Use the horse.
[11:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Quantum States - 06Information Can be Rescued From a Black Hole - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:17] <exec> 08└─How can we be sure Bob and Alice aren't also Ted and Carol?
[11:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wow! - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:33] <exec> 08└─There's another factor to include in the flying cars side of things: humans have enough trouble dealing with the physics of surface bound vehicles, imagine the boy racers zipping around in the sky....
[11:15:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02Re:They are also maximally wasteful - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:26] <exec> 08└─The FDA is actually irrelevant here. The barrier is higher, but I guarantee it would still be worth entering. Except that the DMCA - not the FDA - has allowed them to lock things up thanks to asinine "digital protections." I'm actually OK with a slightly higher bar to entry, but thanks to the DMCA t...
[11:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Value? - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:57] <exec> 08└─and STILL no thank you. I know you support windows for a living, but you need to stop worshipping it: MS fed crap to its' users until they actually had challengers. Then they were forced to spend money and time on fixing up the 'blue balls of death', etc. I bet you that if linux had the driver suppo...
[11:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:We've seen this far to often - 06Security Researcher Wants a Free Sofware License That Shuts Hacking Team Out - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:18:39] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that calling Breathalyzers' output "Blood Alcohol Level" is a bold-faced lie. It's your Breath Alcohol Level. I'd like to see someone explain how they can get a number out of your blood without taking any of it.
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[12:13:32] <exec> 08└─if i had the time (Steam for the win! on linux!), but i'd be jumping in and out and not really be playable, but i guess then i'd be an easy target to take over, lol.
[12:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Suggestion for next time - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:33] <exec> 08└─After this one, I'd love to see the target game being my beloved Warzone 2100 [wz2100.net]. I can grind you all into cat food, for all the world to see :^D
[12:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02If you want to play a sim.. - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:35] <exec> 08└─Play War thunder, the image of a wall of Soviet and German and American tanks rolling through Poland with a giant S for Soylent would be pretty epic. Also its 100% free so everybody could get in if they wanted without having to shell out $$ for a game that many probably wouldn't like, after all hist...
[12:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:1) 02Enjoyed last time. - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:36] <exec> 08└─Enjoyed last time, even if I could only watch for a few hours (And shout about the things you'd forgotten in nethack!) I'd be happy to stream a nethack game at the same time (Though I'm on UK time) Any soylents playing Elite Dangerous? We would do some wing fun. Either way, I should be around to joi...
[12:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02My Presence - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:38] <exec> 08└─... will be absent again this go-round. If it were just fishing, I'd get it done early and make a late appearance but I got a friend coming in from out of town as well. Also, how the hell did someone make an age of sail game without me hearing about it?! I pride myself on having fired cannons at eve...
[12:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Re:Memo to Google: - 06Google Glass 'Enterprise Edition': Foldable, More Rugged and Water-Resistant - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:49] <exec> 08└─"Fitting them with side shields is a trivial matter." Having also worked in pharmachem, I agree the data and procedural display/collection might be nice, pending a cost/benefit analysis and (ugh!) cGMP validation. Generally speaking, however, the in-process data collection I worked with (fill volume...
[12:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mountains~ - 06Image: NASA'S New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto's 'Heart' - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:52] <exec> 08└─Indeed, an interesting question. But where would the molten core come from? - Pluto and and Charon are tidally locked, no tidal heating there. And no other big body around for tides either - remnant heat from formation also sounds bloody unlikely, considering Pluto's size and the surface temperature...
[12:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:They are also maximally wasteful - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:24] <exec> 08└─I got a chance to fool around with a DaVinci machine about ten years ago, and also to disassemble on of the hand-like attachments. These things are made to go in through a 10mm opening, so they are built really small, and the way they work is to run a bunch of very thin cables around some tiny pulle...
[12:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Value? - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:52] <exec> 08└─Then go right ahead and update every half year (LOL, please do!) because it will just shit on its own drivers faster because as I have demonstrably proved with the Hairyfeet challenge Torvalds driver model DOES NOT WORK. Tell me friend, how many others use his "proven" model? Answer ZERO, not even B...
[12:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Stallman is correct - 06Security Researcher Wants a Free Sofware License That Shuts Hacking Team Out - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:50] <exec> 08└─That's the problem with rules: The have to be written in letters, not good intentions.
[12:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Stallman is correct - 06Security Researcher Wants a Free Sofware License That Shuts Hacking Team Out - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:54] <exec> 08└─The point is a software license isn't a magic wand to wield. It has a relatively tightly defined jurisdiction, it's limited by the scope of the copyright law.
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[13:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:2) 02Would love to, but will be unavailble - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:31] <exec> 08└─Would love to participate, but this weekend I am not home. Evenif I were at home, something like nethack or other more accessible game would be preferrable. Oh well.
[13:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Being busy - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:32] <exec> 08└─Being busy, I will probably not be able to participate in the event, and I would probably schoose not to participate from the fear of liking it too much. That being said, I think that, since things are stable, it would probably make sense to reach out to famous/important/great people and make some I...
[13:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02BBQ with food - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:34] <exec> 08└─It would be great to have a real BBQ once we have enough people on this site.
[13:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not amused. - 06Boa Constrictors' Lethal Secret Revealed - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:58] <exec> 08└─Why is it cruel to measure the results whilst feeding an animal? Would it be more cruel to kill all constrictors for it is they that require the act to live.
[13:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not amused. - 06Boa Constrictors' Lethal Secret Revealed - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:00] <exec> 08└─Do republicans actually pay you to say things like that with Bernie Sanders in your sig?
[13:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:SuperGlide! - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:30] <exec> 08└─That's the best us Windows users can hope for.
[13:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"To cater to the majority American readers" - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:31] <exec> 08└─A team of university eggheads have counted up the number of medical cockups in America reported to the US Food and Drug Administration
[13:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Re: "To cater to the majority American readers" - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:32] <exec> 08└─El Reg is completely fair, though — it never gives anyone any respect... And considering the confusion, parochialism, and occasional downright xenophobia that we non-USAnians have to plough through when reading this site (even though it's better than many), I find it impossible to come up with muc...
[13:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Value? - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 1454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:57] <exec> 08└─Over the weekend, I transplanted a hard drive from a 7 year old PC into a brand new one (the cheapest decent one available at Fry's) and then just turned it on. It came right up. I didn't need the CLI or the GUI to do that. It didn't even call me a thief and make me beg a random drone over the phone...
[13:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Value? - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:01] <exec> 08└─Is it yet possible to transplant a hard drive with Windows on it into a new computer without it screeching that you're a dirty thief?
[13:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Peripherals keep Windows relevent - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:17] <exec> 08└─Funny, I grabbed a Samsung wireless printer (on sale for $100) from Office Depot and Linux was able to use it right away. Didn't need a driver disk or anything.
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[14:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:22] <exec> 08└─Don't you in the USA have something called reckless endangerment [ct.gov]? "a person is guilty of reckless endangerment in the first degree when, with extreme indifference to human life, (he/she) recklessly engages in conduct which creates a risk of serious physical injury to another person."
[14:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah but we like to pretend anything and everything is moral and legal as long as there's not a specific precedent that says we can't. Well, until we get caught. Then "it's an outrage" and "the system is disgusting" and "it's so broken"
[14:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:27] <exec> 08└─Who is he endangering? The trees? Nothing illegal about shooting a gun in a secluded wooded area as long as you aren't trespassing, and as far as the drone goes? Frankly any terrorist would be more likely to simply build a bomb onto the thing than try to shoot a handgun with one, too hard to aim and...
[14:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:28] <exec> 08└─First: Guns don't go off by themselves. The trigger has to be pulled. So in this case, it would only be reckless endangerment if loss of signal would cause the drone's mechanism to pull the trigger (which would be a stupid design, but I wouldn't put it past an 18-year-old to miss something in the co...
[14:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:31] <exec> 08└─It has to be proven that the person operated the vehicle in a reckless manner. If this video was shot in an area where it is safe to discharge firearms then there is nothing reckless about the vehicle. Scary? Sure is. But there is plenty more scary stuff out there. What is happening here is a culmin...
[14:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:32] <exec> 08└─If people were really thinking about the children, there wouldn't be so many "think of the children" panics. They are detrimental to society.
[14:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Approved - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:34] <exec> 08└─This is an excellent way to get students interested in mathematics, science, and engineering.
[14:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score:3, Insightful) 02"What If..." - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:35] <exec> 08└─What if a bunch of reckless lawmakers jump to conclusions about all the possible horrors that could come from something they completely fail to understand and pass dozens of over-broad laws further eroding personal freedoms and chopping off a budding branch of technological innovation before it has...
[14:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"What If..." - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:37] <exec> 08└─There are no laws against getting into an accident, but there are laws that forbid behavior which leads to accidents. The reason is simple: There are reckless people. That's why "use your head" isn't enough. These people may dot all of their I's and cross their T's, but they do it to cover their ass...
[14:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:39] <exec> 08└─Filming women on the beach and arming toys with live weapons doesn't sound like he gives a fuck about consequences.
[14:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:40] <exec> 08└─doesn't sound like he gives a fuck about consequences
[14:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03githaron [581] (Score:2) 02What;s Wrong With This? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:43] <exec> 08└─I really don't understand everyone's problem with this. Someone build a quadrocopter that fires bullets. So what? It sounds like a cool project to me. It is not like this drone was being flown around a populated area. It is not like the drone is being used to attack people. It is sad that people are...
[14:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Enjoyed last time. - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:47] <exec> 08└─This is why I still say we need a "gamers corner" because there are sooo many games today that are just more fun when you team up with others but I'm sure many are like me and don't know anybody into the particular games I enjoy. With a gamers corner we could all post the games we are playing, see i...
[14:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Location - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:52] <exec> 08└─If you're not too creeped out, where are you? I've been looking for an excuse for a long motorcycle ride and to see if they'll still let me into the US.
[14:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02I may attend - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:54] <exec> 08└─I only have one question. WTF is an eBBQ?
[14:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:I may attend - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:55] <exec> 08└─Its when a bunch of geeks get together and run Prime95 on their overclocked PC's.
[14:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Sounds fun - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:58] <exec> 08└─I would be up for this idea. Don't have europa universalis or steam though. Isn't there a similar cross-platform game that's free to play? I've seen the name mentioned here a few times but can't recall it at the moment (I have been on console games the past decade).
[14:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not amused. - 06Boa Constrictors' Lethal Secret Revealed - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:21] <exec> 08└─I still dont understand why people think they make good pets. You usually see phony tough guy types and other macho twats with one.
[14:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't sound practical - 06Information Can be Rescued From a Black Hole - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:32] <exec> 08└─If there is only one bit[of info] in the black hole and you put it there. Do you need to rescue it? Or can you can just recreate it? I know I am missing the point, but I fear that everyone else is too.
[14:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't sound practical - 06Information Can be Rescued From a Black Hole - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:33] <exec> 08└─I fear you haven't exactly clarified anything.
[14:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Alice in quantum gravity wonderland - 06Information Can be Rescued From a Black Hole - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:35] <exec> 08└─Here you go! [amazon.com]
[14:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:wow! - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:49] <exec> 08└─The efficiency of flight goes up greatly when the vehicle is coated with a material that eliminates friction.
[14:14:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03carguy [568] 02Re:wow! - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 30 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:52] <exec> 08└─Isn't it obvious? Waterslides!
[14:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02also WCG - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:58] <exec> 08└─http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=436&recruiterId=795365&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=C4CWPaper_20150527 [worldcommunitygrid.org] forgot about this :D participated in some simulation of nanfilters for water filtering. the simulations did give result =)
[14:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:blood blow :-p - 06British Man Receives World's First Bionic Eye Implant for Macular Degeneration - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:07] <exec> 08└─Don't judge my fetishes!
[14:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Zoom lens? - 06British Man Receives World's First Bionic Eye Implant for Macular Degeneration - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:12] <exec> 08└─> No reason he couldn't. Except that zoom is useless on a 20x12 camera that appears to downsample to 10x6.
[14:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Just woke up - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:32] <exec> 08└─That's actually a very good way to keep private information away from prying eyes: Feed it to a goat.
[14:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sce7mjm [809] (Score:1) 02Re:They are also maximally wasteful - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:54] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I did some work which for a medical device which involved various probes and canulars all attached to a box of electronics. The competitors all did the same thing in almost the same way, except the probes and their connections differed to the machine. All requiring different methods of manuf...
[14:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Value? - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 1481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:27] <exec> 08└─Are you REALLY so dense? I WANT Linux to pass, I WANT Linux to get its collective shit together, you think I LIKE paying out the ass for OEM copies of Windows? But the fact of the matter is that the Linux driver model is broken which the challenge proves beyond a shadow of a single doubt. Tell me fr...
[14:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eunuchswear [525] (Score:1) 02Re:We've seen this far to often - 06Security Researcher Wants a Free Sofware License That Shuts Hacking Team Out - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:19:03] <exec> 08└─He made her do the full test.
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[15:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:42] <exec> 08└─Some damned fools believe it is reckless endagerment to own a weapon. It isn't reckless endangerment unless and until the weapon is USED FOR SOMETHING ILEGAL! In this case, private drone with a private weapon ON PRIVATE PROPERTY. The Castle Doctrine applies here. Now, if the kid flies that gun down...
[15:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:44] <exec> 08└─Eh, if owning an unlocked gun in a house with a child is considered more of a 2nd amendment issue than a reckless endangerment issue, I can't see how this is any worse. We're a fucked up country, but we have a legally consistent manner of being fucked up.
[15:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:45] <exec> 08└─Darwin. Still working from beyond the grave to ensure that the unfit don't live long enough to breed. A LOT of kids are smart enough to understant that if they screw with Daddy's gun, bad things will happen. Children as young as two and three can understand that. Four, five, and six? Most certainly....
[15:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:47] <exec> 08└─Fuck "Darwin" as an excuse for anything that kills people. I can easily understand it as a joke, but when it comes to the actual influence of death rates on human evolution in the first world, its influence is nil. And at some level, it's the naturalistic fallacy taken to a stupid extreme. I'm just...
[15:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:"What If..." - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:49] <exec> 08└─Seems to me many of those reckless people have badges and fly around in cruisers, yet pickpocket anyone who dares disregard the laws they disregard every day.
[15:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:"What If..." - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:51] <exec> 08└─The police are advocates of our culture of fear because that fear means more tax dollars and power for them.
[15:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:54] <exec> 08└─anyone who needs that probably deserves the odd beating
[15:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:55] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a perfectly normal kid to me. And, I can just picture this thing escalating. Gubberming tells the kid, "No guns on drones!" So - he builds a nice laser to mount on his drone. Gubbermint hears about the laser, and says, "Hey kid - no lasers on drones either!" Kid goes home, and starts stu...
[15:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:57] <exec> 08└─being an asshole is not against the law
[15:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:59] <exec> 08└─There would have to be a lot more prisons if it were.
[15:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:01] <exec> 08└─At 18, I'm pretty sure everyone is an asshole.
[15:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What;s Wrong With This? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:03] <exec> 08└─My problem isn't with the armed drone, it's with the idiot who thought that would be a good thing to make (and apparently you, because you too think it's "a cool project".) People like you are why we can't have nice things. Arming a drone is so obviously wrong that if there isn't a law against it no...
[15:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:What;s Wrong With This? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:04] <exec> 08└─There is nothing "obviously wrong" about this project at all. "Obviously wrong" would mean that there is intent to harm someone or a reckless endangerment of other people. And if you were thinking at all, you'd realize that handguns are farm more dangerous in a hand than on a drone. The only thing "...
[15:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What;s Wrong With This? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 1473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:06] <exec> 08└─I should have qualified: It's obvious to anyone who is not an asshole. This "project" has consequences that go beyond the range of the gun that was mounted on that toy, so where that gun was fired is beside the point. One obvious consequence is that some politician will use this idiocy to ban someth...
[15:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maestroX [5703] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:What;s Wrong With This? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:07] <exec> 08└─just wait until they are loaded with anvils
[15:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:What;s Wrong With This? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:09] <exec> 08└─I think the Road Runner will be safe from this.
[15:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:What;s Wrong With This? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:11] <exec> 08└─The problem is that it further breaks the 2nd amendment. The 2nd amendment was written with certain assumptions in mind. Those assumptions being that there was no standing army, basically no full time law enforcement, that nearly all adults would own one and that you'd only be able to shoot one or m...
[15:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What;s Wrong With This? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:13] <exec> 08└─Absolutely NONE of those "assumptions" you mention were even contemplated by the Second amendment proponents. Not one. There were several drafts, and various letters and newspaper articles discussing the reasons for a second amendment. Some drafts actually mentioned that the people needed to be arme...
[15:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Deaths - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:15] <exec> 08└─The US government has killed a few thousand people with drones. This guy is just trying to keep civilians up with the military.
[15:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Re:BBQ with food - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:24] <exec> 08└─I agree. I've wanted to do something like regional Soylent Meetups since forever. It's hard being only 5K strong and geographically disbursed though. Still though, I wonder if we have some pockets of concentration that might make it feasible in a couple spots. How's the Greater Seattle Area look for...
[15:14:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Re:I may attend - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:27] <exec> 08└─Its when a bunch of geeks get together and run Prime95 on their overclocked PC's.
[15:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03sparky [5496] (Score:1) 02Re:Memo to Google: - 06Google Glass 'Enterprise Edition': Foldable, More Rugged and Water-Resistant - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:41] <exec> 08└─It may lead to some interesting cultural shifts within the factory. Managers would love to have access to a complete video record of their employees work habits and performance (in real time even!) And when your workmanship mistake on the assembly line leads to major catastrophe in the field, future...
[15:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Faster Code - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:31] <exec> 08└─Could be, or it could be that scientists are terrible at writing optimized code. From my experience, it's usually the latter.
[15:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Scrolls? - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:33] <exec> 08└─What happens to the graphene scrolls? Can they fall out or get pushed out of the surfaces or is there something that makes them stay stuck to the surfaces? How long does it take for graphene to wear out? How does it compare to this: https://www.fraunhofer.de
[15:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:1) 02Reduction of friction? - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:35] <exec> 08└─"Nearly one-third of every fuel tank is spent overcoming friction in automobiles" I'm sure that most of that friction is coming from the *road*, that thing that you REALLY want friction against.
[15:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Deuteronomy is nice - 063D Scanning Deciphers Ancient Hebrew Scroll - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:26] <exec> 08└─I suspect it is marked as a Troll because no-one here is remotely interested in your personal interpretation of what you believe the bible says, or why you think it justifies your predilection to paedophilia.
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[16:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't expect those to come to your desktop soon - 06Molecule-Sized Transistors - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:36] <exec> 08└─It's nice that you can do it in a laboratory. However, it's a completely different problem to reliably create a circuit containing billions of those, in a process suitable for mass production. Which doesn't mean it may not happen one day. But it means that there's a lot of further research and devel...
[16:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:4, Touché) 02Re:Don't expect those to come to your desktop soon - 06Molecule-Sized Transistors - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:38] <exec> 08└─However, it's a completely different problem to reliably create a circuit containing billions of those, in a process suitable for mass production.
[16:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:3, Interesting) 0212 is big - 06Molecule-Sized Transistors - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:40] <exec> 08└─5 years ago they built them out of 7 atoms http://www.physorg.com [physorg.com]
[16:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:12 is big - 06Molecule-Sized Transistors - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but being aussies, they put those 7 atoms upside down.
[16:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:52] <exec> 08└─Plus, arresting someone is a lot of paperwork. That's why there are more shootings by the police these days - it's actually less paperwork for the officer.
[16:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:54] <exec> 08└─Is he aiming the gun through the shitty video feed most drones have?
[16:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:56] <exec> 08└─So in this case, it would only be reckless endangerment if loss of signal would cause the drone's mechanism to pull the trigger
[16:13:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 542 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:59] <exec> 08└─It has to be proven that the person operated the vehicle in a reckless manner. If this video was shot in an area where it is safe to discharge firearms then there is nothing reckless about the vehicle. Scary? Sure is. But there is plenty more scary stuff out there. What is happening here is a culmin...
[16:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:00] <exec> 08└─They may be detrimental to society but not the children. Only adults worry about that stuff. The kids are too busy <verb the latest fad here> to notice or to care.
[16:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:02] <exec> 08└─In this case, private drone with a private weapon ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.
[16:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:03] <exec> 08└─Even in very rural areas, firing blindly into the forest is considered reckless. I believe that the laws nationwide are in agreement that a hunter MUST NOT shoot blindly at sounds, because so many hunters have been killed in exactly that fashion. MOST hunters have pretty good ethics about shooting i...
[16:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:06] <exec> 08└─Just remember that every victim of a gun, accidental or not, creates more 'damned fools' that question your ability to responsibly own a weapon.
[16:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not joking. You've surely seen the email thing that circulates now and then. When we were kids, we drank from a garden hose, we rode bikes without helmets, we rode in the back seats of cars with no seat belts, we got Bee-Bee guns for our x birthday, and a .22 rifle for our y birthday - on and on...
[16:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:09] <exec> 08└─And I'm saying your ideology is bone headed. Mistaking it for a joke was explicitly not what I was doing there. Social Darwinism does not work. Not on stupid-as-fuck personal mistakes, not on economics, not for getting rid of kinds of people you don't like. At best, we embrace your ideology as a fun...
[16:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:11] <exec> 08└─Today's common "wisdom" says that none of us should have survived chidhood, but we managed.
[16:14:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pendorbound [2688] 02"What If..." - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 1058 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:12] <exec> 08└─What if a bunch of reckless lawmakers jump to conclusions about all the possible horrors that could come from something they completely fail to understand and pass dozens of over-broad laws further eroding personal freedoms and chopping off a budding branch of technological innovation before it has...
[16:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"What If..." - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:17] <exec> 08└─I don't get the children thing at all. Wasn't there a story about some baby that got mama's gun in a supermarket and shot her with it? I mean, if your nation loves guns and is allowing them in supermarkets and stuff, I wouldn't worry to much about a gun that's attached to a drone.
[16:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:20] <exec> 08└─Like the pope, or heads of state, or military personnel. Yeah fuck people that take measures to keep themselves safe.
[16:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:24] <exec> 08└─As long as it is a public beach, I don't see what's wrong with the filming. If you don't want to be seen in bathing clothes, don't go to a public beach in bathing clothes. It the place was not public, then of course it was an invasion of privacy.
[16:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:26] <exec> 08└─As long as it is a public beach, I don't see what's wrong with the filming.
[16:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:28] <exec> 08└─Calling random people assholes for not conforming to your very precise and very personal value system isn't acceptable behavior either. Ironic really.
[16:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:30] <exec> 08└─Neither is beating up an asshole who films women on the beach, but it happens for a reason.
[16:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:1) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:31] <exec> 08└─It's not illegal to be an asshole, of any size.
[16:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:What;s Wrong With This? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:37] <exec> 08└─They didn't write those things down because they didn't need to write them. They also didn't bother to mention opposable thumbs or using your eyes to aim. Likewise, no special rules for space or what happens during an alien invasion either. They didn't debate those because it was a given that blind...
[16:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:What;s Wrong With This? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:39] <exec> 08└─> All understood that arms meant equipment ON PAR with then current military standard issue weaponry. The US has a nuke for every 100 or 200 military personnel. Every high-rise in the country should have a nuke launcher, just to be on par.
[16:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:I would - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I have EU4, and would love to hop on there (although I would be an easy target also), but my wife has has me committed for Friday night for a few months now... :(
[16:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:I would - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:52] <exec> 08└─The hotjoin is probably the biggest reason I would be wary of using EU4 for the BBQ. I have 600 hours and really enjoy it, but when playing multiplayer with my friends (6) we always seem to run into hickups with getting the game running, hotjoining, out of sync errors. A suggestion that my friends r...
[16:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:I would - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:54] <exec> 08└─I have had similar problems with CK2 (which I'm not a huge fan of), but I thought EUIVs netcode was less garbage. Maybe I'm better off single player with running commentary.
[16:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:I would - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:56] <exec> 08└─Well, depending on the popularity, you can jump in at later points of the game, the AI will control everything not human controlled, and is semi-decent. Part of me is tempted to move this onto the weekend as Friday seems like its a bad day for a lot ...
[16:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:BBQ with food - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:03] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy to host a backyard fire/bbq in Calgary. I'd even supply all the food. Just bring your own beer. -- Snow
[16:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Speling Eror - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:08] <exec> 08└─The game's name is Europa Universalis IV.
[16:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Popeidol [35] (Score:2) 02alas - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:10] <exec> 08└─It's very tempting, since I recently upgraded to a low-end-of-current video card, have been trying steam on linux and was thinking about buying Europa Universalis. Unfortunately it's hard to justify spending $40 to play a game at 5am on the weekend when I have both unplayed steam games and a dire ne...
[16:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:alas - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:12] <exec> 08└─The game goes on sale pretty frequently on Steam. I've seen it go for ten dollars at times.
[16:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:Memo to Google: - 06Google Glass 'Enterprise Edition': Foldable, More Rugged and Water-Resistant - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:23] <exec> 08└─The batch record recording I had in mind was more in the way of confirming step completion (why not by voice command? We already use e-signature, voice recognition should make things easier).
[16:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:Memo to Google: - 06Google Glass 'Enterprise Edition': Foldable, More Rugged and Water-Resistant - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:25] <exec> 08└─Because the ability to record complete video of employees at work doesn't already exist?
[16:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Not amused. - 06Boa Constrictors' Lethal Secret Revealed - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:40] <exec> 08└─It's very useful to know that my patented Boa seatbelt may kill its user even if they remember to hold their breath at the moment of impact.
[16:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't sound practical - 06Information Can be Rescued From a Black Hole - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:53] <exec> 08└─> Is this even physically possible? Nope. This is people using theories and models to construct virtual untestable experiments that sound cool to them. Every 10000 times someone does this, someone else might read it and suddenly come up with a new revolutionary idea which would lead to actual practi...
[16:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hahahaha - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:04] <exec> 08└─Hahahahaha hahahaha hahahah hahaha hahahaha ow wow... hahahahahahaha
[16:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:"To cater to the majority American readers" - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:32] <exec> 08└─I don't find The Register's peculiar style incomprehensible, just annoying as fuck.
[16:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02XBOX 360 ? - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:23] <exec> 08└─Nokia write-off and the recently announced mass layoffs, is this poor financial performance why the "venerable" XBOX 360 has yet to see a price drop?
[16:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stallman is correct - 06Security Researcher Wants a Free Sofware License That Shuts Hacking Team Out - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:01] <exec> 08└─> What fucking good is this "freedom" if all you are doing is giving aid to someone working to take yours away? Your rhetorical question contains a strawman - "if all you are doing." That is absolutely not the case. These kind of abuses are corner-cases. There will always be corner-cases no matter w...
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[17:13:24] <exec> 08└─how do I turn off website fonts? it is nothing I need or want, I prefer my own fonts
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[17:13:26] <exec> 08└─$> sudo apt-get install lynx
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[17:13:36] <exec> 08└─maybe they can be connected to some optical device... would be cool if power/communication would be by light =)
[17:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:3, Insightful) 02This is why you need supercomputers - 06Molecule-Sized Transistors - 3256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:39] <exec> 08└─The other day, in the article Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? [soylentnews.org], some posters wondered what the purpose is of faster and faster supercomputers. I've never actually had calculation time on supers, only on mainframes, so maybe someone else can elaborate bett...
[17:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Trouble ahead - 06Molecule-Sized Transistors - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:40] <exec> 08└─The overly optimistic article missed an important development: the phthalocyanine molecule is reportedly saying to the 12 surrounding atoms: “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.”
[17:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03githaron [581] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:00] <exec> 08└─Even if it was true that they are not detrimental to the children, those children become adults eventually.
[17:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rickter [842] (Score:1) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:02] <exec> 08└─Because the only the government should have weapon firing drones?
[17:14:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] 02Approved - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:12] <exec> 08└─This is an excellent way to get students interested in mathematics, science, and engineering.
[17:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:What;s Wrong With This? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:40] <exec> 08└─current military standard issue weaponry
[17:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:What;s Wrong With This? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:41] <exec> 08└─Hey, don't ask me what's actually required to retake the country from an army known to have used nukes in less-than-dire situations before: I checked the box that said "I don't intend to overthrow the US government".
[17:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:What;s Wrong With This? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:43] <exec> 08└─Leave Texas out of this! Some drafts actually mentioned that the people needed to be armed sufficiently to overthrow the government (to do so is considered a right of the people).
[17:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:What;s Wrong With This? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:44] <exec> 08└─Lighten up, Francis! :) ... I always wanted to actually use that line.. I think you assume that the only purpose of the amendment is to help proctect from foreign invasion. This is not true. From the Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org]: Early English settlers in America viewed the right to arms and...
[17:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score:1) 02Re:I would - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:58] <exec> 08└─EU 4's code is marginally less garbage, but you still need to run the game at speed 1 or 2 to go any amount of time without desyncs, and even then you tend to desync after an hour or so. I'd love to join in, but I feel like it'd ruin the eBBQ a bit. If you're still up for it I'll join though.
[17:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:If you want to play a sim.. - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:02] <exec> 08└─I'm not a huge fan of first-person games, with some exceptions (Fallout primarily). I also dislike MMOGs. I may consider it in the future, but at least for the moment, I'll stick to the stuff in my Steam library.
[17:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:BBQ with food - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:11] <exec> 08└─~5700 registered users. We average around 10x as many ACs as registered users last I checked though.
[17:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Location - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:13] <exec> 08└─Rochester, NY
[17:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds fun - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:17] <exec> 08└─EUIV doesn't require steam, its available on other sites, and the Steam edition will run even if steam is disabled.
[17:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Speling Eror - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:19] <exec> 08└─Fixed. Thanks. Can't believe that one slipped by when I got the website URL right.
[17:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:alas - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:22] <exec> 08└─I picked it up on one such sale, but I have yet to even install it.
[17:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Information wants to be free! - 06Information Can be Rescued From a Black Hole - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:01] <exec> 08└─That's no spam. It's rightfully at -1, but it's not spam. Please don't abuse the spam moderation.
[17:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't sound practical - 06Information Can be Rescued From a Black Hole - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:06] <exec> 08└─Right, but this is the first step towards a testable hypothesis and if we're really lucky they'll invent a crapload of useful stuff in the pursuit of testing it. More likely though, they'll check the math, determine whether or not the math is sound and then accept it if the math is OK. That's OK for...
[17:16:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02Alpha Centauri - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:17] <exec> 08└─Requires Unified Field Theory, Industrial Nanorobotics Leads to Quantum Power Enables Ability Cloaking Device
[17:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wierd0n3 [1033] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Reduction of friction? - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:35] <exec> 08└─the friction of: the pistons rubbing the walls. the timing chain wrapping around the gears the cv joints adjusting to angle the driveshaft spinning in its collar the rear diff. changing the direction of the driveshaft and adjusting the ratio. etc... these (and others) are the point...
[17:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing data - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's a death rate of about 0.008%. And then, it is not even a given that all of them were machine malfunctions. It might also include cases where the mistake was by those operating the robot.
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[18:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fonts? - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:21] <exec> 08└─I'd guess you can override any web site's font choice using a user style sheet. [about.com]
[18:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02The OS X 10.10 issue - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:22] <exec> 08└─From TFA: Importantly, the current beta version of 10.11 is free of the flaw, an indication that Apple developers may already be aware of the vulnerability.
[18:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03middlemen [504] (Score:2) 02Re:The OS X 10.10 issue - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:24] <exec> 08└─python -c '"import os;os.write(3,\"ALL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL\")"' | DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE=/etc/sudoers newgrp;sudo su
[18:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Trouble ahead - 06Molecule-Sized Transistors - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:39] <exec> 08└─To which the dodgy 1/12th of the D_{4h}-symmetric superposition of 12 Indium atom wavefunctions responded: "Greetings, Rabbi!", and kissed him (Mat. 26:49)
[18:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03D2 [5107] (Score:1) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:55] <exec> 08└─Shitty? I don't see Resolution being a worsening/mitigating factor to the discussion of drone gun ethics. For example, hacker-created remote gun systems have had lower resolution (just based on age). And I suspect we'd be totally depressed to learn how low-res the CIA predator screens are, since the...
[18:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:58] <exec> 08└─Guns still don't tend to go off when dropped. Whether the safety is on or off. Unlike the movies, it really is hard to have a gun "accidentally fire" on it's own. I know that the movie "True Lies" had an automatic weapon dropping down the stairs and taking out a bunch of bad guys, but seriously that...
[18:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:59] <exec> 08└─Too bad the recoil didn't cause a secondary firing of the gun (it happens) while at the same time said recoil aimed it at his scrotum.
[18:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03D2 [5107] (Score:1) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but fuck the grownups. Think of the Children. Pretty much says it right there.
[18:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03D2 [5107] (Score:1) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:06] <exec> 08└─(nuts, soylent ate my </ snark> tag.) Guess I need to get serious about allowed settings and pseudomarkup here...
[18:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:09] <exec> 08└─At which point they are no longer in danger of the things that require the rest of us to "think of the children".
[18:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:11] <exec> 08└─Even in very rural areas, firing blindly into the forest is considered reckless.
[18:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:36] <exec> 08└─You are missing the point entirely and enticing violence. Again, ironic really.
[18:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Enjoyed last time. - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:11] <exec> 08└─This is why I still say we need a "gamers corner" ... I wonder if that new Nexus functionality could be used to create the games corner? I haven't noticed the functionality but this article makes it sound like it's been deployed already [soylentnews.org]
[18:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Memo to Google: - 06Google Glass 'Enterprise Edition': Foldable, More Rugged and Water-Resistant - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:47] <exec> 08└─Because the ability to record complete video of employees requires us to do too much work if we were to do it ourselves but with this thing streaming live to google's servers, the possibilities are limitless
[18:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Memo to Google: - 06Google Glass 'Enterprise Edition': Foldable, More Rugged and Water-Resistant - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:48] <exec> 08└─Why would you assume popup ads? Google makes many ad-free products, and this would land in that category..
[18:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't sound practical - 06Information Can be Rescued From a Black Hole - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:16] <exec> 08└─If there is only one bit[of info] in the black hole and you put it there. Do you need to rescue it? Or can you can just recreate it?
[18:16:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02Re:Alpha Centauri - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:31] <exec> 08└─Burma Shave? Or: worst Haiku ever.
[18:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:wow! - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:41] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of Treasure Planet. :-)
[18:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02I already made some - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:50] <exec> 08└─I've been trying to show it off, but I keep dropping it.
[18:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: "To cater to the majority American readers" - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:59] <exec> 08└─What stories have been posted with "downright xenophobia"? Links or is it just more discrimination dujour bigotry of Americans?
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[19:13:29] <exec> 08└─One might hope so but I have my doubts :p
[19:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Re:fonts? - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:30] <exec> 08└─Don't know about chrome but for firefox you can toggle layout.css.prefixes.font-features in about:config
[19:13:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fritsd [4586] 02This is why you need supercomputers - 06Molecule-Sized Transistors - 3256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:45] <exec> 08└─The other day, in the article Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? [soylentnews.org], some posters wondered what the purpose is of faster and faster supercomputers. I've never actually had calculation time on supers, only on mainframes, so maybe someone else can elaborate bett...
[19:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:This is why you need supercomputers - 06Molecule-Sized Transistors - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:46] <exec> 08└─I do run on supercomputers. The overriding problem with supercomputer progress is that communication latency has not improved in at least 10 years (~ 1us). This doesn't hurt DFT calculations so much, as they are very dense and pegged to LINPACK which gets optimization. The latency does limit the bio...
[19:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:04] <exec> 08└─I don't see Resolution being a worsening/mitigating factor to the discussion of drone gun ethics.
[19:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:17] <exec> 08└─Here in Florida we are allowed to shoot first if we feel "threatened". Does this mean we can open up on drones now as they might be a threat?
[19:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:22] <exec> 08└─But, I KNOW where my bullet went. Because I don't blink when the weapon fires, I KNOW where my sights were aligned with when it fired. So, one of the most important safety factors in your shooting is visually verifying your target and aim. How do you do that from a quad-copter? Or, is the pro...
[19:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:25] <exec> 08└─> I get so frustrated with hoplophobes. The phobia they have isn't firearms, it's idiots using them. That may sound like pointless nitpicking, but most would be far less alarmed by this development if it were anywhere but in the USA.
[19:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:43] <exec> 08└─Yes. all those people you listed definitely deserve an occasional beating. without a doubt yes
[19:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:52] <exec> 08└─I am not enticing anything. I am telling you that there are other codes of conduct beside the law and that those codes of conduct are enforced. The example was from the story, in case you missed it. I've said it before, but here it is again: If building a remote controlled flying gun and using it wi...
[19:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 3098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:54] <exec> 08└─What the woman claimed he did (hovering for some perv shots) didn't match the actual evidence. He was filming high above [youtube.com] the beach. She said: "He’s taking pictures of people on the beach ... with a helicopter plane." Not a reason for police to respond to the call. After she assaulted...
[19:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Faster Code - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:48] <exec> 08└─I know I am, getting better though. Just writing bottlenecks in c++ (which I am far less familiar with so I am sure it is crap) rather than R can give 100x increases.
[19:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hairyfeet is trolling again - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 1912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:28] <exec> 08└─if linux had the driver support windows has Linux supports more devices than any other OS. It's a point of pride with gregkh and The Linux Driver Project. Linux supports old gear that Windoze stopped supporting several versions back and Linux supports new stuff that old (obsolete, unsupported) vers...
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[20:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Statistics - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:21] <exec> 08└─Which signal was stronger? Who knows. What we do know is that Gas powered plants emit (via direct measurement) about 20% less CO2 than coal, per watt.
[20:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02How did anyone get the numbers in the first place? - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:24] <exec> 08└─How do you estimate the changes in emissions without estimating what caused them? I'm pretty perplexed as to how the fracking->lower emissions story got in circulation in the first place, because of the relatively simple caveat that you have to know where the emissions are coming from in order to es...
[20:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How did anyone get the numbers in the first pla - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:25] <exec> 08└─Nope just "significant" correlations and wild speculation. Get used to it because it doesn't appear to be slowing down anytime soon.
[20:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:How did anyone get the numbers in the first pla - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:27] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty perplexed as to how the fracking->lower emissions story got in circulation in the first place, because of the relatively simple caveat that you have to know where the emissions are coming from in order to estimate them. It's a power plant, people know where it is emitting from. You go...
[20:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:How did anyone get the numbers in the first pla - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:29] <exec> 08└─Here is some additional information on how we know who emits what. National Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Fossil Fuel-Burning Power Plants as Measured by Acid Rain Program Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) [epa.gov] The Acid Rain Program (ARP), created under Title IV of t...
[20:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:How did anyone get the numbers in the first pla - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but the point is, where did the false causality claim come from? Oh, who the fuck am I kidding, it was fracking companies trying to promote a green brand.
[20:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:The OS X 10.10 issue - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:42] <exec> 08└─Likewise MS sent out a patch last Thursday, which would have hit all auto installs by Friday. I installed it on my two Win 7 machines, when I received the update notuce on Fri. morning (I don't let MS auto-update, they do sometimes try to slip in stuff I don't want).
[20:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:12] <exec> 08└─That's also why it's better for American criminals to murder rather than rape, Because Americans (unlike civilized nations) are still hung up on their puritanical, medieval sex thing. You can get 20 years for mere possession of child porn, and yet you can watch baby murders all day without a damn th...
[20:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:04] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=8562&cid=212797 [soylentnews.org] There is no "asshole who films women on the beach". That was a fiction. There was a mentally ill woman who took offense with legal activity. Your informal vigilante justice may work some of the time, but its proponents will ev...
[20:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:I would - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:20] <exec> 08└─Well, my thought here was to play the same world over multiple sessions until it reached 1821, if necessary switching countries in case shit went down hill. Based on reports on paradox forums and on the reddit paradoxplazza, I got the feeling it was actually up to scratch, and not as swiss cheesy as...
[20:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:BBQ with food - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:33] <exec> 08└─Geograpichally, wouldn't the average location of us Soylents be somewhere in the north atlantic, just off of the US coastline? I think it would an interesting challange to take the geograpical location of each user's IP address and find the average latitude and longitude and hold a BBQ there.
[20:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score:2) 02Love to watch - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:47] <exec> 08└─Not so good at the playing, but I would love to spectate!
[20:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Love to watch - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:49] <exec> 08└─Send me a friend request on Steam: ID NCommander. I'm going to do some test games today to get used toplaying with the most recent patch and testing out multiplayer in advance won't be a bad idea. Won't mind giving you some tips if you're interesting (I had a pretty epic Muscowy game going last time...
[20:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Memo to Google: - 06Google Glass 'Enterprise Edition': Foldable, More Rugged and Water-Resistant - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:05] <exec> 08└─'empl Team Member handbook'? What's that?
[20:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score:2) 02Re:Memo to Google: - 06Google Glass 'Enterprise Edition': Foldable, More Rugged and Water-Resistant - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:07] <exec> 08└─I thought about this the other day, what if we enter an age where our daily work was recorded and reviewed? I work in facilities management, and we recently had to do some video inspections of suspended elements inside of all our buildings for earthquake safety. This prompted the thought that if eac...
[20:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't sound practical - 06Information Can be Rescued From a Black Hole - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:39] <exec> 08└─a mathematical equation will happily slam a rocket into the moon without fuel or crash a bus load of orphans into an ocean
[20:17:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02The snake oil salesman - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:43] <exec> 08└─Has evolved and his markets more diverse.
[20:17:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02Re:Really? - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:48] <exec> 08└─At the hillbilly house - Do we really need birth control, Uncle Dad?
[20:18:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02It's the 'Steve's fault' earnings report - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:59] <exec> 08└─The new guy knows he only gets one of those, so he and his aides shovelled everything they could into it.
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[21:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Metrics aren't all equal - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:19] <exec> 08└─Not all metrics are equal, folks. If I were trying to improve kids' discipline at school and I measured it by the time they got home on the theory that this would reflect their detention rates, I'd also catch a lot of keen applicants for the Ivy League who had a huge list of extracurriculars. Same h...
[21:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FrogBlast [21] (Score:1) 02Re:Metrics aren't all equal - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's a surgeon complaining about report cards for surgeons. He should probably just be advocating for a better scoring system. He's already identified the other value that needs to be incorporated into the metric - difficulty of cases taken - but the essay still reads as a dismissal of any typ...
[21:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Metrics aren't all equal - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:21] <exec> 08└─Surgeons would prefer IQ: Occupation: IQ 1. Surgeon: 234.1
[21:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Metrics aren't all equal - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:23] <exec> 08└─That's not at all surprising. I was teaching at a place where we were given a feedback score from each student. It was .5 stars to 5 and we'd receive the scores weeks late. To make matters worse, anything below 4.5 was not acceptable to the school which meant that anything less than a 5 would potent...
[21:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:How did anyone get the numbers in the first pla - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:34] <exec> 08└─This completely fails to address the question as presented.
[21:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How did anyone get the numbers in the first pla - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:36] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty perplexed as to how the fracking->lower emissions story got in circulation in the first place
[21:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:How did anyone get the numbers in the first pla - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:37] <exec> 08└─Who's "they" and where did the "total" number come from, if not a source that, you know, could measure the different specific sources? Like... I tried really hard here to frame my question in a way that made the specific problem I saw clear.
[21:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How did anyone get the numbers in the first pla - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:39] <exec> 08└─Followed the tree hugger link to here: http://www.alphagalileo.org [alphagalileo.org] They do not cite the source, but searched "Michael B. McElroy" and found this: Capacity data included here refer to 2009 (Data source: http://www.eia.gov
[21:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:The OS X 10.10 issue - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:54] <exec> 08└─UUOP - useless use of python. You can tell from the '|' and ';' that you're already in a shell, so why not use shell builtins (such as echo), or trivial lightweight binaries (such as echo) rather than a great bloaty interpreted language? Here, of course, "you" = whoever you're quoting.
[21:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:17] <exec> 08└─You're just a vigilante asshole inciting violence over perfectly legal activities. Lindsey Graham, is that you?
[21:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:22] <exec> 08└─And availing yourself of facts doesn't seem to make you less of an asshole. Maybe it makes you a festering, wart covered asshole. What the boy did was legal. Lying to police and assaulting other people was the illegal activity. Obviously being a buffoon has no limit on size either. Thanks for illust...
[21:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:BBQ with food - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:50] <exec> 08└─Great... 500 people waling around with name tags that say "Hi! My Name is Anonymous Coward" That shouldn't be confusing at all......
[21:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Quantum tease again - 06Information Can be Rescued From a Black Hole - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:01] <exec> 08└─TFA: But there is rather a large catch...
[21:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mountains~ - 06Image: NASA'S New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto's 'Heart' - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:56] <exec> 08└─My guess is that the repeated freezing and unfreezing cycle of the atmosphere due to Pluto's lopsided orbit mucks up the surface over time. However, that doesn't explain the two types of terrain, "new/light" and "old/dark", we seem to be seeing. A grand mystery: the fun of science.
[21:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:The snake oil salesman - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:06] <exec> 08└─I have to disagree; the company proports itself as a premium service offering a very specific product. They play on peoples fears and make bold claims. Most people don't understand HOW technology works; thus they trust people that do. To most people programmers / sys admins / general computer geeks...
[21:18:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] 02Re:Just woke up - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:08] <exec> 08└─That's actually a very good way to keep private information away from prying eyes: Feed it to a goat.
[21:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stallman is correct - 06Security Researcher Wants a Free Sofware License That Shuts Hacking Team Out - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:10] <exec> 08└─Then it would no longer be Free Software.
[21:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I usually find Stallman's positions too extreme - 06Security Researcher Wants a Free Sofware License That Shuts Hacking Team Out - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:28] <exec> 08└─If your goal is freedom of users, it would certainly make sense to try to tweak the GPL to prevent this sort of behavior.
[21:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I usually find Stallman's positions too extreme - 06Security Researcher Wants a Free Sofware License That Shuts Hacking Team Out - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:39] <exec> 08└─And it applies no matter what one calls it; principles, ideals, ideology, religion, politics, values, the names don't matter.
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[22:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Professions - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:30] <exec> 08└─Accountability is best left to accountants. All of these moves to testing are driven by non-professionals, and they destroy professions. Training and assessment within a profession is done by professionals themselves. Why? Because professions are based on expertise! Non-physicians are in no posit...
[22:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Quantitative risk factors - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:31] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a metric that rates surgeons based both on risk level and success rate. But then who's going to determine risk level. I suppose you can introduce certain risk factors such as age and perhaps weight and other factors depending on the type of surgery (ie: does blood pressure affect the likelih...
[22:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Statistics - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 1329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:42] <exec> 08└─Actually what scientists been saying in the last 5 years is that we're already exceeding 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere which means even if we were to stop stop all emissions 5 years ago, the planet will still be getting warmer a couple of more degrees for the next 100years until the ca...
[22:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Statistics - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:43] <exec> 08└─This Geo-engineering is going to be disastrous. What is the magnitude of the greenhouse effect they wish to counter? How can you devise a plan to alter albedo without knowing that? Did you realize that stefan-boltzmann law calculation that gives 33 C is total nonsense? https://www.skepticalscience.c...
[22:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:How did anyone get the numbers in the first pla - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but the point is, where did the false causality claim come from? It came from The International Energy Agency (IEA). [energyindepth.org]
[22:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:How did anyone get the numbers in the first pla - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:56] <exec> 08└─What if there are multiple power plants in the country or neighbouring countries, each with different chimney heights? I agree though that they should begin with measuring the air coming out of the power plants to get the "pure signal". There was actually a classical example of the application of th...
[22:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Recession Versus Fracking: - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:57] <exec> 08└─So. This is saying that the way to cut CO2 is to stop fracking and start another major recession? Well, good luck with that. You might get people to agree with restricting fracking, but I think proposing a repeat of 2008 is gonna be a hard sell.
[22:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Recession Versus Fracking: - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:59] <exec> 08└─So. This is saying that the way to cut CO2 is to stop fracking and start another major recession? Well, good luck with that. You might get people to agree with restricting fracking, but I think proposing a repeat of 2008 is gonna be a hard sell.
[22:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02more common sense - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:01] <exec> 08└─duh
[22:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score:2) 02Re:fonts? - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:10] <exec> 08└─NoScript blocks external fonts by default. Because I've always blocked these fonts, sites that use custom Dingbat fonts as vector graphics (for example GitHub) are especially annoying since they show up as unrenderable Unicode hex character blocks.
[22:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Trouble ahead - 06Molecule-Sized Transistors - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:30] <exec> 08└─responded: "Greetings, Rabbi!", and kissed him
[22:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah... Imagine if there was an international push to outlaw watching babies getting murdered, yeah? Than you would have to put the entire Palestine into prison... trolol yeah
[22:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:56] <exec> 08└─>Too bad the recoil didn't cause a secondary firing of the gun (it happens) while at the same time said recoil aimed it at his scrotum. Why, he did nothing wrong. You SJW feminist pieces of shit need to be tortured untill you are dead.
[22:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:39] <exec> 08└─Common sense says a lone man on private property doing something all by himself is not a danger to anyone else, but that is not your agenda. Common sense and "those codes of conduct" are whatever you want it to be at the moment. Certainly not a sane way to run a live let alone a society.
[22:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't sound practical - 06Information Can be Rescued From a Black Hole - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:19] <exec> 08└─Are you doing the old argument of "those researchers should have tried to cure cancer instead" ? Or that everything must be done for concrete, practical results NOW and report to shareholder before next quarter ? Or I misunderstand you, but you're ambiguous. Sometimes fundamental, or useless researc...
[22:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Value? - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:28] <exec> 08└─Again, i point out the problem i had with modem drivers and windows: windows asking me if i want to download the modem drivers off the internet when i could not connect to the internet without the modem drivers. Dumb operating system.
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[23:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Better start deciding on a strategy - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:19] <exec> 08└─I don't have any delusions about the actual threat of North Korea but at some point the cost of dealing with their military in a direct attack is going to result in a whole lot less damage than the same situation but with ballistic missiles. It's a shitty choice to make. Really though it may not eve...
[23:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Every nation has the right to territorial... - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:20] <exec> 08└─... self-defense. How many missiles do the US and South Korea have? Not just on land but at sea.
[23:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Every nation has the right to territorial... - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:22] <exec> 08└─I agree; these are long-range, though. Not much use for long-range self defense. It is not like they are going to wait to fire until they see the white's of their imperial oppressor's eyes, as compared to other "long-range self defense" (ie, guns). I have to think that this is telescopic sabre rattl...
[23:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:2) 02I think maybe they overlooked something - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:24] <exec> 08└─Are they planning for it to stay intact after launch though?
[23:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Metrics aren't all equal - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:36] <exec> 08└─> To make matters worse, anything below 4.5 was not acceptable to the school which meant that anything less than a 5 would potentially get us in trouble. Anytime you work with a sales person or a customer support rep and you are asked to rate them afterwards, it is the same thing. Anything less than...
[23:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Metrics aren't all equal - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:37] <exec> 08└─Indeed, it's a stupid system, but the people requiring it are too stupid to realize it so 9/10 is the new 5/10 and God help you if you're anything less than 90% of perfect. Admittedly participating in it has it's own problems, but I sleep better giving people perfect scores that nobody deserves than...
[23:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Professions - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:39] <exec> 08└─> All of these moves to testing are driven by idiot politicians and their equally stupid followers. Fixed that for you.
[23:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Professions - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:41] <exec> 08└─And it works until it doesn't work. Medicine is a good example of a group of professionals that need some outside intervention. There's a ton of group-think and if you don't go along with the group-think you can lose your license, regardless of whether the group is right. In some cases that even mea...
[23:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Calculating moon temperature - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:52] <exec> 08└─Are you the one who was asking last Wednesday how to calculate the moon's temperature? I wrote you up a late response, don't know if you saw it. Take a look [soylentnews.org] and let me know if it helps you at all.
[23:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Recession Versus Fracking: - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:05] <exec> 08└─You need to get only a handful of people to agree, just the banksters would suffice. Look, gold plated shark tanks do not pay for themselves. They just can not have 1 less of them...
[23:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"May I speak to your security manager please?" - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:25] <exec> 08└─"What's a security manager?" Twelve source code lines of remote root exploit later... "The United States Air Force isn't going to want to pay seventy million dollars for this." "We'll let the Air Force take care of it." I found one single file with the wrong permissions in a beta of Apple's A/UX 2.0...
[23:14:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 0212 is big - 06Molecule-Sized Transistors - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:36] <exec> 08└─5 years ago they built them out of 7 atoms http://www.physorg.com [physorg.com]
[23:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:08] <exec> 08└─Guns do in fact go off by themselves. Modern manufacturing techniques have lowered the chance of failure greatly, but it still happens. Rule #1 of firearms handling: never point your gun at anything you don't want destroyed a.k.a. assume the gun may accidentally discharge at any time.
[23:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:18] <exec> 08└─Fucking right you can. DISCLAIMER: This post is not legal advice and, if followed, may result in serious bodily harm to oneself or others, for which I shall not be held liable.
[23:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trigger-happy in Florida - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:20] <exec> 08└─When I lived in Florida over 3 decades ago, the law was that you had to retreat from an intruder as much as possible. Only when you were cornered could you shoot him. ...then came Reaganism and ALEC and The Castle Doctrine and guys with small penises who shoot through their front doors when a chick...
[23:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is a bit of an asshole, isn't he? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:59] <exec> 08└─He did neither of those things. His video evidence gave proof to the police. The woman he "assaulted" was arrested for assault (and other charges) herself.
[23:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Enjoyed last time. - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:23] <exec> 08└─I don't know but if it can it would be a really nice feature to have. After all gaming is bigger than Hollywood and has been for years but it can be hard to find somebody who likes the same games when there are so many out there to choose from and with many of the games allowing you to have your own...
[23:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02How about a real BBQ - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:46] <exec> 08└─I had a grand old time at The Picnic Anyone Can Edit a while back.
[23:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02HOWTO Mess with the MPAA - 06Google Glass 'Enterprise Edition': Foldable, More Rugged and Water-Resistant - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:07] <exec> 08└─Do you have the balls of a brass monkey? If so it would not be hard at all to fabricate what appears to be a Google Glass but in reality is purely decorative. "Beth wears zero-power glasses so other people will think she's intelligent." -- Beth's sister
[23:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02My Social Security Number is 518-92-8663 - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:58] <exec> 08└─California ID - not driver's license - C0225719. If we all posted our marks of the beast they would have no effect on whether we could buy or sell anymore.
[23:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:They are also maximally wasteful - 06Robot Surgeons Kill 144 Patients, Hurt 1,391, Malfunction 8,061 Times - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:16] <exec> 08└─Just use a Freedom Clip! [soylentnews.org]
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